Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-22
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viii be held at Spokane January a 10
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Walla Walla high school students
cleared $1,000 through athletics ny Ia
the flrh Of ihe year,
Samuel Ilarowlis nearly died d me
Aberdeen police headquarters from tha
effects OF drinking moonshlnr vhist3
Fire caused by his trying 20 liil IS
llgbtcd ra5ollne lamp Totally desifog
ed the homo Of John Hopper al clW
quato.
Another rabbit drive has been plan
ned at Burbank for Sunday. January
20, % clean up the rabbits which were
lelt from the last two drives
orders for the discontlnuance Of
the twclnh division headquarters at
Snokane Of the reserve officers train.
ing corps have been received
The construction OF a grain elevator
10 have a capacity OF 100000 hnshels
has been started on the property of the
Centennial Min company AT Spokane.
The walia walla Gardeners assocla.
ton handled last year more than $500
coo worth Of produce. and returns To
growers were declared very satisTae,
tory,
New cane sugar will rotail FOR 1872
cents pound IN Seattle the King
county lalr.price committee has de.
cidcd Later the price may touch 1914
cents
Farmers of Grnys iiarbor county are
arranging to plant increased acreage
to berrles on account OF the establish.
ing Of fruit and vegetable cannory at
Monteaano,
Lake ouinRlt school district. which
has one Of the most modern concrete
school buildings in Grays llarbor
county il debating the matter OF a
cottage for The teachers.
Twenty-six farm bureaus, TO be con-
soldatcd into one large county farm
GERS organization, VIII be organized In
spokane county early IN January, ac.
coFding TO County Asr!euturist J. II.
Shinn.
The lewis county commissioners re-
Gently appropriated $4,000 10 he used
TO protect tho hank OF Lewis river
at Roblnsons Bend. about Two miles
cast Of Woodland, which viii be done
by riprap work
by raising the best potatoes in
Clarke county. Esther Touinen, u
years old, and living in the Lewis
river district, wen a prize of $50,
which was awarded at the potato day
celebration Of Hockinson.
John Knelp II years old. confessed
slayer of Nazarene Braconi on Noyem.
Der 3 Of last year vas convicted ct
marder in the first degree at Tacoma
The Jury Recommended a sentence
without the death penalty
The Industrial insurance commission
has announced the appointment of JOHN
W. Gordon of Seattle, as chief claim
admster. Gordon is named to succeed
h. NJ. Fuller, whose resignation the
commission called for last week
Announcement that The internation-
al BARRIERS union has appropriated
$4,000 and has detailed an organizer
to fisEt the open shop" movement
among barber sheps of Spokane. was
made by officials Of the local union.
The first definite move to relieve
the congested living conditions in We
uatchee bag been made by the lorna
ton OF a company which will erect
a modern apartment house Of 25 apart
ments at cost OF approximately $780,
600.
The Decent street car fare, which
the Tacoma stree, railway desired to
put into effect Sunday. was suspended
for go days by the state public service
commission at Olympia. The higher
fare cannot come into effect before
March IS
Robert McAdam and Leo Burksbire,
1. W. W.. found guilty of violating the
criminal cyndicalism law by jury
in the superior court Of Clarke county,
were sentenced by Judge II r. Back
to serve from one to ten years in the
state reformatory at Monroe.
The Interstate commerce commits.
sion has notified the public service
commission Of this state that time to
Tile objections to the findings favering
an Oregon freisht rate differential
made by Henry Therbel interstate com
mission examiner, mad been extended
TO February 10.
Membership in the / W. W was
declared a felony by the verdict of a
Thurston county jury at Olympia
when Frank Hastings and Elias Mat
son. members or the organization
we're found guilty under the criminal
syndicalism act for mere membership
in the anarchistic order
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