Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-09-09


has been finished. The yield was from
10 to 20 bushels per acre.
The Aberdeen city council has pass.
cd an ordnance prohibiting Sunday
evening dances in public places.
J. B. Smythe OF Yacolt, Il logger, was
killed at the Chehals Logging com
pany plant by being struck on the head
by a log.
With sugar on the decline there is
shortage at Walla Walla, as dealers
are refusing to purchase on a declln-
ing market.
The fish hatchery being constructed
at Merrill's lake by Clarke and Cow
litz counties is almost completed and
ready for use.
Speeders in Lincoln county have
paid in fines $l992 for the year end
Ing August |. In 1919 the total Of
fines was $50.
Arthur Stivers, who owns 40 acres
near Garfield, has raised crops this
season that will pay the interest on
$500 per acre land
The budget of estimated expendi-
lures for the city of Davenport for
1920 calls for s13,73S, an increase OF
S231S over last year.
The Lewis river forest fire covered
an area Of more than 1000 acres before
being controlled, and caused loss of
$4,000 to standing timber
Mrs. Anna f. Bracha, an employee at
the Oregon Packing company at Van
Couver, was killed when she was struck
by switch engine on the tracks near
the packing plant.
The total value of real estate in
Grays Harbor county, as tabulated by
the county assessor is $3l, 103,6S2.
There are 392,164 acres of timber land,
valued at s1S,246,425.
Purchase of Hawthorne farm, the
former home of the late U. S. Sena-
tor Allen, by w. G. Cordiner, is an
nounced. The place consists Of 20
acres near WalIa Walla.
Owing to ill-hea!th Mrs. Mary S.
Huntley has resigned as deputy super
intendcnt of schools for Lewis county.
Mrs. A. Hubbard OF Centralia has been
appointed to succeed her.
The Grays Harbor county farm bu-
eau has recommended the employment
next year of an assistant county farm
agent and suspension OF boys and
girls agricultural club work i'll the
county.
The construction Of new reservoir
FOR fire purposes at Centralia has been
abandoned until next spring owing to
the fact that bids received for the
work were greatly in excess of the
| engineers estimate.
The city comm ssi0ners of Walla
Walla have fixed the tentative tax levy
for the coming y1Ir at 1925 mills,
against 1926 last year. The amount
to be raised however, is 1913, 450 as
against 1854, sos last year.
A committee of Tacoma Business
men has started out to raise $4,000
for the Pacific Lutheran college at
Falkland. A fund of $4,000 has al
ready been obtained 10 give the college
necessary improvements.
The special pest tax" of 10 cents
an acre levied in Spokane county is
held invalid by the supreme court, be-
cause of failure of the county com
missioners to make a classification OF
lands included in the district.
During the first eight months OF
the present var permits were issued
for the construction of new buildings
in Tacoma having an estimated cost of
$3,777,712, or nearly 100000 in ex-
cess Of the total construction for last
year,
The largest Still ever found In Lewis
county was located by Sheriff Berry
and Deputy Roberts on the north
Lewis county line on Garrett creek,
near Oakville. 1t was of heavy copper
md had a capacity Of about 90 gallons
day.
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