Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-01
Washington State News


according to a rule laid down by DR.
Hiram H. Read, city health commits
sioner.
Appointment Of s. M. Henderson
Of Yakima, as secretary Of the de
partment Of business control, succeed
ing o. H. Carver. who recently re
signed to become an examiner for the
division of savings and loan associa
tions under Director 3. L. Farnsworth
is announced.
In an opinion given to Charles R
Lewis, prosecuting attorney Of Mason
county. Assistant Acknowledgement
Anderson holds that where a recall
petition is circulated against the Of
ficers of a third-class school district,
it is not necessary that the signers OF
such petition, shall be registered vot.
ers.
Representatives of numerous farm
loan associations, meeting in Cen.
tralia, perfected organization of q
Southwest Washington league of Ma.
tional Farm Loan Associations. Of
ficers Of the league are o. c. Mus.
grove, Elma, president; A. Anderson,
Adna, vice-president, and A. T. Flagg,
Chehalis, secretary.
Committees appointed by the Che
Ian County Poultry association and
grangers are making a systematic sur.
vey Of the poultry situation in Chelan,
Grant. Douglas and Okanogan coun-
ties. They are taking a poultry CEN
sus to get an idea to what extent the
industry is developing and what the
prospects are for 1924.
Announcement was made at Bell
ingham that the Puget Sound Sawmill
and Single company of Bellingham
had purchased 1889 acres Of timber
from the Great Northern railway com
pany in Skagit county. The timber
is near the town of Concrete and con-
sists chiefly Of fir. The consideration
was given as 100000.
Joint state hearing with the inter
state commerce commission has been
set for March 1, in the federal court
room in Yakima, by the department
Of public works, in the matter Of the
new interstate and intrastate rates on
northwestern roads on fruit and vege-
tables shipped from the Wenatchee
and Yakima valley districts.
Special consideration is being given
to the grain grading problem in the
Pacific northwest. Representative
John w. Summers of Washington was
advised by DR.. H. C. Taylor, chief of
the bureau of agricultural economics.
The department has been making
study OF the question for some time as
the result Of complaints which have
been quite general from northwest
wheat growers.
Cutting of nice, juicy melon was
celebrated In the state treasurer's Of
flee last week. More than $250,OOO
was disposed of. 1t was the annual
distribution of depository interest to
the various funds of the state. In
terest appointments, or dividends,
ran all the way from cents to the
teachers retirement fund to $S6,512.S3
to the general fund. All told, total
Of $2S9,0SS.S0 was divided among SO
funds in the hands of State Treasurer
C. L. Babcock. in proportion to their
average daily balances.
With the idea of creating state
forest, Clark v. Savidge, state land
commissioner, has filed on 1850 acres
of government land in Clarke and
Skemania counties, east and south Of
the Lewis river and adjoining the
Columbia national forest. The land
filed upon will be combined with a
tract of 1851 acres purchased by the
forest board from the Northern Pa
cific Railway company some time ago,
and $500 acres already owned by the
state, thus making a state forest Of ap-
proximately 81, S01 acres.
Major E. ]. Griggs Of Tacoma and
%. M. Clark of Portland, who last
November went to Japan as members
Of a commission appointed by the
Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export
company to ascertain the reconstruc-
ton needs Of the districts devastated
by earthquake and fire In September.
addressed the annual meeting OF stock.
holders Of the West Coast Lumber.
mems association in Seattle Friday.
driving OF a tunnel at the Gorge
creek plant OF Seattle's Skagit hydro
electric project, Which was to have
been completed September 70. will be
finished May 1, the board Of public
works was notified by the company
doing the work under q contract. A
question had been raised as to the
boards right to demand a stipulated
penalty Of $500 from the company for
every day over the time named in the
contract for completion. In making
its declaration the company assumed