Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-05-20
WASHINGTON STATE
News OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

munity building has begun at Colfax.
The second hearing on the minimum
wage for women was held at Olympia
May is,
From 500 head of sheep Carl Dick.
son of Harrington obtained 1000
pounds of wool.
Magpies are reported to be destroy
ing the eggs of Chinese pheasants in
Kittitas valley.
Announcement ia made OF the con-
templated erection at Spokane of a
sl,0000O0 theatre.
Architects from different northwest
cities participated in an exhibit held
In Tacoma last week
Central Christian church of Spokane
raised 100000 last Sunday to wipe out
its entire indebtedness.
Union transfers at Tacoma have
gone to work after 10 day strike. Ar
bitration will be invoked.
The two banks of Davenport show
an increase in deposits of $244,522 over
the same period last year.
The statements of the two Odessa
banks show combined deposits in ex-
cess of one million dollars.
The Chehalis Citizens club has APP
proved the plan of building public
auditorium and memorial hall.
The Columbia river several days ago
took decided rise at Vancouver and
is now nine feet above normal.
/ Edward V. Brown has been engaged
by the Priest Pass irrigation district
to make surveys of the proposed pro-
joct.
Weather the last few days in the
Walla Waila valley has been excellent
for all crops, and big yield is looked
forward to.
contract for the construction of
SO blocks of Prosser sidewalks has
Just been let The total estimated cost
is $4,000.
Petitions are being generally signed
at Walla Walia for the widening OF
Main street by cutting down the width
of the sidewalks.
John Backlund. bucker, employed
at the Brix Logging company's camp in
the Grays River district, committed
suicide by cutting his throat
The body of Johnnie Dennis, age
| TO- VINO was drowned a month ago at
Lewiston, has been found floating in
the Snake river at Penawawa.
The annual meeting of the Clarke
county cow testing association was
h i at Vancouver Friday to secure the
'.ryices of an expert COW tester.
Industrial concerns of Spokane are
making check of their employees, in
an effort to locate local residents who
were not enumerated in the 1920 CEN
sus
The Western Veneer & Basket com
pany's entire plant and two dwellings
at Raymond were entirely destroyed
by fire which broke out in the basket
factory's yard.
The Cowlitz county and the Kalama
Red Cross chapters will consolidate
and be known as the Cowlitz Wahkia-
kum Red Cross chapter, which will
have It's headquarters at Kelso.
y aglss Shelor. secretary of the
Automobile club Of western Washing
ton, Expresses the opinion that auto
mol lie drivers will be placed on gas
oline ration before the summer is over
The Industrial code commission will
4 be in Vancouver May rs and 81 to con
fer with employers and employees rel
ative to laws to be submitted to the
coming legislature for the elimination
OF industrial disputes.
Fire broke out in the Willapa Lum-
Der company's kiln at Raymond, de-
stroying the kiln and its entire con-
tents Of drying lumber, a sorting shed
and quantity of lumber in the stor-
age yard, with a loss of s150,0OO,
Harry Letter, connected with Seat
tle-Yakima automobile house, was the
first driver to bring truck across the
SnoQualmle pass this spring. He took
nine hours for the trip, and encounter
ed snow two feet deep at the summit
Because she was charged with hay
ing used hatpin in bargain sale
rush at the opening of a new lO.ceut
store In Spokane, Mrs, f. j. Brown was
arrested on charge of third.degree
assault OH r Langeloh, fellow shop
per.
Carl Werner Lundeen, resident of
Aberdeen for the past 10 years. and
employed as powder man on road con
struction work or North river, about
IL miles from Aberdeen, was killed
when blast he had set exploded
premamrely
Demand has been made on the ad.
miiiStrOtion at Washington for the re.
moyOl from office OF United States
District Attorney Robert C. Saunders