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The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02
HERE'S A GREAT BARGAIN

For Sale-0ne acre of very rich
soil, on which is 5-room, semi
modern bungalow which rents for
$25 and $50 per month. There is
also Broom house. Both with
electric lights and water. Two
sheds; some fruit trees. This
acre yields an annual income of
from $1,000 to $500, No expert
ence needed to earn this income
from the land. Planted to
choice roses with ready market.
Situated ON paved boulevard in
Rainier Valley, Seattle. Owner re-
firing. No agents. Write or phone
The Record for further particu-
lars. 47-S-9-0
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02
From Commissioners Proceeding.

Sept. -, 'l9.
Adjourned hearing was had in
the matter of the petition of the
Fir Tree Farm Co. for the vaca-
ton of a portion of County Road
No. 365, and on motion hearing
was again adjourned to Oct. Goth,
1919, at 1000 a. m.
Resolution No, 4ss was passed,
transferring the sum of $40 from
the new court house fund to the
current expense fund, same to be
credited to the budget of the pros
ecuting attorney.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02
Call Red ll74 for prices on coal
for greenhouses. 40

Julius Ill. Barnes, United States
Wheat Director, left New York
last week on a trip to the Pacific
Coast, during which he will adj
dress members of the grain trade
i'll various cities, including Chi
cago, Omaha, Kansas City, San
Francisco, Portland, Seattle. Ia
coma, Spokane and st. Louis. He
will spend some days in Los An
geles, after which he will go to
San Francisco to speak to Califor-
mia grain men at meeting in
charge of Waiter A. Starr I'd vice
president of the U. s. Grain Cor
poration. From there he will go
to Portland, where he will talk to
members of the grain trade, and
thence to meetings in Tacoma, Sc
attle and Spokane arranged by
NJ. II. Houser, I'd vice president of
the United States Grain Corpora
ton. On October 18th Mr.. Barnes
will address the Grain Dealers
National Association in St. Louis.
and the following day will ad-
dress the members of the Chicago
Board of Trade.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02
SO. HEIGHTS

The beach school is closed for
the present.
The Shaw residence is getting
a fresh coat of paint.
On Friday Mrs. Krogh took
lunch with Mrs. Jenkins.
Mrs. Lara had her sons with her
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02
WANTED

Twelve or fifteen head of young
stock. Will pay cash and the high
est market price. Anything from
four months old to two years old.
r. B, Hayes, Portage. Phone Blk
1853. 3S-9-0-1
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02
PORTAGE

Mrs. Tupper was the week end
guest of Mrs. Blakeney.
Mrs. Pine of Tacoma spent the
week end at the Blakeney home.
Mrs. A. d. Kingsbury, who has
been seriously i'll, is reported to
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02
B UR TON

Miss Emma Olson spent Sunday
at Burton.
Mrs. G. Coffin was the guest il>i
week of friends on IA delightfHi
auto trip.
Mr.. and Mrs, A Wright enter
tanned as Sunday guests Mr.. and
Mrs. GoH.
Mrs. Schaefer of Nashon visited
her son and family in Burton on
Monday.
Mr.. VIM. Kloeppel and family
have moved into the Methodist
parsonage.
Mrs. Butler has word from Mr..
Butler shat he is on his way to
Hartford, Conn.
Bentley < Middling will leave
Burton going north at GAO, l0;i5
and 1896. Phone Red 1881.
Rev, Reynolds writes that h. is
stationed for the new confe. .uS,
year at Stanwood, Wash.
The Misses Singnie Carlson
and Evelyn Hayward spent Sun
day at their homes in Burton.
Mr.. and Mrs. w, G. Meredith
have moved into the Whitman
house and will make it their Bur-
ton home.
Rev. Harry Earl, who has
two years at Camp Lewis, WI.
preach at Dockton during this
conference year.
Miss Eihie Marsh began her
work at the State University ON
Monday. She will study to secure
the master degree.
A number of our people who
had planned to go to the Puyallup
fair did not welcome the gentle
rain that came on Tuesday.
Rally Day will be observed at
the Baptist charah on Sunday,
October 9TH. Pretty invitation
cards have been sent to all the
children of the vicinity.
The community was saddened
ON Monday by news of the death
of Mrs, Snyder The funeral was
held on Wednesday from the G. o.
Lynn undertaking parlors in Ia
coma. rhe family have the sym,
pathy OF all.
Mrs. Helen Hicks of Tacoma is
the guest of Mrs. w. c. Whitfield.
The Ladies Aid of the Baptist
church gave supper on Wednes-
day evening for the benefit of the
church. A community sing was
held afterward.
The Woman 5 Club program for
next Tuesday will be musicale
under the direction of Mrs.
Forbes, who is hostess for the
club on that date. Roll call will
be from Thomas Moore.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

Louie Macmillan will leave Bur-
ton for Vashon Heights ferry
every morning at Gas, and will
also meet the ferry in tie evening
-4s
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

Beautiful ready-to-wear appar-
el for Women and Misses at Her.
man s, Westlake and Pine Street,
Seattle, Wash. 1880
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02
DO YOU KNOW THAT

E. C. Thompson buys hogs, veal,
and beef stock, also hens, broilers
and rabbits. Call me up. Black
~ 36tf
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

For a business education inves.
tigate Success Shorthand School
Seattle. Wash
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

Remember the movies. "True
Blue. will be on the screen this
Friday evening. Special music.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02
NOTICE

Cash paid for beef, pork and
veal. E. Godderis, Lisabeula.
Phone Black 1904. A
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

Ship your freight via Kathleen
Transportation Co. Phone. Red
ll74. 49
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

Neolin soles at Rendall's repair
shop, Portage. Phone Rel 1l5l.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

Seattle will celebrate half cen
tury Of growth and development
on December 2nd.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

over the week end. Messrs. Lee
and Lloyd Bruckart, also Mrs.
Lloyd Bruekart.
The Misses Dunn spent the week
end with their mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jenkins had Miss
smith as their Sunday guest.
MIR. Crawford will open a store
at Clam Cove. That blessed ferry !
Mr.. Godfrey has purchased Mr..
Pugh 5 ear, and the latter plans to
buy one of the farm wagon type.
$. II, Berry's biggest Hubbard
squash this year tips the scale at
% pounds. Some squash And oh,
you squash pies
AS there was no service at Elsa
beula on Sunday, the Berry S
drove TO Burton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John jenkins had
Mrs. Dicmer as their dinner guest
on Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Diemer moved back to her
Tacoma home on Saturday for the
winter. We shall all miss her and
Rags.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scherlin have
moved from the Shaw farmhouse
to their own cottage on the beach,
and the Shaw farm-houe will be
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Dct'or-
rest and their two little ones, who
are moving from the Lara farm.
The cold snap Sunday morning
was very local, it would seem. Ice
in ye scribe's bird.bath, but fur
ther south the dahlias were not
frosted. We were all relieved to
hear that the Sheffield dahlids
were unharmed, with the Puyal-
lup fair just about to open. And
then it went and raincd! Here Is
hoping the rest of the week will
be fine.
Last week Tuesday, Mrs. Bit
finger was very pleasantly sur
prised by the appearance of her
brother, Mr.. Joshua Mummey of
Seattle, accompanied by their
cousin, Mr.. Enfield Smith, whom
she had not seen since leaving
Iowa, thirty years ago. They had
to return next day as Mr.. Smith
was taking an extensive motor
tour with friends, so you may i'm
agine the high speed of the remin-
iscences that went on.
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Nj. ii. Shaw reports that wcrk
on the road to the South End fer
ry terminal is progressing very
satisfactorily. While the amount
asked for TO complete this road
was oversubscribed, there will! be
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

Expert vulcanlzing at Kendall s.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

Expert sawfling at Rendsll's.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-10-02

NJ. II. Shaw reports that wcrk
on the road to the South End fer
ry terminal is progressing very
satisfactorily. While the amount
asked for to complete this road
was oversubscribed, there vii! be
need Of still more money, and all
who can are urged TO subscribe.
Call at The Record office and do
your bit--if only a dollar-toward
this Island proposition IN when
every resident is or should be in.
terested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20
Song of Refugee Shirt

Refugee garments made by American women for the destit Ute of war-ridden lands all conformed to standards built on the clothing customs of the people for whom the articles were intended To American eyes the patterns were often Erctesuue, even wastefuI, but they were followed.
 Anything more clumsy and out-of- date according to, American standards could hardly be imagined writes Villa Sibert Gather, in the New Red Cross Magazine. discussing the prompt willing ness of the workers to accept instruc- tions Yet in Red Cross rooms under the court house and in the basement of the public library, out in the farm houses all over our great rich country, women sat day after day and made un- der-drawers with from 10 to 15 buttons, and worked the button holes.
 Why did they do 1t? Why didn't they send the old men x. Y. 2. underclothes such as their own husbands wore? Or explain to the Belgians that they didn't get on better if she adopted modern methods?
 IT believe the answer is that our wor- en simply admired Belgium too much: they had no suggestions to offer to such A people. Their one wish was that those old men and women should have the kind of clothes they had always lived in. with no feeling of strangeness. A great deal of verse has been written to Bel Eium but when I saw our smart. cana 6le western women patiently makine. drawers with 15 buttonholes and chuck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20
BALL PLAYER NOW
 ROAMER BOOSTER
Jack Dillon Says There's No Car Like the Beautiful
 Roamer

Jack Dillon, the famous ball player and husband of Clara Joel, is becoming as en- thusiastic about motoring as about our naional game, was the information re- ceived by L. C. Morrow of the Bunch Morrow Motor Car company. He is now receiving the compliments of friends on recent trip from New York city to Cleveland. which evidenced not only the powerful performance of the Roamer, but also his ability as a driver.
 The first day of his drive Dillon left home at Beechhurst. L. l., at '6:so a. m. With the exception of about three hours for meals, he drove almost continuously until a few minutes after midnight, when he stopped for the night at Batavia N. Y. The Roamer's speedometer registered AIS miles for the first day. The next day he covered the remaining 214 miles, making a total of 692 miles for the trip.
 Between Buffalo and Ashtabula, Dillon encountered some very rough going. At one detour he found six cars and sev- eraI large army trucks stalled on account of the deep mud. Dillon took a chance of tipping over by driving his Roamer up the side of the embankment. and sue ceeded in passing amid much applause from the stranded tourists
 Tn my Roamer I carried five grips, five gallons of oil two dogs, a parrot and another person. said Dillon in speaking of his trip. T never had a puncture nor engine trouble of any kind. My only steps were for gas, oil, meals and sleep.
 T averaged between 14 and 15 miles on gallon of gas. Words cannot express my respect for Roamer, and no doubt before this some other tourists driving fast and well-known cars have told their friends about some of the racing we did. I challenged all kinds on the trip and no one passed me. My highest speed on the trip was 73 miles,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20
nrTTu5uCh ] Ng T0D dEliiTElIyyEk T fvK 1920 SWEEPSTAKES if
 c.
 n, 500-Mile Event Next Year Will Be More Sensational,
 It Is Said

Indianapolis, July Congratulations an- ncunced for the 1920 5oo-mle race on the Indianapolis motor speedway foreshadow sweeping changes in the field of automo- bile racing with vitally important con sequences affecting the trend of auton1o- tive design in general predicted as cer- tain to follow. The specifications were decided upon after an exhaustive inyes- tigation as to the line of development that promised to be of greatest benefit to au- tomotive progress, involving consultation With engineers and manufa cturers both In this country and in Europe, and are expected to prove an impetus that will re- suit in the discovery of startingly new ana Improved principles of gasoline To- ccrotion, blazing the trail to the ulti- mate car combining roominess and com Tort with light weight and low opera ting and upkeep cost
 The detailed specifications are as fol- lcws Piston displacement, 1ss cubic 1T ehes; minimum weight TOO pounds with no ballast allowed; standard tread, 56- inch, deats may be staggered 8 inches: right hand drive, qualifying speed, aver age Of 30 miles an hour for four laps of the track, 10 miles.
 These specifications, though few and simple, are nevertheless all embracing in their scope, directing the activity of au- tomobile racing designers into entirely new channels, at the same time imposing no restrictions on their inventive ability within the limits assigned. The problem now IS to produce car with greater en- zine efficiency than ever before. the high speed required coupled with snlal! engine size setting a task to test the skill of the worlds greatest designers; at the same time requiring them to build car that will be practicable road worthy vehicle in every sense, capable of application to the field of passenger car construction. this feature being insured by the minimum weight restriction of TOO pounds. and the provision for a standard tread.
 The regulation permitting the staggering of the seats is to give the driver more reon at the same time permitting the body to be made as narrow as possible to reduce wind resistance. also to move the mechanic back where he can observe fthree of the four tires. the two in the rear khnd the left front. Right hand drive is Specified inasmuch as on speedways cars
 lways pass to the right and left hand rive would therefore be dangerous
 The speedway's announcement precIudes hll chance of converted light cars now in (existence being entered for the 1920 clas- sic. cars of this type being considered incapable of producing anything of profit to the advancement of automobile design. and being effectually barred by the re- strictions governing speed and minimum weight. A fresh infusion of inventive discovery into the field of engineering knowledge is what the Indianapolis speed way seeks to stimulate. and it's 1920 speci fications have been carefully drawn with this in view
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20
French Nurse Rolled

Condemned to death by the Germans for her efforts in behalf of fugitive French soldiers, Mademoiselle LHotel Her, directrice of the general hospital at Cambrai was spared, but she was fated to undergo all that Prussian ingenuity could devise to compel her to betray her associates. She was hustled from one German prison to another and subjected to the grossest hardships, but her spirit never quailed, and finally she escaped triumphantly returning to France, stil guarding her secrets. Her own story, one of the most gripping of tie innum- erable tales of Frencn ,yomen's heroism, Was. given Ida M Tarbell, who recounts it in New Red Cross Magazine
 Of her escape from Valenviennes, Mademoiselle l. Hotelller told Miss Tar bell
 T was so frghtfully i'll they all thought l would die, but I meant to live T meant to live and escape. For six months I worked on my plans. As grew better 1 could walk a little and they let me go into the garden. Finally I asked them to let me put on my nurses costume, for curiosly enough In all my wanderings my belongings had gone with me, even to my umbrella walked in the garden day after day quite naturally. until the guards were used to me Then ono lay I walked out Of the garden into the town. The guards did not notice The sisters closed their eyes. I did this often, always returning until one day I walked out as usual nothing in my hands, and did not re. turn. l walked on ana on through Val, enciennes into the country toward Bel. gum Everybody SupI Jsed me a lady on an errand of mercy. Sometimes l asked a lift from the Germans them selves. l rode in their camions; I slep; sometimes in their quarters"
 In the midst of her flight the armiis. tice was signed and Mademoiselle L'Ho teller found it possible to repair directly to Cambrai. There she found her hos pital uninha abitable, but she was still direc. rice and her staff rallied about with the greeting: We knew you would come We knew they never could con- quer you and shortly she was again at wor6 for tho wounded and sick in ne. quarters. for all the world as though nothing had happened
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-20

llng with a kind of pride in their work l thought that was poetry. I knew how many old feelings must have been rooted out and new feelings born to make them want to do it, love to do it, in that tedious way that was against the tempo of their whole lives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-26

FOR SALE, MISCELLANEOUS II FOR SALE-Will close out quick 300 rolls red or green slate-surfaced asphalt roof ing at $2.50 roll; 85 pounds to roll; 10s rolls green slate-surfaced asphalt r0of- ing, S5 pounds to roll. slightly damaged. g roll; 300 rolls slightly damaged rubber roofing, $1, SIPS, $1.55 roll; roof paint 50c gallon; paints and hardware fac- tory cost. Robertson Hardware Co.,. 2O20 1st ave. x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-26
Texas Has Been Completely
 Changed by Big OH Boom
Hundreds of Tents Serve Sleeping Places for the Thou sands Who Pour Into New Oil Communities From
 All Parts of the Country
By WILLIAM l.. GoRMLEY

Wichita Falls, Tex, May 25.-(Spe- cial)-In tours over Texas-where the
 oil boom has so changed the ideas of
 people as to make them absolutely for
 getful of civic pride--one finds varie-
 ty of American citizens not seen pos
 sible in any other places. When the
 Burk Burnett field "came in'' with a
 bountiful supply of crude oil investors
 from all parts 9sf the country came to Texas, swarming the streets like so
 many bees. Burk-Burnett is located
 about 14 miles form this little town of
 1s,000 people. and Burk-Burnett's pop
 of living conditions.
 Millionaires. seen on the streets wear
 ing the attire of a pauper, attarct no
 more attention than the ordinary specu-
 lator in oil stock at the oil exchanges.
 One of the most difficult things for the
 visitor in Wichita Falls is to select a
 man on the street who is not heavily
 stocked up on oil company shares. He might get a better idea of the financial condition of person by visiting the several oil exchanges where stock Is being sold below or above par. He might find the pauper- appearing fellow trying to invest s25.000 in an oil con cern's stock. The oil boom has resulted in several thousand people coming to the town from north, south, east and west. Hotels-and there are several of them have not been able to supply rooms for the visitors for six months. thrifty person conceived the idea of putting up about 50 small sized tents. charging $1 per bed-three and five cots to the tent. This tent hotel he calls The Wigwam; and The Wigwam is rented out long before 8 o'colck when trains come In from the east and west.
 Here is another illustration of thrift
 A man owned and operated a 'restau- rant on wheels" near The Wigwam. and The Wigwam was without a cafe.
 He considered restaurant would make more money by being near hotel, and the hotel considered it best to have a cafe run in connection. The hotels patrons were about seven blocks from the downtown district and at nights, with the cool western breeze blowing through the tents, they thought the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-26
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home was not an ideal one without b cafe. So the cafe owner backed his cafe to the rear of the tents. Now the porter for The Wigwam cries oN at the trans: The Wigwam, with cafe in connection" It was a great idea of both the cafe and hotel, and each is making money enough to float the en- tire capital stock of a big oil conn pany
 There are peculiar signs on the stc~e buildings. For instance the fol- lowing is seen in a conspicuous place in front of cafe: Good things to eat and lots of it Sanitary The sign painter had failed to place that little period between it" and sanitary"
 This is a small world after all Judge S. C. Oliver, former probate judge of Talladega county, and mayor of the city of the same name. is president and treasurer of the Texas Alabama Oil company, which is now being organized with capital stock of $500. .000. Samuel F. Kennedy of the Alabama public service commission, is secretary. A funny incident occurred recently in con- nection with MT. Kennedy's visit to Texas. The Texas oil Ledger of Fort Worth printed on the first page a story to the effect Mir. Kennedy would prob ably" leave Alabama politics for the oil fields of Texas. MT. Kennedy is very much interested in Texas oil. and he plans to come back out here in a short
 time to look after his interests. Oil circles in Wichita Falls and Fort Worth credit the Alabama men with having a good thing"
 In wichita Falls the citizens are so busily engaged in oil speculations and purchases that they forget to go to the polls and vote for or against a $75,000 school bond issue election. There were l 50 votes boiled, four being against the issue.
 The wonderful change in Texas dur ing the past year cannot be described.
 Even people of Texas cannot imagine anything that is quite as big and im- portant as developments in territory which were considered free of all oil. In the Burk- Burnett territory two years ago the geologists said~there was nothing that resembled oil in the earth During the past six months the whole town site has been turned over to oil concerns, and there are dozens and dozens of derricks now on the site once laid out for the town of Burk Burnett. Churches have been torn away, and derricks have been placed in their stead.
 No improvements in the town so far as streets are concerned have been made. A story comes from Burk-Bur- nett that an old straw hat was seen in the middle of the street, immediately after a rain. A passer-by stopped and raised the hat from the mud. Under heath the hat, SO the story goes, there was the head of a man. The man asked the other to raise him up and that he would then make an effort to get the horse. on which the man was standing. from the mud later. There is more mud at Burk- Burnett to the square inch than there is in the entire state of Ala bama. But improvements are to be made. The town authorities are going to get away from the oil game long enough to spend a few thousand on streets.
 Carpenters are working from day. I light to dark building new homes and | business houses. Tents are being used I by all newcomers and many persons 1 sleep in the hotel Hobbies.