Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-07-04
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Vancouver.
James A. Smith, pioneer Of the
Olympic peninsula, died in Port Town
send, aged IS.
Only about 100000 bushels Of 1924
wheat are left in the hands Of the
farmers, Walla WaIla dealers estimat-
ed.
The 14th annual conference Of
county superintendents Of eastern
Washington was held at the Cheney
normal school.
Yakima business men are planning
q harvest home festival this fall to
take the place of the state fair, which
will not be held.
Tenino people are bringing drill
to the J. W. Whitaker farm, six miles
west Of Charleston, and will begin drill
ing for oil in July.
Fire did approximately $4,000 dam
age in and around Kettle Falls when
an oil stove in the home of Mrs. Mag
gle Warner exploded.
A franchise to operate its lines in
Davenport for Is years was granted
the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company by the city council.
The Washington State osteopathic
association in its annual convention at
Lake Kaches selected Longview as
the city for it's next year'stconvention.
The Washington Wheat Export Com
mission league has decided to continue
the fight for the McNary- Haugen bill,
which was turned down by the last
congress.
A free swimming hole for use Of the
public will be constructed at Walla
walla this summer by damming Mil
creek at the Colville-street bridge and
letting the water back up.
An apple-wiping machine, declared
by fruit men to be the best device
of it's kind. has recently been perfect
ed by Andy Moe, a Toppenish imple-
ment worker and inventor.
Ralph Waller. confessed Pomeroy
murderer, was hanged Friday at the
penitentiary in Walla Walla for the
murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Wald-
man, near Pomeroy, few weeks ago.
County auditors and treasurers of
the state of Washington, state officials
and candidates for state offices met
in Longview to attend the annual joint
state auditors and treasurers' con-
vention.
John D. Butler Of Pine City was
elected president of the Whitman
County Pioneers association at the
conclusion of an assembly of 700 per-
sons for the annual affair at Schmuok
park at Colfax.
The thrift bank installed in the
Longview school to encourage saving
among the students has been placed
in the Longview National bank for the
convenience of the children during the
summer vacation.
Authorities Of Elmore and Ada coun-
ties in Idaho are bending every effort
to solve the murder Of F. Mills, so,
Well-to-do Seattle man. whose body is
in the morgue in Mountain Home with
. bullet hole In the head y
Announcement was made at Olympia
Of the resignation Of Edward Clifford
as director of the department of labor
and industries. effective June 80, to
enter actively upon his campaign for
the republican nomination for COVER
nor.
Tom Malloy, farmer near Prescott,
started his combined harvester last
week, being the first to begin wheat
harvesting in Walla Walla county.
Several others started during the week
and operations are now well under
way.
The secretary Of state has no
deputies in the field checking initiative
petitions and persons representing
themselves as such should be arrested
for impersonating an officer, Charles
A. Foster. superintendent Of elections,
declares.
With the cherry season usually Just
starting in the Wenatchee valley, pick
ing Of this fruit this year is practically
over. Forty cars have been shipped,
with ten more to be sent. The total
cherry crop this year has been larger
than was estimated
David Cunningham, 12-yearold
schoolboy, died in the North Bend
hospital, following injuries received
through the accidental discharge of
20 calibre rifle by Samuel Jones. "a
year-old boy companion.
M. C. Lane, federal entomologist.
win take charge Of the campaign
against the wire worm and the leaf
hopper sugar beet pests on the Yakima
Indian reservation July /. when the
emergency fund appropriated BY con-
gress becomes available.