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VOLUME XXXII
HEROES HONORED
ON MEMORIAL DAY
Big Crowd Sees Fine Parade and
• Listens to Impressive Program
at Reeaney Park
Memorial day was observed witu
one of the most elaborate and im
pressive programs in the history of
Pullman. All of the places of busi
ness were closed and many of them
were appropriately decorated. la
the morning flowers were placed on
the graves of all fallen soldiers and
the service "To the Dead" was ren
dered at the I. O. O. F. cemetery.
The parade started at about 2; 00
o'clock. It was led by the college
band, followed by the college cadets,
who made a fine appearance. Next
came a little band of (',. A. R. and
Spanish-American war vetrans. They
were followed by a large number of
men who saw servi<j^ in the army
and navy during the recent war.
Representatives of the W. R. C. the
Red Cross, the Music Study club and
other organizations were followed,
by the boy scouts, speakers' of the
day and citizens.
The parade stopped at the East j
Main street bridge and the Water
Service "To the Sailor Dead" was
held, representatives of each organi- j
zation strewing flowers upon the !
water in memory of those who died ]
at sea.
After arriving at the park the
band played the "Star Spangled
Banner" and Father Philipp pro
nounced the invocation. The audi
ence joined in singing "America"*
ana then Professor H. W. Cordell de-
livered a forceful address, in wh^ch
he urged the importance of main
taining the ideals for which the sol
diers fought in the war. "Memorial
.'Day" was sung by a group of school
i children and Miss Huffman . recited
f 'Vive la France" 'and "Flurette"
with fine effect.
The music study club chorus sang
"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground"
and another selection. The reading
of "The Perfect Tribute" by Miss
Musser was one of the features of
ie program. Her voice carried
splendidly and she read with fine ex-,
pression.
Judge Thomas Neill delivered an
inspiring and thoughtful address on
"Americanism." He was in fine
voice and held the close attention of
the big crowd. A chorus of Amer
ican Legion men made a decided hit
with the song "We Will Never Let
the Old Flag Fall," ,which was the
last and one of the best numbers on
the program.
ISAACS TO HEAD
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Professor C. A. Isaacs was elected
president of the chamber of com
merce for the ensuing six-months
term at the election of officers held
Tuesday niorning. For the past
term Professor Isaacs has been vice
President. A. R. Metz was elected
▼ice president and E. W. Thorpe was
continued at secretary-treasurer.
Committee chairmen were named by
the hoard of trustees, as follows:
Roads N and parks, J. S. Klemgard;
Publicity, A. R. Met*; legislative, W.
C. Kruegel; agriculture, C. A. Isaacs;
membership, Robert Neill; new in
dustries, A. A. Rounds; civic affairs,
'• C. Forrest; city Improvement and
sanitation. F. F. Nalder; entertain
ment. C. N. Curtis..
MASONS BUY FINE
BUILDING. LOTS
Looking to the construction of a
Masonic Temple/ three or four years
hence, the local Masonic lodge has
Purchased the lots at the corner of
Alder and Paradise streets, formerly
owned by Dr. E. Maguire and George
Wagner, paying $6,000. The lots
are admirable located for a lodge
home, with a frontage of 100 feet on
Alder street and 100 feet on Para
dise, and close to the main business
district.
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PYTHIANS TO CELEBRATE
THIIITY-THIHD ANNIVERSARY
_*___( Star Lodge Will Hold Ap
propriate Ceremonies Monday
Evening—Talks by Oldtiiueis
Evening Star lodge, No. 26,
Knights of Pythias, will next Mom
day evening celebrate the :iid anni
versary of the institution of the
lodge. The meeting will be featured
by historical talks by oldtimer Pyth
ians, including Judge Thos. Neill
and William Swain, who will give
reminiscences of the early history ot
the lodge, dealing with the progress
of the lodge, step by step, until the
present time, when it has become
one of the strongest fraternal organi
zations in the county, with nearly
260 members and one of the beat
Pythian temples and club rooms in
Eastern Washington. Howard Pa
tience of Spokane, grand chancellor
for the domain of Washington, will
j attend the meeting and address the
\ members. A banquet will be spread
jat the close of the ceremonies and
the work in the rank of esquire will
be exemplified.
NEXT WEEK CLOSES
THE COLLEGE YEAR
Diumciicemcnt Week Program Set
for June sto —Chicago Man
to Address Graduates
Next, Thursday, June 10, will see
the close of another school year for
the State College, and the six days
preceding the closing of the term
will be filled full of activities cen
tered around the biggest graduating
class in the history of the institu
tion. The full program for com-
mencement week, as announced by
the committee on commencement ac
tivities, is as folows:
Saturday, June 5
8:15 p. m.—Concert by the School
of Music, Auditorium.
Sunday, June 6
8:00 p. m. —Baccalaureate Address
by Rev. W. E. Henry, First Baptist
Church, Everett, Auditorium.
Monday, June 7
4:00 p. m.—Concert by the Col
lege Orchestra, Auditorium.
8:15 p. m.—Graduating Exercises,
Department of Elementary Science,
Auditorium.
Tuesday, June BClass Day
9:00 a. m.—Senior Breakfast,
Tanglewood.
10:00 a. m.—Senior Pilgrimage,
Campus.
4:30 p. m. —Senior Ivy Exercises,
Campus, music by college band.
8:15 p. m. —Senior Class Play,
'.The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary,"
Auditorium.
Wednesday, Juno »—Alumni Day
9:30 a. m.—-Senior-Alumni Base
ball, Rogers Field.
11:30 a. m.—-Registration of Al
umni, Y. M. C. A. Building.
1:00 p. m. —Alumni Luncheon,
Ferry Hall.
2:30 p. m.—Alumni Business
Meeting, Ferry Hall.
4:30 p. m.—Concert, School or
Music, Auditorium.
,8:30 p. m.—Commencement Re
ception, President House.
10:00 p. m. —Commencement Ball,
Armory.
Thursday June 10
Commencement Day
9:30 a. m.—Academic Procession
to the Auditorium.
10:00 a. m.— Commencement Ex
ercises. Auditorium.
.. Commencement Address —John M.
Coulter, Ph. D., University of Chi
cago. y- :..:;.. iVc | _1
' Conferring of Degrees President
E. O. Holland.
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CITY WILL PROCEED WITH
COLLEGE PARK IMPROVEMENT
No objections were registered by
property owners against the pro
posed improvement by paving of the
College Park district at the public
hearing Tuesday night and the city
council will proceed at once with the
preliminary work. An ordinance de
fining the district was passed and
the official call for bids for the work
will be made at once. The district
includes seven blocks.
PULLMAN, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1920
Ewartsville Chautauqua
Tuesday, June 8, to Saturday, June 1 2
i
Season Tickets Dally Schedule
Adults $2.50 Afternoon concerts 2:30
Children $1.00 Afternoon lectures 3:00 j
Students $1.25 Children's hour 4:00
Adult tickets of committee. . .$2.00 Evening concerts 7:30
War Tax Extra Evening Lectures 8:00
Daily Program
Tuesday, .lime Eighth
Afternoon— ,
Opening announcements of the week Chautauqua Director
Concert The MacGregor Singers
Admission 50c, war tax 5c ,
Organizing Junior Chautauqua.
Evening
Concert Prelude The MacGregor Singers ,
Cartoon-Lecture-Entertainment Marion Ballou Fisk
Admission 77c, war tax Be
Wednesday, June Ninth
Afternoon—
Concert prelude Fern wick Newell Concert Company
"Green Stockings" Ruby Page Ferguson
Presenting A. E. Mason's delightful comedy in monologue
Admission 50c, war tax 5c
Junior Chautauqua Play Hour. >
Evening
Concert prelude Fenwick Newell Concert Company
Lecture, "The Unfolding of Democracy" Joel W. Eastman
! Who lectures on things worth while ;
Admission 50c, war tax 5c
Thursday, June Tenth
Afternoon —
Concert prelude . The Overseas Orchestra
Lecture, "Human Life in Relation to Americanism". . ,M. Pirie Beyea, R.N.
First volunteer American Red Cross nurse
Admission 50c, war tax 5c
Junior Chautauqua Play Hour.
Evening—
Concert ' The Overseas Orchestra
Former A. E. F. entertainers
Admission 77c, war tax 8c
Friday, June Eleventh
Afternoon - '-
Music and entertainment The Regniers
Admission 50c, war tax 5c '
Junior Chautauqua Play Hour.
Evening '
Music and entertainment The Regniers ]
Illustrated lecture. "Hunting Big Game in Alaska" Dr. Chas. S. Price
Illustrated with remarkable pictures of the Far North '
Admission 77c, war tax 8c
j
Saturday, June Twelfth I 1
Afternoon— 11
Junior Chautauqua games in public.
Concert The Stearns-Gregg Concert Company j
Entertainment Fay Epperson '
Admission 50c, war tax 5c
Evening—
Concert The Stearns-Gregg Concert Company i
Song recital Josephine Martino j
Noted New York prima donna I
Admission $1.00, war tax 10c '
On Sunday the program will be consistent in every way with the sacred j
character of the day. j
JOHNSONIAN IS
KILLED IN IDAHO
John Myers Instantly Killed in Mil!
Accident at Winchesterßurial
at Johnson
Irwin Myers, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Myers of Johnson, was instant
ly killed at Winchester, Idaho, on
Tuesday of this week while unload
ing a car of logs at the mill where
he was employed. The body was
taken to to the home of the Rev.
Charles Elry at Ho, Idaho, where It
was prepared for burial, after which
it was taken to Pullman by train ana
then to Johnson by auto. , Funeral
services were held .at Johnson yes
terday afternoon and- the body was
interred in the city cemetery here.
Deceased was an estimable young
man, having graduated from the
Johnson high school, after which he
went with his father to the lumber
district and at the time of his death
he was bookkeeper for the camp.
The bereaved relatives have the
sympathy of a large circle of friends
and acquaintances.
Miss Edna Courtney has just com
pleted a very successful year's work
In the Moscow schools and Ib at
home for the summer. During the
second semester she did Smith-
Hughes work with the University ot
Idaho.
COUNTY ODD FELLOWS
MET IN PULLMAN
C* W. Lyman of Garfield Elected
President—Next Meeting at St.
John—Visitors See College
Grounds
Two hundred members of the or
der of Odd Fellows from all parts of
Whitman county gathered in Pull
man last Saturday for the semi-an
nual convention of District No. 14.
The first session opened at 1:30 in
the afternoon, with Judge Thos,
Neill of Pullman, president of tho
district, presiding. C. W. Lyman or
Garfield was vice president of the
convention, W. R. Goodrich of Col
fax was treasurer and Ed S. Spencer
of Pullman secretary. The regular
order of business occupied almost
the entire afternoon session. St.
John was named as the meeting
place for the next semi-annual con
vention. Next October, and officer*
as follows wero elected: C. W. Ly
man of Garfield, president; John Gil
bert of St. John, vice president; W.
R. Goodrich of Colfax, treasurer.
At "1:00 o'clock the visitors were
taken on an automobile trip over the
college campus and experiment sta
tion. It was the first visit of several
of the delegates to the big institu
tion and words of surprise and com
mendation were heard from every
hand. The banquet was cerved at
6:00 o'clock, nearly 200 covers being
laid.
The features of tho evening ses
sion wore addresses by two past
masters. W. B. McCroskey of Colfax
and L. J. Blrdseyo of Spokane.
BOHLER MEMBER OF
TRYOUT COMMITTEE
J. F. Bohler, director of athletics
at the state. College, Tuesday re
ceived official notice of his appoint
ment as a member of the tryout com
mittee to select a team to represent
'he> United States at the Olympic
meet. Mr. Bolder will go to Pasa
dena, where the try out ■ will be held,
about the 20th of June, and the ath
letes will compete for places on the
team the 2Gth. Washington state.
will have two men in the tryouts,
Eldon Jenne, who holds tho Pacific
Coast record in the pole, vault at 13
feel 1 Inch, and Charles Smith, hold
er of the Conference two-mile record
at 9 minutes 45 seconds. Smith will
enter the tryouts for the three-mile
grind. Both the men will train on
Rogers field and will go south with
Director Bohler.
MAY ISO TO COURTS
IN POWER RATES CASE
Washington Water Power Company
Says City Must Pay Scale Estab
lished by Commission—City
Says Franchise Rates
Effective
A friendly law suit will probably
be instituted by the Washington
Water Power company against the
city of Pullman to ascertain wheth
er or not the municipal power rates
set by the state public service com
mission will prevail over the rates
established by franchise between the
city and the company many years
ago. W. E. Coman and John E. Far
quhar, representing the company,
came down from Spokane Tuesday
and appeared before the city council
to press their claims that the public
service rates should prevail, stating
that they have no alternative but to
demand the rates set by the commis
sion. The council, backed by City
Attorney D. C. Dow, contends that
the rate established by franchise, be
cause of the fact that it antedates
the organization of the public serv
ice commission, must be held invio
late. Neither the city fathers nor
the Water Power officials appeared
willing to concede a point and the
courts will probably be called upon
to settle the point.
The rate for municipal power as
established by the franchise, which
remains effective until March/ of
1927, is one cent per kilowatt hour, ;
while the public service commission.
in a recent ruling, set the rate on a
graduated scale, $1.50 for the first
20 hours used, or less, of the con
nect load, five cents per hour for the i
second 20 hours, three cents for the
next 30, one cent for the next 100,
and three-quarters of a cent per
hour for the next 200 hours.
The current used for power for
the large city pump during April
amounted to $250.90 under the pub
lic service commission rates, as
against $83.50 under the franchise
rate, while the small pump used cur
rent which would cost $34.55 under
the public service commission rates
or $7.90 under the franchise rates.
The city tendered the company a
warrant based on the franchise rate j
and this was refused, the visit of
the officials resulting.
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MONTANA.PRESENTS
GOOD CROP PROSPECTS
Dr. F. J. Kayler has returned from
his farm near Great Falls, Mont.,
where he spent six weeks doing his
spring work, and is again at his old
stand In the Scott & Watt building l
ready to receive his dental patients. ,
Dr. Kayler reports that crop pros
pects In Montana are better than at .
any time since 1916, with spring <
wheat in better condition than In I
the Palouse country. There has i
been an abundance of moisture, i
"The Palousers who have Montana
farms will surely have to go there to <
harvest their crops this fall," says
Dr. Ksyler. , A'-i:;. I
WILL TALK SCHOOL
SITUATION NEXT WEEK
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Matter of Providing Adequate Fa
cilities to Meet Incresod Demand*
of Public Schools Special
Order of Business
Next Tuesday's meeting of the
chamber of commerce will be given
over in large measure to a full dl*
eussion ot the local school situation,
with a view to close co-oporatlon be
tween the business men and the
school board in solving tin: problems
of providing adequate facilities to
meet, tlie increased demands made
upon the schools. The matter was
presented to the chamber of com
merce at its meeting last Tuesday by
Judge Thos. Neill, chairman of the
school board, who stated that steps
must lie taken at once to provide for
the steadily increasing enrollment
and. on behalf of the school board,
asked the assistance of the business
men in formulating plans for the fu
ture that will meet with the approv
al of the general public.
This year the school district was
severely handicapped because of in
adequate facilities, largely the result
of cramped quarters and overcrowd
ed classes. Despite this handicap,
however, the school term just closed
was one of the most successful in
the history of the district, due to
the efficiency and splendid efforts of
the superintendent and his faculty
of teachers.
The school board is confronted
with the necessity of constructing
another building very soon, but the
policy to be pursued in providing for
the future has not yet been clearly
defined and will not be 'definitely
settled until the school board and
the citizens as well have given the
matter thought and deliberation,
loking to the best interests of the
community for the present and fu
ture.
It is very probable that it will be
necessary to reopen the Franklin
.
school to take care of the overflow
_.
next year, and, while this plan will
not meet with the approval of all
the school patrons because of the lo
cation of the building, it is believed
to be the best moans of affording
temporary relief.
As a means of solving the problem
permanently the construction of a
large grade school at a central loca
tion has been proposed, the high
school to be maintained at the pres
ent location and the Main building
to be made a junior high school. The
school board holds an option on the
lots on Maiden Lane, opposite the
J. N. Scott property, where a very
desirable grade school building could
be constructed, with the city park
available for a playground.
The matter of financing such a
building would be a problem to be
solved by the school board and the
citizens, with a plan similar to that
by which the new girls' dormitory
at the college Is being constructed
as a possibility. The school board
will be in a position to issue bonds
in an amount approximating $30,
--000 next year, but this amount
would be entirely inadequate to con
struct the building desired without
outside assistance.
The question of enlarging the dis
trict to include several outlying dis
tricts has been proposed and this will
be one of the phases of the subject
to be discussed at the chamber of
commerce meeting next Tuesday.
All citizens interested in the de
velopment of the local public school
system are invited to attend the
meeting and to express their views.
ROAD MAP
Professor Phelps of the highway
department has just Issued several
thousand copies of a road map of
the Pacific Northwest. The regis
trar or Mr. Phelps will be glad to
?ive copies to all who wish them.
The map, which was drawn by/
_..__. Becker, a student in mechani
cal engineering, shows all the main
trunk and branch highways of the
dates of Washington, Oregon, Idaho
md Montana. The map includes the
Yellowstone Trail, Sunset and Pa
:ific Highways. Because of its com
pleteness it should prove to be a
treat aid to motorists.
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