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The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26

Mrs, Harry Haak and little son
Donayan are reported to be Ill
with influenza.
Mr., Edward Holm of Camp
Lewis spent Christmas at the c.
Petersen home.
Mrs. John Swanson is enjoying
a Christmas visit from her parents
from Clallam Bay.
Mr.. Graswich, who was injured
in the shipyard, is able to be
around with the aid of crntches.
Mrs. Sullivan and children from
Puyallup visited Wednesday of
last week with her sister, Mrs.
John Swanson.
Mrs. A. Einhaus and children,
Elizabeth, Eevelyn and Friedrich,
visited over the week end III Ta-
coma with relatives.
Miss Ef1ie Mckay, who has been
staying with her grandmother,
Mrs. Burton, returned to her home
on Monday for the Christmas hol-
idays.
Miss Helen Riehm returned
home from Seattle Oh Saturday
evening to spend the Christmas
vacation, which will end on New
Years day.
The Victory Sale held at the
Dockton schoolhouse last Friday
evening, under the auspices of the
Dockton high school girls for the
Y. NJ. c. A., proved grand sue
cess-$50.5T was cleared.
Mrs. Lucas Plancich received
word last week rom her husband,
who is stationed at FIT. Casey, that
he had been promoted to sergeant.
He will be unable TO come home
for the holidays, as his company
is in quarantine.
Miss Marjorie Hoke of Tacoma
was Sunday guest at the Turnbuli
home. She came over to sing at
the Christmas service at the M. Il.
church, Sunday evening, and all
who were there enjoyed her sing
ing Of Holy Night. )"
School closed on Friday after
noon for a short Christmas vaca-
ton. Because of the long vacation
on account of the flu epidemic,
the school will take up work again
Monday and will not be closed on
New Years Day.
Mr.. ID. Markwith, who is EN-.
ployed as joiner foreman at the
shipyard, sustained serious injur-
les caused by a fall at the yard
last week. He is now at one of the
Tacoma hospitals under medical
care and is reported to be suffer.
ing from internal injuries.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26
BUR TON

Mrs. IIeu de Bourck is on the
sick list.
Mr.. Small is recovering from am
illness caused by severe cold.
Mrs. l., d. Hagler of Seattle is
spending the holidays with the
Heu de Boruck family.
Mrs. Dovling, who recently
took charge of Hotel Burton, died
in q Seattle hospital ON Friday.
Mrs. Godfrey, vino was taken to
st. Joseph S hospital, Tacoma, last
week. is reported to be little
stronger.
Mrs. +. V. Taylor returned home
from the hospital in Tacoma on
Saturday. She gave all a surprise
as she was moi expected so soon.
Mr.. +. O, Jones of Newburg,
Oregon, has been visiting his sis
Ter, Mrs. L. V. Taylor. Mr.Jones is
in the 37th Reg. Coast Art, and
reached Camp Lewis last Friday
from Sandy Hook, n. j., where he
has been in training for some time.
For a business education inveS-
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26
FRUITS FOR CANNERIEs

While il is in line with a recent
write-up of local conditions in con
nection with the cannery. the fol
lowing article by the former pub
Usher of The Northwest Horticul-
turist will prove of interest to
every resident of the Islands:
Since the establishment OF can
nerics on Puget Sound fruit grow
ere are naturally planting the va
rieties which these markets re
quire.
Mr.. Y. A. Simpson. superintend-
ent o the National Canning Com
pany, recently stated that their
canneries at Vashon and Seattle
would take practically unlimited
quantities of Marshall Strawberries.
His firm can use much larger
crops of the Royal Ann, English
Morello and Montmorency cher
ries than has been available. The
Italian prune is staple and the
cannery market calls for increased
acreage. There is also a limited
demand for the Peach and Colum-
bia piums and few other varie-
tie.
The demand for goosebcrries is
much greater than the supply, also
an unlimited demand for logan
berries and Cuthbert raspberries.
These berries do best on sandy
loan soil where the moisture is
ample up to the time of picking.
OF blackberries the Evergreen
has predominated, but the Hima-
laya Giant will, in time, surpass all
other varieties grown on Vashon
Island for canning purposes, be-
cause as a producer it is more adj
apted to the upland clay soils
which are abundant here. Being
such a yoracious grower it appro-
pirates all the moisture and plant
food available to perfect a large
juicy berry with small seeds; is
prolific and covers long season
under favorable conditions from
the middle of July to the middle
of October. Those who plant it
should be prepared to trellis and
train the canes during the grow
ling season, otherwise because of
its strong growth and sharp
thorns, the fruit would be too ex-
pensive TO pick as commercial
crop. Under proper system of
handling the Himalaya is likely to
become one of the most profitable
of the bush fruits grown on the Is
land.
In pears the Bartlett is always
staple and about the only variety
Gamers want.
In vegetables, she Kentucky
Wonder bean is in great demand
by the eannery, also cabbage,
pumpkin and squash.
In the course of time the Blue
Bell pea is likely to become a lead
ing product on the Island, both as
a Gamer and forage crop, but the
ground should be prepared in the
fall and the seeding done very
early to avoid failure when the
season is very dry, as was the con
dition the past year.
C. A. Tomeson.
Tacoma, Wash, Dee. 20, Is.
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NOTICE

There seems to be a misunder-
standing in regard TO the proposed
raise in phone rates. 1t has been
misconstrued by some to mean
that there is a mileage charge on
party lines. This charge applies
only to private lines farther than
one mile from the office. On all
residence and business phones the
raise will be only fifty cents.
Washington Coast Utilities
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26


Rosebank Farm, on the high
way between Vashon and Center,
is the home of Prof. B. p. Kirk
land. for seven years now member
of the faculty of the College of
Forestry of the University of
Washington. Eight years ago,
when employed in the U. S. Fores-
try service, he paid his first visit
to Vashon Island, The impression
then received was so favorable
that he decided that this was the
place to cast his anchor to wind
ward, and soon afterward he Sc
cured the place which is now his
home. OF course his professional
duties require his presence at the
university, so that during the
school year he is able to spend
only the week end at home, but
the Summer vacation gives the
desired opportunity for work.
Prof. Kirkland was born on a
farm in southwestern New York,
where his boyhood days were
spent. Asked as to the connection
between his profession and farm
ing, Prof. Kirkland said: "The
same principles apply in each.
The main difference is that while
the farm may mature a crop in one
year, it takes the forest 100 years
or more to do so" And in this
statement may be glimpsed the
character of the man, for in all i'm
provements upon the place and in
all his farming operations there is
evident a spirit of thoroughness
and preparation which may well be
interpreted as saying, For one
year or for one hundred years. .
Trained in forestry and kindred
sciences at Cornell University and
at Yale. Prof. Kirkland brings to
W. so,u'ioi , u i's i"'ni ,'ppiel,,' ..l
'i,e auvai.ase " an ail eApe'' hii1M'- !!
ease III scien'liic suoJec.s WHEN -
Oh NJ, greh' pracl,cal peiieil'. %
me nome piace CONSISTS o, hYe
acres al, uhoel intensive cu''ivd,
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eile-iiaii e 'eres more oi aaloi''ils
i'r,l,s r,, are ieasea. p.e ,l;.,.
ine ilaln props ~ ,roi. MIN,
laha ; system 1o,a are logahoerfies ana q
poui'rsi ~ i9l0 .neIe r weie ~
az a.i'' u 'osons ~ iul' ue'' i.is'
lie pioiiel ""s se'en .oiis' 'n'
Saoe sposs oc iece'p,s rom "iiic., tcoo nets ~
T9oo.-o' ana tlle expenses e pen c Tpoo''''' ~
leaving d Proii' oi P19o'p,' !. may
W iaeii''oueu 'lele 'ila. roi;hi,H a
'alu Keeps = iu'l record ~ uouoie
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The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26
so. HEIGHTS

Miss Smith dined on Christmas
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest.
Mr.. Holmes came home on Fri
day to remain until after Christ
mas.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. H. Berry went
TO Tacoma on Tuesday to spend
Christmas with the Hughes fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs Berry had visit
Sunday from their son-in-law, MIR.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26

"The entertainment and dance
given by the Hall Business Col
lege, Seattle, last Saturday even
ing, was enjoyed by those pres
ent. Mr.. Hall wrote shorthand,
blindfolded, on the blackboard at
210 words per minute. Nine stu
dents gave demonstration in type
writing, with music, at more than
sixty words per minute. "
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quickly. Advices received by him
from puyallup indicated that the
vines have frozen badly. The prox-
unity of the salt water permits us
to escape that trouble. He also be-
lieves that on account of moisture
conditions we have an advantage
over California, or even Oregon
in growing this crop. Prof Kirk
land says that to secure the great
est success the old vines must be
cut away and burned just as soon
as the crop is gathered. He is sat
isfed that by not observing this
rule he lost 200 crates from last
season IS crop. This method also
will lessen the danger from an
thracnose, fungus disease which
attacks new growth. This disease,
prevalent in some sections. has not
appeared upon the Island, and for
this reason Prof. Kirkland advises
those contemplating setting out
logans to procure their vines of
growers upon the Island. Should
this disease make its appearance
the only remedy, he states. is to
take up and destroy the diseased
plants at once.
II seems like pretty broad
statement, but Prof Kirkland
states mqualitiedly his belief that
by combining poultry with logans,
80 per cent greater profit may be
received than from berries alone.
Part of this will be from increase
in bulk Of crop caused by fertili-
zaiion by the poultry and part
from decrease in expense of less
ened cultivation required. There is
also the advantage of smaller in
vestment required. AZ double use
Of the ground is thus secured. BY
this method Prof. Kirkland be
lieves a crop of ten thousand
pounds, or Eve tons, of berries to
the acre may be realized. He also
believes that giving poultry the
run of the patch extends the life
Of vines. Prof. Kirkland sets his
rows eight feet apart and the
Iplants six feet apart i'll the rows.
lie uses a three-wire trellis sup
ported by posts. To bring a field
Into bearing he estimates that au
expense Of about $3.50 per acre
IS required. He recommends as a
good method of extending one S
area of this crop that a few plants
be secnred as a start and that
lpropagations be made from them.
The poultry department at Rose
bank now consists OF 760 S. c.
White Leghorn hens. producing
400 eggs per day.
BY utilizing the services of the
faithful alarm clock the electric
lights are turned on at 100 a. m.
and the egg-laying machinery sci
in motion without disturbing the
SUMMERS of any member of the
family.
In summing up. Prof. kirkland
says that he considers poultry in
dispensablc ON the farm devoted
TO small fruits, even if the poultry
paid no profit directly, because OF
the benefit to the fruit and the
lessened cultivation required. And
here a word of caution Prof, Kirk
land says not 10 count upon chick
ems keeping ground entirely free
form weeds for greater distance
than $50 feet from their buildings,
| Prof. Kirkland also has few
raspberries and patch of goose
berries. He also has five acres OF
curly kale, the crop Of seed from
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26

The Poles of the United States,
through the Polish national depart
ment at Chicago, have sent fehcita-
tions to General Allenby, allied COM
mander in Palestine, upon his occu-
patton Of Palestine and defeat Of the
Turkish army. When, some days ago,
the newspapers carried the report of
the successes of the allied arms in
the near East, the Polish organiza-
ton for the United States sent a re-
quest to Count lammoyski, acting
head OF the Polish national commit
tee at Paris, asking that snch con-
gratulations be extended. Count
Zommoyski's message, in which the
Poles Of this country participated,
reads as follows:
what Christianity has dreamed
for many centuries, what has been
sung and foretold by poets, and why
crusades have been waged is realized.
The Holy Land has been freed from
the hands OF its oppressors, and for
this freedom it can be grateful to
the valiant British troops who, un-
der your brilliant generalship, have
performed undertakings which shall
forever remain in the history of war.
''rhe occupation of Palestine and
the defeat Of the Turkish army
simultaneously are strong blows at
the falling structure of power based
on force. Being fully aware Of the
importance Of the deeds performed
by you and your troops we transmit
to you our most hearty congratula-
tons and wishes for further sue
cess ="
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26
NOTICE

All bills not settled by January
/, 1919, either by cash or negoti-
able note, VIII be placed in the
hands OF am attorney for collec-
ton. Please give this matter inn
mediate attention. need the
money due me, Call or phone if
you wish information in regard to
your account.
DIR. Chas. IL. Reed, Burton.
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ODD FELLOWS SOCIAL

The I. Q. o, +. lodge will hold
social at the hall at Center ON this
Saturday evening, Dec. 2Sth, to
which the public is cordially in
vited. Refreshments will Deserved
and there will be four prizes offer
ed in progressive whist contest.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26

Auto service-iitney for hire
go anywhere. c. Middling, Bur
ton. Phone Red 81. 3
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26

Neolin soles at Rendall's repair
shop, Portage. Black 155.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26
FOR SALE

Auto service jitney for hire
go anywhere. G. Middiing, Bur
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26

Expert saw-fling and tim
smithing. Rendall's shop, Port
age.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26

A LOT OF new fountain pens just
received at Garvin s.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26
Gleanings, Here and There

o viii be
activities in many lines
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1918-12-26

For a business education inves-
tigate Success Shorthand School,
Seattle. Wash.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-14
Mexican Platform.

Nogales, Mex, >Oct. 13.--
Free schools and orphanages, pro-
hibtion on penalty of death and
peace are the three planks in Cen
eral Plutarco Elias Gales platform
as military governor of the state
of Sonora. General Gales consid-
ers his school system the biggest
project he has undertaken, adding
that both prohibition and peace were
necessary TO the fulhllment of his
plan to make better Mexican men
and women of the boys and girls
of his native state. In kis Cruz Gal
vez orphanage for war orphans at
Hermosillo 800 boys and 200 girls
are attending school at the expense
of the state.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-14
TA|LORS GATHER
FOR DISCUSSION
OF PROBLEMS
Chicago Biennial Convention
Opens Today With Many
Questions to be
Settled.

Cleveland, O., Oct. l3.-Ameri-
can union tailordom's vanguard.
more than 200 delegates of the
United Garment Workers of Amer
lea representing $4,000 members OF
the craft in the United States and
Canada, have arrived for the BIZ
'ennial convention which opens here
today and will continue until Oc-
tober l9.
1--WE now have the eight-hour dav
and are in perfect harmony with
the majority Of the employers" said
B. A. Larger, secretary of the or
ganization, which is affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor
There is no fixed program for the
convention but the delegates will
bring up for discussion and settle
ment such problems as have arisen
in the past four years, the 1916 BIZ
ennial having been omitted"
Among the questions expected to
be discussed, according to Mr.. Larg
er, will be that of holding the con-
vention every four years instead of
biennially. Wage increases, use of
apprentices, and working conditions
also may be on the program.
Clothing cutters are now being
paid $33 to $45 week and tailors
on war piece work receive from $40
to $50 and $50 week, it is said.
Wage conditions for these workers
are said to be satisfactory but civil
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-14
Cabby Comes to Life With
\Gasless Day on Broadway

New York, Oct. 13.-There is no
need to watch your step" on Broad
way these gasless Sunday nights.
Without the steady flow of motor
vehicles that formerly kept the traf-
fc squad as busy on the day of
rest" as any other, the asphalt seems
all but deserted.
'ansom, sir"
The once familiar situation, all
but forgotten during a generation OF
automobile supremacy, smites the
ear. The cabby has come into his
own again. Horses that had been
denoted to common equine labor
have been recalled to their former
places between the curved shafts.
Vehicles of the eighties and nine
ties--two-wheeled and four wheeled
have been resurrected from the
dust and cobwebs of livery stables
which, once a week, have taken on
some of their ancient activity.
Hansoms, coupes, barouches and
even a few victoras, shabby, genteel
in faded and time-worn upholstery,
rattle over the pavements and line
the curbs, to the delight of the old
Knickerbockers and to the amuse-
ment Of the younger throngs VIII
have never known the metropolis
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-14

except in its present regime OF
horseless locomotion.
Between Thirty-third and Fifty
ninth streets tonight traffic police
men stood listleslly at their posts.
Whistles that usually signaled 60"
and Stop" was stilled. Cables cut
corners and no imperious hand
babe them halft. Pedestrians
lodged diagonally across the Street,
and the bluecoats did not interfere.
Traffic without automobile, was not
traffic in their eyes.
An antiquated open barouche rum
bled past light-fooded Times square,
it's passengers pair of majors
whose rotund, khaki-clad figures
bulged over the ends of its tiny seat.
In closed cabs rode the inevitable
couples-man and maid. Million
aires were abroad, too, some of them
enjoying the novelty induced by the
locking of garage doors upon yxur-
ious limousines.
From the outset the metropolis
has complied in every particular
with the government request to con-
serve gasoline, and though many
lines of activity have been curtailed,
predictions of "b+ue Sabbath" have
not been fulfilled. New York has been
slowed up, but hardly sobered by
the gasiess SUNDAYS.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-14
"Uncle Sans Wonder City"
AT Nitro Nears COMPLETION

Where does my money go that |
put into Liberty bonds?
This question, while it can be
answered by the majority of peo-
pie in a general way, is given a
meaning answer in photographs
of Nitro, w. Va, "Uncle Sans
Wonder City" which are being ex-
hibited over the country by Harvey
Holleman, special representative OF
construction division, War depart
ment.
Mr.. Holleman's exhibit, while he
was in Omaha Saturday, made those
who saw it gasp at the magnitude
of the war work and at the rapidity
in which Uncle Sam gets his work
going. Nitro, situated in the
picturesque hills of West Virginia,
IS miles from Charleston, was but
field of corn stubbles on January
IS, 1918. In less than nine>Months
it has grown to a city of 10000 pop
ulation-a city where there are
schools, libraries, theaters and every
modern necessity.
Nitro is under absolute govern
ment supervision. It's sole purpose
is to produce smokeless powder for
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-14
Taps to be SounGed in
Webster City Each Day

Webster City, Ia, Oct. l3.-(Spe-
cial.) --Starting Monday and lasting
until the end of the war, taps will
be sounded from the steps Of the
city hall in Webster City every at
ternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
When it is 4:30 o'clock in Web
ster City it is $50 p. m. in France
the hour when taps" is sounded
as a signal for all soldiers. not on
duty to>setire. The idea in blowing
this call here is to remind the peo-
pie here of the boys "over there"
This custom was started by Gov
ernor Cox of Ohio. The call select
ed is the sweetest and most beauti-
full of all the bugle calls. 1t sug-
gests, not the roar of battle, but the
peaceful rest that comes at the end
OF well-spent day.
The Webster City council has
adopted a resolution recognizing the
custom here and has designated Geo.
Yaus and Wesley Schaub as the
official buglers for the city.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-14

Uncle Sans army "over there" and
when it begins its big activi-
ties, next January, will give General
Pershing and his boys each day
625,0O0 pounds of smokeless powder,
At present it is just growing-but
there are 10000 laborers there with
their families and before the new
year starts it is expected that TO-
600 additional laborers will be
brought to the city. The families are
supplied with furnished homes, new
ly erected and with all modern con-
veniences, even including maid serv-
ice, for which Is cents a week for
each bedroom cared for is charged
and constitutes the only expendi-
ture OF rent.
Out of the 10000 laborers now
wanted at Nitro, a quota of 500 has
been sent for Nebraska. 1T is gov
ernment work and of great import
ance in this war; the wages paid
are surprisingly high, so why
shouldn't we fill our quota In Jig
time" Cohn told Hollerman, after
the latter had expressed his warm
appreciation of what Nebraska has
already done towards sending its
share of workers to Nitro.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-14
Russians and Films
Naked and Starving in
German Prison Camps
Correspondence Of Associated Press.

Correspondence Of Associated Press
The Hague, Oct. 13.-Thousands
of Russians and Finnish red guard;
imprisoned in a secret camp a.
Friednort. near Konigsberg, Ger
many. are living and dying amid
terrible conditions, according to
neutral who has just arrived here
after a long visit in Germany. Many
of them, he said, are virtually naked
and the remainder are clad i'll rags
Deaths are common, and he pre-
dicted that with the coming of win
ter most of these still alive would
perish from exposure.
Food conditions in West Prus'
STA, this informant said, are by nc
means as good as in East Prussia
the home of the Junkers. Ample
food was obtaikable at fairly rea.
sonable prices in the east. in conse.
quence of which the population was
comparatively cheerful. To this sit
uation he ascribed the continued re,
sistance of the Junkers to the desire
for quick peace, which, he stated
was growing rapidly in other parts
of the country.
The wreckage caused by the Rus.
sian invasion of 1914 was still evi.
dent, according to the traveller, who
found the streets Of Gumbinnen in a
ruined conditions Recon Instruction.
of military works, however, was 60
ing forward steadily by the forced
labor of many Russian and Italian
prisoners, who were being worked
on railways, bridges, barracks and
Notifications.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-14
Lahorer Attempts Suicide
By Shooting Self in Head

Alfred Walter. laborer, living at
6GS North Twenty-third steret, at
tempted TO commit suicide Satur-
day night by firing bullet into his
head with a 81. calibre revolver.
He was discovered by the police
lying in a pool OF blood in the alley
at Seventeenth and Cunning streets.
and taken to the station where his
wound was attended. He was later
removed to the Swedish Mission
hospital.