Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-16
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

The Is women prisoners In the state
pententiary at Walla Walla have been
provided with work. Sewing machines
have been installed and the women
are making clothing for themselves,
and inmates of other institutions.
BY vote of 1862 to 1888, which is one
of the heaviest ever cast in the city.
Sunnyside at special election banned
pool rooms. There are no billiard
rooms or public dance halls in Sunny
side, either, and under the terms Of
the election none will be permitted.
recommendation for the revision of
obsolete and unsatisfactory laws will
be discussed at convention of the
forty-five superior court judges of the
state to be held at Tacoma August /,
and 8.
Poll tax collections in Grays Harbor
county are 33 1-3 per cent less than
last year, according to Olive F. Dun
ming, county treasurer. Collections last
year amounted to $79,37O while this
year they have been $5552O.
Voters residing outside of incorpor-
ated towns and cities are not required
to register this year, Attorney General
l.. l.. Thompson advised o. w. No
BILE, prosecuting attorney of Stevens
county. The act of 1919 will remain,
controlling registration for this fall.
Efforts will be made by Armour &
Co., packers, to retain its Spokane
plant-the former R. H. Stanton Pack
ing COMPREHENSIVE an order of the
federal trade commission that it dis
pose of the plant, the public rela-
tons department Of Armour & Co. an
nounced.
The number of cases of communi-
cable diseases in the state of Washing
ton showed a material decrease in
April and May, 1922, from the same
months of the preceding year, accord
ing to report received by Governor
Hart from DR.. Paul A. Turner, director
of health.
City officials of Everett have filed
formal complaint with the state de-
partment OF public works protesting
against the continuation of the tele-
chronometer system installed by the
Puget Sound Telephone company in
that city, whereby consumers are
charged on meter basis.
Bryan g. Warner, who talked his
way out Of the prosecuting attorneys
office at Spokane after his arrest for
the burglary of the Wentworth cloth,
ing store, on March IA, has been ar.
rested at Butte, Mont, and Governor
Hart issued requisiton for his re-
turn to Spokane for trial on charge
of second degree burglary.
The state received $19,176.43 in in
heritance taxes from 96 estates during
the month of May, the inheritance tax
WV ioioll VI ZIG alIOihSy SChSi al . VI
flee announced. The largest remit
lance was that of the Victor e. Tull
estate of Seattle, for $576376, and the
smallest was IL cents, coming from
the estate of John A. Ali of Mason
county.
Upon receipt of information from
Deputy State Bank Examiner John A.
Nanderpoel that inspection of the rec
ords of the North Bend State bank
showed shortage totaling $13,S50
Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Doug
las of King county filed a grand lar
ceny charge against 10y e. Carlin,
president of the bank, who disappear.
ed from North Bend with his wife
May 8.
Electrification of the Great Northern
railway, involving an expenditure of
100000, was announced by J. II.
O'Neill, western general manager Of
the railroad in Seattle, following re.
ceipt of advices from President Ralph
Budd, The first step in the electrified
ton, O'Nell said, would be between
Whitefish and Havre, Mont, with the
next step over the Cascade mountains
between Wenatchee and Seattle.
A decrease of over 1000 900 bushels
in winter wheat production. as COM
pnrpl with the Nav 1 fnrprapt. N
spring wheat acreage the same as
last year with about an average pro.
duction expected; and small de.
crease in oat and barley acreages and
production as compared with 1921 are
shown by the June 1 crop report OF
the federal bureau Of markets and
crop estimates for the state of Wash.
ington issued in Spokspe. ,-....-