The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-01-31
BOARDS ORDERED TO
LEAVE MEN ON FARMS
Instructions Received From Provost
Marshal General To Grant In
emptions To Necessary Men

Following general instructions from
the provost marshal general, the army
exemption appeal board for southeast
ern Washington has decided to put IN
deferred classification all farmers who
are shown by replies to questionnaires
to be necessary to the management Oh
farms. Men recognized as especially
proficient in farming and who are
continuously engaged, during the farm
ing season, in that work, will be class
ed as skilled laborers.
When the $4,000 men who will COM
prise the ninety.first division of the
national army at the Tacoma canton
ment "fold their cots and silently steal
away" they will go, not as the ninety
first division in the national army, but
as 'the Wild West division" 1nforma-
ton that this name has been officially
designated as that by which the div
ision will be known was received In
camp, and the officers at headquarters
who heard it were distinctly pleased.
The McLane Lumber & Single COM
pany single mill at Kelso can boast
a worlds record cut as result OF its
activity in the year 1917, during which
the mill broke all previous records for
the number of shingles turned out at
a single plant in IL months. Operating
two shifts a day and losing but few
days, the mill cut 165, 100000 shingles,
more than 100000 more than the
best previous cut by any mill in the
world. The mill is equipped with seven
shingle machines.
Arthur r. Priest, dean Of men at the
University of Washington, will leave
for France early in February to estab-
lish headquarters for soldiers from the
state of Washington. The work has
been financed by Seattle men who have
sons in service, but will be carried out
for the benefit of all Washington sol
diers. The first cost is estimated at
$4,000 It is planned to establish
headquarters equipped with all home
comforts, which the soldiers can enjoy
on leaves of absence.
The Goals of Washington will be
completely reclassified with maximum
prices fixed for every grade and pre-.
paration of coal products by the mines,
If recommendations forwarded to
Washington by David Whitcomb, state
fuel administrator, are accepted by
the national administrator, DR.. Harry
A. Garfield. Mr.. Whitcomb's recon-
mendations are based upon the report
of the mine price board which spent
six weeks in formulating the new
classification and new prices.
What is accepted by lumbermen and
shipbuilders as the best indicator yet
found as to the future construction OF
wooden steamers by the emergency
fleet corporation in the west is news
that, at the instance of General Man
ager Piez, of the emergency fleet cor
poration, survey is to be made OF
the mills and timber resources of Ore
gon and Washington to ascertain what
amount of shipbuilding material can
be made available for 1918, bearing in
mind the other needs of the govern
ment in the way of fir lumber.
In recognition of the loyalty dis
played by the Loyal Legion workers ir
the spruce camps in the northwest the
spruce production division of the
United States signal corps, under Col
onel Brice P. Disque. has arranged tc
send staff of doctors into the seven
districts to render assistance in main
tanning a high standard Of sanitation
and health in the camps. The doctors
who are all commissioned officers
will make a medical survey, including
sanitation, cookhouses, sleeping quar-
tiers and general health conditions.
Grays Harbor's elaborate program
for production of spruce as airplan'
construction stock, got under way Mon
day, following the signing of contracts
between the government and the Air
craft Spruce & Lumber company, ant
the detailing Of crews by the latter
concern to open camps in isolated tim
Der belts north Of Grays Harbor. APP
proximately 1000 soldiers will within
a fortnight take over the work in the
woods. Thereafter, only a few civil
ians who are expert loggers will b.
retained. With the government oper
ating auto trucks and otherwise i'm
proving transportation facilities, thu
spruce will be rushed out as fast as i
Is rived.
James J. Callaghan, public charity |
commissioner of King county, was in
dicted by the grand jury on charges |
of grand larceny and forgery in issu-
ing alleged fraudulent orders for goods
and cash.
That the aircraft and spruce work
on the Pacific coast may be speeded
up a Pacific coast committee Of the |
board has been organized.