Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-13

S'poh " ~ ~ mulpAy anu .ulh ~
Jones, Idaho hunters who have been
hunting In the northeastern part OF
tho country since late in December.
BY unanimous vote of both the
clergy and laity, Rev. s. Arthur Hus-
ton, rector Of st. Marks Episcopal
church in San Antonio, Tex, was elect.
ed bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese Of Olympia to succeed the late
Rt. Rev. Frederic w. Keator at the
diocesan convention at Tacoma.
g. X. Bowes, Aberdeen, was elect.
cd president Of the North Pacific Fair
association at the close Of the annual
convention at Aberdeen. Robert
Pricer, Yakima, was elected vice.presi:
dent, and II. c. Browne, Portland,
secretarytrcasurer Vancouver, 3. c.,
was chosen as the 1926 convention
city
One hundred and eighteen mills re.
porting to West Coast Lmhefmens
association for the week ending Janu-
cry 81 manufactured 103S9S,G7S feet
Of lumber, sold 92,1Ol,23A feet and
shipped 9S,636, 64G feet. New business
was II per cent below production
Shipments We're per cent above new
business.
Investigation has shown all the fall
sown crops of the Walla Walla Gar.
deners' association We're frozen out
during the winter. Many onions
thought to be alive have since wither.
cd. Cabbage was also killed. Cab.
hage plants are being replaced by
PLANTS shipped in from the south and
onion seed is being planted.
After leading an automobile carry.
ing money to stores of chain Of the
Brewster Cigar company down a main
street of Seattle to its next stop, three
men in another automobile took S5S63
from two employees of the company in
the cash car when it arrived at its
destination. Many pedestrians witness
cd the holdup. The robbers escaped.
The number of Pacific coast fir mills
that have gone onto the 5.day week
is now more than 100 and approxi-
mately $4,000 employees are affected by
the shortened schedule. Slack demand
and accumulation of stocks at mills
were the reasons assigned for reducing
output until weather in the east per-
mits full employment of building labor.
One factor has been eliminated by
the city of Aberdeen in its effort to
obtain power and water rights on the
Wynooche river. Joseph Malinowsli,
who had filed on the Wynooche river
rights before the city and the Grays
Harbor Railway 4 Light company en-
tered the field, offered his rights with
out charge to the city and his proposal
was accepted
Increase of Sl3,204,7S9.44 for 1924
in the total assets of the 61 domestic
savings and loan associations of the
state, and asgregating 500 500 64O.59 at
December 81, 1924, is the remarkable
showing of thrift and prosperity made
in the report by l.. d. McArdle, direct
or of taxation and examination.
Growth from July 1 10 December 81,
1924, was $G,65S,S296O
Tor the benefit of the farmers in
the wheat growing districts, request
has been filed with the department Of
public works by the Oregon Washing
ton Railway & Navigation company f5r
permission to put in a reduced rate
on seed wheat from all shipping points
to the wheat districts Of Washing.
ton, Oregon and Idaho. While the
amount OF reduction was not stated,
it was understood to be about so per
cent on the regular grain rate. The
department promptly granted per.
mission.
The department of public works will
continue its efforts for the establish.
ment of the parity of rates on grain
shipments from the territory south of
the Snake river to Portland and Puget
sound points, it was declared by Wal.
ter E. Whitcomb, director of the de-
partment, following receipt of press
dispatches from Washington. D. c.,
stating that Frank NJ. Weaver, exam.
iner for the interstate commerce com
mission, had reported in favor of re,
tanning the present differential of 10
per cent In favor of Portland.
Re-divison of the northwest dis.
trict of Kiwanis International, com
prising Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia, for administrative
purposes, was announced by James q
Neal of Walla Walla, district COVER.
nor. Formerly the district was divid.
ed into four sections. Now there arc
siX-one section having been formed
to take in the clubs of the south
western Washington and one to care