The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1917-11-29
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF.

The business of the ChesaW National
Farm Loan association has reached the
500. 900 mark. approximately $50. 900
worth of loans having been applied for
within the last 80 days.
Charles A. Richmond, of Walla
Walls, has sold TO Joseph j. Mangan
1850 acres of wheat land near Climax
for 500. 600. This is nearly $50 an
acre. and is record price for land in
that locality.
Don NJ. Carr, superintendent of the
Yakima Indian reservation, says he is
receiving 10 applications for each
piece of land available for lease next
year. Not only is there an increased
demand for land on the reserve but an
increased price is being paid and lands
not wanted few years ago are
eagerly sought
In keeping with the spirit of the
times, the annual Thanksgiving dinner
of the Evansville grange, which each
year attracts hundreds of farmers and
their families and large number of
townspeople, will be strictly Hoover
affair. Wheats, meats and sweets Will
be eliminated SO far as possible, and
all waste avoided.
Fruit shinments for the Yakima VAL
lev nassed the 10 O00 carload mari,
this week, and shippers and railroad
men expect the total will exceed IL
600 cars. In the last seven days 526
cars have gone out. About one-third
We're iced. The rest were boxcars.
All were loaded to the limit, the mini
mum load being 1855 boxes.
Henry A Duncklev of Centralia is
In nossession Of an arithmetic that was
published in 1877 and used bv his
qreat.prandfather Ren;amin Kimball
at Concord N II in 1850 The booL
in those DAYS was known as a "cvnber.
ing, hook Its nrohlens are yersed
in quaint language. In spite of its
age, the book is well preserved.
The record price in the northwest
for purebred Shorthorn cow was re-
ce;ved bv Frank M Rothrock of Spo-
kane at the Portland Live Stock show
last week when he sold an animal from
the Hercules stock farm, at Snrag,,e
for s1775. The cow goes to the Ar
eentine republic. E. q Flood is au-
thoritv for the statement that the
Shorthorn records show no HIGHER fip.
ure for COW.
Accused Of refusing IN Inv liberty
bonds. TO contribute 10 either the Red
Cross or Y NJ A fund and of do
clarinq that he would NOT aid in ;niur-
ing his friends in GERMANY. Gustav
yollmer. prosperous farmer of Walla
Walla was charged in an information
filed Monday Immirpation INSPECTOR
Ferris of Walla Walla investigated the
case Mr. Vollmer will face an ACTOR
seeking to cancel his naturalization
papers
II is estimated that aooo tons of su.
oar beets are being delivered daily at
tbe North Vagina factory Of the Utah
Idaho Sugar comnanv and nract;calIv
all beets IN the valley win he dno nv
the middle of December. The COM
pany has 100 cars of sugar stored in
its warehouse. Each carload has been
reported to the government and ship
ment and delivery await orders from
those in control of the nations food
supplies.
1t was decided at the meeting of the
State Board of Education held in 0lym-
pia Monday. to call upon the school su-
perintendent of Yakima county to in
vestigate the manner in which publ
city was given to the answers to teach
ers' examination questions. The ans
wers were recently printed in the
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