Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-07-29

Endico,t will do It's own street paw
ing. Bids have been advertised fol-
pnd only one was received, which was
considered too high.
The crop OF spring wheat about
Cotton and throughout Whitman coun
ty VIII be the best In recent years
according to reports.
Men looking for harvest work are ar
irving at Pomeroy in automobiles and
camping at the tourist park while wait
Ing for threshing to begin.
After many delays, due to difficulty
In securing materials, the new First
National Bank building OF Oroville will
be opened formally July 81.
Pig club members from Spokane
Stevens and Pend Oreille counties at
tended the sessions OF pig judging
training contest in Spokane.
Officers of the Winlock branch OF
the Washington Egg and Cooperative
association expect to produce $4,000
cases a month within a short time.
Tacoma's street-car fare will be in
creased from I to 10 cents, with q
provision allowing the sale Of IL
tickets for 81, according to predictions
Active work is to begin on the con.
struction of Centralia's new reservoir
TO be placed on Seminary hill adjacent
to the old reservoir. II is to be used
for fire protection.
Coincdent with the establishment
of increased rates OF fare on Seattles
Municipal Street Railway system
conductors and motormen are asking
an advance in pay.
The Odessa commercial club voted
to ask for formal hearing through
the state public service commission on
the application to have Great Northern
train No. 2 stop at Odessa.
Two Washington counties show a
decrease: Lincoln, population 1914,
decrease of 2S9S or 1871 per cent,
and Walla Walla county, 1859, de-
crease of 1892 or 1873 percent.
Harvest hands around Walla Walla
are giving the police less trouble this
year than ever before. There have been
no fights, no petty thieving and no
loud and Objectionable talking.
A carpenter crew under C. H. Nico-
demus, with cookhouse crew and
helpers, has arrived at Westport for
work on the new radio station there,
coming from the Bremerton navy
yard.
NJ T. oConnell, Winlock timberman,
was the only bidder when L. P Brown,
county treasurer, sold tract of river
frontage near kalama which came into
the possession of Cowlitz county by
tax foreclosure,
An increase of over million dol
lars in bank deposits is shown in the
statements of Koquiam banks for the
first half OF the y.ar ending June 80,
or gain Of over rs per cent over the
last half of 1919.
To aid the farmers in the protection
of their crops, the Palouse Chamber
nf r,n,p,ar,o will bo,o ,l,oyo1, ,,l
grain sacks stored at some central
place where they can be quickly Sc
cured in case of a grain fire
Japanese picture bride" marriages
are illegal in Washington, according to
ruling by Attorney General Thomp
son, The decision was given in an.
swer to a question by Fred c. Brown,
King county prosecuting attorney, The
legality of picture bride" weddings
was challenged in Seattle recently
when a superior judge there refused
to grant divorce on the ground that
no marriage had ever taken place
reports that fake traffic cops are
working the PullmanC olfax and Pull.
man-Colton highways have come to
County Traffic Officer Arthur Henry
and the speed official warns all county
drivers to pay no heed to the fake of.
ticials when demands are made for
deposits for appearance in court or for
fine money.
Sheriff Gimmal of Dayton has a
warrant for the arrest of George C.
Boyd OF Walla Walla, charging him
with the robbery of the Bank OF Star.
buck recently. Boyd's picture has been
positively identified, says Sheriff Gin.
mel, as the man who Saturday morn
ing locked the cashier bookkeeper and
customer in the vault and then took
S227O from the cash drawer,