Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-17

Joseph Clark, aged go, CT Seattle,
after brO0dlng over the loss Of 81 900
IN the crash Of the ScandlnavianAmor.
lean bank, committed suicide by inhal.
ing gas in his home.
Denied Il writ OF mandate to prevent
vaccination in the Olympia public
schools, Observation-Disclosures OF tho city
have announced that they will appeal
to the supreme court.
Several sacks Of feed were distribut.
ed by Whitman county game wardcns
the last few days TO feed the hungry
coveys Of Hungarian par,ridgos and
quail that have been unable TO secure
food.
School district directors OF Whatcom
county outside the Incorporated cities
have come out IN favor Of more equal.
lied salaries as between supcrintend.
cnts and teachers In high schools AZ
n class
The average Grays Harbor annual
rainfall for the past 80 years, accord.
Ing to calculations from official rec.
ords kept by Weather Observer Carter,
s S53i inches. Tho 1921 total was
0l.S1, the highest In several years.
The steamship Pine Tree State, sail
Ing from Seattle for the orient Febru.
AIRY is, will have AZ members of the
Japanese delegation to the disarma
mcnt conference aboard, and reserva.
tons have been requested for Is more
The average milk production of the
cows Of the Grays lIarbor Testing As.
ISOLATION for January was 1882
pounds. The butterfat average was
300 pounds. There were but AZ cows
In January that produced more than
40 pounds Of buttorfat.
Famed as the youngest soldier of the
civil war, Commodore" Perry Byam
Is dead at Tacoma, aged 70. He enlist
ed in the Union army when he was 8
years and 10 months of age, Joining
company D. oath Iowa volunteer regi.
ment, as a drummer boy.
More than $50 representatives of all
the civic clubs and mayors of all the
cities Of southwest Washington will
be the guests Of the Tacoma business
men at the first annual southwest
Washington Civic club conference,
which will be held in Tacoma March s.
e. II. Polleys, Mssoula, Mont, was
reelected president of the Western
Pine Manufacturers association at the
closing session of the organizations
annual convention at Spokane, and
Ray Wilson, Deer Park, Wash, was
reelected vicepresident. Earl Stod,
dard, Perry, Or, was elected treasurer.
All bids for digging of wells on the
White Bluffs-Hanford land settlement
project have been rejected and new
bids will be asked for February II, It
has been announced by Carl L. Shruff,
supervisor of reclamation. Three bids
were submitted, one only for three
wells and the others not being up to
specifications.
On tour of western United States
to make study of Standardization of
lumber sizes, grades and specifications,
David G. White and Edward p Ivory,
representatives of the forest products
laboratories of the United States for
est service at Madison, Wis, have ar
rived in Spokane to devote several
days to inspection of plants in that 10.
salty Later, Mr.. White announced,
they will visit Portland, Seattle, San
Francisco and other large lumber cen.
ters of the west, discussing with lum.
Der men suggestions for standardized.
ton of their product,
The Chicago G Nor thwestern and
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Oma-
ha railroads, which operate jointly
With the Union Pacific lines, will be
in the market for from 100000 to
100000 feet of lumber in the next
few weeks, according to G. l.. Currier
coast business representative of the
two companies.
Still holding her place as the chief
export point of the customs district of
Washington, Tacoma showed foreign
transactions for october amounting to
, $4,423,67S, with Seattle, her next near.
est port, exporting sS,S19,2SS worth of
goods For several months, according
to the report of Collector Harrison, Ia.
coma has led in the export trade from
this district.
According to the weekly review Of
the West Coast Lumbermen's associa.
ton 1879 mills reporting for the week
ending February 4, manufactured 75,-