Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-02-22
WASHINGTON STATE
Brief NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

ploy 2G2 teachers In II districts.
More than 1925 men and women at
tended I'M installation party Of tn,
Ellensburg chamber OF commerce.
Fire, presumably starting from mr.
exploding paint vat, destroyed the
100000 plant and stock of the Amer
lean Tar company in Seattle.
Federal Judge Cushman of Tacoma
sitting In Seattle, ordered an inquiry
into whether prisoners In the KIM
county Jail were obtaining narcotics.
Reorganization of the North Pacific
Cooperative Berry Growers was dis
cussed at a 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,i00, foi
the Pacific Telephone C 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.
her amounted to 14,423,3S2 feet and
4,703,000 shingles. The months fleet
included 10 vessels.
The Whitman county publicity asso.
citation met at Col!ax 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 2S per cent
below normal, the association reported
In a bulletin TO members.
Federal District Judge Edward L.
SuSliiii'h iiloti u'ltN Jul Ut Dcultlt
that it is not unlawful to have intoyi.
eating liquor iii ones private dwelling
for the use OF ones self, ones family
and ones bona fide guests.
Each child up to ii years should
drink quart of milk Il day and each
adult should drink a pint, according
to authorities who addressed the Pa.
cific Northwest Milk Dealers, asso.
citation in convention at Spokane.
More than score of persons were
saved from death in flood waters of
the Ska5it, S-uk and other rivers in
Skagit and SNohomish counties last
week, according to details which have
been received from isolated sections.
The report of Auditor McRea, pre-
scented al the meeting of the inter-
state bridge commission at Vancouver
shows heavy falling off in bridge
tolls for January, compared with De-
cember, but a gain over January, 1923.
Receipts from all sources for January
We're $23,6s1.
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
lays with Captain Donald B. Mac.
Millan's exploration ship Bowdoin,
which is frozen in approximately 760
miles from the north pole, was estab.
lished at Port Angeles by Everett SUIT.
ton, 15-year-old amateur wireless oper.
ator 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.
islature, according to Ray G. Steele,
federal game warden. Mr.. Steele is
assisting in the republication 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
dirigible Shenandoah, arrived in Sc
attic last week. The party was to
leave Saturday on the steamship
Alaska, but orders canceling the en-
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 number of
years past has toured the east lectui-
ing and showing motion and still pic
lures depicting the marvels of the
great northwest az tourists para
disc.
Howard A. Hansen, deputy corpora.
ton counsel, is in Washington, D. c.,
to argue IN appeal of a 100000 Sc.