Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-30
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State


ment Of the Spokane office of the fed
eral bureau Of markets The state
shipped one.halG Of all apples packed
in boxes.
Acquisition Of membership of 1000
before July /, and of n number Of
timbered tracts on various highways
OF the state during the coming year
are the two larger features Of the
program of the National Parks Asso.
citation of Washington, outlined at the
annual meeting of the association held
in Tacoma.
Protest of Governor Louis +, Hart
to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
against what he termed the apparent
injustice done the state of Washing.
ton in the recent apportionment of
road funds under the recently enacted
federal aid bill on the basis of govern.
ment reserve timber resources has
been overuled,
Elms planted along the High Line
highway between Seattle and Tacoma
as permanent memorial to Washing.
ton soldiers, sailors and marines who
lost their lives in the World War, will
be registered with the American For
astry association in the national honor
roll of memorial trees, the Seattle
Garden club has been notified.
Mystery confronted the police at Sc
attic when plumbers repairing pipes
found Ferdinand Hockbrm, 70, re.
tired real estate dealer, lying dead
with a bullet wound in the back of
his head, in the apartment he was be-
lieved to have vacated. Hockbrun
was supposed by his friends to have
gone to California more than two
ago.
To protect the white pine forests of
the west against the blister rust, de-
structive disease of these trees, the
federal horticultural board of the
United States department of agricul-
ture will hold a public hearing in
D. c., January 23 to con-
slider the ACCESSIBILITY of extending the
present federal quarantine to include
the state of Washington.
Wheat, flour copper and lumber
shipments from Tacoma for November
showed big values, according to figures
by Harbormaster w. G. Row
land. The flour trade for the month
to 255,000 barrels, valued at
81 ,596.0O0; copper amounted to S169
tons, with a value of $2,363,000; wheat
25,5S7 tons, s93S,OOO, and lumber, 2S,.
776,035 feet, valued at s531,00O.
Special legislation by the Seattle
city council has been found necessary
to insure the continuity of Mayor Cald.
wells term in office should he by
force of circumstances overstay the
limit of 60 days while on his trip to
the orient as potentate Of Nile tenn
pie Of the Mystic Shrine. Mayor Cald-
well is to sail from Seattle with his
Shrine associates early in January
On January every motorist in the
state of Washington will be liable to
arrest and the imposition of a penalty
unless able to show license for 1922,
or official evidence that proper appli- |
cation for such license has been
made. The state department of
license announces that there will be !
no extension of time nor will excuse
or apology be accepted in any case.
Tacoma's efforts to develop the
Lake Cushman power project for
uses, temporarily thwarted
by the opposition of the state board Of
fisheries, are not to be abandoned !
City officials are determined to go
ahead with the plans. The develop |
ment work planned looks to the pro.
duction OF from 10000 to 100000 horse
power of electrical energy from the
waters of the north fork of the Sko.
komish river.
The Puget Sound oyster, sometimes
called the Olympia oyster, whose sue.
culent substance formed the base of
the original oyster cocktail, is threat.
ened with extinction If the cold snap
continues. The famous oyster beds
Of oyster bay, Mud bay, Shelter bay
and North bay already have suffered
heavy damage, according to reports
Of men connected with the industry,
and even with warmer turn OF
weather the output will be materially
reduced. Low tides, following the
period of warm floods, exposed the
beds TO the freezing temperature,
which has been very destructive.