Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-06-15

charge OF insect Work Tor the federal
forest service win spent two months
surveying the pine beetle situation II
the chelan national forest IN wash.
ington.
Efforts are being made at Walla
Waila to organize a caravan Of 1000
automobiles or more TO go to Meaeham
July 3 to attend the Oregon Tran cele-
bration and reception to President
Harding.
Twenty-three thousand Seattle
school children have saved an agere-
gate Of s6O.59s since the school saw
ings bank plan was put into effect
March -. Superintendent Thomas r.
Cole reports.
A committee report acceding in part
TO the demand of the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor on the Seattle Central
Labor council as conditions OF affilia-
ton with the federation was adopted
by the council.
Revised figures on building permits
at Wenatchee show that $685.. 900
J worth Of new construction has been
authorized. May showed the largest
total Of building permits ever issued
in one month, or s510,5OO.
Close to $4,000 persons packed their
way into the grandstand boxes and
bleachers at Walla Walla to witness
the last Of the performances of>t"How
the West Was WOn," the pioneer
pageant with $500 participants.
Holstein breeders Of Clarke county
win hold their annual picnic and tour
of the Holstein ranches OF the county
Friday, when Don Magruder and DR..
s. B. Nelson. dairy experts from Wash
ington State college, will be on hand
to lecture and demonstrate the best
methods Of cattle breeding to the
| Clarke dairymen.
The North Bank highway was clos
ed Monday and Tuesday on account
OF bridge repairs. The highway from
Vancouver to Stevenson, White Sal
mon, Lyle, Goldendale and to Yakima
points il now in splendid condition.
Fatima Kinsberg was granted di-
vorce from Henry Kinsberg at Ia
come on allegations that her husband
had forced her to break up their home
and move total of $50 times dur
ing their sixteen years of married life
The last car Of extra fancy Wine
saps shipped out of cold storage by
the American Fruit Growers at Wenat-
chez, brought the highest price of the
entire season, or an average of $4.S7
for the 756 boxes, including all sizes.
The annual meeting of the North
west Grain Dealers association will
be held in Spokane June IS and 10.
Consideration of the schedule of dis
counts, shutting charges and sack
differential will be taken up at that
time.
Members of the Washington Grow
ers' Packing corporation, a co-opera-
tive organization of farmers of Clarke
county. are taking their entire yield
of Strawberries to Portland, where
they are selling them at much higher
prices.
The Davenport commercial club
voted to indorse a plan for reassess-
ment and retaliation of Lincoln coun-
ty by an expert engineer to do away
with inequalities. The county COM
missioners have this plan under con-
sideration.
Construction of logging roads and
railroads east of Castle Rock, COwlitz
county, has been started by the Cow
litz Development company, a new
100000 corporation, preparatory to
opening up a large stand of Cowlitz
county timber.
Motor freight operators from all
parts of the state were in Olympia
last week in attendance upon a hear
ing called by the department Of pub
lie works looking to the standardizas
ton Of rates and publication of com
bined tariff and classification.
Formal orders for the greatest naval
concentration the Pacific northwest
has ever seen have been issued by
the navy department, directing the
assembling of the entire United States
battle fleet at Seattle, July 81, for
review by President Harding upon his
return from his Alaska trip.
A new state law aimed at unruly
country dance halls went into effect
last week. The law requires that
each dance hall shall obtain license
from the county commissioners and
that this may be revoked at any time
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