Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-09-01
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS or INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Cur Readers.

ty have inIIod to register so far this
year,
! Governor T.. T.. Hart has returned
to hts Official desk after n fortnightg
vacation.
A carload OF dried cherries was
shipped from Vancouver to New York
by the j, Il. Armsby plant,
Members Of y0tcranB' organizations
OF Clarke county Will hold county.
wide picnic for ox,scrylce men soptem.
| Der 10.
The twentieth annual Bacngcrrcst Of
the Pacific Coast Norwegian Singors
Association VIII be held In Everett
September /,
| Director French Of the agricultural
department has issued an order can.
ceiling the quarantine against dogs In
Kitttas and Yakima Counties
The Schafcr community hall at
Brady, which has been under con,
strpciion for some time, has been
completed and the building was open,
cd formally Saturday night.
Peter Kerrs, sheep owner in the Col.
vile Indian reservation, reported to
the Washington office OF the bureau
of biological survey that bear arc
causing heavy loss among his sheep,
| Y. Lagerstrom, "a, of Seattle, and
Fred Johnson, 40. OF Graham, were
killed when caught in caye.in Of n
logging road tunnel under construction
by the Clemens Logging company, two
miles east OF Melbourne.
Frank S. Glen, assistant postmaster
in the Olympia postoffice for the last
IA years, has been notified by Repre-
sentative Johnson that his nomination
to be postmaster has been placed in
the hands Of President Harding.
With the selection of Norfolk Va,
as the convention city for the 1923 en-
campment and the election and in.
stalation of officers, the twenty.third
annual session of the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars was brought to n close
in Seattle,
Because they fear a reduction Of
wages If street car fares are lowered
| the street car mems union Of Bell.
| ingham has passed n resolution ask
Ing the Central Labor Council to go
on record against rate reduction
! The present rate Is cents.
A county sheriff is included in the
term police department" as used in
the 1921 motor vehicle law and may
equip his office automobiles with
sirens, according to letter sent to r.
A, Lathrop, deputy prosecuting attor.
noy of Grays Rarbor county.
Hearing relative to the establish.
ment Of Just and reasonable rates,
rules regulations and practice for the
handling and storage of hay and grain
in eastern Washington warehouses
will be held at the Commercial club
in Walla Walla on August 81.
w. l.. Mclaughlin, one of the pro.
duction chiefs Of the Standard Oil
company. passed through Seattle with
a party of II experienced workmen
and left on the steamship Redondo to
begin prospecting for oil in the Cold
bay section of the Alaska peninsula.
Through cooperative arrangement
with horticultural officials of the state
of oregon, the department of agri-
culture of Washington has discovered
and prevented the unloading of car
| load of California potatoes which were
infected with the California tuber
moth
Fresh warning 20 beware of new
forest fires and to guard carefully
against old ones not completely ex-
I tinguished breaking out again was
sent to all fire wardens by State
Forester Pape, following receipt of a
forecast Of renewed forest fire
weather.
Cranberry growers on the peninsula
district in Pacific county held a field
day Wednesday and toured demon.
stratonal plots which have been
handled by d. J. Crowley and NJ D.
Armstrong of the state college and
II. r. Balm of the United States de.
partment Of agriculture
Motion of the Great Northern rail.
way that the interstate commerce com.
mission make n physical inspection of
the proposed route of the Wenatchee
Southern railway in connection with
! that road S application for a certificate
of necessity has been denied, the de.
partment of public works was advised.
So much perishable fruit inthe state
Is in jeopardy and delay in shipment
will speedily result in such enormous
losses that the director of the state
department of agriculture, Il. l..
French, has sent night letter to Pres.
ident harding urging upon him the
necessity of speedy end to the rail.
road strike.