Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-03

Enactment OF law prohibiting Jazz
music and severity furnishing those
who insist or "perpetrating" it on the
public was advocated at Tacoma by
the Womens club.
About 1900 persons will be employ
ed by the Grays Harbor cnnneries and
packing companies during the annual
clam season, which opened March
and will run for three months.
The advisability Of reorganizlng the
Puyallup and Summer Fruit Grow.
ers' association is to be investigated by
special committee of five members
to be appointed by President W. II.
Paulhamus.
Executors of the estate of the late
John A. Finch have announced their
intention to endow a children's ortho.
pedic hospital and children's gen.
eral hospital, to be erected in Spokane,
with 100000 each.
In whirlwind canvass of Top
penish Tuesday, $4,000 was raised by
local subscription for work on the
Status road, which will connect Top.
penish and the Yakima valley with
Goldendale and Portland.
Everett has been selected as one of
the two cities on the coast in which
the United States forest service will
offer courses this spring to operators
OF lumber and woodworking industries
in dry kiln handling of lumber.
Jack Winslow, Grays Harbor county
game warden has received a permit
from the state game commission to
trap Hungarian cartridges in Lewis
county. The partridges are to be re-
leased in Grays Harbor preserves.
A petition calling for an election
for the formation of a port district
co-eXtensive with the limits of Clsl-
lam county and to be known and
designated as the Port of Port Angeles,
is being circulated and freely signed.
Washington fir and spruce lumber
and cedar shingles shipped from Grays
Harbor are used extensively in the
building of frame houses in Columbus,
O., according to r. o. Austin, con
tractor of that city, who is in Aber-
deem.
Federal prohibition officials an
nounced at Seattle that they had I'M
covered a heavily financed liquor
smuggling ring, using fleet of fast
launches to smuggle the liquor into
Seattle, where organized retailers dis.
pose of it.
Under the auspices of the Western
Washington Sunday School assoca-
tion the annual session of the older
girls conference, embracing Clark,
Skamania, Cowlitz and Wahkiakum
counties. will be held at Ridgefield,
March 3-5.
Fire which broke out in the First
Evangelical church at Bellingham led
to the discovery in the belfry of what
the police described as a nest" of
juvenile thieves. A quantity of stolen
automobile accessories were found in
the rendezvous.
Shorthorn cattle auctioned at Spo.
kane, in connection with the annual
Northwest Livestock conference,
brought S3515, the highest price paid
being $3O5 for Flora III and her young
calf, owned by Carl A. Greif of Union
town. manager of the sale
E. V. Ellington, city husbandman
of the United States department of
agriculture, has been made head of
the department of dairy husbandry Of
the state college at Pullman to sue
coed E. G. Woodward who has re-
signed to take siX-year lease Of
Grassland Farms at Ticonic, Conn Mr..
Ellington will assume his duties March
10.
A production of only 10 per cent
below normal was registered by lum.
Der mills of the northwest for the week
ended February IS, according to the
weekly lumber review of the West
Coast Lumbermen's association. This
is the best showing in production
made for some time. New business
and shipments each ranged around
II per cent below normal.
Frank w. Kehrlie, extension dairy
specialist of the state college, reports
that the dalrymen belonging to the
nine COW testing associations in the
state made an increased profit of
S2593 during the month Of January
over the same month last year. The
increase in receipts was accomplish.
ed by the use of better dairy practices