Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-09-16
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

| Prospects are poor for the salmon
| fishing season, which opened Friday
salmon in the river, few of the local
! fishermen will operate this fall, be-
cause the canneries and buyers are
only offering ! IL cents a pound.
The soutl: vest Washington inter-
! scholastic football league was organ
| lied at meeting held in Centralia by
the athletic directors Of the Ccntrala,
Chehalis, Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Monte
sano and Olympia high schools. A
schedule of l6 games was adopted.
Walking in his sleep from his bed
! beside bonfire he and two compan-
ions had built near the railroad track
at Peshastin Robert l. W. Wilson, 20
years of age, and veteran of the
world war, was struck and instantly
killed by q Great Northern passenger
train.
The state public service commission
has suspended a tariff filed by the
| Puget Sound Navigation company pro-
posing an increase of freight rates and
Of 20 per cent in passenger fares be-
tween Puget sound points, pending a
hearing to be held on September 20
at Seattle.
The first wheat selling rush Of the
season occurred at Pullman when So
900 bushels were unloaded by farmers
| after white wheat had climbed to the
| 1925 mark. Many farmers are still
clinging tenaciously to their 1920
crops, however, in anticipation of still
further advances.
Refusing to reduce wages or return
to the 10-hour standard day in order
that lower cost of production might
offset adverse freight rate differen-
tials in eastern markets, several hun
dred sawmill operators of Washington
and Oregon held a decidedly gloomy
meeting in Tacoma last week.
Frank NJ. Rothrock, Spokane sheep
and cattle man, has purchased the in
terest of Harry L. Day in the Day
Rothrock company for reputed con-
sideration of 100000. The Day &
Rothrock company has the famous
stock Of Shorthorn cattle at Sprague,
and owns 5000 acres of land of which
1000 is irrigated.
The wage scale to be paid to those
handling this years prune crop In
Clarke county has been set and was
announced as follows: Kiln tenders,
81 and 81 bonus; dippers, S. and 81
| bonus; shakers, IS cents an hour and
10 cents per hour bonus; haulers, SO
cents and 10 cents bonus pickers, 10
cents box and bonus of cents.
Increased carfares on Seattle NUM-
cipal street railway lines resulted in
an increase Of approximately 81 per
cent in the average daily revenue and
Il utlltdo' VI Wv III lIt dNel
Der of passengers carried during the
first month since the change was ef-
fected. according to figures made pub
! lie by Mayor Hugh NJ. Caldwell.
Four Lewis county pupils, winners
in the recent school contests at the
southwest Washington fair, will rep
resent the southwest Washington dis
trict in similar contests at the state
fair at Yakima. They are Arthur
Roundtree, Klaber, poultry; Carl Sim
mons, Klaber, pigs; Leota Tucker,
Dryad, cooking, and Edna Hansen,
Eyeline, sewing.
Mayor Samuel Kreidel of Ellensburg
has written the census bureau at
Washington, d. c., inQuiring what
means may be used whereby recount
of Gllensburg inhabitants may be made
without expense to the government
A recent announcement by the bureau
gave the population Of the city as 1910.
decrease, when every indication,
Mayor Kredel declares, points to over
5000.