The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-03-20
VASHON HEIGHTS

Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. West and
son Frederic have been visiting at
the homes OF their daughters, Mrs.
Charles Taylor and Mrs. Austin
Taylor at Vashon,
Mr.. John l4und of Seattle is
making extensive improvements
on his house. near cowley's Land
ing, and is also beautifying the
grounds. Mr.. Lund expects to
move his family from Seattle.
soon
Clifford Corbin, who was in the
service of Uncle Sam for nne
months as marine, is at home
for the present and is making
some improvements on his faith
er's property preparatory TO
building a slX-room residence this
summer.
Miss Dorothy Cowan, whom we
all remember as the star perform
er in the high school entertain
ment last year, has won the honor
OF being in the east of the Broad
way high school, Seattle, enter
tainment, which will be given
soon. There were more than 20
competitors for the honor.
And the entertainment of last
Friday and Saturday night II
was excellent-the hes. ever. Ev-
cry patron of and contributor to
Vashon high school should con
graduate themselves that the
school possesses such good mate
rial as that in evidence at these
entertainments. And the teachers,
and especially the principal. are
to be commended for the good
Judgment displayed in assigning
the part best suited to the player.
1t was fine from start TO finish, es-
pecially the Vashon Special.
Geo. X. Coryell holds the title
of poet laureate of Vashon Island.
There is some danger. however,
that he may lose the title. Judging
from the productions of Miss An
ME Hamerquist and Robert Mills
OF the Vashon school. Their eff
forts We're extraordinary and
worthy of being published.
Mr.. Anderson. superintendent
of ferries, has the ferry question
in his possession. He was at Port
Orchard last Tuesday a week and
was expected to make report to
King County Commissioners on
Monday of this week. We hope he
did and that it means go ahead. "
Later-Since the ferry is now an
assured fact, the residents at the
North End can feel certain of hav-
ing a grocery and garage. A com
pany has been formed to run
stage line between Vashon and the
Heights.
1t is with pleasure that we cor
rect an error of two weeks ago.
We mentioned that through the
efforts of Sloan Randolph. the
Colegrove place was going TO be
the prettiest at the north end of
the Island We will return to the
superlative degree and say one
of the prettiest," until we see the
results Of the efforts OF Mr.. Cory
ell, Mr.. W. o. Cook, Mr.. Elmer
Harmeling, Mr.. Lawrence. and
Sloan Randolph at his own place.
They are ali working TO beat
the band" TO outdo the other. We
will not say what the cause is, but
can easily surmise what the effect
will be.
1t is remarkable how the Old
Guard is working to carry the
echo of Roosevelt into the 1920
campaign. Senator Jones is lit
tie foxy and asks the opinion of
the voters before he decides = al
tho he instructs them in his appeal
how they should decide. Senator
Borah is trying to make his name
spell "burro," and he is succeed.
ing pretty we'll After his Cleve-
land speech, when he became so
cialist. he concluded il would be
better TO preach hatred toward
England. We. for one, are decid-
edly in favor of Wilson S league
of-nations idea. We also are in
favor of Taft for president on the
Republican ticket. which would