Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-29

nesday.
Lambing in the Yakima valley and
The Horse Heaven region IL as high
~ 17o per cent, II Is reported.
B. E. BrOtherton. Port Huron. Mich.
will contract with farmers Of Fair
iield to raise seed peas this year.
A movement has been launched by
lhe Kiwanis club Of colfax for or
Plantation of q Better Colfax club"
Resolutions opposing the McNary-
Haugen farm relief bill were adopted
By the Spokane Grain Merchants as
S6ciatioh.
The Selah school district on March
will vote on = S-mill levy for build
ing and eQuipping a gymnasium, to
cost about $500.
A special election will be held at
Pullman March % to vote on a pro-
posal to bond the town in the amount
Of s25.2O0 for Improvement and extern
sion Of the sewer system.
Company E.. Washington national
guard, of Bellingham. claims the cham
pion cake eater of the state. Private
Robert Andrews devoured % pieces
Of cake at a feast provided by the
W. c. T. U.
Dedication services for the new $685.
BOO Methodist church at Toppenish,
which has been under construction
nearly three years, were held Sunday.
Bishop w. o. Shepherd. Portland.
Ore, officiating,
The dam and log pond of the Biles-
Coleman mill at omak have been COM
pIeted and one-third Of the grade of
the 15-mile logging railway, which
will open $4,000 acres Of virgin tim
Der, is finished.
Mrs, Margaret Becker. who came
from Baltimore, Nd. by way of the
isthmus of Panama and settled at Old
Fort Steilacoom, in 1858, died at the
home of granddaughter, Mrs. Anna
@. Benston in Seattle.
Bids on approximately 1880, 900
feet Of timber on $3.50 acres of the
Spokane Indian reservation were ask
ed for by the department of the in
terror, the proceeds OF the sale to 60
toward replenishing the tribal funds.
Plans for a sugar beet drive to sign
up 1000 acres In land around Yakima
were launched at epnference held
between officials OF the Utah-Idaho
Sugar Beet company and the CONNER.
cial clubs Of Yakima and Toppenish.
Forty-eight hogs were sold at walla
Walla at the fourth annual consign.
ment sale of registered bred sows and
gifts by the Walla Walla Valley Pure
bred Breeders association. The aver
age sale price was $50 to $S5, about
half the price received last year.
An attempt will be made by Senator
C. C. Dill to obtain investigation OF
leaf hopper, which is said to be the
greatest menace to growing sugar
beets in the Yakima valley. according
to wire from him to Secretary o. A.
Scots Of the Yakima commercial club
The cornerstone of Jones hall, the
first building of the new College of
Puget Sound at Tacoma, was laid Fri
day in the presence of Governor Hart,
Bishop Shepard of the Methodist
church of Portland, state and local Of
ficials, and educational and religious
leaders.
While recommending no quarantine
for all Of Franklin county, DR.. Glen
r. Bach, predatory animal inspector
for the United States biological sur
vey, has issued warning to residents
around Connell to be on the watch
for appearance Of rabies in any Of
their farm animals.
Companies writing burglary insur-
ance in Seattle are considering with
drawing from the field, or at least
surrounding every policy they handle
with the delay incident to approval by
the home offices of their companies,
because of the wave of robbery and
banditry in the city.
Frank M. Lowden Jr., chairman Of
q committee to investigate whether
to ask for a grand jury to investigate
the office OF Sheriff Charles Springer
of Walla Walla county. said that 1t had
been impossible to get a meeting Of
the committee. Most OF the members
do not want to serve.
Twenty-foar bamboo quail, received
in Seattle last week from China, were
released by County Game Warden
Leichhardt in Cowlitz county, where
conditions are excellent for their pro
pagation. The birds were fully matur-
ed. They are somewhat similar to
Hungarian pheasants. They cost the
county game fund 50 apiece.
An endeavor viii be made by the
Washington state highway department
to open snpQualmie pass in the Cas-
cade mountains for travel by May /.