Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-09
Washington State News

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Denny, founder Of Seattle. died ct hiz
home, aged %.
AZ = farmers-merchants dinner held
b. the Hoquiam commercial club 9
campaign 70 build > $4,000 give-atory
hotel was started.
Walla walla county commissioner
have voted q franchise to the Walla
walla Valley railway company to build
e spur track ct State Line.
High school students IN Washington
have increased from 100e TO 10000
since 1890. according to Edwin TwIt-
meyer, state inspector Of high schools.
The state OF Warrington win raise
for road purposes in 1898 $3.50, 900
more than In any previous year e. the
result Of the increase in the gasoline
tax.
An electric light company has beeh
formed at Bdwall. near Harrington, 4
furnish the business and residence dis
tricts with light generated from bat
teries.
Frank A. Moore. who operates .
radio broadcasting station in walla
Walla, picked up message from Ban
doeng Java, half way around the
globe.
Jack Palmer, a former deputy sher-
If Of Snohomish county, was fatally
injured at Seattle when his high-pow-
cred automobile ran into q curb and
was totally wrecked.
Homer Skidmore, eighteen. may die
and several firemen suffered from the
effects Of smoke following disastrous
100000 fire which Quilted the TulI &
Gibbs furnishing store in Spokane.
May Bartlett Baker and Madge
shera, both Of Tacoma, have been
awarded national Girl Scout medals
for exceptional scout work, the first
of their kind ever awarded In the
northwest ~
In order to put the Wenatchee post
of the American Legion on a better
business basis, eliminate the overhead
and to have a home It can call its own.
the post has decided to erect q build
ing in Wenatchee.
Miss Elizabeth Trukositz. q young
teacher IN the domestic science depart.
ment of the Spokane schools. Is the
sole heiress to the $4,000 estate left
by John Powers, a Civil war veteran,
who died February IL.
Radio messages were received in the
BelIingham coal mines at q depth Of
400 feet below the surface by mem
bers of the Northwest Washington
Radio club, who conducted expert
ments there recently.
The Puget Sound Power and Light
company and the Pacific Northwest
Traction company will expend S425, ZOO
this year in Whatcom and Skagit
counties in improvements to the power
lines and railway service.
OF the eos school children Of Clarke
county examined during January and
February by Miss Mabel Jarrett, coun-
ty nurse, 23s, or more than fourth Of
them, had physical defects, according
to q report prepared by Miss Jarrett.
The county commissioners and Prose
cutting Attorney Hall Of Clarke county
went to Olympia last week to act az
unofficial representatives of the coun-
ty in the consideration Of the inter
state bridge bills before the state SEN
ate.
The Gooding bill, fixing a price for
wheat, was Endorsed by unanimous
vote Of the Davenport Commercial club
and messages asking congressman from
this state to support the measure were
wired to Washington. D. c.. BY the
club.
More building was started In Everest
in February than In any other month
In It's history. according to figures
submitted to the city council By Bald
ing inspector Butts. The report ssti-
mated cost Of all buildings started si
aaea.9TD.
After . lapse Of six months since "a,
accepted Czech LsniEhsn. aged u, .,
her long lost son. Cecil Britain. Mrs
R. L. Britain Of soap Lake has decided
that he il not her son and has written
letter TO q Spokane paper repudiat
ing the boy.
Western headquarters Of the Thomp-
son Yards, Ino.. operating = large
chain OF lumber yards throughout the
middle west and controlled BY the
Weyorhaeuser Lumber company, win
be established in Tacoma. according %
announcement.
! With s26S.Sls.05 in motor vehicle
license fees received by the state
treasurer during February. the total
fees for 1928 licenses received up to
the close OF business February 2S was
$2.53l.le0, which is far ahead Of the
1922 record on the same date.
DR.. Linus H. French. physician and
DR.. R. 2. McKibbon. proprietor of q
sanitarium at Seattle for the "curs"