Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-07-22

/ htldu price Vi IHllh rose from III
teen to sixteen cents a quart in Spo-
kane, shortage of pasture being given
us the reason.
Fire, believed to be incendiary, com.
pletely destroyed the storage and pack.
ing warehouse Of the Entiat Fruit
Growers league.
Fire completely destroyed the Green
&, Newell combined sawmill and shin,
| &le mill on Shanghai mountain four
| miles east of Kelso.
A contract for paving approximately
one mile of the Pacific highway in
Snohomish county from Silvana north
mas been let for $35,436.
The Blue Mountain Highway associ.
alton has selected the road by Ana
| tone as the most feasible route for the
proposed state highway tC the Oregon
line.
AS a result Ok a visit to WalIa Walla
by Mrs. W. H. Coffin state sanitary
inspector, proprietors of three restaur-
ants face prosecution for violations Of
| state law.
f. P. P. Baske, former superior Judge
Of Lincoln county, will debate with ].
L. Freeman, president of the non-parti-
san league Of Washington on the mer-
its of the league.
The crop forecast for Klickitat coun.
| ty, as estimated by persons who have
| Travelled all over the county within the
| past few weeks, is from eighty per cent
| upwards to normal.
The state reclamation board has au-
| thorzed survey of swamp land prof.
ects In western Washington prelimin-
airy to the construction Of drainage
and diklng projects.
sentence of six months in the
county jail has been imposed on Chas.
Craig for the violation of the l. W. w
injunction issued by Superior Judge
Webster of Spokane.
With the help of five state supreme
court judges and three superior court
judges, the Skagit County Bar Associa
ton was host Saturday to the What
com Bar Association.
Many ladybugs will be gathered in
the mountains this fall and kept in
cold storage in Wala Walla until in
the spring, when they will be liberated
in the orchards to kill off the aphis
District bonds of the Chelan reclaim.
ation district to the par value Of $500
will be purchased by the state reclaim.
alton GARD for $4,000 The project
includes 1850 acres in Chelan county.
According to an assistant state fire
marshal so per cent of the grain field
fire losses in the state last year were
in Walla Walla, Columbia and Whit
man counties. The total losses were
S159,1S4.
Waddell HILL &c. SHOT and killed his
wife, who had obtained in the superior
court at Walla Walla divorce from
him, and then, turning the weapon on
himself, sent bullet through his brain
dying instantly.
pr. Joseph f. Alexander of Seattle
was elected president Of the Wash nR
ton State Dental association Saturday
afternoon in the closing business ses
sion of seven-day joint convention
held in Tacoma.
Fruit growers and horticultural ex-
perts from all over the state of Wash
lngton and British Columbia attended
the annual summer convention. of the
Washington State Horticultural sCci-
ETY. at Wenatchoe.
The state reclamation board will
make survey of the Methow reclaim
alton district known as the skyline"
project, The project contemplates the
irrigation of approximately $4,000 acres
in Okanogan county.
Mrs. Irma Horstman, clerk OF the
Port Angeles board of school directors,
has Just completed the school census,
and reports 1,340 children of school
age. There are I'll girls and 929 boys,
substantial increase over last year,
A community and civic amusement
park at Lakeview, near Tacoma, com
prisiug 1000 acres and Incorporated at
s1,000.O00, was proposed to the Pierce
county commissioners by committee
of IS representatives of civic organiza.
tons.
S. A. Bartlett, for three years super
intendent of the schools of Kittitas
county, has rendered his resignation,
effective August /, and Mrs, Mary A.