Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-04-29
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

at Centralia.
A joint community fair will be held
May by the Dryad and Doty schools.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Preston has named May /
as public school day.
Paving of the Battle Ground-Vancou-
yer road has been begun by the United
Contracting company.
April sales of state lands in 26 coun-
ties totaled $36O,291. OF this amount,
s266,392 was for timberland,
A plan for cooperative store in
Winlock was Endorsed at a meeting
attended by about rs farmers.
County agents from number of
southwest Washington counties held
a successful meeting at Chehalis.
When the paving contractors COM
plete the contracts now let Clarke coun-
ty will have so miles of pavement.
A pioneer day celebration will be
held at Onalaska this week under the
auspices of the Onalaska Athletic club.
Steve Petroskey, who recently killed
City Jailer Nelson at Spokane, has been
found insane by lunacy commission.
Blewett pass, on the Sunset highway
between Wenatchee and Gle Elum, will
be officially opened for traffic April
"a.
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Se!den
of Tacoma has threatened to prosecute
dealers who advance the price of over
alls.
A shortage of farm labor over the
state is reported to the state develop
ment bureau of the Seattle chamber of
commerce.
I. Y. Branton, who has been testing
COWS in Clarke county for two years
past, has been appointed county agent
of Cowlitz county.
Seattle's imports from the Orient
totaled $2S,965,954 during February,
more than double the record in the
same trade in February, 1919.
The federal jury recently drawn At
Seattle will investigate charges Of
fraud against number Of northwest
shipping men recently indicted.
White & Ford, Seattle contractors,
have been awarded the contract for
paving BIT miles of the Chelan-H Han
son highway, under bid of s66,142.
University of Washington goods
must abandon bloomers and play bas
ketball in blouse and tunic, according
to ruling of the board of regents.
The Spokane clearing house associa-
ton has decided to make no change of
business hours this summer to con-
form with the New York daylight saw
ing law
The regents of the Washington
State college at Pullman have approx
ed The plan for the erection by a pri
vate corporation of a 100000 woman's
dormitory.
Fruit buyers predict that the high.
est prices ever known will prevail for
cherries, apricots, peaches and pears
in the Wenatchee district for the COM
ing season.
Announcement is made that the nee
essary acreage has been secured at
Prosser to assure the establishment of
by-products plant for the making of
apple butter and jellies.
So numerous have false fire alarms
been In the last few weeks that the
Walla Walla city commissioners have
offered standing reward of $25 for
detection of the violators.
The state reclamation board will
hold special meeting at Olympia on
April 20 to consider the adoption of
final plans for the development of the
Acknowledgement project.
Exactly 245 houses were put up by
the government for sale at Bremerton
three weeks ago. Today there are but
three left The government obtained
s750,000 from the sale of the houses.
With So physicians in attendance,
representing the entire Inland Empire,
the sessions of the Whitman County
Medical society held in Pullman, were
the most successful In the history of
the society,
The Washingtonian, the school pa.
per of the Washington State school for
the deaf which has not been issued
for SIX weeks on account Of Illness at
the institution, has reappeared with
apologies for It's long silence.
By vote of 26l to 235, the Contra.
la school board at special election
was authorized to levy an additional
tax levy of mills to provide finances
for paying increased salaries recently
granted teachers by the board.
David p. Barrows, president of the
University of California, has subscrib.
ed 500 towards student loan fund
at the University Of Washington In
honor of Warren o. Grimm, who was
killed at Centialia on Armistice day.
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