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VOLUME XXXIII
NOT ENOUGH FUNDS TO
PAY TEACHER SALARIES
W- —
v. ■■■-.
I Defeat of Special Levy Loaves School
District Finances in Deplorable
State; Second Election
Talked
Jt With only $45,000 available for
the local school district next year
Sand $46,960 required for salaries of
k: teachers and janitors alone, on the
.•"present basis, to say nothing of the
upkeep, heat, light, water and inci
\ dental expenses and the added cost
;? of maintaining the Franklin school,
• which it will be necessary to reopen
Bch it will be necessary to reopen
*'next year to take care of even a
I slight increase in enrollment, the
'people of the city are fast awaken
-1 ing to the full meaning of the vote
'; of last Saturday, when a proposed
special levy of seven mills was de
feated. The situation was discussed
fat length at seven mills of de
;d. The situation was discussed
length at the meeting of the
tiber of commerce Tuesday and
at the session of the K. of P. lodge
| Monday night and in all probability
a second election will be called to
vote the required funds, this pi-6- ]
posal being endorsed by both the
; chamber and the Pythian lodge.
One of the most startling develop
ments In the situation came Tues- '
day, when F. C. Forrest, a member;
of the school board, read a letter !
from Superintendent Charles Henry
iin which Mr. Henry requested that
he be not considered for the super-j
Intendency next year. Mr. Henry
stated his position, in part, as fol
lows:
"In view of the vote on the pro
\ posal to levy a seven mill tax which
was had last Saturday I hereby in
form you that I shall not hi- a can-;
didate for the position of superin
tendent of your schools for next year, i
I came here in 1910 with the hope
that tin district of Pullman would
be a field in which I might be able
to work for several years with a
prospect of building up a school sys
tem that would be a credit to the I
community. The attitude of the cit
izens as shown by the vote recently!
taken indicates that they are not in
sympathy with a program such as I
have advocated and In which I
heartily believe."
During his two years as head of
the local schools Mr. Henry litis built
up a system which compares favor
ably with any in the state and the
loss of such a man as head of the
schools, "just when his efficiency is
accomplishing its greatest results,
would be considered a calamity by
the big majority of the school pa
trons.
The chamber of commerce, with j
; only two dissenting votes. Tuesday
recommended a second election to
clarity the situation, and named a
special committee of 10 men to as
sist in arousing the interest of the
school patrons in the crisis which
(Continued on page eight)
ITERS RATIFY \
j EXTENSION! LIMITS
■Proposal to Annex Stinger Addition
and Part of McGee Flats
v Carries 81 to 20
/The municipal limits of the city
01 Pullman will be extended to in-
Iwdo Sanger's addition and parts
pit McGee flats as a result of the
•special election held Tuesday to vote
011 the question of annexation.
Thirty-four votes were cast by "the
residents of the territory proposed
to he annexed, of which 22 were
Arable to the annexation and 12 j
,°l«>sed. in the city at largo the
;T°te was 59 for and 8 against, a
S*-n<l total of 81 for and 20 against.
:;/»« annexation of the district will
W(5 upwards of 125 to Pullman's
•Nation. |
v- The vote by precincts at the spe
**• election was as follows:
For Against j
, 0«Uldo district ..,. 22 12 •
£' telnet 41 ... . 8 7 4
Preclnct 51 ....10 0
Precinct 64 ....... 22 1
;^Precinct 72 ...19 -j,3 %
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The Pullman Herald
to the best interest, of Pullman and the greatest farming community in the Northwest surrounding it.
, pioneer tkacrLl;
! A PULL.MAX VISITOR
Miss Leota West, the first school
teacher this side of the Snake river.
, was a Pullman visit,,,- Tuesday, ad
dressing the associated students of
the State College and the chamber
:of commerce. Miss West stated that
she came to Whitman county in Sep
tember, 1878, and since that time
has given instruction to over 5000
j hoys and girls. She first saw Pull
j man 40 years ago. when there was
j but a single house, occupied by the
j Hunt family. a daughter, Miss Hat
i tie Hunt, was one of her early-day
I students. She refers to herself as
j "mother by proxy" to the thousands
'of persons whom she instructed.
! Miss West is past 70 years of age.
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! COUNCIL PASSES
MILK ORDINANCE
The mooted milk ordinance was
passed by the city council Tuesday
I evening and is published in full else-
I where in this Issue. The ordinance
j regulates the sale of milk and
cream in the city, defines the stand
ards and fixes penalties for viola
tions of its provisions.
CLIFFORD I. ARCHER
DIES OF TUBERCULOSIS
Succumbed at Portland Sunday
Morning— Funeral Services Held
Here Monday Afternoon
Funeral services for Clifford L,
Archer, son of Dr. E. A. Archer,
were held Monday afternoon from
Kimball's chapel, with tin- Rev. C.
X. Curtis of the Federated church
officiating. The Masonic lodge and
Maynard-Price post of the American
Legion assisted in the services. The
young in,in was _■;; years, eight
months and 13 days of age, and died
Sunday morning at the Open Air
sanitarium at Milwaukle, Oregon,
near Portland. The body was
shipped to Pullman,. arriving here
Monday morning. Death was due "
pulmonary tuberculosis, which fol
lowed ,m attack of influenza con
tracted while he was a member of
the S. A. T. C. at Die State Colle;
Deceased had been taking treatments
at the Milwaukle sanlttrlum for the
past eight months, ami appeared ,o
be Improving until about a week
ago, when his father was summoned.
He is survived by hi;- father, Dr.
E. A. Archer, and o.rt brother, Pay
ton! of this city. His mother suc
cumbed several years ago.
Clifford Leroy Archer was bon
near New Hartford, lowa. September
8, 1897, With the exception of one
year in central Kansas, bis home
was in his native state until he was
10, years old, when the family mi
grated to Los Angeles, California,
for two years, coming to Pullman
in October, 1909, which ha bean
his home since,
His school work began in De-
Moines, lowa, at the age of five years
D was continued in Los Angeles and
lab i- in Pullman, where he gradu
ated from high school In 1017. He
entered W. S. C, the next fall, t'.ecl
Ing an agricultural course, which
was changed to a preniedic course
the next year, that he might pre
pare himself for entrance to the
College of Osteopathic Physicians
and Surgeons, where he was a stu
den! during the school year 1919-20.
He became of age September 8,
1918, registered September 15, and
was inducted October 1. He was
mustered out December 20 of the
same year. His service was entirely
In the S. A. T, C. stationed at Pull
man barracks.
' During the first epidemic of in
fluenza he contracted a severe case,
accompanied by hemorrhages, from
which he never entirely recovered.
He returned from California In
June. 1920, with a well advanced
ease of galloping consumption of the
right lung as a result of influenza.
Three months of rest and outdoor
life under the advice of half a doyen
physicians of both schools failed to
benefit him. In mid-September,
last year, he went to the Poitland
Open Air sanitarium, whore he made
a good gain until a few weeks ago.
when the left lung became seriously
affected, causing a rapid decline un
til death came Sunday morning, May
15, 1921. '
PULLMAN, WASHINGTON. .FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1981
STATE HEAD TO TALK
i ON DECORATION DAY
,
American Legion Commander Swale
Will He Speaker at Decoration
Day Program, .'Monday,
May 80
State American Legion Commune
or William Swale of Seattle will he
one of the speakers at the Decora
tion day program to be given Mon
day afternoon. May 30, by Maynard
: Price post of th,. American Legion,'
the C. A. R., W. R. C. and Ladies
Legion Auxiliary. Plans for the ob
servance of Memorial Sunday, May
29, and Decoration day. Alay 30,
were perfected at a meeting of com
mittees representing the four or
ganisations hold Tuesday night, and
call for the most comprehensive ob
servance of the two days in the city's
history.
Plans for Memorial day include a
union meeting in the city park in the
afternoon, although the details have
not yet been completed.
Cli uecoration day the members
of the four patriotic organizations
will assemble at the National Guard
hall at 9:30 and leave at 10 o'clock
for the I. O. O. F. cemetery, where
ceremonies in honor of the soldier
dead will be conducted, followed by
tin- decoration of the graves of the
deceased veterans in the three city
cemeteries.
In the afternoon the parade will
form at 1:45; halting at the Alder
street bridge, where ceremonies hon
oring the sailor dead will be con
ducted by the W. R. C, The after
noon exercises will hi- conducted at
the city park, with State Command
er Swab- and President E. 0. Hol
land as the speakers.
Tin- W. R. C. committee in charge
of arrangements for that organiza
tion includes Mesda'mes J. B. San
born, Chris Naffziger, M. S. Jamar.
and J. R. Stephenson. Pat Ryan
will represent the G. A. R. in the
arrangements and tin- American Le
gion is represented by Joseph Smaw
ley, A. C. Hanson and Lester Thorn
berg. Final arrangements will be
made a! a meet of the join! com
mittees to lie held next Tuesday
evening, when Hie programs will be
outlined,
i'le- members of the American Le
(Continued on page eight)
WILL MEMORIALIZE
PULLMAN PIONEERS
New street on Methodist Hill to He
Officially Designated "Pioneer
Way" in Honor of Earl)'
Residents
As a memorial to Pullman's pio
neers Hi-- alley extending through
blocks 2:;. 24 and 2."-, Original Town
of Pullman which is being made a
street and paved as a part of lo
cal improvement district No. 31, will
lie known a- 'Pioneer Way" while
all of the district Included in blocks
23 to 27, Inclusive, will be known
as "Pioneer Place." Following the
presentation of a petition to the city
council Tuesday night asking that
the new street and blocks enumerat
ed be designated by these name-,
1 the city attorney was Instructed to
draft an ordinance officially desig
nating the new street and the dis
trict by the names suggested in the
petition.
Among the pioneers to be me
morialize, all of whom owned prop
erty within the district, and built
homes over 30. years ago, are Daniel
G. McKensie, the "father" of Pull
man, now- deceased, who originally
owned all the property included in
the five blocks, as well as D. C.
Munroe. W. V. Windus, L. C, Stal *y,
William Chambers and C. S. Mason,
deceased, and A. T. Farris, M. E.
Harris. J. F. Hill, T. L. Muttroo,
Enos Burns, Archie White and Will
iam Chandler, living, all of whom
constructed residences in the Jistri-'t
during the early -lays of Pullman's
history.
Tim petition was signed by prop
' erty owners within the district and
1 met with hearty favor at the hands
'of the city dad
WANT PULLMAN ON
ROOSEVELT HIGHWAY
Would Route Highway From Spo
kane to Portland Via Colfax,
Pullman and Lewiston
To enlist the co-opera! of the
people of this city in securing the
routing of the new Theodore Roose
velt highway trail through Colfax,
Pullman and Lewiston, on the West
ern division from Spokane to Port
land, a committee from the Colfax
commercial club visited Pullman
Tuesday. The delegation was head
ed by R. F. liigelow. president of
the county seat booster organization,
and the chief spokesman was Dr. .).
Floyd Tifft.
Dr. Tifft stated that the president
of the Theodore Roosevelt highway
association was in Spokane last Fri
day making preparations for the
routing of the Western division and
that he conversed with him concern
ing the possibility of routing the new
highway through Colfax, Pullman
and Lewiston, receiving much en
couragement. Officials of the route
were in Colfax yesterday, where
they were met by a special commit
tee from the Pullman chamber and
taken over the proposed route as far
as Lewiston.
The proposed branch, while it
would be some 10 miles longer than
the Central Ferry route, would touch
a greater pari of Whitman county
ami would provide a scenic route
that would compare favorably with
any in the West, the Lewiston hill
road and the great agricultural dis
trict-' of Whitman county being in
cluded.
The now trail will traverse a ter
ritory covered by no other highway
rout- and its routing through this
district would result in great benefit
to the towns touched.
STILL AFTER DUMPING GROUND
The sanitation committee of the
city council is still, busy on tbe
problem of securing a city dumping
ground and several proposed sites
are being considered. Tin- latest
possibility Is .1 tract of land near
the Hamilton slaughter house in
the gulch. Five acre" lan be pur
chased for • 1000 or hi----- acres for
$600.
SCHOLARSHIP IN FRANCE
FOR MISS JUNE SANDERS
Signal Honor Conies to Pullman Girl
Through Franco-American Ex
change of Scholarships
Miss June Sanders, junior in the
department of music and fine arts
and daughter of Mr, and Mrs. C. R.
Sanders of this city, has he,-a noti
fied of her select lon as one of the
undergraduate students 0 receive a
scholarship in France, with one-third
of her passage money and all her
': ing expenses and tuition fees paid. |
Tho scholarship comes through the
committee on Franco-American ex-1
change of scholarships, with Dr. S.
P. Capen, chairman of the American
council on education, tit Its head
Mile Lucette Chaussat of Toulouse, 1
France, bo ill graduate this year;
from the general course, has taken
work hero for the last two years
under he same arrangement. -
Miss Sanders will ho sent to some
Lycell or undergraduate school next
fall, but she has not yet been notl
fled of the exact I in- of sailing or 0 j
the school selected for her. The of
ficial notification of her nomination
to the French government for one
of scholarships has just been re-;
celved from Dr. Capon In Washing-1
ton, D. C. sin- is a member of Kappa
Alpha Theta sorority, Mask am!
Dagger honorary dramatic society i
and of Mv Phi Epsilon, honorary mil-,
sic' sorority. She is majoring In
piano, and Intends to follow her mu
sical studies while in France.
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Johnson left
Tuesday morning by auto for To
roda, Wash., where they will visit
their son, Arthur, and their daugh
ter,- Mrs. 1. A Ruck!
! Hoi.Dtp ARTIST GETS
*:' AT Ml 1,1, lis CAFE
—
j Miller's Cafe la out approximately
! $35 as the result of a midnight visit
jby a hold- artist Tuesday night
; vVlllam Miller, who has charge of the
i night shift at the cafe, left the es
i tablishment for a few minutes just '
before midnight and in his absent -
the man entered the back door
forced the night cook and his wile
to hold up their hands at the point
j of a revolver and coolly staled that
jhe needed money. Ho forced the
! cook to open the cash register and
departed with all tin- cash, approxi
mately $35. The man was seen
, around the building several times
early in the night and a good de-
I script ion has been furnished the of
' ficers
It is reported that the robber was
caught by the officials at Garfield.
BACCALAUREATE SPEAKER
Dr. Sherman I. Divine, of tin- First
Presbyterian church. Spokane, has
been secured to deliver the bacca
laureate address to the graduates of
the State College on Sunday, .lune
12. The commencement day speaker
litis not yet been selected.
CHORUS OF 100 VOICES
! TO SING "ROSE maiden"
* .
I
I Singers Will He Assisted by Six
Soloists iii Cantata nt Next
Sunday's Vespers
The college chorus of 100 trained
voices and six local soloists of note
will take pari in the cantata, "Rose
; Maiden," by Frederic Cowen, to be
given in in- coll. auditorium Sun
' day afternoon at I o'clock. The so-
I loists are Miss Edna McKee, so-
I piano; .Miss Alice Bender, contralto;
j Elmer Armstrong, tenor; llebor Na
i smyth, baritone; Miss Adele Schu
! maker, pianist, and Alfred 11. Meyer.
I organ!
The following program will be t-n
--j dered;
■ Chorus, Green Vale and Vine Clad
Mountain.
Duel. The Rose of Love— Miss Mc-
Kir, .Mr. Nasmyth.
, Tenor Recltitative, So Spake the
Spring—Mr. Armstrong
Chorus -A Maid More Beautiful —
Double Quail et (ladies and
varsity).
; Soprano Solo, Bloom On, Bloom On
— Miss McKee,
I Chorus, 'Mid he Waving Hose Trees.
1 Hocititative and Scena. "Ask for
Yonder Ruined Castle —Miss
McKee, Miss Bonder.
; ('horns, o. Earth-born Sorrow.
-Trio, Hast Thou Wandered? .Miss
McKee, Miss Bender, Mr. Na- :
smyth.
; Tenor Solo, The Sleep of Even -Mr.
Armstrong.
Duet, 1 Know a Rosebud Shining—|
Miss McKee, Mr. Armstrong.
Chorus —'Tis Thy Wedding Morning.
Baritone Solo Where Gloomy Pine
Trees Hustle. — Mr a myth.
; Tenor Recltitative, For From the
Summer Blossom Mr. Arm -'
strong.
< 'hot us of Fives, Fart-well Sleep j
The , Lightly -Double Quar
tet of Women's Videos.
Tenor Solo and Chorus, yea, Fen as
Die the Roses.
: PULLMAN" < II.KP.i: ITION
U.M.I. DRAW IHMillKliH
Bull,nail's big Fourth of i ill"
celebration is attracting raifh at
; tentlou throughout tho Inland Kin- \
plre ttid every indication points to
I one t-f the biggest crowds In the
1
; city's history. Genesee lias put in
; a bid for the afti moon bail game,
land promises to send a delegation
lof SOO people, while the American
! l,et'i-)-i posts at Oakesdale, Colton,
; Colfax and other points report that
j'big delegations ma »be expicted
j f.-iim Ibelr towns. The officers of
j the Whitman Ccunty P.loneui.i' as
sociation will mccl at Colfax Saiur
i
! day of this we9K when it m o.- 0.-et
!ed tb.it they w\\ net .be uat»> for
! th< ir annual mealing tor July 1 nnd
1 hold the event :-i conjunction with
; the celebration here.
1 .
GAME WARDEN! N'AMEI)
County Game Warden H. W. Ter
'. hune of St. John this week officially
appointed K. W. Carter as deputy
game warden with Reo do M. Young
and J L. Metsker as speHal deputies
for the Pullman district. The local -
deputies are given full power to en- -
force the game law* and the way of '
the gam' law violator promises to 1
be BS ! in future. '
TALK COMPLETION OF
EASTERN DIVISION
Count** Commissioners, Chamber of
Commerce and Garfield and Pa
louse Delegate* Discuss
Situation
Another stop toward the comple
tion, within the next two years, of
tho eastern division of the Inland
Empire highway, Garfield to Pull
man, through Palouse, was taken
Tuesday when the three county com
missioners and delegations from Gar
field and Palouse met with the Pull
man chamber of commerce to dis-
CUSS the sen nation At the close of
the discussion the following motion
proposed by Senator It. 0. .McCros
key of Garfield was passed unani
mously:
"That we, the chamber of com
merce of Pullman, and representa
tives from similar organizations at
Garfield and Palouse, hereby resolve
to support the county commission
ers in every way possible toward the
early completion of the eastern di
vision."
All the members of the hoard of
county commissioners, including J.
B. Sanborn of Pullman. W. C. Mc-
Coy of Oakesdale and P. M. Price
of Colfax endorsed the proposal to
complete the highway as soon as pos
sible. "We are working on a sys
tem of roads that will ultimately
serve practically all the people of the
county," said Commissioner McCoy.
"The question of the completion of
the eastern division is no longer
problematical. We realize its Im
portance and tin- road will be fin
ished as soon as possible, but we
must not toil one community to
serve another."
Commissioner Price stated that he
represents tin- Interests of tin- west
side of the COUnty and said: "Tho
west, side is with you on the early
completion of the eastern division."
Commissioner Sanborn pointed out
that 187,000 of the funds appro
priated for I In- eastern division has
already been used for the grading of
tin- part between Garfield and Pa
louse, which is now under contract,
leaving some $45,000 available for
tho Palouse Pullman end. Approxi
mately $100,000 .will i,,. available in
He- permanent highway fund of the
county during the next, blennlum,
but of this sum 50 per cent must be
set Ide for maintenance during the
first year and fully 25 per cent the
second year, leaving approximately
$110,000 lor actual construction
work To surface the Garfield-
Palouse end $60,000 would be re
quired, of which 2." percent, or $12
500, could be raised hy assessment
on abutting property. To grade the
road between I','louse and Pullman
he estimated that $100,000 would be
required, 25 per cent of which could
be raised by assessment.
The meeting brought out the pos
sibilities for the early completion of
tin- highway and the road fans de
parted in a highly optimistic mood.
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVY
DEFEATED, 123 TO 51
Failure of Patron* to Vote Results
in Defeat of Seven-Mill Levy—
Would Mean Curtailment of
< 111 lit 1011111
The proposed seven-mill ivy tor
school maintenance purposes wns
voted down at a special election Sat
urday afternoon, 23 to .'l. The de
feat of the special levy leaves hut
a 10 mills levy for the support of
the schools next year. Members of
the school board state that this sum
would be barely sufficient tor the
grades alone and Insist that another
election must be held to vote the spe
cial levy or a part of the schools,
must remain closed next year. The
proposed special levy was unani
mously endorsed by the chamber of
commerce, following a full Investi
gation of the school situation by a
committee from the chamber, and its
defeat was undoubtedly the result
of failure of Its supporters to cast
their ballots and organized efforts .
on the part of the opposition to get
out a full vote. . ' jgptjß|y
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