Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-07-13

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During the month the bank closed $40
mortgage loans for sl.zS2.50o
Contract for constructing q 1s0, 600
gallon elliptical steel water tank for
the Davenport city water system was
awarded to the Chicago Bridge & Iron
Works, whose bid was $4,000.
A permanent injunction was issued
at Seattle prohibiting the port CON-
mission from issuing the $4,000 in
bonds recently voted to purchase the
Skinner & Eddy shipbuilding site.
Announcement was made Of the re-
appointment by Governor Hart OF w.
B. Whitcomb of Bellingham as mem
Der Of the board Of trustees OF the
state normal school at Bellingham.
The Washington State Music Teach
ers' association at Its closing session
In Bellingham elected Mrs. J. Alexand-
err Mahan of Ellensburg president and
chose Spokane as its 1924 meeting
place.
A contract was awarded by the state
highway commission for the paving
with concrete Of ~ OF a mile on the
Pacific highway from Chehalis south
TO Albertson, Cornell Bros. & Walsh at
$4,000.
The question as to whether baseball
is an extra-haEardous employment bob
bed up in Olympia when Assistant
Attorney-General NJ. H. Wright hand.
ed down an opinion at the request
Of Supervisor Kenneth Durham of the
state Industrial insurance department.
The opinion, rendered In the case of
Leslie @. Ready. q night employee of
q lumber company, who is a member
Of the company's ball team in the
Twilight League. and who was lnjur-
ed while practicing on company time
and under instruction from his super
iof, holds that Ready is not eligible
TO compensation under the law.
The third annual convention Of the
Washington State Federation Of Bust.
ness and Professional women's clubs
was held in Olympia. Between 200
and 800 women were in attendance.
Savings accounts In the five saw.
ings and loan associations Of Spokane
increased $1.41O.421 in the six months
ending June 80. Dividends amounting
to s1S6,1AS we're paid to 20,167 de-
positors.
Unless several hundred men are OBJ
tanned within the next few days, when
threshing VIII begin in the light land
districts. there will be a serious short.
age Of harvest hands In the Walla
Walla section.
Business at the Everett pOstoffice
for the fiscal year ending June so
showed an increase over last year OF
ss,571.6S. The total receipts for the
year were s166,77S7s. as against S1o7.-
2O715 in 1922.
William Hunter McI0wan, for many
years one of the most prominent fig
ures in lumber and financial circles
of the Pacific Northwest, died at his
home in Seattle of heart trouble. He
was SO years old.
Inland Empire sawmills reporting to
the Western Pine Manufacturers asso-
citation cut 197,O67 900 feet of lumber
during May. which is the second larg-
est cut for any month in the history
of the association.
M. F. Mcintyre, grocer of Vancouv-
er, is in hospital with bullet in his
chest while police are investigating
the story told by Mcintyre that the
wound was caused by thief whom he
said he surprised In the store.
Three men were killed and two bad
ly injured when a light car in which
they we're riding plunged from the
Heisson bridge over the east fork Of
Lewis river, twenty-one miles north
east Of Vancouver, and dropped about
fifteen feet
A rain fluctuating from a mist to a
light fall of drops that prevailed from
the Columbia river to the Strait OF
Juan de Fuca between the Pacific
ocean and the crest of the Cascade
mountains, was estimated to be worth
several millions OF dollars.
The celebration July Of compile
ton of the Mount Misery-Grouse Greek
federal highway was largely attended
by citizens of Garfield and Asotin
counties, Washington, and Wallowa
county, Oregon, who met at the com
munity celebration grounds on Grouse
flats.
Twenty-nine new manufacturing con