Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-08
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR our BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Seattle over the annual conference OF
the Free Methodist church IN Wash.
ington.
Business is booming all over the
Pacific northwest, 200 statesmen gath.
cred at Seattle from Washington, Ore
gon and British Columbia for the an
nual convention Of the grand council
of United Commercial Travellers, re-
ported.
First Assistant Postmaster General
John II. Bartlett and Third Assistant
Postmaster General w. Irving Glover
will be in Seattle to attend the first
annual state postal convention, to be
held there July s. Between 1900 and
1500 postal employees in the state
are expected to attend.
George Oliver of Pomeroy was
awarded the Albert prize at william
ette university at Salem, Or, as the
member of the Junior class represent
ing the greatest development in char.
acter, scholarship and ideals during
his college course.
The Seattle city government, wrest,
ling with deficit of $4,000 to $4,000 a
day that arose under scent fare
effective March /, has now received
~ a
in the wages of employees of the mu.
nicipal street car system.
Mrs. Albert Johnson, wife of the
representative from the third district
sustained broken arm the fourth day
out of New York on the transport
! Grant bound via the Panama canal
foI San Francisco and the Hawaiian
islands, according to word received
at Hoquiam.
A meeting of 90 postal clerks was
held at the Olympia postoffce and
steps taken for the organization of a
branch of the National Association OF
Postoffice Clerks. Among the offices
represented were Everett, Bremerton
Bellingham, Anacortes, Snohomish
| Spokane, Yakima, Centralia, Vancou
yer, Mount Vernon and Olympia.
An organization Of loggers, lumber
men and timber owners of Washing
ton, Oregon and California to fight the
l. w. w. and other similar movements
! was perfected at meeting at Ia
coma. More than 100 men from the
/ three states attended the meeting. The
new organization was named the
Northwest Logging Operators associa
tion.
| A prediction that no larger appro
priation for the Columbia basin irriga
| ton project to water 100000 acres
! in this state would be made by the
| 6Sth congress, meeting next Decem
ber, was made by United States Sen
ator A. A. Jones OF New Mexico, on'
| of a party of United States senator:
| and congressman who arrived at Sc
attic on the army transport Cambria
| Representatives of the federal de
| partment of agriculture and of th'
grain inspection departments of Ore
gon and Washington, together will
representative Touring mill men ant
wheat growers of the northwest, hell
two.day conference on grain dis
counts, grain grades, cleaning ant
securing at Walla Walla, with e. L
French, state director of agriculture
presiding.
1t may require decision of tn
state supreme court to sell the $3.50
900 worth OF bonds for the acquisition
Of the skinner & Eddy Yard No.
by the Seattle port commission. Th
bond house of Blythe, Witter & Co
which heads the syndicate that mad
the highest bid for the bonds, ha
asked the port commissioners to tes
the validity OF the issue by frlendl,
court action.
Expenditures of $4,000 of fedora
funds for four road building project
in Washington was approved by Secre
tary Wallace. The allotment include
100000 for road between Ing1e
creek and the boundary of Wenatche
National forest in Kittitas county
$4,000 for new bridge on the Olynl
pic highway across the Bogachiel rive
in Clallam county; $4,000 for 10 mile
of road In Ferry county extending
southwark from Laurier and $4,000
for the Randel-Yakima road, in Levi
county, and serving the Rainier Nc
tional forest,