Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-23
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
DUE. X is The PUGET Sound State

father and police agents from the
craft Of Elmer Weber, aged 55, a fish
arman.
Pioneers Of the Inland Empire who
met In annual session at Walla WallR,
reelected Ben Borgundcr of Colfax
president and named the following
other officers: Joseph G. Painter
John II. Morrow and W. II. Kirkman
Walla Walla, vice presidents; Allen H.
Reynolds, Wulla Walla, treasurer, W.
d, Church, Wnlln Walla, secretary, and
Miss Mary Gillian, Walla Walla, his
torian.
r. C. Snyder Of Seattle was appoint.
I'd chief deputy state grain inspector
with headquarters at Seattle, L. L.
French director Of agriculture an.
nounced. Snyder succeeds j. j. Gun.
ningham, who leaves to enter private
business.
The Washington supreme court has
reaffirmed It's former opinion order.
ing the city of Seattle and the Puget
Sound Power & Light company to pay
'axes for the year 1919, amounting to
$4O1,O1776, on the municipal street
railway system.
The complaint by meat packers of
Puget Sound cities against existing
refrigerator rates on state and inter.
state freight shipments will be heard
jointly in the interstate commerce com.
mission and the department of public
works in Seattle July 3.
Governor Hart announced the ap.
pointment of Noah Shakespeare of Ev.
erett on the board of trustees for the
state normal school at Belingham, and
the reappcintmont of G. p. Short of
Ellensburg as trustee at the Ellens.
burg state normal Mr.. Shakespeare
succeeds c. NJ. Olsen, resigned
Five Northern Pacific railroad cars
loaded with logs were destroyed, and
extensive damage was caused to camp
buildings and machinery, when Il for.
est fire which had smoldered in the
underbrush swept over the River Log.
ging company's plant five miles from
Carlisle, in Grays Harbor county.
The existing blanket freight rates
on Gull apples from the Wenatchee dis.
trict TO Puget sound points will re.
main in force despite the contention
of the Everett Fruit Products company
that they are discriminatory because
Everett is 60 miles closer to the point
of shipment than other Sound cities,
the department of public works de-
cided.
The city limits of Raymond are to
be reduced in two places, the voters
decided in an election. A portion of
the northwest section Of the city is
being eliminated to enable Pacific
county to build road on the north
bank of the Willapa river, and dis
trict in the north is being cut off be.
cause it produces no revenue.
The historic "Okanogan" Smith
ranch on Osoyoos lake, near Oroville,
said to contain apple trees that are
still producing, although between 62
and 65 years old, has been sold to
c. B. Chamberlain of Nelson for $50.
600. The new owner plans to re.
tain sixty acres of the farm for
home and to cut the remainder into
small tracts for sale.
Willapa Harbor lumber mills are
now entering upon what promises to
be a new era Of prosperity. Manu-
facturers have made extensions and
improvements, overhauled mills, in.
stalled new machinery and opened
new bodies Of timber AS a conse.
quence the mills are able to make
quick deliveries and meet the inCreas
ing demands of the trade.
Mrs. Frank Reeves, Wenatchee, was
elected second vice president Of the
Washington State Federation of Wo.
mems Clubs at the twenty-sixth annual
of the organization in Spo.
kane. Other officers elected were Mrs.
p. G. Smith, Tacoma, recording secre.
tary; Mrs. William Jennings, Mount
Vernon, second trustee, and Mrs. David
Murray, Bellingham, auditor.
Mayor E. j. Brown of Seattle will
be formally made a member of the
Seattle BARRIERS union. Announcement
of the comforting of the honorary mem.
bership on the mayor by the union has
brought out the statement that DR.,
Brown learned the barber trade in
Grand Haven, Mich, and followed It
off and on from 1881 to 1894 in Chca.
20. Kansas City and Portland. Ore.