Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-04-22
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

SHy nan ellplpseS VI luCOllld nave
filed protest with the council against
the too frequent invasion of their re.
spective offices by Campaign work.
ers," directors of drives" and tag
day" tormentors.
An unsolicited request for 10 per
cent wage reduction that will save the
school funds $4,000 annually, has
been presented to the Seattle school
board by engineers, custodians, fire
men and janitors.
John Calvin, receiver of the Union
Loan & Trust company Of Centralia,
has filed his final report and asked to
be discharged. A final dividend of az
per cent Is to be paid creditors, MAX
ing total Of IS per cent
Members of the state highway board
went to Hoquiam Tuesday and to Lake
Quinault to inspect the work on the
extension project from the lake to
Queets. The program of the board in.
cludes making a passable road at the
earliest possible date.
City Councilman Draham and Mrs
Draham, of Olympia, have left for a
500-mile stroll through Oregon on foot
They will start from Vancouver walk.
ing up the Columbia highway, from
which they will branch off, and for the
next month will tour through Oregon
where they fancy chooses.
Conviction and sentence of seven /.
w. W. members, tried in Montesaro
about a year ago for the murder Of
four eX.service men by firing upon the
Armistice parade in Centralia in 1919
was sustained in the supreme court in
an opinion written by Justice Mitchell,
and affirmed by the entire bench.
President E. H. Todd of the College
of Puget Sound announced that the
drive to raise S1,O0O,O00 for the insti
tuition had succeeded When the cam
paign closed, the fund was S22,723 over
the million.dollar mark. The College
of Puget Sound is supported by the
Methodist church Of the northwest
The money will be used for construc
ton of new buildings.
Water and rail lumber shipments
from Grays Harbor in March totaled
approximately 446S1,oOO feet, accord
ing to compilations just completed. OF
this total 19,659,OOO feet went by rail
and was carried in approximately III
cars, Of which HoQuiam furnished 1863
cars and Aberdeen 4O2. Water ship
ments from the harbor in March were
25,022,00O feet, carried in 2S ships.
With five military decorations, in
Guiding the British distinguished fly
ing cross and bar, given for downing
nine enemy aircraft during the world
war, John S. Griffith, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. A. Griffith of Seattle, has re-
turned home after four years Of serv-
ice overseas. When he resigned from
the British air forces two months ago
he was Captain Griffith, aged % years.
Fifty thousand dollars was the value
a jury in the superior court at Walla
Walla placed on the affections of Mrs.
Mary Hughes when it awarded yer
dict of this amount to Philip Hughes
against his brother, Patrick Hughes.
Mrs. Hughes recently obtained a di-
vorce. The parties are wealthy wheat
ranchers, owning and leasing several
thousand acres. The plaintiff asked
100000.
The state law providing for the eX
animation of dentists by the state
board of dental examiners before II.
censes are granted was held inopera.
tive in a decision by Edward E. Cush'
man, United States district judge at
Seattle, in which he declared the board
was clothed with arbitrary and illegal
power. The decision granted the peti.
ton of Leon Noble, Seattle dentist, for
temporary injunction restraining
county officials from prosecuting him
on charge of practioing dentistry
without license.
The Washington grand lodge of the
Degree of Honor, il session at Seattle
has elected the following officers: Past
grand president, Mrs, Anna NJ. Crosby
Spokane; grand president, Mrs. Eva
p. Gordon, Olympia; first grand vice
president, Mrs. Edith Downing, Hill
yard; second grand vice-president
Mrs. Anna NJ. Barth, Seattle; grand
secretary, Mrs. Cora kenoyer, Che
halls; grand treasurer; Mrs. Emma Z
Chadwick, Seattle; grand usher, Mrs
Sadie Fulkerson, Hoquiam; grand in
side watch, Mrs. Idaho l., Davis. Leav
enworth; grand outside watch, Mrs