Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-05-20

An order has been issued by the
Tenino health officer directing the
boiling OF water for drinking purposes
The order is the result of report
from the state bacteriologist on sam
Piles of the water sent to that office
| for examination.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars will be spent by the Northern
Pacific railroad on inn rovements Of
its yards and tracks In the Yakima
valley, Much Of the expenditure will
be devoted to improvements at Top
penish and kennewick.
White Salmon valley shipped lis
| first Strawberries for the 1920 season
from the Henderson ranch at Bingen,
Wednesday. The berries brought so
cents hallock, or $12 a crate. 1t is
reported that Kennewick was one day
behind this section, having shipped
its first berries Thursday.
Forest fires. which are now under
control in the Salkum, Lacamas and
Ethel neighborhoods, 16 miles south
east of Chehalis, have done thousands
of dollars worth of damage to the
logging works of the Emery & Nelson
Mill company of Napavine and the
Chehalis Mill company of Chehalis.
Farming in the Colville valley is far
advanced. in spite of the late season.
Thousands of acres of the rich level
valley floor are green with fine
growth of alfalfa and farmers are pre-
dieting that with the great amount of
moisture this spring they will have
20 per cent increased hay crop over
last year.
government slide, five miles west of
Stevenson on the north bank highway,
for the purpose of letting contract for
construction Of the highway at this
point up to standard specifications.
This has been bad piece OF road and
it will be great benefit to have it
improved.
Tacoma voters will be asked to ap-
prove the expenditure of approximately
$3.50. 900 for the construction of an oil
unit in the public terminals, Chester
Thorne, chairman of the port commits
sion, told college men at a meeting
held at the University club. The tanks
are needed, Mr.. Thorne said, to care for
the increasing business in vegetable oil
Financing of the Seattle municipal
railway by bargain sales of street car
tickets in blocks of not less than 100
five-cent tickets is the suggestion of
City Controller Carroll. Mr.. Carroll
proposes that the tickets be sold at a
discount representing the 5 per cent
interest which the banks would charge
for handling street railway warrants
and in that way pay the interest by
those who ride on the cars
From the deck Of the ferry boat West
Seattle. in which he formerly served
as master, the ashes of the late Cap
tain Rodney S. Church, well-known Pu-
get sound mariner, will be sprinkled
on the waters of Elliott bay Sunday,
May 30, by officers of Washington as
ISOLATION No. IL, National Association
of Masters, Mates and Pilots of Ameri-
ca, of which he was member. This
unusual funeral will be held in accord
ance with the wish of Captain Church,
often expressed.
Upon application OF Maurice Lang
horne, attorney for the state hotel
keepers association, the Thurston
county superior court has issued
writ of review against the minimum
wage scale of SIS week granted to
hotel and restaurant employees by the
minimum wage conference several
weeks ago. The writ restraints the
industrial welfare commission from
putting the new scale into effect until
the case is tried in court otherwise
the increased scale would have become
effective June 2.
AT the convention of county school
directors of Pacific county, Mrs Jose
phine Corliss Preston outlined sched-
ule which she said the state depart
ment of education had determined up
on. For teachers with four years
of high school work and nine weeks
of normal training the minimum salary
would be 5000 per year, for teachers
with four years high school work and
one year of normal training s110O per
year, and for teachers with four years
of preliminary work and two years of
post graduate training in normal
school, $1,000.
David Rodgers, president and found
er of the David Rodgers Shipbuilding
Corporation of Seattle has abandoned
possession of the former Skinner &
Eddy yard No, 2, withdrawing all his
organization from the plant. A moment
after the shipbuilder passed through
| the gates Howard Cosgroye. Seattle