Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-11-26
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FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

The body of an unidentified man,
still warm and his watch ticking, was
found at Rcitmeir station, southwest
of Spokane with bullet hole in the
back Of the head.
At an enthusiastic meeting at Sat.
sop the Grays Harbor County Berry
Growers association adopted a consti'
tuition and bylaws. All present paid
initiation fees OF IS.
w. E. Thompson, a Cowicho farmer
Is putting new seed wheat on the
market and is meeting with ready
sales for his product at % bushel
The seed came originally from Russia
and yielded for Mr.. Thompson 6S.5
bushels per acre.
More than s$,OO0,0 600 was paid out to
labor during the few months it took
to harvest the five main crops OF
Yakima valley.
Sugar beet growers and workers OF
Yakima valley received $35S,0O0 for
beets delivered at the Toppenish fac.
tory during the past month.
Owners of property lying between
the Pacific highway and CAROLS
mountain have petitioned the Cow.
itz county commissioners to organ.
ze a diking district.
To provide better fire protection and
more certain water supply, Wenat-
chez has added to its system another
large pump and several thousand feet
of larger water mains.
Louis Gutzman, who had worked
II years for the Day Lumber company,
was instantly killed near SedrO-WOOl-
ley when snag fell from u tree and
struck him on the head.
Victor Anderson, GO-ycar-Old farm
er, 20 miles from Ellensburg, was muir.
dered at his home by unknown parties.
There were evidences that he had put
up a heroic battle for his life.
Henry c. gunner of Seattle has OBJ
tanned from the Yakima land office a
permit to prospect for oil and gas in
the Hanford district. He stated that
he was prepared to spend 100000 in
development.
A body which 1t is believed might
prove to be that of Mayor Perciyal of
Vancouver, who disappeared from Van
couver October II and who has not
been seen since, was discovered near
St Helens, Or.
Fifty thousand dollars will be eX-
pended next season by the Church Of
Christ in erection of dormitory for
the mission school which the church
plans to build near White Swan for
Yakima Indian children.
Engineers of the state reclamation
service are completing a survey of a
Centralia project by which it is pro.
posed to dredge the Chehalis river
and restore TO cultivation several
hundred acres Of land bordering the
river.
Mike Nordton has brought suit
against the city Of Wapato and several
of its former officials for $500, claim
ed as damages for being beaten by po-
licemen, as he alleges, when he was
arrested a year ago, and for neglect
after being imprisoned in the city Jail.
D. C. Coates, secretary of the farmer.
labor party for Washington, who filed
an initiative to the Legislature prOvid-
ing for city.owncd markets, has mott
fled the secretary of state that owing
to lack of time In which to obtain sig
natures no further steps would be
taken on that measure.
The state OF Washington paid out
$3,25O,S53 to Injured workmen and to
families OF workmen killed while en-.
gagged in hazardous occupations in the
year ending September 30, according
to the annual report of the industrial
insurance commission. The greatest
number Of deaths occurred in the log
ging industry, on which 152 claims
were settled
AS u part OF the nationwide cam
paign for the Improvement of schools
and other agencies OF education, Mrs.
Josephine Corliss Preston, superin-
tendent Of public instruction, has
named Sunday, December 8, as Edu-
cation Sunday. She urges that minis
ters use one or more of their services
on that day to emphasize the import
ance of education.
Officials Of the Standard Oil com.
pany have announced that they are
now prepared for active drilling at
two Grays Harbor county we'll sites.
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