Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-08-26

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nee to alfalfa crops around Touchet,
according to w. II. Talley, Walla
Walla county agent.
A high wind In the Yakima valley
has done considerable damage TO the
fruit crop. Pears just ready for pick
Ing were badly injured.
The Whitman county commissioners
have appointed Beatrice Short OF
Spokane as public health nurse to sue.
coed Mrs. May Cameron King.
he population of Whitman county
Is 81 1928, according to announcement
of the census bureau This Is q de.
crease Of 1857, or SO per cent,
Francis Delivuk, aged 10, was fatally
injured when an automobile in which
he was riding with three companions
collIded with another car at Oppor
tunity.
While the census shows that St
lIelcns precinct in Skamania county
has population of three it is a gain
CT 500 per cent over 1910 when the
population was single person.
BY direction of State Fish Commits
siOner Darwin $4,000 rainbow trout fry
are to be planted at an early date in
Lewis county streams. The fry are
TON the Chambers creek hatchery.
The city OF Centrallia will penalize
the North Coast Power company for
Interruptions in power service to the
city during the past week, which have
caused considerable loss to local in.
Lustries.
J. l.. Dana, fighting fire near Hunt.
ers, was killed when falling tree
crushed him. Dana had been fighting
fire for so hours and was too ex-
naused to move as the blazing tree
crashed down
Five million bushels Of wheat have
been signed up by the Washington
Wheat GroW1rs association and will
be held for cooperative marketing,
according to A. A. Gilmore, advisory
bead of the association.
Thomas p. Charge, superintendent of
the state school for the deaf at Van:
rolver for the past Is years has re-
signed He will be succeeded by
George B. Lloyd of Trenton, N. j.,
who was formerly connected with the
school.
Eight drug stores of the state sold
1l44 gallons of essence of ginger in
two months this year according to
President Robertson of the State
Druggists association The legiti,
mate call, he said did not exceed
four gallons.
Robert C. Saunders, United States
attorney at Seattle, announced that
he had instructed federal prohibition
agents to make no further searches of
private residences for liquor unless
they had absolute proof that unlawful
sales were being made.
A proposal to convene a congress OF
American labor representatives from
central labor councils to oppose any
war move by President Woodrow vii.
son against Russia on behalf OF Poland
was approved by the Seattle Central
Labor council.
The Grays Harbor Rod and Gun
club has adopted a resolution urging
the state, legislature to pass a law
prohibiting the use of fire arms by
boys under 16. The clubs campaign
for membership has resulted in the
addition Of more than coo members.
George Shedden. about 65, secretary
Of the state board of accountancy,
and member of the firm OF Shedden
& McAdams, certified public account
ants, with offices in Seattle and Ia
coma, was found dead from heart
trouble in his room at a Walla Walla
hotel.
The Morrow logging company,
which has been logging the timber
purchased by Robert Barr, north of
Castlerock, is completing operations
and the last Of the timber, amounting
to several million feet, will be driven
down the Cowlitz river this fall with
the first rains.
Steps will be taken to induce tho
federal government to define more
closely the restrictions governing the
sale of patent medicines, jamaica gin
ger and other liquids having alcoholic
content, 1t was decided at meeting Of
wholesale druggists of the Pacific coast
held in Seattle,