Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-08-05

! EDWARD StanllelQ received tne an
nual prize of a four horse whip from
the Superior Milling company at Wi
mona for the first load of whea
brought in.
Mrs. George Clark, aged Al, of Spo
Lane, was killed when an automobile
In which she was riding left the roat
at the eastern end of Fourth of July
canyon, near Wallace Idaho.
The first Winter Banana apples Of
tie season were shipped out of Wenat
chez Friday for Alaska. This was the
earliest shipment of winter apples out
of he district by about 10 days.
Herbert Lane, Robert Adams and
George Peterson, Aberdeen boys, have
been awarded blue ribbon prizes for
construction of bird houses entered in
= national contest announced last May
A smut explosion destroyed separa
tor tank wagon containing 75
bushels of bulk grain just threshed
and strawstack on the Shaw and
Walters farm two miles west of Pres
colt.
Washington fourth-class postoffices
have been advanced to the presidential
class as Of July l, with salaries filed for
postmasters as noted in the following
Napavine, $1,000; Onalaska, $14OO;
Yacolt. $1,000.
Margaret Eichentopf, 4-year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Eich.
entopf of Hoquiam died at the Ho,
quiam general hospital from gunshot
wound inflicted by rifle accidentally
discharged by her father.
Mayor w. G. Hufford has just been
Informed that a 5-inch siege gun has
been allotted to Stevenson and will be
shipped as soon as arrangements can
be made. The gun is IL feet in length
and weighs approximately two tons.
For the week ending July "a lum-
Der production in Washington was 20
per cent below normal, orders were
20 per cent below production and 10
per cent above shipments Car sup
ply was approximately SO per cent OF
requirements
Centralia will entertain big crowd
~ legionnaires on August 10 and IL.
when Franklin D'Olier, national COM
mander of the american Legion, will
make pilgrimage to the graves OF
four former service men who were
victims of l. w. w. on November IL,
last.
Roy Goodrich, aged 80, a truck driver
employed by R, c. Sargent, mayor Of
Aberdeen, was instantly killed on the
Olympic highway, three miles south of
Humptulips, when dead tree snapped
at the base and fell across the road,
striking Goodrich and fracturing his
skull.
The Washington national guard is
regarded as among the three or four
most efficient in the United States by
national guard inspectors, according to
lOrge Acret of Aberdeen, who was
,ijutant of the second battalion of the
recent encampment at Camp Murray.
The only organizations considered as
well developed as the Washington
Guard are those OF Ohio and West Vir-
yinia.
A central union representing the
ocals of the Loyal Legion of Loggers
and Lumbermen OF Grays Halbor was
organized at meeting held in Ho.
GUAM
Amendment to the state law cover.
ing unlawful selling of narcotics, to
raise the offense from misdemeanor
to felony was recommended to the
meeting Of the state association Of
prosecuting attorneys, which was held
at Aberdeen, by Prosecuting Attorney
Brown OF Seattle.
The skeleton of a mastodon was
found in the clay pit Of the Granger
Brick company, west of Sunnyside.
The bones are in good condition and
1t Is believed that when they are all
uncovered the skeleton can be easily
reconstructed. The tusks are about
four feet long and one tooth weighed
five pounds.
p. L. Sands, Seattle, was elected
president of the Washington auto
mobile chamber of commerce at the
sixth annual convention in session at
Aberdeen. Leon Titus, Centralia, was
elected yice.pros!dent and W. j. Coyle,
Seattle, managing secretary. The con
yention adopted resolution indors!pg