Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-02

Portland Union stock yards; o. NJ.
| Plummer secretary of the Pacific In
ternational Livestock exposition;
Charles NJ. Talmadge, Berkshire spec
iaiist of Sacramento; DR.. E. 0. Hol-
| land, president OF Washington State
college, and other prominent livestock
men and agriculturists have been in
vited as speakers for the annual live
stock banquet to be held al Ellans
burg February Is under the joint
auspices of the Kittitas County Farm
bureau and the Ellensburg chamber OF
commerce.
Daily shipments of apples in the
Wenatchee district have fallen off, but
the average is still more than 100 cars
day To date 1O,99O cars have been
moved.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed in the United States district
court at Tacoma by Edward Meath OF
Tacoma, ex-state treasurer and at one
time treasurer Of Pierce county.
The North Bank highway, between
Skamania and Stevenson, will be clos
ed until about February 10. Three
bridges have been washed away and
several slides block the road in Ska
mania county
District conference of the American
Legion including the towns of Manton,
Bickleton, Grandview, White Bluffs,
Sunnyside, Pasco, Kennewick, Golden
dale and White Salmon will be held
at Prosser February s.
| The executive board of the State
Federation Of Women's Clubs passed
a resolution before adjournment of its
midwinter session at Olympia protest
ing against exhibition of Roscoe Ar
buckle films in Washington.
! Attorney-Gereral Thompson held in
an opinion to Representative Heigh-
ton of King that poll tax on bachelors
between the ages of 25 and 60, as pro-
posed in the Heighton bill, introduced
in the house, would be constitutional
Douglas countys commissioners
have fixed the date for the hearing in
the application CT the formation OF the
Greater Wenatchee reclamation dis
trict as February 20. Under the law
this hearing must be held at Water
vile.
Camps have been established by
crews working for the Washington
Water Power company in the Lake
Chelan region. The company is plan
ming to run a line on the south side
of the lake as far up as Minneapolis
beach.
Within thirty-five years, the forests
, of western Washington will be destroy
ed unless plan of cooperative re.
forestation is adopted, according to
Dean Hugh Winkenwerder, of the Col
lege of Forestry of the University Of
Washington.
The Pacific county commissioners
have settled a matter of long contro.
versy in deciding to proceed with the
Ilwaco-McGowan road, which is to be
hard-surfaced along the Columbia river
side of Pacific county under the Dono-
| hue road act.
Robert Moran, ship builder of Puget
Sound has presented to the Uniyer-
sity of Washington his towing boat,
"The Rosario" to be used by the Puget
Sound Biological station, conducted by
the university at Friday Harbor, in
the San Juan Islands.
More than 100 farmers Of the Puy-
allup valley have petitioned the Pierce
county commissioners protesting
against abandonment Of the extension
service and agricultural agent. The
commissioners cut off the extension
work as means of economy.
School district No. !, composed OF
the city Of Walla Walla, increased its
J assets, decreased its Indebtedness, cut
its per capita cost, and spent S33,122
less than 1t had available, according to
the report of G. w. CASTOR of the state
department of taxation and examina-
tions.
The mild weather has caused farm
ers of the eastern part of the state TO
prepare early for spring seeding and
many are tanning wheat and repairing
machinery, to be ready to enter the
| fields. The ground is thoroughly soak.
ed and prospects for good crop are
bright