Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-05-19

State music teachers hefi : three
days convention at Walla Walla. They
will meet next year at Bellingham.
The nomination of Henry O'Malley
Of Seattle to be commissioner of fish
and fisheries, vice Hugh M. Smith, re-
signed, was confirmed by the senate.
Wapato is without mayor, as r. O..
Smith, who was reelected to the posi-.
ton somewhat over his wishes last
December has resigned.
Senator Poindexter of Washington
underwent an operation at George.
town hospital in Washington, ID. c.,
for the removal of tumor.
Union cooks and walters walked out
OF Olympia restaurants last week in
an attempt to enforce straight 50
week rise, which would return the
union scale to the figures of 1921.
A heavy earthquake shock, center.
ing in Chelan at the foot of Lake
Chelan, was felt Monday morning, ac-
cording to word reaching the United
States weather bureau at Spokane.
Grays Harbor's all-steel tugboat has
arrived and is attracting considerable
attention on account of her peculiar
build. The craft is the Tillicum and
formerly was battleship tender in
the navy
The Clarke county Pomona grange,
meeting at Minnehaha, voted down a
proposition to hold Clarke county
fair this fall 1t was decided that the
expense would be too great to bear
just now
Clark county prune growers are
wondering if they will have big crop
of prunes this year. Several prune
growers have cut open the buds and
have found a number of them black,
due to frost.
Immoral conditions exist amongsS po-
kane high school students, though the
majority of them are above reproach,
the special grand jury investigating
the schools declared in lengthy re-
port on the subject.
The Western Bond and Mortgage
company of Portland were successful
bidders for an issue of $4,000 worth
OF bonds of the town of Sequim The
money is to be used to construct a
water supply system.
Increased water rates for Tacoma
and possibly also a sprinkling rate of
% cents per lot during the four sum-
mer months may become necessity,
according to Walter DAVIDSON, commits
sioner of light and water.
Frank M. Troeh, an amateur OF Van
couver, stands at the head of the list
of trapshooters for the present season,
made public by the American trap
shooting association. His mark is 1865
targets broken out of 1900.
Complaint was entered with the de-
partment of pIblic works by the We
natchee Valley Power Users associa-
ton against the reasonableness Of
rates and service furnished by the
Washington Coast Utilities.
Formal agreement of the establish
ment of an interconnection between
the Tacoma and Seattle municipal
light and power plants was reached
at conference between official repre-.
sentative C .ia to cities.
Four hundred and twenty-six boys
and girls who had to have their
parents along before they could get
marriage license, were married at
Vancouver during the past two years,
according to the records in the Clarke
county auditors office.
Seattle's old.fashioned government
building, now of three stories, will be
subject to extensive alterations and the
addition of four more stories, If the
architect of the treasury department
are given the sanction of congress
The plant of the Western Pine Man
ufacturing company at Spokane, with
machinery and equipment for the man
ufacture of sash, DOORS boxes and 9TH
err lumber products, has been purchas-
ed by Grant Dixon and group of as
sociatcs for approximately 100000, It
is announced,
In an effort to raise the standard
of livestock in this state, the state
college at Pullman through the exten.
sion department, will conduct pure.
bred livestock tour covering western
Washington, beginning at Vancouver
and ending in Bellingham. The tour
will begin July "a and end August 5.