Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-01-26

The Washington state council of car.
penters held four-day convention in
Seattle.
Deposits in Davenport banks have
increased $S9,117 since the call of
September Is, 1922.
'i-he' tentative proSfaim for the fifty
eighth annual con- 9ntion of the Ma
tional Wool Growers association at
Spokane, January "a to rs inclusive,
has been announced by F. R. Marshall,
executive secretary of the association.
The convention will be opened January
"a at 10 a. M. with an address by +. ].
Hagenbarth, national president. The
secretary's report and appointment of
committees will follow.
Editors of the old school, who start
ed their journalistic careers as print
ters' Devils" took a short course in
applied psychology at the session of
the Washington State Press associa-
tion at the University of Washington
last week. Professor William A. Rus
sell of the college of business admins
traticn told them how to persuade hard
boiled merchants to sign advertising
contracts on the dotted line.
When county forecloses certifi-
cate Of delinquency on account OF gen.
eral taxes and buys In at the sale and
later sells the property to private
individual, it initiates and creates a
new title to the property, which the
private individual takes free and clear
Of any kind Of character or prior
liens, the supreme court held In the
case of Homer A. Collins against the
city of Spokane and others.
A record shipment of eggs loaded
In one car left Winlock Saturday night
for New York city. The car contained
1852 cases (27o,720 eggs) and was ship
ped by the Washington Cooperative
Egg and Poultry association. On the
following day the Cowlitz Produce
company sent car to the same desti.
nation containing 52s cases, or 5S
cases In excess of the usual shipment.
The two cars brought to Winlock poul.
trymen S15,36O.
Marten, or American sable, are more
plentiful on the Olympic peninsula
than in any other place in the United
States or Alaska, according to E. @.
Hunter Of the geological survey, who
has spent the major part of two years
in the mountain country. With Elias
Swift Hunter trapped as a side issue
during the winter months, and to-
gether they brought In pelts which
sold for $1,000. Among these furs were
IS rnarten, which sold for $700.
A petition to the interstate COM
merce commission, protesting against
proposed wool freight increase to be-
come effective February 10, is regarded
as the most feasible plan to restrain
the railroads from making effective
the proposed rates, according to r. A.
Balch, SECRETARY Of the Washington
Wool Growers association. Plans TO
fight the new rate will be formulated
at conventions of the Washington Wool
Growers association and the National
Wool Growers association at Spokane.
The Sedro-WGolley plan of assisting
farmers to clear their land is proving
great success. About two or three
months ago Sedro-Woolley business
men and the Skagit Steel G Iron Works
Of that city purchased land clearing
machine and tackle and blocks of all
kinds needed In clearing land, and ar.
ranged to loan the equipment to the
farmers for their use in land clearing.
AS result, the farmers of that dis
trict are clearing more land, more rap
idly and at less cost than ever before.
Residents of Pacific county have
held meetings and adopted resolutions
urging their representatives in the leg
islature to work for three things: The
completion of the Kelso-to-the.sea loop
of the Ocean Beach highway, which is
partly finished and which will con.
meet Wahkiakum with the rest of the
state. To work for state experiment
station in the cranberry bogs of Pa
cifio county. Growers made good prog
ress until battling diseases attacked
their bogs and they say that only state
guidance in fighting the pests can save
them from destruction. Residents OF
the county living along the ocean
beach have asked that the clam sea
son be heightened from three months
TO nine months.