Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-06-08

S1.zos SOC. according % he monthly
figures announced 81 q. 8 o'shsa,
president. Thia brinsB tie total to
date to 2s.s77 loans for sseB1s8sB.
Jury service Il Clarke countv has
been summed thl ysar By womea. Sc
cordlng to County Assessor Palmer.
who estimates that 81 81 least 5000
women in the county eligible cor serv-
ice less than go have agreed . serve.
r. E. ostrander. formerly Of Seattle
and recently appointed brief elezh by
Attorney-Genera John II. Dunbar, has
been named legal assistant Tor the de-
partment Of public works. 70 succeed
Anthony w. Dolphin, Spokane. resign
ed.
Township citizens do not have b
register to vote in township elections
and the officials Of the township have
the right to set any reasonable cleo
tion hours they wish. according 10 an
opinion Of the state attorneg-generaI's
office.
The attacks Of William Jennings
Bryan on advanced thought in religion
were Endorsed BY Bishop william
Pearce OF Evanston. III. presiding at
Seattle over the annual conference OF
the Free Methodist church in wash-
ington.
Business Is booming all over the
Pacific northwest. 200 statesmen gath
cred at Seattle from washington, Ore
/ gon and British Columbia for the an.
nual convention Of the grand council
of United Commercial Travellers, re-
| ported.
First Assistant Postmaster General
John H. Bartlett and Third Assistant
Postmaster General w. Irving Glover
will be in Seattle to attend the first
annual state postal convention, to be
held there July s. Between 1000 and
/ 1900 postal employees in the state
are expected to attend.
India has chosen the forestry school
Of the University OF Washington to
train young men in logging until such
instruction can be developed in that
country, c. s. Martin, a representa-
tive Of the Indian government, an
nounced at Seattle.
Three thousand employees Of the
Northern Pacific Railway In the state
of Washington win benefit by the in
crease in pay that has just been grant
ed to maintenance of way employees
of that line, 1t is announced by North
ern Pacific officials.
George Oliver OF Pomeroy. was
awarded the Albert prize at William
cite university at Salem. Or. AZ the
member Of the junior class represent
Ing the greatest development in char
acter. scholarship and ideals ddring
his college course.
The Seattle city government, wrest-
ling with a deficit Of $4,000 to $4,000 a
uoy bAot aAODO unucE . O-COht AoAo
effective March /, has now received
. demand for Is per cent increase
in the wages Of employees Of the mu-
nicipal street car system.
Mrs. Albert johnson. wife Of the
representative from the third district,
sustained a broken arm the fourth day
out Of New York on the transport
Grant bound via the Panama canal
for San Francisco and the Hawaiian
islands. according to word received
at Hoquiam.
Motor vehicle license collections for
the first six months Of 1923, beginning
with December 1. 1922. when payments
on the new license year began, have
already exceeded the total of cOllec-
tons for 1922 by $62.127. the total for
close OF business May 81 being So
37O.56O.S7 this year so far.
Contracts for textile supplies for the
various state institutions for the en-
suing six months have been awarded
by the department Of business control.
In checking over the prices paid this
time with those paid for textiles last
October. an average increase OF ap-
proximately per cent was reported.
The Union Pacific railroad has
agreed to revise its rates on wheat and
wheat products from points on its
lines east OF Pendleton, Oregon. co
Portland and Puget sound cities, re-
ducins the differential In favor Of Port
land not to exceed 3 cents q hundred
pounds. 1t Is announced by the Seattle
chamber Of commerce.
Late SHOWS in the mountains have
delayed the growth Of pasturage and
the spring exodus OF Inland Empire
lambs from the ranges to the summer
grazing areas In the national forest
reserves 10 just getting Into full swing.
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