Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-15


the first six months of 1923, beginning
with December /, 1922, when payments
on the new license year began, have
already exceeded the total Of collec
tions for 1922 by s62,127, the total fo
close of business May 81 being So,
370,560.S7 this year so far.
Contracts for textile supplies for thu
various state institutions for the en-
suing six months have been awarded
by the department of business control
In checking over the prices paid thi!
time with those paid for textiles las
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 It's
lines east of Pendleton, Oregon. tc
Portland and Puget sound cities, re
ducing the differential In favor Of Port
land not to exceed cents 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 summe.
grazing areas In the national foresi
reserves is just getting into full swing.
1t is estimated that 100000 lambs and
their mothers will be on the reserves
within the next 10 days.
Promiscuous drinking Of perfumes,
denatured alcohol and other alcoholic
fluids are believed by police to have
caused the death in Seattle Of Jack
Brennan, formerly OF Everett.
A clinic in which the discoveries
of modern medical and psychological
science will be invoked to effect cures
will be conducted by the Plymouth
Congregational church of Seattle.
Eighty-five graduates of the Stats
College of Washington at Pullman
have been elected to teaching posi-
tions in Alaska, Idaho, and various
cities of Washington for next fall.
What is said to be the first tornado
ever experienced In the region swept
through the district southwest OF
Davenport, demolishing a barn owned
by Wood Hurlbert, four miles from the
city.
Prospects for bumper crops of all
kinds in the Palouse country were
never better. Not within the memory
of the Oldest resident has there been a
heavier growth of vegetation than this
year.
E. ]. Jaenicke, forest examiner In
charge of insect work for the federal
forest service will spent two months
surveying the pine beetle situation In
the Chelan national forest in Wash
ington.
Efforts are being made at Walla
Walla to organize caravan OF 1000
automobiles or more to go to Meacham
July to attend the Oregon Trail cele.
bration and reception to President
Harding.
Twenty-three thousand Seattl q
school children have saved an aggre'
gate of S6O,593 since the school saw
ings bank plan was put into effect
March 13, Superintendent Thomas R
Cole reports.
A committee report acceding In part
to the demand of the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor on the Seattle Central
Labor council as conditions OF affilia
ton with the federation was adopted
by the council.
Revised figures on building permit,
at Wenatchee show that S665,00C
worth of new construction has been
authorized. May showed the largest
total of building permits ever issued
in one month, or $610.500.
Close to $1,000 persons packed their
way into the grandstand boxes and
bleachers at Walla Walla to witness
the last of the performances Of How
the West Was Won," the pioneer
pageant with $500 participants.
Holstein breeders of Clarke county
will hold their annual picnic and tour
of the Holstein ranches OF the county
Friday, when Don Magruder and DR.
S. B. Nelson, dairy experts from Wash
ington State college, will be on hand
to lecture and demonstrate the best
methods of cattle breeding to the
Clarke dairymen.