Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-03-02
Washington State News

r. fight, Stanley 4. Nevln. = Toca-
tional student At Washinston state
college at Pullman. was fined $40 and
costs last week.
Professor R. '. Mitchell. FOR many
years head Of the poultry departm Snt
Of Washington state college at Pull
man has resigned 70 take up conner
cial work in the East.
| Mira. Amelia Warner. aged IS. died
at the home OF her grandson, Bert
Smith, near Dixie. She had bean q
resident of the walla Walls valley Cor
nearly half a century.
What is believed to be the largest
logging block ever made has been
finished by the Lamb Machine works
Of Hoqulam. It weighs 1900 pounds
and has > 4z-ineh sheavo.
Articles Of incorporation Tor tie
Clarke County Power q Water com
pany. which proposes to extend pow.
er line to Battle Ground and viclnity.
were filed ct Vancouver.
John 1arben and Lewis Jarben,
brothers, employees Of the Grown Lum-
Der company, were drowned in Puget
sound near Mukilteo when rowboat
was capsised BY . choppy sea.
Directors Of the RitsvilIs schools
find that they cannot maintain the
schools on the regular tax levy and
win ask the voters on March : to
indOrse = special mill levy.
A total Of s2.eeS.s41 has been invest
e in the public port Of Tacoma. the
annual report Of the state auditor
shows. During 1879 ths operations Of
the port showed q profit Of Sso.Dss.
Several hundred leading lumber
manufacturers Of the Pacific north.
west attended the annual nesting in
Seattle Of the stookholdsrs o. TIE
West Coast Lumbermsn's association.
| The first annual sale of registered
DurOc-Jsrsey hogs held under the Gus
plces Of the Whitman County DuFoe-
Jersey association wae . big success,
81 females bringing On average Of As
each.
At . meeting In Tacoma Of the Pa
cifio Northwest MIX Dealer asso-
eiatlon. A. u. Work q Portland was
rs-oIsctsd president fog the third time.
A. F. Bird o. Seattle IL secretary
treasurer.
Dwight L. Woodruff. general nan
agsF OF the wenatchss District Coop
efatiyo association since lie organisa-
tiOn. has resigned. The association
last year distributed 100000 among
its 600 members.
More than 100000 tulips are now in
the ground and win be blooming for
the annual Tulip festival ct Boiling
ham. when 5000 persons and 100 floats
will combine to make this years the
greatest tulip parade yet put on by the
city.
No more carnivals will be permitted
In Vancouver. Representatives OF the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
have been assured BY members Of the
city council. Permission to bring the
shows to Vancouver viii be refused
hereafter.
| Eight hundred poles 1AO feet long
are being constructed by the Everett
Construction company at Everett into
= raft which. when completed, viii Be
towed 70 Alaska By . deep sea tug
70 be used in eonstructisn Of Alaska
eannbFiss.
AbHrozimatsiy $4,000 win be spent
fer improvements and extensions this
summer b. the Puget Sound Power
= Light company and Ne Pacific
NogsAwsst Traction company In what
com and ekagIt counties, 4 was an
nouaesd By H. 3. seWall. manager.
The biggest single item wiz be the
FaplaOins Of ne eaps and decking 81
the four and : half miles o. trsstls
along the chuoksaue water trent.
The willapa Lumber company ok
Raymond has closed deal for the IN
stallatiOn Of q 1S00-kilowatt turbine to
electrify its entire plant. The cost
win be between $4,000 and 100000.
4 A story wired to Sheriff Jackson Of
Pierce county concerning a man in
Spokane who confessed 20 psrpetrating
the 0'Hara horror near Olympia last
September proved to be q dnd, as the
prisoners finger prints show the man
Is not the one wanted.
The supreme court affirmed the
Judgment Of the lower court OF John
Rodia versus the City Of Seattle IN
which he secured damages OF $500
for loss Of crops as a result Of the
breaking Of a water main and flood
ing his market garden.
Mrs. Catherine Noreen, an aged
woman Of Tacoma, has filed suit for
$500 against her son. Henry o. Noreen.
claiming that he wronGfully committed
her to the steilacoom asylum after
having fTaudulently obtained posses
sion Of the family home.