Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-14


ton was held at Chehalis Saturday to
arrange basketball schedule for the
coming season.
Twenty-seven persons we're granted
certificates to practice in the state OF
Washington after having been passed
by the chiropractic board in examina-
tions at Olympia.
With expenditures for the week Of
$445.O44 and receipts of only 1884,
OIL, the state cash balance for the
week ended November 80 was whitfield
down to $11.15O,333.
q. B. Benn, United States marshal
for western Washington. has been
summoned to Washington, D. c., by
the department of justice for a con-
ference on official business.
Yakima County Health Officer H.
H. Smith, who has been making
survey of school children in the lower
valley for goiter, says there Is an
alarming percentage of cases.
Winlock's new egg incubation plant,
known as the Winlock Central Hatch
cry, has been completed. Matching will
be started in early January. A 49,
OO0-egg incubator has been installed.
Indications that a legal battle to
settle the mayoralty of Westport have
followed the announcement by Mayor
Gustaf Nelson that he will not give
up office to F. NJ Smith, elected re-
Gently by small majority.
A. ]. Black, operator of stage lines,
lost his suit to compel the state to
permit him to operate stages between
Seattle, Tacoma and Portland in
decision handed down in Federal court
in Seattle by Judge Neterer.
Port Townsend claims another
health record. The health report by
City Health Officer House shows the
average resident death age for the
calendar year, to December 1, to have
been 6S years and nine months.
Repairs to the Sultan river pipe
line, supplying Everett with water,
have been completed, and the regular
flow resumed. The break occurred
near the dam in the Sultan canyon,
and was caused by rock slide.
Clark v. Savidge, state land COM
missioner, who has been under strong
pressure for some time to induce him
to become a candidate for governor
on the republican ticket, has definite
ly announced his decision not to be-
come a candidate.
Damages Of $4,000 are asked of
Grover Hershberger of Ridgefield by
Bessie A. Fits, widowed mother of
Jesse Fits, sixteen-year,old RidgefieId
youth, who was shot while engaged
with other Ridgefield youths In play
ing pranks on Halloween evening, &C.
cording to papers filed in superior
court at Vancouver.
1wenty-eight motor vehicle opera.
tors lost their licenses to drive
through cancellation in the courts for
violation Of the motor vehicle law dur.
ing November, according to the report
of Fred J. Dibble, director of licenses
Most of the cancellations were for
driving while intoxicated.
Swept by a strong southerly gale, q
fire which broke out in the dry kilns
or the planning mill of Morrison Bros.
sawmill at Anacortes, swept through
the five dry kilns. planning mill, lum-
Der yards and threatened the main
sawmill. The loss was estimated at
between $25O.OO0 and 100000
Representative Summers has re-
commended appointment Of the fol-
lowing Washington postmasters: T.
e. Kammerer, Hanford; James C.
Blevins, Naches; Arthur B. Cass, Con.
nell; R. P. Fisher, Garfield; Fred B.
GOldsworthy, Rosalia; James Lane,
Roslyn, and James H. Adams, Waits.
burg.