Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-01-11

Cash receipts at the Longvew post
office totaled S257S.5O for December
Stamp sales during 1928 at the Bell
ingham postoffice increased $14,297
or ~ per cent over 1922.
A total of $13,S54 in fines and for
feited bonds was collected in the
Wenatchee police court in 1923.
Receipts at the Vancouver post,
office totaled $15,144 during Decom.
Der, a heavy increase over December
last year.
Plans are being made at Toppenish
to secure the establishment of a gov.
eminent hospital at the former va.
kima Indian agency site in Fort Sim,
coe.
Frank e. Vaughn has assumed the
office of register-receiver of the Van.
couver land office, relieving z. NJ.
Mumford, who has been acting since
Der Is.
Seventeen thousand eight hundred
fitty-one cars of apples were produc
ed in 1923 IN the north central Wash
ington district, according to the check
made by the horticultural office at
Wenatchee.
ReQuisitions were signed by Cover.
nor Hart asking for the return of
Edward Juhnke and Fred Juhnke from
Willows, Cal, where they are under
arrest, to stand trial in Colfax on a
statutory charge.
The recent heavy snow, followed by
cold weather, has proved a boon to
the Okanogan district. The snow will
provide ample moisture, the farmers
say, for next seasons crops. The fall
grain acreage is unusually large.
The Pacific county commissioners
have awarded the contract for build
ing the approach to the toll bridge
over the Naselle river, on the Ocean
beach highway, to the Willapa Con-
struction company of Raymond
The annual show of the Puget
Sound Poultry association was held in
Seattle and it was declared to have a
larger number of high-class birds on
exhibition than were ever before as,
sembled in the Puget sound basin.
On motion of Colonel George B..
Lamping, president of the Seattle port
commission. an advance of from 1917
to Is per cent in wages to warehouse
men and stevedores employed at the
Seattle public terminals was officially
authorized
That a parental school be establish
ed in Whatcom county to care for
county and city deiinquents is the
recommendation of a board of vista
tion named by judge w. P. Brown
last May and which formally filed its
report Friday.
Despondent because of years suf
fering with cancer, coupled with fl
nancial difficulties A. E. Summer
aged 55, hanged himself in a fruit
packing shed on his farm at Crescent
Bar, on the Columbia river, 80 miles
north of Ephrata.
Bank deposits do not indicate hard
times in Walla Walla. A report made
by the five institutions shows that in
one year the deposits have climbed
1924, 99789. The total deposits at the
cl So OF 1923 we're s9,122,94O.75 and
at The close of 1922 We're $S .SS7, 943. SO.
Harry Miller, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
the Si,ookrm Packers association of
Wenatchee, just returned from the
East, blames tie stagnant apple mar
I let on the high prices retailers are
asking for apples, and says that their
/ excessive profits are menace to the
industry.
Delay in the manufacture of new
registration books will probably cause
oostponement OF a special school cleo
ion, which was to have been held in
Vancouver January "a, for the pur-
pose OF voting on $4,000 bond issue
on building an addition to Armada
grammar school.
According to an estimate made by
Is w. Waters, former receiver at the
internal revenue Office in Spokane, APP
oroximately $4,000 OF war tax alleged
% have been Illegally collected from
Spokane manufacturers OF apple cider,
| S expected to be returned by the fed
IRA! government,