The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-09-13
TAKE WORD FOR The DEED
Wretchsd Nail Service Between Island
Points Vashon Heights Has a
Protest to Register

Mr.. A. =. pinkhnm, at the Heights,
has been drawn TO serve on the jury
for one month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. X. Coryell were
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs Dick on Balm
bridge Island, Thursday and Friday OF
last week.
The Rose Club met Wednesday Mt
Mrs. Railways home. The club meets
every two weeks instead Of once %
month. All the time Is given TO Red
Cross work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Theimc and fam
lily, at Dolphin Point, will return to
their home in the city this week; also
MIR. and Mrs. Robertson.
A. l.. Smith, near Cowboys landing,
has built splendid chicken house. II
has all the latest improvements trap
nests, etc. Mr.. Smith evidently thinks
well Of the future for chickens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Fairweather,
NEE Miss Hope Pinkham) of Clam
Cove, motored over to the Heights on
Wednesday and will be the guests OF
MIR. and Mrs. a. D. Cowan for few
days.
Miss Ruth Coryell will not teach at
the Cove school this year Instead she
will attend school At Nottingham. She
left Saturday. Miss Nellie Dick, a
teacher in the Vashon school last year,
and Miss Dorothy Goodchild OF Cove,
will also attend the same school.
Mrs. Nora Anderson and son Frank,
of Ellisport, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. X. Corycll the last Of the
week. They had just returned from
an extended visit with Mrs. Ander-
sons daughter, Mrs. G. He McHargue,
and family at Lewistown, Mont, and
report a most enjoyable trip.
A paper was mailed to the writer
Mt Burton last Thursday. He received
1t on Monday four days distance, six
miles. a letter mailed from Indiana.
polls, Ind, last Friday, was received on
Tuesday two thousand six-hundred
miles, and four days in transit. The
trouble Is not with the postmasters or
mail carriers on the Island, it is the
red tape used by the government.
We have learned definitely that the
commissioners have decided to place
ferry at the north end. They will also
build the south end and Cove roads
The ferry will not be placed in service
before next April, but the roads will
be built this winter. We hope our in
formant knows what he is talking
about.
The promised extension of the light
ing system to the north end does not
materialize very fast. The promise
was made before the old board of COM
missioners gave the light company an
extension of five years to perfect their
plant. The time will expire in four
years from last May. Until that time
we will have to be contented with
hope and promises.
AS contrast, we mention the con-
duct of Senator Baker of Oregon, dur
ing the Civil War, as compared with
Robert La Toilette. He was also a
colonel in the army. He appeared in
the senate chamber dressed in his
army uniform on the 10Th of October,
1861, and made an eloquent speech in
defense of the Union. Blaine, in his
Twenty Years in Congress, said he
spoke as though inspired. He returned
to his command at Balls Bluff, and the
next day was killed in one of the fierc-
est battles of the war. Fully eight
hundred of Bakers men were killed,
wounded or taken prisoners. Bakers
command numbered less than two
thousand. 1t would be much better If
La Toilette could do the same thing.