Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-07-21
STATEMENTS BOILED DOWN
FOR our BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

Narcotics valued at $4,000 were sew
cd at Seattle by federal customs in
spectors searching the Blue Funnel
liner Talthibus.
Preparatory work for the opening
OF the 18th annual Grays Harbor coun
ty fair at Elma, September 2, is now
well under way
The Home Water & Ice company
Of Mount Vernon will next week begin
to install a $4,000 tiltering plant in
the water system.
The Slagit County Fair at Burling.
ton will be featured this year by horse
racing, the race program being an,
nounced as the most promising in sew.
eral years.
The Washington State Federation of
Labor, in session at Bremerton, re.
jected by vote Of 10 to As the pro.
posal to affiliate with the farmer.
labor party.
Permission was granted the Ames
Shipbuilding & Drydock company by
the Seattle port commission to extend
its present wharfing facilities at Seat.
tie 500 feet.
j. M. Hunt, carpenter died at n
Seattle hospital from injuries receiv.
ed when he was struck by d. b. Baer,
former member Of the Seattle pc.
lice department.
Ninety.five officials and statesmen
of the Weyerhaeuser Sales company
are on tour of the state visiting var.
ious properties of the Weyerhaeuser
Timber company.
With return OF warm weather, ac.
companied by stiff west to northwest
winds, forest fire conditions have be.
come much worse according to f. E.
Pape, state forester
The annual convention OF the Wash
ington State Press association was
held at Pullman with more than 100
editors and publisher.. mainly of
weekly newspapers, in attendance.
Alvie Burton Carrick, sixty-one, died
at Vancouver from injuries received
when gate post struck by car
driven by Mrs. Ed Carrck, his sister.
in.law, toppled over and struck him on
the head.
Resolutions urging an international
war on the traffic in narcotics featur.
ed the closing session of the twenty
first annual convention of the Wash
ington State Federation of Labor, held
in Bremerton.
Further damage from beaver col,
onies has been reported from the
Touchet district in Walla Wala coun.
ty, whore they are reported to be dam.
ming streams and causing fields and
gardens to overflow.
Prospective sites at Spokane for
government hospitals for eX.service
men, were inspected by Colonel
Charles Forbes, head of the United
States veterans bureau, who is on
a tour OF the Pacific coast.
To combat forest fire that threat.
ened to destroy much of the big tim.
Der in the Camp Lewis reservation
virtually every available soldier in
camp was pressed into the freight
ing force in an effort to check the
disappearing flames.
Guernsey breeders of the state will
meet in Seattle July 26, before leav
ing for the islands of San Juan and
Island counties. They will visit the
large Guernsey dairy farms in these
districts during their three-day trip
it has been announced.
Selah school directors have decided
in view of strike conditions, not tC
attempt to buy coal for the school dis
trict at present and instead placed an
order for moistened and compacted
saw dust, which will be burned. The
district expects to save about $500.
Forty.five whales represent the
Grays Harbor catch to date for this
season, according to Superintendent
Kulger of the Pacific American Whal
ing company at Bay City. or the catch
Is were humpbacks, nine finbacks and
one a sperm whale. The season ends
between October l and 10.
The Canadian cabinet has issued an
order in council prohibiting American
fishing boats from purchasing bait in
Canadian waters, unless they deliver
their catches at Canadian ports, ac
cording to information received at Sc
attic by the Fishing Vessels Owners
association. Officers Of the associa
ton said the new orders will prove
serious blow to the halibut fleet
operating in southeastern Alaskan