Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-01
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.


Dealers association has been organ.
ICED.
Lewis County Holstein breeders
held their annual meeting at Che
halls.
An active campaign to obtain an
adequate hospital for Montesano has
been started.
Ninety-four motorists were arrested
at Everett for improper license or
faulty lights.
Harry B. Ohm was nominated by the
president for postmaster at Dryad,
Lewis county.
Plans are on foot to acquire build
ing and open an indoor ice skating
rink for Spokane.
o. H. Marble, So, native Of Clarke
county, shot himself at Vancouver
with a 5000 rifle and died instantly.
Forty per cent of the 1928 wheat
crop is in the hands of the farmers,
according to grain buyers of Pullman.
William Henry Fouts, resident of
Bellingham for fifty-one years, died
in that city at the age of eighty years.
A complete fingerprint and identi-
fication bureau is being installed at
the Clarke county court house in Van
couver.
In a ballot taken among students
of the University Of Washington on
the Box peace plan the vote was 1918
for and 273 against.
The state securities act, passed by
the last Legislature, has 30 far work
ed satisfactorily, according to ]. Grant
Hinkle, secretary of state.
Nine graduates of the University Of
Washington law school were success
full in the state bar examinations con-
Quoted at Olympia last week.
Centralia in 1923 made remarkable
record for low fire loss, the annual
report Of Fire Chief Fred Wilcox
showing total damage from this source
of only S5S72.O5.
An order enjoining Seattle city Of
ficials from interfering with the So
liciting Of business by agents Of an
eastern hosiery concern was signed BY
Federal Judge CushmRn..
The Washington state federation Of
taxpayers will ask the state legisla-
ture at its next session to provide for
the reopening of the jute mill atithe
state penitentiary at Walla Walla.
Patrick Boerner, whose sawmil,
four miles south of Republic, was de-
stroyed recently by fire Of incendiary
origin, has workmen building another
mill near Golden Harvest, 10 miles
further south.
Robert Kelly, Yakima, and William
Johnson, Seattle, workers on the va
kima: Ellensburg canyon road at the
Grant Smith Construction camp at
Rosea, were instantly killed by a pre-
mature explosion.
The supreme court refused to grant
an injunction asked by certain auto
mobile dealers OF Seattle to restrain
certain other dealers from selling auto
mobiles and accessories on Sunday, in
violation of Seattle's Sunday closing
law.
Brick and tile manufacturers of
Washington are planning to cooperate
with the Common Brick Manufactur-
ers' Association of America in a pro-
gram of advertising and promotion Of
brick and tile in various construction
uses.
Advocating increased pay for rural
mail carriers. Director E. L. French
Of the state department of agriculture
sent a telegram to Congressman AL
bert Johnson urging an investigation
of the adequacy Of compensation of
postal employees.
oCAJohih spear, lOEmeI register OF
the United States land office at Water
vile and an oId-time newspaper man;
W. H. Murray and Robert Hammel an
nounce a new democratic paper. The
Press, which will soon be published
twice week at Wenatchee.
Recommendation for the disbarment
Of Elmer S. Smith, Lewis county at
torney Of wide nOtoriety through his
connection with the /. w. w. organ
ization, were filed with the clerk
Of the state supreme court by the
state board Of bar examiners.
A warning to farmers that in buy
ing seed from dealers outside the state
they do 30 without the protection of
the state pure seed laws and run the
risk Of planting foul and infected seed,
is contained IN q statement issued
by q. L. French. director Of agricul-
tuTe.
The King county board Of commits
Bioners proposes q change Of law, b.
means Of the initiative, that will give