Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-22

ploy 262 teachers in II districts.
More than s25 men and women at
tended an installation party of the
Ellensburg chamber Of commerce.
Fire. presumably starting from an
exploding paint vat, destroyed the
$4,000 plant and stock Of the Amer
ican Tar company in Seattle.
Federal Judge Cushman Of Tacoma,
sitting in Seattle, ordered an inquiry
into whether prisoners In the King
county Jail were obtaining narcotics.
Reorganization of the North Pacific
Cooperative Berry Growers was dis
cussed at 3 meeting of the "a directors
OF that organization in Seattle Mon
day.
Work will be started at Wenatchee
in April on a one-story brick building,
with basement, costing $22,4OO, for
the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company
The dairy herd of the state training
school at Chehalis made the highest
average milk production Of the herds
at any Of the various state institutions
for the year 1923.
Water shipments from Willapa har-
Dor during January in the way of tim
Der amounted to 14.423,Ss2 feet and
4,7OS.OOO shingles. The months fleet
included 1S vessels.
The Whitman county publicity asso-
citation met at Colfax and decided to
publish a Whitman county folder in
connection with the railway advertis-
ing campaign for the northwest.
Stocks of lumber held January by
mills in Washington and Oregon be-
longing to the West Coast Lumber
mems association were 20 per cent
below normal, the association reported
In bulletin to members.
Federal District Judge Edward e.
Cushman instructed a jury at Seattle
that it is not unlawful to have intoxi-
eating liquor in ones private dwelling
for the use Of ones self, ones family
and ones bona fide guests.
Each child up to IA years should
drink a quart of milk a day and each
adult should drink a pint, according
to authorities who addressed the Pa
eific Northwest Milk Dealers, asso-
citation in convention at Spokane.
More than score OF persons were
saved from death In flood waters Of
the Skagit. Sank and other rivers in
ekagit and Snohomish counties last
week, according to details which have
been received from isolated sections.
The report Of Auditor McRea, pre-
Sented at the meeting of the inter
state bridge commission at Vancouver
shows a heavy falling off In bridge
tolls for January. compared with De-
cember, but a gain over January, 1928.
Receipts from all sources for January
we're $23,631.
Commissioners Of Walla Walla, Gar
field, Columbia and Asotin counties
will have conferences four times a
year, once each quarter at each of the
four county seats, it is announced.
The Walla Walla board will meet at
Dayton in March with the Columbia
county board.
First radio communication in Is
days with Captain Donald B. Mac
Millan's exploration ship Bowdoin,
which is frozen IN approximately $50
miles from the north pole, was estab-
lished at Port Angeles by Everett SUIT
ton, 15-year-old amateur wireless oper-
Rtor of that city.
One buck will be the limit on deer
and ten birds on ducks in Washing
ton If the new code of game laws is
adopted at the next session of the leg.
lslature, according to Ray C. Steele,
federal game warden. Mr.. Steele is
assisting in the recodification Of the
Washington game laws.
A party of officers and men of the
United States navy. en- route to Alaska
to prepare the way for flight by the
lirigible Shenandoah, arrived in Sc
attic last week. The party was to
leave Saturday on the steamship
Alaska, but orders canceling the ex-
petition were received before it sail
ed.
The Tacoma Lumbermen's club will
sponsor the raising Of funds in Ia
coma for assisting in the continuation
Of the work Of Frank Branch Riley
Of Portland, who for a number of
years past has toured the east lectur-
ing and showing motion and still pic
lures depicting the marvels of the
great northwest as a tourists para
disc.
Sales Of lumber last week by 1s1
mills in Washington and Oregon re-
porting to the West Coast Lumber.
mems association were 1O1. 44S. $40
feet, the association stated in q bull
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