Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-28

Registration figures show that there
are 1926 voters in Spokane,
EGGS touched 81 a dozen at Spokane
Saturday, when the price advanced 10
cents.
For the first time in its history the
Colray high school has an enrolment
exceeding 300.
About sl25,0OO will be spent at Wal.
Ia Walla charging the Northwest
Christian home.
Mayor Caldwell has turned down the
Seattle street car mems request for
increased wages.
Ninty men and women enrolled on
the first night Of the citizenship
classes at Aberdeen.
Marine bridge" will be the official
name Of new concrete bridge over
Latah creek at Spokane.
Joseph S. Woodward, aged 81, pio-
neer OF Spokane county, dropped dead
III HIS nome AT WILDWOOD.
Burglars entered Hutchinson's shoe
store at Chehalis and got away with
$500 concealed in shoebox.
In a proclamation Governor Hart
has designated the week from October
80 to November as apple week"
II favorable weather prevails, the
concrete pavement between Walla Wal
la and Dixie will be completed within
10 days.
Grays Harbor mill at Hoquiam has
put on a night shift of 100 men, CIV
ing continuous activity In the mill for
"a hours.
Six women were included in the
class Of successful candidates admitted
to practice law by the supreme court
at Olympia.
AT Special election the voters of
Hatton decided to purchase the Harter
water works and bond the town for
the payment of same.
Seattle streetcar men have demand
ed flat rate of rs cents an hour for
all motormen and conductors employed
on the municipal railway.
The hardware, implement and grain
establishment of the w. L. Shearer
company at Toppenish was destroyed
by fire, with loss of $4,000.
If housing can be obtained a com.
plete harvester factory will be built
at Walla Walla by the Harris Manufac.
turing company of Stockton, Cal.
A campaign has been launched at
Everett to raise s150,O0O for the re.
modelling of the Columbia college build
ing into modernly equipped hospital,
Charles Philip Mumm, aged 16. son
of Fred Mumm of Everett, was shot
accidentally and instantly killed while
hunting ducks on the Stanwood flats.
Compilation of registration figures
for all counties in Washington shows
that 496,573 citizens are eligible to
vote in the November general cleo
ton.
Bears have been more numerous In
the vicinity of Kelso this fall than
for years. A number of the animals
have been killed by hunters on the
Coweeman.
Establishment of overnight freight
service between HoQuiam and Port.
land to accommodate Hoquiam mer-
chants has been announced by rail
road officials.
For the first time in years Cowlitz
county will raise enough money next
year to do some permanent improve
ment on the county roads. A mill
levy will raise s75,639,
The weekly review Of the West Coast
Lumbermen's association shows con
tinued depression in the trade with
new business showing II per cent be.
low normal for the week.
After a quarrel between the two.
John North, aged 81, logger. shot and
killed Mrs. Olga Kantonen, aged 40,
proprietor of an Aberdeen bathhouse,
and then killed himself.
One thousand acres Of standing
wheat, with cash value approaching
$4,000, will 60 uncut in the vicinity
OF Pullman unless radical change in
weather conditions takes place.
The Northwest Hereford breeders
have completed details for their sale
to be put on in Spokane Thursday,
November 4, in connection with the
Western Royal Live Stock show
The first unit of the Sanford Eric.
sion Thresher company's new plant
on Ford's Prairie, a mile west of Cen.
tralla has been completed, and work
will start Immediately on the second
unit.