Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-05-13
WASHINGTON STATE
News OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.


Tenino has been perfected,
Centralias bank deposits at the close
OF business May totaled S3,257 1922.
Drainage district No. has been
formed to drain about 995 acres east
of Montesano.
The Grays River Single company's
plant at Grays River was practically
destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Lester G. Servis, 20, daughter
of Governor and Mrs. Louis F. Hart,
died In Tacoma following an operation.
Seventeen animals out of 513 COWS
in 81 herds of Grays Harbor county
were found tubercular in two weeks
| test.
Virtual elimination OF jltney bus
competition against municipal street
railway operations has been agreed up.
on at Seattle
Sunset highway, across Snoqualmie
pass, was opened to automobile traffic
HG edIllcbl pIeNlUuS CpG!l-
ing of the pass was June OF last
year
The Carlisle.Pennell Lumber COM
pany's big mill at Onalaska resumed
operations Monday after three weeks
shutdown to allow electrical installa-
ton.
Spokane. ranking as 4Sth city in the
country in 1910, had decrease of 1913
In population in the past ten years and
now has 1O4,2O4, the census bureau an.
nounced
One hundred and fifty Grays Harbor
residents have organized to work for
the passage of an 100000 port de-
velopment bond issue, to be voted on
June rs.
The 1kyearold son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Aust, living mile from
Fe Ell, was drowned when he fell
into crock Of water while playing in
the house.
Miss Rose Fowler, extension worker
for Ellensburg Normal school, spent
week In Cowlitz county, addressing
teachers and pupils on means of i'm.
proving silent reading.
The Grays Harbor Rod and Gun
club will make application for 1,OO0,-
900 eastern brook, cutthroat and rain.
bow trout to be liberated in waters OF
Grays Harbor county.
Clyde Otis Robinson, 16-year.old son
of Postmaster Otis Robinson of Lan,z,
was burned to death in a fire which
destroyed garage on the farm of D.
G. Galloway. near Lantz.
Grays Harbor clam season, now near
ing close, has been much better than
last season, according to local pack
ers, and, with fair weather to June
l, will be fully up to normal
The present season on Lewis river
promises to be one Of the most active
in many years. as every mill and log.
ging camp in the district has either
started up or will do so shortly.
Charles Watson Of Doty, was shot
and fatally wounded by police officers
who claim that he refused to obey an
order to halt an automobile in which
he was riding with companion.
The union school board of the newly
consolidated district at Oakland has
taken initial steps looking toward the
voting of $4,000 in bonds for new
school building for the district at Oak
VILE.
Dan Stewart, Joe McCaskil and o.
Kowalchuk, three |. w. W., in Jail
at Walla Walla since November is
last. were found guilty of criminal syn.
dicaism by jury in the superior
court
Wednesday, May IL, the Elma Com.
munity club ran an auto excursion to
Puyallup, leaving Elma at In the
morning, to view the berry fields and
the intensive farming operations of the
Puyallup valley.
Frank X. Kaynor, one of the leading
trapshooters of the Northwest. died
at his home in Seattle at the age of
49, He won the sectional medal at
the Portland trapshoot last year and
the state medal at Yakima
w. e. (PussyfooD Johnson prohibi.
tl1n leader who recently returned from
campaign in England, will speak in
| Spokane July Z, 1t was announced.
Other northwestern dates include Ia.
coma. July s; Seattle, July 0.
A thorough reorganization Of the
Tacoma police force, involving changes
in nearly all departments of the serv.
Ice, has been ordered as the first of.
fetal act of the new commissioner of
public safety, Fred Shoemaker.
Fruit interests at Underwood have
been notified that all apple warehouses
Along the Spokane Portland & Seattle
railroad there must be moved several
hundred feet to the west In order to
make room for yard extension.