Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-08-24

With harvest well under way the
labor situation Is acute at Pullman.
Whatcom county's bean pack has
started at Bellingham and total OF
$4,000 cases Is estimated.
Taken with cramps while swimming
in Angle lake, Jarrold O'Neill Of Port
Blakely, 20 years old. was drowned.
Mrs. Mary Shumway. the first white
woman to settle on the Samish river
above Edison, died at Anacortes, aged
eighty years.
Some farmers in the Harrington dis.
trict have harvested as much as 80
bushels Of fall wheat to the acre this
season 1t is reported.
More than 400 fruit growers of Ore.
son and Washington met at Walla
Walla In the summer session Of the
Washington State Horticultural asso-
ciation.
The Home Telephone company in
Spokane claims deficit for the
month of June Of s3339, although the
earnings were s17Oo above the same
month last year.
The open date of the fishing season
on Grays harbor has been set for Sep.
tember 1 this year instead of Septem-
beS Is as in the past by the state
board of fisheries.
Whitman county commissioners
have ordered the sheriff to organize a
chain gang and put prisoners convict.
ed of vagrancy or labor disturbances
to work on the roads.
| More money was collected on the
| Columbia river interstate bridge last
month than during any month since
the bridge was built. The income
during July was $se.14o.
There was an increase of 1853, or
from 1915 to 1S,489, in the number
of school children reported by the
Grays Harbor county school census
for 1928 over that for 1929.
Eighty-five fires were reported in
government national forests of Ore
gon and Washington for the ten.day
period August 1 to 10, according to
the forest service fire report
James F. Leghorn, 30, Olympia,
state supervisor Of savings and loan
associations was found dead In his
seat in a Tacoma Olympia bus when
the bus arrived at its station in Ta-
coma.
Torn open by an exploding gasoline
tank, caused by backfire into the
carburetor, the salmon carrier Uncle
Salmon, owned by the Sanitary Fish
company Of Anacortes, sank In Ro-
sario strait.
Officers of the Sprague commercial
club were instructed to interview the
mayor and have him order the city
marshal to watch for I. w. w. and
not to allow them to remain more
than "a hours.
The annual convention Of presidents
and secretaries Of the Rotary Clubs
of Oregon, Washington and British
Columbia will be held in Olympia Aug.
ust 3O-31 About so Rotarian officers
nre expected to attend.
Eastern Washington and northern
Idaho will harvest e5,0000O0 bushels
of wheat worth S5O,0O000O this year
in the opinion of w. T. Triplett, vice
president of the Spokane and Eastern
Trust company Of Spokane.
More than 200 lumbermen repre-,
senting virtually all of the western
states, and many from the midwest
and east, assembled In Longview for
the mid season conference of the West
Coast Lumbermens association.
Plans for ar apple selling arrange,
ment whereby the producer will sell
direct to the consumer are being work
ed out by the farmers union Of Wash.
ington and Northern Idaho, It Is an,
nounced by John Quincy Adams, the
president.
D, o. Lively of Seattle, recently in
import and export business, has been
named manager Of campaign of de
velopment and education by the
Washington state chamber Of com
merce 1t Is planned to use $500, ,00t
in three years.
The Vancouver school district ID
greatly hampered by lack OF money
and has no means OF taking care Of
the expected large increase In an