Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-06-27
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

Tacoma's city commission, By unani-
nous vote designated Saturday, June
q, az Power Day" in Tacoma
The Tacoma building records for
June has passed the $3.50, 600 mark and
for the year the 100000 mark.
with ss5 delegates registered the
Washington Christian Endeayor so
cisty convention opened at Wenatchee.
@. A. Loudenback has bought the
orchard home Of C. E. Sterling at We
natchee. paying $4,000 for the IL
acres.
Seattle has a population Of 3SS.910,
or a gain Of 1886 over 1928. accord
ing to figures obtained from the 1924
city directory just issued.
The Pacific Match company of New
Jersey will locate factory in Tacoma.
The plant includes over eight acres
Of land with large buildings.
Fire at Edwall destroyed q ware
house with 10000 bushels of grain, a
hardware store and two residences.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
Under direction of F. A. Hazeltine,
division chief of federal prohibition
forces, raids were made last week
upon several places in Thurston coun-
~.
Warnings of an impending forest
fire danger period we're being sent out
TO fire wardens and lumbermen in all
parts Of the state by the state forestry
office.
The thirtieth annual convention Of
the Skagit County Women's Christian
Temperance Union was held at Sedro
wooley with large number Of women
IN attendance.
James Gillum, deputy sheriff Of Is
land county, was shot twice and prob
ably fatally wounded in battle with
rum runners on the west coast Of Ca
mano island.
Yakima's game farm this season has
produced $50 Chinese pheasant chicks,
has received 270 from the state game
farm at walla walla, and has 1856
eggs Matching.
Fifty representatives of the Wash
ington State Independent Telephone
association, in session in Puyallup,
were guests Of the chamber of com
merce at a banquet.
About 1000 dairymen Of Whatcom
county, and members of their families
gathered at Cornwall park in Belling-
ham for the annual picnic of the CO
operative association.
The F. C. Barnes cannery at South
Bend, long idle, is being prepared to
do double duty this fall as cannery
for both salmon and berries-notably
Evergreen blackberries.
Mrs. Joseph Bundy OF Dayton suf-
fered three broken ribs and other in
juries when a roadster in which she
was riding overturned on the state
highway near that city.
Free use Of the Clarke county auto
park, just north OF Vancouver. for
farmers who desire to sell produce
TO tourists, was granted BY the board
Of county commissioners.
The city council OF Wenatchee has
passed an ordinance making 1t a mis-
demeanor for a pilot to ny an air
plane within 1900 feet of the ground
over any portion Of the town.
William BOuck of skagit county,
nominated for vice-president by the
farmer-labor convention at st. Paul,
was master of the Washington state
grange for q number of years. -
I/Governor Hart appointed ]. T. HefA
fernan OF Seattle as a member Of the
board of regents of the University OF
Washington for the term ending the
second Monday in March, 1929.
Struck by lightning as she stood be-
fore a dresser in her home. Dorothy
Grant, IA, was instantly killed at va
kima, during a thunderstorm The
girls parents were away from home
on a picnic.
Construction of a $4,000 public
school building has been started at
Ryderwood. The structure is being
financed jointly by school district No.
20 of Cowlitz county and No. SO of
Lewis county.
President Coolidge promised Sen
ator Dill and Mayor Brown of Seattle
that he would push the button opening
in August the Skagit hydro-electric
power project. This project is under
construction by the city of Seattle.
The state department of public
works has refused the application Of
the Thurston County Utilities com
pany for an increase in telephone
rates, on the ground that the equip
ment and service do not justify an In
crease.
Failing to obtain a permit from the
Vancouver city council to sell fire.