Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-04-14
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

pose $4,000 which remained unused
of funds allotted to the biological sur.
vey.
Two men were shot, one of them per.
haps fatally, In daring robbery by
two robbers of the Pacific City post-\
office, near Auburn. Both robbers e.
capped. A. II. Weaver, So, postmaster
and proprietor Of the general store in
which the postoffice is situated, was
shot three times. Percy Gilman, 81,
customer IN the store, was wounded in
the leg,
Reduced freight rates on lumber and
shingles from Seattle territory to
Duluth, Mimi, will be made effective
shortly, according to ali announce.
ment at Northern Pacific railroad Of
fees in Seattle, following receipt Of
advices from st, Paul. The new rate
on fir lumber will be 81 cents hun
dred pounds, and that on shingles
VIII wv tfI2 Ntntb IL CN, ~ was
announced.
With quota Of $1S from each Of the
10 counties in Washington with minute
women organizations, Mrs. Edgar
Ames, state treasurer of the fund an
nounces that these counties will CON
tribute toward the cost of the state
Of Washington milestone to be erected
at Chateau-Thierry. This Is one Of
the 240 monuments to mark the battle
line where the advance Of the enemy
was stemmed by the allies In 1918.
Tentative allotments Of state recla-
nation funds for the coming year show
the department Of conservation and de-
velopment plans to help two western
Washington projects the Cowlitz
county district below Kelso and be-
tween Coal Creek and the Columbia
river, where 800 acres or more are to
be drained, and the Sequim irrigation
project. State funds of 100000 and
$3.50, 900, respectively will be available.
Sale Of SS,S36,4S4 feet we're report
ed by 1870 mills affiliated with the
West Coast Lumbermen's association
for the week ending April /, the
largest weeks business since the sum-
mer Of 1920, according to statement
made public at the associations Of
fees in Seattle. Shipments totaled
S5,370,740 feet, near record, the state
ment said. The mills cut 75,77S,037
feet, or about 80 per cent Of normal
capacity.
Dr.. Enoch A. Bryan, commissioner
of education Of Idaho, was elected
president of the Inland Empire Teach.
ers association at the business SEES
sion of the annual convention at Spo-
kane. Ira o. Fee of Missoula, Mont,
was elected vice-president; James A.
Burke of Spokane was reelected sec
rotary and l.. w. Turnbull of Tilla-
mock, Or, was elected treasurer. Miss
May Trumper, state superintendent of
public instruction of Montana, was
elected to the executive committee and
Miss Sadie Aaron of Spokane was
elected member of the educational
council.
Recommendation that the waters of
several small springs at the western
Washington experiment station at
Puyallup be diverted to irrigate al
small tract as an experiment to deter.
mine the effect of irrigation in the
Puyallup valley in the dry season will
be made by Dan A, Scott, director of
conservation and development, and
Marvin Chase, supervisor of hy-
draulics, following an inspection of
the acreage and the springs. Suffi-
cent water for about two acres can
be obtained from the springs and upon
the result of this diversion may de-
pend the future of many small irri-
cation projects in the valley.
Three developments Of Importance in
Grays Harbor highway programs were
announced at Aberdeen. They are: A
tentative survey for new Grays Har.
bor.Willapa harbor road has been
started by state surveyors. Bids for
Immediate construction of the Quin.
ault.Queets highway, or major por.
ton of 1t, are likely to be called for
soon by the state highway commission,
following definite refusal by federal
authorities to help finance the project.
The federal forestry department has
offered to spend 100000 with 100000
Grays Harbor county funds In the i'm
mediate construction of a scenic high.
way paralleling the north shore Of
Lake Quinault.