Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-11-18

loaf was cut from II to cents. me
retail price will be 3 cents for the
pound loaf and IL 1.2 cents for the
l IL pound loaf
Senator Jones and PoindeXter have
recommended w. D. Gregory for APP
pointment as register of the Walla
Walla land office. Mr.. Gregory Is tell
er in the Baker-Boyer National bank
of Walla Walla. Under a bill soon to
become a law, he will, II appointed, be
the sole official Of the Walla WaIla
land office.
Surveys are being made in Hoquiam
for sewer system which has been a
matter of discussion in city council
meetings for the last few years. The
cost has been held to be so high that
work was never started but it is be
lieved by the city commissioners now
that the work could be carried out at
normal expenditure.
The Tacoma port commission has
issued call for bids for construction
of new transit shed and as soon as
the specifications can be completed by
the engineering department, the plans
will be submitted to bidders. 1t is
expected to attract tenders from all
the big contractors in the country, as
the job will run well up toward the
half-million dollar mark
Washington states apple crop on
November /, showed an increase of
more than 100000 bushels over the
preliminary estimate Of October 1, &C.
cording to the report issued by the
Spokane office Of the bureau of crop
estimates of the department of agri-
culture. The preliminary estimate for
the entire 1921 apple crop is now
placed at 2S,325,000 bushels.
Development Of the port Of Grays
Harbor is resulting in determination
of inland mills to ship by water.
Schafer Bros. of Montesano are pre-
pairing to build scows for the transport
OF their lumber down the Chehalis to
the harbor terminal, there to be load
ed on ships. The Vance Lumber COM
pany of Malone also are reported to be
preparing to ship by water soon.
A new record, believed to be above
anything that any Pacific coast port
could approach for dispatch in loading
lumber cargo, was made by the port
of Tacoma lumber dock last week in
serving the Yoshida Maru. The great
90-foot hammerhead crane of the ports
dock handled 100000 board feet of lum-
Der in seven hours. keeping five
matches of the steamer supplied with
cargo as fast as the stevedores could
handle it.
All towns in that vicinity helped
Centralia stage a celebration marking
the anniversaries of the signing OF the
armistce the admittance of the state
of Washington to the union and the
death Of four members of the Ameri-
can Legion at the hands of l. w. w.
Chehalis practically moved to Cen
tralia en- masse for the day, while
Winlock was also represented by an
unusually large delegation of veterans
and citizens.
Reductions in hay and grain rates,
recently ordered by the interstate COM
merCe commission, to be made effec-
tive by railroads throughout the west
not later than November 20, cannot be
made effective by that date, James r..
NGitCh, assistant general traffic man.
agcr at Seattle of the Chicago, Milwau-
lee & ST Paul railroad, was informed
In adviccs from Chicago. 1t was I'M
derstood, however, according to the
adyices, that the delay in making the
new rates effective would not exceed
one month.
All soldier land settlement projects
submitted to the state for considera-
ton except two, have been barred from
selection by an opinion of Attorney.
General Thompson. The two projects
that can be considered yet in their
present status are the White Bluffs
Hanford offer in Benton county and
the Sequm project in Clallam county.
The opinion rules out dry farming
land now under cultivation. The sta
tute provides that undeveloped land
must be selected. Director Scott Of
the department of conservation and
development said that the project
which had gained the most serious
consideration was the Liberty valley
project, IL miles east of Spokane, but
the opinion made its selection impos-
aihln