Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-28

Seattle and Washington district
metal trades employers have reduced
the wages Of employees s cents an hour.
About 5000 men are affected by the
reduction.
Tum.a-Lum humber yard managers
Of Oregon and Washington meet this
week at the headquarters of the com
pany In Walla Walla. The company
has 80 yards.
A dividend Of per cent has been
declared by the receiver of the defunct
United States National bank of Cen
tralia, making &C per cent so far paid
to deposltors.
The prosecuting attorney has discov-
cred that Adams county has no deed
to the land on which the courthouse
stands, although the site was purchas.
ed 80 years ago.
A smashup on the bridge north of
Bothell seriously injured two women
and man, demolished two machines,
and a half dozen other persons we're
more or less bruised.
The Western Washington Fair asso-
citation at Puyallup has voted to bond
the plant for $4,000 for permanent
improvements and payment Of out.
standing Indebtedness.
Patrolman Kenyon of Seattle reports
that while attending daily session. of
the police court his pocket was picked
Of wallet containing $50 and street
car and theatre passes.
With approximately 400 subscribers,
stock subscriptions in Pasco to the
proposed Pasco-K ennewick bridge
fund have reached total of 100000
Pasco's allotment was only $4,000.
L. X. Hall, aged SO, died at Seattle
q few days ago In the early days
Mr.. Hall was friend Of Daniel Web
ster, Thomas Benton, John Quincy
Adams, Henry Clay and other famous
men.
With volley fired over his grave
and taps" sounded by bugler from
Fort Lawton. the funeral of Corporal
Claude Swift, who lost his life in the
Argonne-Meuse drive. was held at Sc
attic.
City and county commissioners of
Walla Walla met at luncheon and de-
cided to cooperate in establishing a
chain gang for lazy husbands and
other heads Of families who refuse to
work.
One hundred and twelve mills in the
northwest reported actual production
61.S2 per cent below normal last week,
according to the weekly lumber re-
view issued by the West Coast Lum-
bermen's association.
Mechanical departments Of the
Northern Pacific railway will be put
on a five.day week basis before the
end of the present month, 1t was an
nounced at Spokane by Charles Don
nelly, president of the road.
Thomas P. Horn, who for the past
three years has served as superinten-
dent OF the State Training school for
boys at Chehalis has rendered his
resignation to the state board Of con-
tro upon request of the latter.
MI. ct To 70
who had been missing for two weeks
and for whom searching parties of
100 men had hunted the country in
eastern Klickltat county, was found in
Big Horn canyon one mile from his
cabin.
At meeting OF loggers and their
employers at Aberdeen it wss decid-
ed the basic scale for wages in the
camps OF Grays Harbor district should
be 81 for common labor as mini
mum, to take effect January 20.
With the arrest in Seattle of two
young men giving the names Of e. B.
Davis and Ed Wallace, Seattle and
Spokane police authorities believe
they have the perpetrators OF some 20
automobile thefts in Northwestern
cities
The children In the Sunday schools
Of the Methodist church In Clarke
county gave nearly $500 for the famine
relief fund as Christmas offering,
according to a report made by Rev. E.
NJ. HILL superintendent OF the Van
couver district.
For the second time In five years
the Spokane State bank, situated in an
outlying business district of Spokane,
was held up and robbed last week, No
trace OF the robbers, who wore no
masks when they entered the bank
have been found.
The state board OF control has an.
nounced the appointment OF Alonzo G.