Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-04-08
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences OF Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

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halls viii be extended 10 Eagleton.
Women rifle marksmen Of the Uni.
versity of Washington have organized
club.
Centralia school children since the
first OF the year have invested s262l In
Thrift Stamps.
Tacoma building permits touched a
new high record during March. with
total OF s1,19s.2s2,
May 81 to June 8. Inclusive, have
been announced as the dates Of Cen
tralia's 1920 Chautauqua
The annual track meet of the Cow
litz county schools will be held at
Woodland Saturday May s.
Between $500 and $500 has been OBJ
tanned from Aberdeen merchants by
man presenting worthless checks.
The right of employers to combine
10 maintain the open shop policy has
been upheld by Judge French of Sc
attic.
Breeders of Jersey cattle in the
Chehalis section have formed a per
manent organization and elected Of
ficers
Plans have been made for holding
an Older Boys conference in Pasco
on Friday. Saturday and Sunday. April
16, II and IS.
Fishing interests report the second
big run of smelt of the season in the
cowltz river. after disappearance
of several weeks,
Engineers of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho attended conference Tues
day called by the Associated Engineer
ing Societies of Seattle.
Ambrose McAfee, the first perman-
ent settler in the Humptulips district.
Is dead He settled there SO years ago
and engaged in cattle raising.
Estimates at the Yakima land office
indicate that 10000 acres have been
covered by oil prospecting filings in
2 the district served by that office
Validity of the land settlement act
passed by the 1919 legislature to pro-
vide farms for soldiers has been up
held by the state supreme court.
By the upsetting of canoe in tho
Qunault river at Tahola, Miss Edith
Lowe, school teacher In the Franklin
school at Aberdeen was drowned.
Extensive repair work undertaken by
the Columbia irrigation district for the
improvement Of the Kennewick irriga.
ton system, is nearing completion.
The Washington highway commits
sion has awarded contracts for three
grading, one paving and one bridge
Job, the total cost OF which will aggre-
gate s35O.OO0
Mayor Caldwell of Seattle has asked
the city council to enact more stringent
regulations of iitney lines In order to
reduce the deficit in the operation of
the municipal railway.
In u hearing before the state indus
trial commission al Seattle so hotel
men of the state declared that The pro-
posed minimum wage OF SIS week
for women was excessive.
Regeneration OF old mats Will be the
opening feature OF the 10 days series
Of home economics lectures to be given
at Spokane by the Washington state
college extension department.
The Walla Walla Commercial club
has decided on cleanup campaign.
A captain in each block in the down
town district will be named to see that
the block is kept clean OF refuse.
The seventh semi-annuaI convention
of the northeastern Washington dis.
trict of the Federation of Women's
Clubs will be held April 10 at Wash
ington State college in Pullman.
very substantial increase in the
strawberry acreage OF the White
Salmon valley section will take place
this spring; setting OF several hun
bred thousand plants being planned
The fiye-acre orchard home of Geo
Scheidemantel at wenatchee has been
sold for $4,000. or $4,000 an acre, the
highest price ever paid for apple or
chard land in the Wenatchee district.
Seattle has IA jitney lines whose
yearly revenue is approximately ST.
14OSs5. II they were eliminated it is
claimed that the receipts of the munlc-
ipal street car system would be in
creased 100000
An investigation of the cost of liv-
ing by the state college shows that in
only five cities IN the state is the cost
of living higher than in Pullman The
five are Newport, Ephrata, waltsburg.
Tekoa and Ritzviile
The graduating class Of June 10,
1920, will constitute the largest class
in the history of the state college at
Pullman, 21S students being candidates
TOR collegiate degrees and eight asplr-
ing to graduate honors.
Two bond issues are planned at