Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-02-03

Seattle's fire losses during 1921 to-
tailed s757,373.SS in 532 fires, an aver
age loss of $1,423,G3 at each fire, &C.
cording to the annual report of Fire
Marshal Bringhurst
The old Stevens county poor farm
has been abandoned and all the real
and personal property will be sold by
the commissioners at a public sale at
Colville, February IL.
The Walla Walla Commercial Club
will take charge of the canvass in
Walla Walla City to raise $4,000 for
the Walla Walla College and the AID.
ventist School at College Place.
The Washington Water Power com.
pany of Spokane has just filed figures
with the city hall to show it hauled
100000 fewer passengers in 1921 on
its city street cars than in 1920.
According to George r. Walker, sec
rotary Of the southwest Washington
provements will be made at the fair
grounds at Chehalis the coming spring.
Robert McCroskey Jr. of Garfield
was elected president of the Grange
Growers Shippers and Millers' asso.
citation at the annual meeting at Spo-
kane. Spokane was chosen as next
years convention city.
e. G. Lucas, Spokane poultry
fancier, was awarded the grand cham
pionship prize of the fourth annual
show of the Spokane Poultry Breed
ers' association for the best individual
pen of birds displayed.
Carl c. Hoffman. formerly manager
of the Merchants Wholesale Grocery
company of Seattle, has been arrest
ed in Weehawken, N j., on charge
of misappropriating $4,000. Effort
will be made to extradite him.
The first annual Clarke county
berrygrowers' institute was held Mon.
day and Tuesday in the Washington
Growers association headquarters at
Vancouver. Fully 200 berrygrowers
and others interested were present.
Protests from seven coal companies
In the state against the request of the
Northern Pacific railroad that coal
rates from Bellingham to Seattle be
lowered from $162 ton to SIPS were
received by the state department Of
public works at Olympia.
The Tacoma municipal street car
line accumulated larger deficit dur.
ing 1921 than in any year of its his
tory, according to the report of John
M, Roberts, city controller. During
1921 the deficit, including interest, de-
probation and other charges, was $685..
64759.
About $50 delegates attended the
older girls conference under the aus
pices Of the Western Washington Sun
day School association at Hoquiam. The
girls are between 16 and "a years old.
The district includes Thurston, Ma
son, Lewis, Pacific and Grays Harbor
counties.
The Aberdeen chamber of commerce
and the Business Mems association of
Raymond have taken united action to
obtain an appropriation by congress
of approximately 100000 for a bar
dredge to be stationed on Grays har.
Dor for use in keeping channels clear
over the bars of both harbors.
New business in the lumbar indus
try increased last week, according to
the weekly report OF the West Coast
Lumbermen's association, though pro-
duction dropped 8 per cent Sales
were 100000 feet greater than the
preceding week and shipments H.
100000 feet greater. For the first
week in long time shipments were
greater than production.
Transfer of the first and second div
isions of the United States army from
Camp Dix, New Jersey, and Camp
Travis, respectively, to Camp Lewis;
the abandonment of all wartime can.
tonments with the exception of Camp
Lewis and the creation of Camp Lewis
as the largest military base in the
country was indicated in the receipt
at Tacoma of confidential information
from Washington, d. c.
When generator grounded and
burned out in the Seattle municipal
lighting plant on Cedar river, the
people of Cedar and SnoQualmie val
leys imagined Mount Rainier was in
eruption, SO brilliant was the illumin-
alton. The accident did considerable
damage, but did not seriously affect