Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-01-20
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FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

Steps towards the formation of a
countrywide agricultural council of
Grays Harbor county were taken at a
joint meeting at Aberdeen Of ropresen-
tatives from every county commercial
organization and the nine county farm
bureaus.
Spokane has withdrawn its invita-.
ton to Seattle to contribute $4,000 to
the $4,000 fund necessary to bring
General George w. Goethals, builder
of the Panama canal, to make an en-.
gineering survey Of the Columbia
basin project.
Certificate to operate through mo.
tor stage line from Seattle to Portland
was denied to ]. f. Bogue, L. D. Grove
and A. Erickson by the department
Of public works on the ground that
public convenience and necessity did
not warrant it.
Charles Hebberd, republican state
chairman, will soon call meeting
of the republican state central com.
mittee to arrange dates for the state
and county conventions and to make
plans for congressional, state and
county elections.
The Aberdeen city council has been
notified Of the filing of suits to re
cover 100000 claimed by heirs of four
men who met death December 0, when
an automobile driven by John Ny.
lander plunged through an open draw
of the west bridge.
At recent meeting Of the Grays
liarbor county school board it was de-
termined to make every effort to era
dictate illiteracy by 1924 Each teach.
er was asked to report the names of
those in her community who could
not read or write.
Doctors, nurses and public health
workers of Washington, Idaho and
Montana will hold public health con.
ference at Spokane April II to 22,
according to an announcement made
by DR.. Paul A. Turner, head of the
state board of health
Colonel John T. Axton, chief chap
lain OF the regular army, it was an
nounced by the secretary of war is
soon to start on an itinerary of more
than 80 army posts, including Fort
George Wright, Spokane, Camp Lewis
and Vancouver barracks.
Vigorous protest on the part OF the
Port of Seattle commission ana the
Seattle chamber of commerce against
abandonment Jf the United States
army quartermaster depot at Seattle,
called for in an order of December 81,
was forwarded to Washington.
Mrs. A. w. Rademaker has announc-
ed her candidacy for mayor of Tacoma
In the city election to be held next
spring. Other candidates announced
to date for mayor are A. V. Fawcett
and r. B. Robbins. Fawcett was elect
ed mayor three times. Robbins is a
salesman.
Woodland business men recently
subscribed $4,000 toward the expense
of spur track from the railway to
the Lewis river for the accommoda.
ton of the North Fork Logging com.
pany and the Lewis River Boom com.
pany, which have agreed to install
tiehandling plant, and later a saw.
mill.
Owners of forest lands In the north
west are being warned of TIE danger
OF white pine blister rust which was
recently discovered in British Column
bia and is now reported to have cross
ed the line. Blister rust has been a
menace to the eastern lumber industry
for the last 20 years.
Jeff Bartell, former sheriff of Grays
Harbor county now rancher at Fords
Prairie, thinks he has devised a way
to rid his farm Of the Canadian thistle.
He has just traded 100 good sheep for
100 goats. The goats will be turned
into Bartell's tracts of bottom land
in an attempt to clear it of the this.
tie and other growths.
Fishermen will have chance to
indulge in their pastime for rainbow
trout in the Cowlitz river between
February ! and December 81, accord
ing to decision of the Lewis county
game commission, The Cowlitz af-
fords splendid sport of this kind, many
steelheads, species of rainbow trout,
being landed each season.
Grays Harbor lumber cargo ship
ments for 1921 totaled iO7319,34O feet
carried in 1856 ships, according to re
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