Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-01-06

1He ANNUAL southwest washington
| Older Boys Conference vii be held
in Centralia January q, % and 10.
Commercial travellers who cover
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana from Spokane held a convention
at Spokane Friday.
The department Of public works has
cancelled the permit of William Cody
for the operation of a stage line be
tween Touchet and Walla Walla.
That coyotes are crossing the Gas
cade mountains in large numbers is
indicated by the bounty claims show
ing up at the Whatcom auditors of
| flee.
Orders to start a probe of retail
| prices of shoes, clothing, fuel and food
in Spokane have been received by spe.
cial agents of the department of jus.
| tice.
Refusal of the Northern Pacific Rail
road to pay the 1917 road tax levied
against the company by Franklin
county was sustained by the supreme
court.
The various logging camps on the
Olympic peninsula which closed for
the holidays resumed operations on
Tuesday. The demand for logs con
| tinues.
Organization Of the Lewis County
Dairymen's Protective league has been
perfected at Chehalis, with T. H
Lester, prominent Mossyrock farmer
as president.
With starting of eight camps of the
Poison Logging company, fully three.
fourths of the Grays harbor camps are
in operation, after a scant week OF
Christmas holiday.
! Dairy feeding demonstrations will
be given in Grays Harbor county the
week of January 913 under the direc.
tion of Don Magruder, dairy specialist
from the state college.
Holstein breeders of Grays Harbor
county will meet at the county agents
office in Montesano the evening of
January / to discuss the formation of
a countrywide association.
Frank e. Vaughan, justice of the
peace and police magistrate of Van.
couver last year imposed nearly 3d..
600 fines on lawbreakers and collect.
ed in actual cash $12,716.40.
Farmers, lumbermen, raftsmen and
wood choppers head the occupation
statistics for the State of Washing
ton announced by the bureau of the
census, department of commerce.
Preliminary estimates show that Ho-
quiam's single mills have turned out
this year, despite several weeks of
shutdowns, 1S5,25O,00O shingles, and its
lumber mills 27O,750,OOO feet of lum-
Der.
MIR. and Mrs. Fl. l.. Winston of Shell
ton were killed when their automobile
was struck by Northern Pacific pas
senger train at Lakeview. The car
was carried several hundred feet and
then caught fire.
Thirty.five persons including twelve
minors lost their lives in Seattle as
the result OF automobile accidents dur.
ing 1921, data for the year compiled
by the traffic bureau OF the police de.
! partment, shows.
More than 200 Whatcom county
poultry men enrolled in the first poul-
try school ever held in the county last
week. Experts from state college and
the Puyallup Experiment station con.
Quoted the school.
A Skagit County Legion Basketball
League has just been organized COM
posed of six teams, which include fives
from Sedro-Woolley, Conway, Burling.
ton, La Conner, Mount Vernon and
either Edison or Anacortes.
Patrons of the Wala Walla post.
office in the future will know to
whom they are talking when they
step up to window Name plates have
been Installed at each window, giving
the name of the clerk in charge.
Mountain quail and Hungarian
pheasants are being trapped in east
ern Grays Eiarbor county and liber
ated in the county game preserve near
Montesano. 1t is hoped that in time
these birds will be found in large mum
bers throughout the country.
George Kun2e, president OF the Wis
consin Timber Company of Stanwool
was found dead on the floor Of q
room at the Mitchell Hotel at Everett
! Beside the body was 3S.callber revol