Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-01-27

throughout the country united in de-
claring better times were at hand
when officers of the Pacific Coast
Shippers association handed in their
reports at the annual meeting OF stock
holders of the organization at Sc
attic
Final returns from the sale of state
lands held in all counties January 8
show that a total of $2O9;6470l was
eceivcd, according to State Land
commissioner Savage. or this amount,
all but $7699.76 goes into permanent
educational funds for the support Of
the schools. Uplands brought S6I13G;
timber lands, $lS4SlL5, and tidelands,
$769976.
Walla Walla county commissioners
have adopted new wage scale for
road workers, reducing common labor
rs cents a day but also cutting cost
IF board 25 cents. Graders and truck
drivers draw the same scale as last
year The schedule follows: Common
labor, 1925; gradermen, $3.50; truck
drivers, $3.50; teams, $3.50; board for
teams, $3.50; board for men, SIPS.
Endorsement by the Washington
State Elks Association of the move
ment to build memorial building at
Centralia which the American Legion
is backing at this time to commem-
crate the lives of the American Legion
men who were murdered by members
of the l. w, w. Armistce Day, 1919, was
the first act of business taken up when
the annual convention was called in
Chehals.
Approximately 1868 acres of land
are to be put up at auction at White
Swan on the afternoon of March 9.
The land has an appraised value Of
$S6i,960, according to the official
notice sent out by Supt. Don NJ. Carr
of the Simcoe Agency and no tract
may be sold below its appraised value.
AS much of the land is among the
choicest acreage in the reservation,
ii is likely the bids will so higher.
Announcement was made at Olym-
pia, following a statewide conference
of business and civic leaders called
by Governor Hart, that special train
carrying 125 business and professional
men of the state, and refrigerator
car laden with Washington food pro-
ducts will be sent from Puget sound
to Washington, D. c., either in March
or April, for the purpose of tender
ing produced in Washington" ban
Quet to President Harding.
To familiarize themselves with their
Cowlitz timber holdings and the deyel-
opment project at Kelso, which will be
the largest timber operation in the
world, Robert A. Long, chairman of
the board of directors of the Long Bell
Lumber company, f. J. Bannister,
president; J. D. Tenant, vice-presi-
dent; R. f. Davis, traffic manager;
w, l.. Prickett and W. f. Ryder ar
rived in Kelso and spent several days
going over details of the project with
Wesley VandeTcook, chief engineer,
and inspecting the mill site as well as
the extensive system of maps of the
timber lands acquired by the company.
Pacific county Agriculture Agent
Beck has just made public the re-
suits of experiments he has conducted
relative to the effects of spraying
upon the keeping quality of cram
berries. He has obtained some velf
satisfactory results in spraying with
some species Of berries. Pacific coun-
ty is one of the greatest cranberry
regions in the United States. The
berries are much sweeter than eastern
berries, but are less favored for their
keeping quality. A big effort will be
made to raise berries that will last for
some time and thus capture the near
by markets for the west coast product
To carry forward organization work
for the $25O,O0O fund to be raised for
the memorial to the four service men
killed at Centralia on Armistice day,
1919, district chairmen for the six ma
jor divisions of the state of Washing
ton were named by the executive COM.
mittee of the Centralia Memorial asso.
citation. The districts and their chair.
men are: Northwest district, Frank
l.. Sefrit of Bellingham; southwest,
e. l.. French, Olympia; north central,
Frank Schultz. Wenatchee; south cen.
trail, Colonel w. l.. Lemon, Yakima;
northeast, Charles Hebberd, Spokane;
southeast, Colonel Paul II. Weyrauch,
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