Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-17
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

and ice lie eight and nine feet deep
In the pass at present.
Sale Of commodity made Of cocoa.
nut and peanut oil, unless such pro.
duct Is discoorcd to resemble butter
and sold without notice Of its real
character, Is not forbidden by the law
regulating the sale OF oleomargarine,
Attorney.General Thompson held In an
opinion rendered to u. l.. French.
director Of agriculture.
Warning TO orchard owners Of the
state, and particularly In the vicinity
Of Seattle, not to permit agents of w.
c, Thompson, manufacturer Of an al.
legged "cure.all' for sick orchard trees,
to inject Thompson's Tree Powder
into their trees was issued by Charles
l.. Robinson, supervisor of horticulture
In the state department of agriculture,
+, l.. Stewart missing cashier Of
the defunct Kelso State bank, who
was reported to have drowned him.
self from the Goble-Kalama ferry in
the Columbia river March II, 1921, has
escaped to Mexico, according to evi.
dencc obtained by attorneys who are
collecting data for their fight against
payment of Stewards life insurance
policies.
Initiative and referendum measures
placed on the general election ballots
since 1918 have cost the state for the
checking of names on petitions and
other expense in preparing the meas
ures for the ballot s15S, 40565, 1t is
shown by figures compiled by Secre.
tary to State Hinkle. Two initiative
measures and one referendum have
been enacted as a result.
Announcement was made at Seattle
that the Brotherhood of st. Andrew,
the organization of the men and older
boys Of the Protestant Episcopal
church of America, will hold Its an
nual convention for 1922 in that city
August 80 to September 8, inclusive.
The convention is expected to bring to
Seattle several thousand delegates
from all parts of the country.
Literally millions of dollars Of
wealth in the embryo is being turned
out Of the Willapa Fish hatchery at
Lebam in Pacific county where total
of 100000 salmon eggs are expected
to be taken from fish and Matched by
the end of this season. At last report,
the hatchery had taken about 12,000,-
600 eggs. The hatchery at Lebam Is
the only one operating in Pacific coun-
ty and one of the few now active in
this state.
Standardization Of all railroad grade
crossing signals to conform to the fed
eral standard signals, already adopted
by 80 states, and a campaign of educa-
ton to prevent grade crossing acct
dents were the methods advocated by
all speakers at the Three-States Grade
Crossing Safety conference held at
Olympia at the call of the Washington
department of public works. Elimina-
ton of grade crossings wherever posi-
BILE also was favored.
An emergency contract was lot by
the Kittitas board of county commits.
sioners to the Union Bridge company
of Portland for the construction of
new steel bridge to replace what is
commonly known as the lower river
bridge across the Yakima river, two
miles south Of Ellensburg. The con.
struction company has been working
for several weeks on a new $4,000
bridge two miles up the river, known
as the upper river bridge.
Completion Of the organization of
the state highway patrol on a summer
basis, with the regular force more
than double that maintained in the
winter months, was announced by l..
D. McArdle, director OF the depart
ment of efficiency and head of the
highway patrol division. The sum-
mer schedule will be in operation April
1. Fourteen regular patrolmen, each
with motorcycle and full equipment,
will be employed; three loadometer
cars, each with two men; five en-
ployes of the weights and measures
division, driving cars and carrying
rowing commissions in the patrol; one
employe of the utilities division Of the
department Of public works, who will
travel about the state on the auto.
mobile stages, and about so special
patrolmen, made up largely Of state
employees, who drive their own cars,
will constitute the summer force.