Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-08-24
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FOR our BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

rollment during the coming year, 40
cording to Charles w. Hall, chairman
Of the school board.
Ignoring a request Of an organiza
tion OF municipal employees for In
creases in pay ranging from to II
per cent and benefitting all positions
the Seattle city council granted salary
advances to limited number of work
ers rated as more efficient than tho
average.
A controversy over the value OF the
Clarke county auto park at Vancouver
resulted In the announcement by the
county commissioners that after this
year, tourists will be charged so cents
a night for use Of the park and the
income will be devoted to adding con.
J veniences for the motorists.
! Owins to the fact that the regularly
scheduled time for holding the quar-
terly state land sales, the first Tues
day Of the month would make the
regular January sale fall on New
Years day, no sale can be held in
January and the date will be advanc.
ed to the first Tuesday in December.
Vast increases In the expenditures
to be made, both by the city of Ia
coma and Pierce county, were indicat-
ed when city and county tentative
budgets were completed. The two bud
| gets showed that expenditures of
nearly 100000 more than last year
are asked for the coming II months.
At meeting OF Oregon and Wash
ington state representatives and SEN
ators held at Longview, 1t was decid-
cd to call public meeting at that
place on September 20, at which time
the matter Of erecting an interstate
bridge across the Columbia at that
point will come up for public hearing.
For failure to submit their first
quarterly report as to gross earnings,
and remit the per cent tax thereon,
as provided by the new law, nine auto
stage and freight operators have been
cited by the state department OF pub
lie works to appear and show CAUSE
why their certificates should not be
revoked.
A project to erect in Woodland park,
Seattle, monument to the late Presi,
dent Harding where he spoke to 10000
boys July 27, was indorsed by the
state Elks' association at It's three
day convention in Everett. Each Elks'
lodge In Washington is to aid in rails.
ing the $4,000 which the monument
is expected to cost.
Closing the gap In the Olympic high,
way from Lake Qulnault to the Hob
river by clearing the forty miles OF
right-of-way. laying of temporary
plank construction road, and gradual
completion by graveling units of the
highway ns funds become available,
is the course now favored By the state
highway commission.
Notification from the state highway
department that only $50,o00 OF the
interstate bridge money will be re-
quired by the state for highway work
In Clarke county has been received
by the county commissioners. The
requirement will cover 1928 and 1924,
The $4,000 is to be used in highway
construction on the north bank road
between Washougal and the Skamania
county line.
Bids on seven state highway and
bridge contracts will be opened by the
state highway commission on Tues
day, September II, as follows: Ocean
Beach highway, Cowlltz county-Pav
ing one mile from west city limits o
Kelso, westward. Ocean Beach high
way, Lewis county-Constructi TIVE
reinforced concrete bridges in vicinity
OF Mccormick. Sunset highway, Kit
lllHS ly"IleSuI LdSlIlb Win Vi ubh
ed rock about five miles between Clt
Elum and Easton. Sunset highway
King county-Constructin steel trust
bridge over Cedar river in Renton
North Bank highway, Skamania coun
ty Constructing steel span bridg,
across Hamilton creek, between
Rands and Greenleaf. Inland Empire
highway, in Whitman and Garfield
countiss-Grading, draining and sur
facing with crushed rock, approached
to Central Ferry bridge. Central
Washington highway, Franklin coun
ty-Surfacing with crushed rock Of
crushed gravel about 11.6 miles be
tween Pasco and Eltopa.