Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-06-24

DceH II Guys making NIB way from
Bromorton In an endeayOr to cruise to
San Francisco.
without Il hitch In the program, the
1850 ton steel steamship Rotarian, last
OF the shipping board vessels TO be con.
structed In the northwest and named
and sponsored by the Tacoma Rotary
club, slid down the ways at the Todd
Drydock and Construction company
yards at Tacoma.
Probably the youngest airplane pas,
senger In the United States IL Master
Jack Edgar Scace, the l7-months.old
son OF Dr. and Mrs. Lee Scace OF
Centralia, who Monday apparently en-.
joyed Commute flight over CentralIa
with his father in plane piloted by
Lieutenant II. b. Scovell
A piece from what loggers declare
Is the largest log ever cut In the
Pacific northwest Is on display at the
Shriners' convention in Portland this
week. This log, which ID ~ feet six
inches In diameter at the butt, IL 2S
feet long and weighs 4S tons. 1t was
cut near Montesano on Grays Harder.
In spite Of salary Increases OF from
70 to 80 per cent during the last two
years, and general lettering OF teach.
Ing conditions throughout the coun.
try, there is still an acute shortage
OF elementary and rural school teach.
ers In the northwest, according to
heads OF various teachers' agencies in
Spokane.
Mayor Caldwell Saturday signed an
ordinance recently passed by the Sc.
attic city council providing for l0.cent
cash and 6A.cent token" car fares
on Seattles municipal street railway
system. The increased fares become
effective July 49, Present fares are
now cents. Under the new ordinace,
now s cents. Under the new ordinance,
A total precipitation of 1.35 inches
has been recorded at Washington State
college station for the first Is days Of
June, as against an average for the
last 81 years Of Is inches During
the last five days of the period, the
rainfall was 6 of an inch The entire
precipitation this month has been in
spasmodic showers and has gone into
the soil.
A white Wyandotte hen at the
western Washington experiment sta.
ton at Puyallup has just made an egg
laying record that is extraordinary
This hen laid one egg every day for rs
consecutive days. On the seventy
ninth day she LAID double egg of un.
usual size. For the last seven months
each hen In the station contest has laid
81 out Of each 100 days.
The shotgun" drive, waged last
week under the auspices of the Lewis
county farm bureau and during which
an auto squadron Of farm specialists
visited numerous communities in the
vicinity to assist farmers with their
everyday problems, closed with meet.
ings at Toledo and Forest More than
20 meetings were held during the
week, all of which we're well attended.
The Washington branch of the Ma
tional League of Postmasters, includ.
ing the third and fourth class post
masters Of the state. closed its SEES
sion at Wenatchee with the election
of the following officers: w. ]. Taylor,
Winesap, president; Mrs. Gertrude
Beatty, Chapako, secretary-treasurer
Next years convention will be held at
Burton, Vashon island about the mid
die OF June.
The East Waterway Dock and Ware.
house company of Seattle, In which The
First National Bank of San Francisco
is said to have recently acquired CON
trolling ownership has announced the
purchase foS 100000 from the Oregon
Washington Railroad and Navigation
company of the 25.acre site on which
its ocean terminal on Harbor Island
hitherto held under lease from the rail.
road company, is located.
T. F. Peterman, pioneer lumberman
and manufacturer died at Tacoma
after lingering illness. He was
known throughout the state through
his connection with the construction Of
state institutions. He was associated
in the building of the first state capt.
tai buildings at Olympia, the state
college at Pullman, and at the time
of his death was completing a contract
on the Temple OF Justice at Olympia.
That rates for light and power
charged by the Puget Sound lnterna.
tional Railway G. Power company in
Everett and vicinity are unreason
able, unjust and more than sufficient
is charged by the public service com
mission. The utility company Is order.
ed within 10 days to file reduced
schedule OF rates applying to all light
and nDwer earyicp which will WELD