Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-10
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

The port of Tacoma last week LEI
every port on the Pacific coast in thu
deep-sea tonnage for discharge or load
Ing of cargo, l.. NJ Daniels, manager o
the Tacoma Merchants Exchange
said.
Major-General George w. Goethall
has begun active field work in con
nection with the survey of the Colum
bia basin irrigation project, which hi
has been engaged by the state o
Washington to make.
Stephen Bennett Packard, ex-Unitet
States consul to Liverpool, England
one-time governor Of Louisiana ant
prominent in political affairs following
the civil war, is dead at his home II
Seattle, at the age of so.
Almost four times as much was
spent In Aberdeen last month as dur
ing December, the report of the build
Ing department shows. Thirty per
mits were issued, involving expendi
ture of $1l,S75, during the month.
Appraisal at $4,000 of section Of
timber in Lewis county belonging tc
the capitol land grant was announced
by the state capitol committee. Ap
pication to buy the timber has been
filed, and it will be put up for sale
within six weeks.
Automobile owners in the larger
cities of the west side have been fairly
prompt in obtaining new motor We.
hicle licenses. but the slump in east.
ern Washington and in rural districts
has been marked Dealers are slow
as class to show 1000 licensed.
Thousands of bushels of wheat given
by farmers of Washington, Idaho and
Montana to Armenia and neighboring
countries, will be ground into flour
at the Tacoma plant Of the Sperry
Flour Mills company during the next
few days for the near east relief COM
mittee.
Bids will be called for within a few
days to start construction of the
foundation and first floor walls of
the main building in the new capitol
grounds at Olympia, and work will
be begun in few weeks, it was an
nounced following meeting of the
state capitol committee.
The department of public works
will welcome the cooperation of the
larger cities of the state in making
the engineering investigation of the
Pacific and Home telephone systems
which must be completed before the
formal hearings on rates, rules, regu.
lations and contracts can begin
Reduction of approximately 171s per
cent In railroad rates on logs is &C.
complished by an order issued at
Olympia by the department of public
works to apply on all state traffic,
which means, it Is said, the saving of
half million dollars annually to log
shippers, based on operations Of 1920.
Tacoma lumber mills are getting
part OF the orders for lumber for
constructing the $4,000 cars being built
for the Union Pacific system. and
northwest mills are being called on
fer practically all the millions OF feet
nscded, according to A. S. Edmonds,
assistant traffic manager of the Union
Pacific.
August Andersen Trojendahl, ex.
Alaskan capitalist ana resident Of Sc
attic, his wife and four children were
drowned when their private yacht, in
which they were cruising the South
seas, was wrecked two months ago
according to adyices received by
Andrew Chilberg, Swedish vice.con.
sui at Seattle
The average assets of the applicants
for tracts on the White Bluffs.Hanford
land settlement projects, as shown by
the n applications sent into the de-
partment of conservation and develop.
ment, were $27OS, while the average
cash on hand amounted to 5000 APP
pllcations began coming into the de.
partment about January II.
The famous Jersey COW, Gwendola
Rosaire, owned by N. G, Sorenson Of
Onalaska, has recently completed an
other years test, making 745 pounds
of butterfat This animal now has
three gold medals to her credit The
first big record she made was 9l9
pounds of butterfat, the second $50
pounds, the third 745 pounds,
C, E. Gates of Albany, Or, unani.
mously was elected president Of the
North Pacific Fair association at the