Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-04-14

A proposal to merge the Vancouver
chamber of commerce and the Com.
munity club into one big cooperative
society, with headquarters In the new
100000 club house of the American
Legion has been made.
+. H. Brundage, inspector of roads
and trails IN the national forests Of
Washington and Oregon, has announc.
ed that he will spend more than $25,.
900 on roads In the reserve adjacent
to Trout lake this summer.
From salmon packing to fruit can.
ming is the change to be made IN the
plant of the Lummi Bay Packing com.
pany's plant on Lummi island, near
Bellingham. This is one of the large
salmon canneries on Puget sound,
Mrs. John Parkes was killed. her
husband injured, probably fatally, and
three cars Of the westbound Colum.
bian limited of the Chicago, Milwau.
kee G. st, Paul railroad were derailed
in crossing accident near Ellens.
burg.
Between $4,000, 100000 and $4,000
100000 board feet of timber on the
west slope of the Olympic peninsula
awaits the building of railroad, for
shipment to Grays Harbor mills, ac.
cording to estimates compiled by Phil
s. Locke for the Aberdeen chamber of
commerce.
Dr. ID. B. Waldo has arrived in Bell.
ingham to become the new president
Of the state normal school. He sue
ceeds DR.. G. w. Nash. Dr. Waldo is
from Kalamazoo, Mich. where he first
organized the Western State Normal
school of which he has since been
president IS years.
Charges and counter.charges made
recently in public addresses and signed
statements in newspapers regarding
alleged delinquency on the part of stu
dents in the Spokane high schools
resulted in the calling of a special
session of the grand jury to investi.
gate juvenile delinquency.
William Short, president of Wash.
ington State Federation of Labor, and
chairman of the miners relief COM
mittee of the federation, has issued an
urgent appeal to trade unionists for
contributions to the relief fund for
coal miners in the state, who have
been on strike since March 16, 1921.
Pipe for the new Seattle municipal
water main from Swan lake to the
city will be made at the old Patter-
son-MacDonald shipyard plant on the
Duwamish river. The Western Pipe
& Steel company of San Francisco
will install equipment and employ 200
men in supplying the pipe for this
and other jobs.
Plans for the formation Of clear
ing-house for the collection and dis.
tribution of information concerning
crimes and criminals were adopted at
a session at Spokane of the North
west Association of Sheriffs and Po-
lice. The meeting, said to have been
the largest Of its kind ever held In
the Pacific northwest was attended
by 81 federal, state, city and county
law-enforcement officers of eastern
Washington, Idaho and Montana.
To bring about cooperation In en-
forcement of motor vehicle laws, 0
Joint conference of highway patrol Of
ficials from Oregon and Washington
will be held in Vancouver Friday
All records for Grays harbor lum
Der shipments for month were
broken by March cargoes, according
to statement given out by the Gray:
Harbor Stevedore company, which
complies the harbor records. The
March record is 63,619,000 feet, which
is more than 100000 feet above the
best former record.
The Long Bell Lumber company ha!
resumed clearing its big mill site
south of Kelso. Work was suspended
early in February, but equipmen
again is being assembled and a large
crew has begun work. More thai
100 acres was slashed last summe
and fall and this land now will b.
cleared of the stumps.
Money to carry on the fight agains
the rabies menace which has been rag
ing in several counties in eastern
Washington for many months was pro
vided when General Dawes, director o
the budget, agreed to turn over to tn
J department Of agriculture for this pur