Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-01-26
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

seventy real estate loans, aggregat-
Ing S92,390 were made in 1922 by the
Pullman Savings & Loan association.
Mrs. Grace J. Moran, age 7S,, who
came to Whitman county from Califor-
n L in 1884, is dead at her farm home
south Of Colfax.
OF 1874 male students attending the
Washington State college at Pullman,
"a per cent are said to be earning all
or part Of their expenses.
The Port Angeles foundry, operating
at Port Angeles slightly over year,
has been forced to larger quarters and
will build plant 50x90 feet.
The recent freshet took heavy toll
on the North Bank highway west Of
Stevenson, damage to bridges and cul.
verts alone reaching more than $4,000.
The proposed union Of the Camas
and Washougal districts into one high
school district was overwhelmingly de-
feated at Camas, the vote being COL
to IS.
Robbers burned their way into the
safe in the State Bank of Fairfield
and escaped with about $4,000 in lib
erty bonds, negotiable notes, jewelry
and cash.
Dorothy Shelton, 4.year-old Eureka
girl, is in a WalIa Wa'la hospital, hav.
ing shot herself through the eye by
the accidental discharge of .22-cali-
ber rifle she was playing with.
The annual report of the secretary
Of the Adams county farm loan as
sociation shows that nearly 100000
has been loaned to farmers in that
county since the formation of the as
sociation.
Negotiations arc under way by
which the port Of Seattle hopes to ao-
quire control of the 20-acre tract Of
the old Skinner & Eddy No. 2 ship.
yard as site for modern immigra-
ton station to fill the needs of the
port.
A corporation cannot make a con
tract with its individual employees
which would set aside an act of the
legislature, the supreme court has
held, affirming the lower court of Spo-
kane county in the case Of Frank Bur
dette VS.. the Broadview Dairy com.
pany.
The Tacoma municipal light depart.
ment did gross operating business
of S1,39S,42S.53 during 1922, a gain Of
14.2 per cent over the figure of 1921,
and registered net income, after pay
ment Of operating costs, tax and de.
probation of sSl3,O6O.S6, a gain Of
24,S per cent over 1921.
The new s195,OOO bond issue of the
Sunnyside Valley Irrigation district
will be placed on the market within
the lext few days. This issue will
take the place of the former irrigation
district bonds, and through extending
the term of payment will reduce the
present assessment approximately IS
per cent.
Five hundred and twenty-five thous-
and young trout were planted In
Clarke county streams in the last year,
according to Dr. C. 8. Irwin, chair.
man of the Clarke county game com.
mission. The number planted in two
years was 1,235,00O, of which $4,000
were Matched in the Clarke county
hatchery.
One of the biggest deals in Wash.
ington timber announced in years, in.
volving 100000 and adding about
half billion feet of standing timber
to the holdings of Tacoma interests,
was completed by the purchase OF the
McCoy-Lc .eie Timber company OF Bel
lingham by the Nooksack Timber com.
pany Of Tacoma.
Eclipsing all records, a silk ship
mont valued at s10,000,0O0 is aboard
the Admiral l-orlental linor President
Grant, which has left Yokohama for
Seattle, due January 20, The Grant
is bringing 400 passengers, 1900 bags OF
mail and more than 1000 tons of cargo
The value of the entire cargo is rough.
ly put at s15,0O0,000.
The total deposits Of Lewis coun.
ty's 12 banks at the close of business
on December 80 were s6,S42 6S3.66, ac-
cording TO statements published by the
banks following recent call of the
state supervisor of banking. The de-
posits on December 81, 1921, we're &c.
47O,57S.52, making a gain of $S72,
11O.14 for the last year.