Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-05-23

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mon labor is $40 for an eight-hour
day, a reduction Of 40 cents a day.
About 5000 men are affected
The Wenatchee Fruit and Ware.
house company has purchased two
modern warehouses, formerly owned
by the Wenatchee Valley Fruit ex-
change at Cashmere and Dryden, at
a SALE conducted by Receiver S. H.
Andrews. The price was $4,000.
Twenty-Five former United States
shipping board wooden vessels. lying
idle in Lake Union at Seattle have
beon purchased by Captain ]. c.
Brownfield and associates of Seattle
Or the Equitable Transportation com
pany Of San Francisco, it is annouuc-
ed.
BY forcing a fine, hollow needle to
the heart of H. Virgins, 30, an ounce
and one.half of clear fluid, which had
collected as a result of inflammation,
was drawn from within the pericard-
ium by DR.. w. c. Speidel at Seattle,
and the patient will return to work
shortly.
Members of the Northwest Fruit
commission, who for some months
! have been working on q plan for
marketing the northwest fruit crop,
met in Yakima Saturday to prepare
a final report for submission to the
state chamber of commerce, the par.
ent organization.
Price cuts made by mills of Wash
ington recently TO stimulate lumber
buying have failed in this connection,
according to figures published by the
West Coast Lumbermen's association.
Production has continued above nor
nal, with an increased spread be-
tween production and sales.
The law denying aliens who have
| not taken out first citizenship papers
the right to fish in the Columbia river
is being enforced by Deputy State
Fish Commissioner Wyckoff, who
brought John Nelson and John Isac-
son before Judge Blair at Vancouver
for violating the law. They were fin
! ed 500 each and costs.
State aid i'll fighting grasshoppers,
which are reported to have devour-
ed the alfalfa crop and are threaten
ing the apple crop of Okanogan coun-
ty, was asked in kilograms received
by the department of agriculture from
S. p. Scott, district horticultural in.
structor, and w. G. DeMarch, secre-
tary of the Okanogan Agricultural and
Traffic association.
Contract for paving, constituting a
distance of about five miles and in
voIving about 10000 cubic yards of
concrete, averaging seven inches in
thickness. was let by the Long-Bell
Lumber company to the Olympic Con
struction company of Seattle. This
paving will connect the mill with Ore
gon Way, the main street leading from
the commercial and industrial center
of Longview to the mill site.
The Washington state branch of the
national congress of parents and
teachers at its session at CeDtraliG
reelected Mrs. Victor MalstTOm OF
Tacoma president. Other officers
elected were Mrs. C. V. Aspnwall
of Spokane second vice-president;
Mrs. w. A. Wathew of Olympia,
treasurer, and Mrs. Charles G. Miller,
Seattle auditor. Mrs. w. R. Coffman
of Tacoma has been appointed CORE
spending secretary for the coming
year. All other state officers hold
over.
Tacoma has taken the lead for i'm
mediate recognition of the Pacific
northwest as the playground OF Amer
lea by the new recreation commission
appointed by President Coolidge, with
Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secre-
tary OF the navy, chairman. At the
meeting of the chamber of commerce
trustees Colonel H. G. Winsor and 4.
2. Kremmer, secretary were author
lied to send Immediately an appeal to
Chairman Roosevelt asking him to
appoint and cooperate in the holding
of regional recreation conference for
this section.
Mice are working havoc in the cram
berry boys OF Pacific county in the
vicinity of Ilwaco, according to word
of rodent depredations reaching Leo
X. Couch, biological assistant in
charge of rodent control work in this
state. lie will send John Fihlay field
aide, to investigate and stage a war
against the pest. Similar trouble was
experienced a few weeks ago in the
cranberry boys IN Grays Harbor coun-
ty, where A. H. Swain field aide, took
charge and now has the pest under
control. Poisoned bait, generally
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