Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-04-11
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for information
of Our Readers.

Offices Of the state auto club win
be opened in walla Walla May l.
The annual tulip festival will be
held in Bellingham May l. 2 and 8.
The district convention of the
Knights OF Pythias was held in Sedro-
WoOlley Tuesday.
After 3 shutdown Of about a month
the Rogers mill at Anacortes resum-
ed cutting Monday.
At a meeting Of the Columbia cOun-
ty fair board 1t was voted to hold the
Dayton Days celebration again this
year.
Marked improvement in building
operations at Vancouver is shown by
the number of permits issued in
March.
A tuberculosis clinic will be held
at Davenport Wednesday under aus
pieces of the Lincoln county tuber-
culosis league.
A general meeting of the Whitman
county grade and rural teachers
league was held at the Colfax high
school Saturday.
The 26th annual meeting of the In
land Empire Teachers association
will be held in Spokane Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.
Emery Bundy, Walla Walla, has
been appointed principal midshipman
at the United States naval academy,
Annapolis, by Representative Sum-
mers.
A contract has been let for the con-
struction of a $4,000 brick and con-
crete business building for l. Schuman
at First and Mission streets, Wenat-
chez.
d. e. Ferguson, King county auditor,
was exonerated by the county COM
missioners of the charge of levying
monthly tribute on employees Of. his
office.
Plans are being worked out by the
American Legion post at White Sal
mon to stage a revival of frontier days
THE Days Of '4s"-some time this
month.
Fire, the origin of which is undeter-
mined, caused loss estimated at $780,
900 to the building occupied by the
Palmetto cafe and the Owl drug store
in Wenatchee.
Plans for immediate construction
of a 3OO-car, three-story cold storage
fruit warehouse at Yakima were an
nounced by the Washington Fruit &
Produce company
The Pacific Telephone and Tele-
graph company has started $125,000
reconstruction and overhauling pro-
ject on its long distance lines in south
west Washington.
The annual convention of the Wash
ington state branch, National Con-
gress of Mothers and Parent Teacher
associations will be held in Centralia
May IA, 10 and 16.
Westport reports that the clam take
for this year is proving very unsatis-
factory. The canneries at Grayland
and Westport have been able to run
but a few days, according to the re-
port.
Approximately $4,000 is being ex-
pended between Tenino and the water
power plant of the North Coast Power
company on Kalama river. The i'm
provement will double the voltage of
its high.power line.
Alfred Waldman, Is, and Ida VALID
man, his bride of ten days, were kill
ed and Mrs. Barbara Waldman, 56,
probably fatally shot by an unidenti-
fled man at their farm home nine
miles west Of Pomeroy.
Total bond and warrant debt of the
210 cities and towns Of the state of
Washington, as of December 81. 1922,
was $95. Jas, 534.63. according to the re-
port compiled by AL Helander, in
spector in the division of municipal
corporations.
During the month of March apple
shipments from the Yakima valley
aggregated 1908 carloads, and from
Wenatchee district sos cars, making
a total for the season of 1906 ship
ped from Yakima and 1885 carloads
from Wenatchee.
Revision of the foot and mouth dis
ease quarantine to include stricter
provisions against the importation of
the disease into this state was made
by Director e. L. French of the de-
parhnent of agriculture and approved
by Governor Hart.
Rainfall at Seattle last month was
less than in any previous March for
"a years. Rainfall in Seattle last
month was AZ inches.
A weapon partly like shotgun and