Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-06-17
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

manufactured 30,7OO pounds OF butter
In May.
Workmen have begun construction
Of the Farmers Union Warehouse con.
crete elevator at Palouse,
The date for the dedication OF the
new Elks' temple Of Olympia has been
set for Saturday, June rs.
Cement is being poured on the five
mile stretch OF the Olympic highway
between Elma and Brady.
The total rainfall in the Walla Wal
Ia valley was CT of an inch. 1t was
general throughout the valley.
rhe secretary of state has already
issued 625 chauffeur licenses, as COM
pared with about 500 this time last
year.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Grays Harbor county closed
its 9th annual convention at Monte
sano Friday.
The federal board Of engineers for
rivers and harbors plans to reach
Grays Harbor in its study of Pacific
coast ports and port conditions August
10.
Overcome by gas fumes in tunnel
of the Old Dominion mine near Col
Vile, three men, Peter McDougal, Geo.
Shannon and Ed Sheldon, lost their
lives.
Three new temporary school build.
ings are being constructed in Wenat.
chez to provide room for $50 addition
al pupils who can not be accommodate
ed in the regular building.
Seattle's jitney ordinance, attacked
In the federal courts, was upheld In
all respects in decision filed In the
federal court by the three United
States judges who heard the case May
81.
The Judea White Shrine of Cen.
tralia expects to entertain visitors
from all parts Of southwest Washing
ton at a ceremonial June II, when a
class of SO candidates will be init
ated
The Eagles committee is making a
canvass of Vancouver to obtain rooms
for 5000 Eagles, who will be there as
delegates, with their friends and wives
June %. 20 and "a, for the state con-
vention.
The clam pack for Grays Harbor for
the season which closed June l totals
$4,000 cases, or 2,SSO,O00 cans. Be-
tween 400 and 500 persons were en-
ployed in the industry for three
months.
Parents of pupils of the Chehalis
high school, by referendum vote of
III for and 107 against, have indicated
their willingness for dancing during
the next year under school and faculty
supervision.
The sugar crop now being harvested
in the Philippine islands will aggre-
gate 225,000 tons for export, said a
statement received from Honolulu by
the Seattle chamber of commerce for
eign trade bureau.
The re-cruise Of the timber lands of
Cowlitz county, which is now being
hn oh oil in
crease of nearly one billion feet of
timber on the lands cruised, compared
with the 1908 cruise.
The Lewis-Pacific County Dairy,
mems association meeting, held in
Chehalis Saturday, attracted hundreds
of milk producers from various sec
lions of Lewis and Pacific and adjoin-
ing counties to the city.
Clark R. Jackson, a we'll known dem.
ocrat of Chehalis, will attend the dem.
ocratic national convention at San
Francisco as delegate in place OF
Mrs. Ernest Lister. Mrs. Lister is un,
able to attend, according to report.
The Fourth of July celebration OF
Willapa Harbor will extend over three
days, July 3, 4 and 5, and will be held
at South Bend, the county seat OF Pa
cific county. Two torpedo boat de-
stroyers and navy seaplane have
been procured.
A petition has been presented to the
Clarke county commissioners by
residents and property owners In and
near Hockinson, asking that they be
allowed to establish a drainage dis
trict. There are from 5000 to 5000
acres in the proposed project. This
will make the fifth such district In
this county.
The apple crop OF Washington will
be under the yield of 1919. The Wash
ington crop this year, based on con
dtion of SIS per cent Of normal OF
June l, is estimated by G. S. Ray
yield agent of the bureau of crop esti
mates, United States department o.
agriculture, at 17O56,0O0 bushels, az
compared with 19,136,o00 bushels las
year. Winter injury was quite severe
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