Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-01-11
STATE NEWS CONDENSED
FOR THE BUSY READER
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

I Tourist travel over the National
| PARKS highway from Chicago to Sc
title increased rs to 40 per cent over
| 1922, it was declared by A. w. Tracy,
manager of the western division of
he National Parks Highway associa.
ion at the annual divisional confer.
,nce in Spokane,
Inspection Of fruit and vegetable
,hipments at Yakima shipping points
increased this year 20 twice the show
ng in 1922, according to the annual
export of w. /. Close, horticultural In
| ,pectcr for this district. The inspec.
| ion ,otwcen July and December 81
"7'5 cars.
The opening December rush of the
1924 state motor vehicle license bust.
ness exceeded that of last year for
| the same month by more than $110,-
900, State Treasurer Babcock report.
ing December remittarces to his Of
flee totaling 1857 1902, as against $685.
426 for the month in 1922.
Increased use and income from the
, Vancouver municipal dock are shown
by the record kept by City Clerk
Crandall for 1928, the first full year
the dock has been operated. The total
! gross income from the dock for 1928
was $500, with total operating ex-
penses and overhead of $4,000.
The Northwest Hay Growers asso-
citation will send representative East
for several months and will establish
branch office at Auburn, it is an
nounced. Reports at meeting of the
associations executive board in va
kima showed sales of 1000 cars of
hay to Eastern buyers this season.
The cash receipts of the office of
the collector of internal revenue for
the district Of Washington for the
month of December, 1923, show an in
crease of As per cent over the cor
responding month of 1922. Total re-
ceipts for 1923 were S17,029, 013.75 as
compared with $16,O39,9S7.17 for 1922.
The contract for the construction Of
the pipe line of the Dryden and
Peshastin irrigation project has been
cancelled by Dan Scott, director of
conservation and. reclamation, and
new contract at lower figure has
been signed with the construction
company which held the cancelled
contract.
Plans for cooperation of communi-
ties In five northwestern states and
three transcontinental railroads in a
publicity campaign to encourage immi-
grafton to this territory were formu-
lated at conference held at Spokane
between representatives of some rs
cities and towns and of the railway
companies.
Repeated disorderliness at rural
dances and lax conformance with the
state law regarding public dances
moved the Pacific county commits
siCners to pass an order requiring
every public dance and dance hall
outside the limits of the corporate
towns of the county to be licensed
through the boar,. of commissioners.
| George d. Abel, Judge in superior
court at Montesano, dismissed the ac-
ton brought by F. NJ. Nielsen against
+. NJ. Smith, mayor of Westport, to
force a recount of the ballots cast in
the municipal election December l.
Mr. Nielsen contended that Smiths
name did not appear on the printed
ballots and that the typewriter ones
used were illegal
DR.. Leon NJ. Wilbor chief medical
officer Of the new veterans hospital
for mental patients at American Lake.
has taken over the institution from
tho constructing quartermaster. All
OF the buildings comprising the ST..
100000 hospital have been accepted
and they will be furnished as rapidly
as possible DR.. Wilbur estimated
that the first patients can be received
by February /.
Confusion along the air routes and
the interference with radio broadcast
ing stations by wireless messages
from ships will be much reduced by
general application of the recommend
atoms adopted at Seattle at confer
ence of representatives of commercial
radio companies. steamship COM
panies, the shipping board, the Seattle
harbor department and northwestern