Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-05-11

men left their werk whea 8 demand
for g q day vas Ssfassa.
More than 1a5 hish ,aohool students
Of the state, winners Of the RoEthsrn
Pacific and Greet Northern serIeul.
tural scholarships. are euests o. the
state college ct Pullman this week At
an agricultural cOnfsFencs
The Utah-Idaho Sugar oompany has
announced that nearly 800 acres Of
sugar bssts have been signed 40 IN
skagit and whafcom counties. This
acreage may demonstrate the vslus q
sugar beets AZ = crop In western wash
ington.
The Americanixation commission OF
the American Legion for washington,
meeting at Seattle. decided to ask Mrs.
Josephine Corliss Preston. state super.
intendent OF public instruction, to In.
stall instruction in Amsricanism in the
public schools.
Director L. D. McArdle Of the state
department OF efficiency announced
that he had discharged Glenn A.
Moore. special highway patrolman, ar
rested near Rosalia by q Whitman
county traffic official for exceeding
the speed limit.
D. Emerson Corrigan. 26. machinist,
of Mason City, Iowa, pleaded guilty at
Tacoma to second degree murder in
connection with the death April 3 of
George Marsh. Seattle taxi driver, and
was sentenced by Judge b. M. Card
Of the superior court to life imprison-
mont
Governor Hart has appointed DR..
George A. Sheafe of Seattle. superin-
tendent Of the Washington Children's
Home society. a. state delegate to the
national conference Of children's home
and aid societies to be held in Wash
ington. D. c.. May 1914.
Assessments in irrigation districts
cannot be made except In accordance
with benefits derived, said the SUI
preme court In affirming the judgment
Of the lower court Of Chelan county
in the case OF J. R. Laycock VS.. Lake
Chelan Reclamation District.
Herbert H. Votaw. superintendent of
federal prisons, and David J. Allen,
superintendent of the cotton duck mill
at Leavenworth prison visited the fed
eral penitentiary at Mcneil island to
gather data to be used in lettering
conditions in federal prisons.
The Skinner & Eddy corporation,
which during the World war developed
a large shipbuilding plant in Seattle.
has filed suit In superior court for
$S,12s,4O1 against the United States
shipping board emergency fleet Heor-
poration, alleging breach Of contract.
A district field and track meet, in
which all high schools of Clarke, ska
mania, Wahkiakum, Cowlits and South
ern Lewis counties win participate.
will take place May IL in Vancouver.
according to an announcement of the
University OF Washington, which Is
spOnsOring the meet.
Major General Mason NJ. Patrick.
chief Of the United States army air
service, has announced that Camp
Lewis, near Tacoma, would be made
the home of an airplane squadron and
that training school for aviation Of
officers would be established At Sand
point. north Of Seattle.
A building permit was taken out at
wenatchee by C. w. wflmeroth from
the construction Of one Of the largest
and most modern cold and common
storage warehouses in north central
Washington. The building win be three
floors and fun basement. 1SOx1O0 feet.
containing $4,000 square feet OF floor
space.
A tentative valuation Of e12e ,s10, 913
has been placed by the interstate COM
msrce commission on the property Of
the orsgOn-washington Railroad q
Navigation company. that being the
value of the system on June 80. 1916.
The company's own book estimate Of
the value OF its Investment was $685..
647,66s.
Promotion Of Captain A. J. High
tower. recently In charge Of the fed
eFal army drlll payroll and also per
sonnet clerk in the Acknowledgement
department.. TO the rank Of major. and
his appointment to tGke charge Of the
personnel section Of the Washington
national guard was announced BY Adj
jutant-General Thompson.
Dances in the public schools and In
the churches, II necessary, as a means