Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-06-10
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS or INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

flag day.
strong opposition has developed
at Spokane to the proposed increase
in express rates.
The Pasco council has passed an
ordinance designed to protect milk
purchasers from tuberculosis infected
milk.
The gasoline shortgage has prac-
tically caused the discontinuance of
road construction in the Prosser dis
trict.
An extensive slaughter house and
meat and stock shipping concern have
been added to Valleys list of indus
tries.
Births and deaths In Aberdeen dur
ing May were exactly balanced, there
having been 81 births and 81 deaths
reported.
Hundreds of motor cars are report
ed halted along the highways between
Snoqualmie pass and Seattle for want
of gasoline.
Five hundred tons Of cordwood and
500 tons of rock will be used in filling
a hole in the Snoqualmie pass high
way, east of Falls City.
The Centralia Elks are raising q
fund of $4,000 to stage the city's July
4 celebration. The event will cover
three days, July 3. 4 and 5.
Snow from to feet in depth COW
ers considerable portion of the sum-
NIT of the Blue mountains, according
to reports Of forest rangers.
Twelve special trains carrying
Shriners from the East are scheduled
to pass through Spokane en- route to
Portland between June 10 and 81.
Forty-six fatal accidents were re-
ported to the Industrial insurance COM
mission during the month of May by
industries in the state Of Washington
Rapidly spreading forest fires were
reported last week to be menacing
large timber areas in the Olympic ma
tional forest In northwest Washington.
One of the four guns for battery A
of the field artillery has arrived at
Walla Walla. The guns are the ones
used by the 146th field artillery in
France.
Small lots of wheat have been
bought at Walla Walla for July and
August delivery for $3.50 bushel.
There has been no general buying,
however.
A special train of 10 cars will carry
more than 400 Spokane Shriners, mem
bers of FL Katif temple, to the imperi-
al council session at Portland. Or,
June 21-24.
The 1921 convention of the Wash
ington state grange will be held in
Colvllle 1t was decided Saturday at
the closing session of this years con-
vention at Aberdeen.
The contract has been awarded to-
A. E. Velguth for surfacing 10 miles
of the Central Washington highway
from Cornell north to the Adams
county line. His bid was s3705O.
Representative of the Wenatchee
district will meet at st. Paul with rep
resentatives of the Great Northern
railway to prepare a definite plan for
handling the apple crop of 1920.
Thursday, August IL, has been set
as the date for the annual Pioneer day
celebration at Rochester, to be held
under the auspices of the Southwest
Washington Pioneers association.
The Northern Pacific Railroad com
pany has given notice that 1t will
prosecute persons living in Pc Ell who
have been using the railroad right of
way in going to and from their work.
superior court jury at Walla ALA
returned verdict OF guilty against
four Franklin county men charged with
criminal syndicalism. The defendants
were George Chitwood, Edward Flo
gaus, Jack Battle and Jack Nelson.
The employees at the Alger Logging
company's camp near Skamokawa
were robbed of s1029 in time checks
more than $500 in cash and 500
liberty bond by two unmasked mon
who entered the clubhouse and held
the men up with revolvers
Owing to the lateness of the season
fruit crop prospects are uncertain,
according to a special Washington
state crop report issued by X. W.
Packard, assistant general freight
agent of the Spokane, Portland & Sc
attic railroad.
Lumber cargo shipments from Grays
Harbor, from January l to May 81,
totaled 141 million feet, an increase
of Al millions over the same period
last year. May shipments totaled
slightly over 30 millions, an increase
OF seven millions over last year.
william Pigott, foreign industrial
trade commissioner for the Washington
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