Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-11
Principal Events Of the Week
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Of Our Readers.

FullLnan pul1ulnB pIOBIann ~ ASAO
came just $1,000 short Of $15O,O0O.
Cash receipts at the LOngview post
office totaled $257s.5O for December.
Stamp sales during 1923 at the Bell
ingham postoffice increased s14,2s7,
or ~ per cent over 1922.
A total Of $1s,s54 in fines and for
feited bonds was collected in the
Wenatchee police court in 1928.
Receipts at the Vancouver post
office totaled $15,144 during Decem-
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 registerreoeiver of the Van
couver land office. relieving E. M.
Mumford, who has been acting since
the resignation of Ivan Bishop, Octo-
Der Is.
Seventeen thousand eight hundred
fifty-one cars of apples we're 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 3
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 1914
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 delinQuents is the
recommendation Of a board of vista
ton named by Judge w. P. Brown
last May and which formally filed its
report Friday.
Dependent because of years suf-
fering with cancer, coupled with fl
nancial difficulties, A. E. Summer
aged So, hanged himself in a fruit
packing shed on his farm at Crescent
Bar, on the Columbia river, S5 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
$2S4.997.39. The total deposits at the
close of 1928 we're $9.122,S4O.75 and
at the close of 1922 were sS,SS7, 1886.
Harry Miller, secretary-treasurer of
the Skookum Packers association of
Wenatchee. just returned from the
East, blames the stagnant apple mar.
ket on the high prices retailers are
asking for apples, and says that their
excessive profits are a menace to the
industry.
Delay in the manufacture Of new
registration books will probably cause
postponement of special school cleo
tion, which was to have been held In
Vancouver January "a, for the pur.
pose of voting on $4,000 bond issue
for building an addition to Armada
grammar school.
According to an estimate made by
C. W. Waters, former receiver at the
internal revenue office in Spokane, ap-
proximately $4,000 of war tax alleged
TO have been illegally collected from
Spokane manufacturers of apple cider,
10 expected to be returned by the fed.
eral government.
Tourist travel over the National
parks highway from Chicago to Sc
attic increased rs to 80 per cent over
1922, It was declared BY A. w Tracy.
manager Of the western division Of
the National Parks Highway associa-
ton at the annual divisional confer
ence In Spokane.
Inspection Of fruit and vegetable
shipments at Yakima shipping points
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