Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-12-30

A fight to force the Belllngham
traction company to reduce street car
fares, now cents, will made by the
city council.
The price of fresh milk has advanc,
ed 3 cents quart in Aberdeen and
Hoquiam, following the end Of re-
cent milk war.
Fire ut Wiley City wiped out the
principal business block of the place
The damage is estimated at between
$4,000 and 100000.
Reopening OF the Hoquiam Sash &
Door Company's plant for the mann.
iacture of doors is promised shortly
after the first of the year.
Ruth and Donald Dawson, aged 9
and 2 years, respectively, were burn.
ed to death in their home at Kopiah,
nine miles east Of Centralia.
Seventy.five school directors from
all parts of the county met at Walla
Walla and organized the Walla Walla
county school directors association.
Otto Buesch, Lewis county game
warden, has just received 1865, 900 east
ern brook trout eggs, which have
been placed in the hatchery at Dryad.
Every logging camp in Whatcom
county has ceased operation on &C.
count of the holidays. Practically all
Of them, however, will resume cutting
In January.
The resignation Of L. H. Darwin,
state supervisor Of fisheries, placed
In the hands of Governor Hart several
months ago, has been accepted to take
effect December 30.
Believed to have been asphyxiated
by carbon monoxide gas from the en-.
CINE Of his motor truck, Nels Dahl
man, age 81, was found dead in his
garage at Medical Lake.
Closer cooperation between Amer
lean and Canadian customs officials
to check smuggling both ways was
the purpose of conferences carried on
in Seattle recently.
1t is not necessary to have hunt
Ing license on your person when hunt
ing, If you have bought license, ac-
cording to memorandum decision
given by Judge John NJ. Wilson in
superior court at Olympia
c. D. Cunningham, Washington state
commander of the American Legion,
will begin tour of the state about
February l, in the course of which he
will meet the members of 1863 Legion
posts in their own communities.
Mrs. Susan F. Abbott, born almost
century ago, died at Walla Walla
of infirmities due to old age. She was
81 years old and had lived in the
northwest more than 10 years, 80 Of
which were spent in Walla Walla.
The department Of public works
has granted stage lines in Whitman
county permission to suspend service
In order that the operators might COM
ply with an order Of the county COM
missioners closing the roads to stage
traffic.
Complete returns from the special
election In Grant county on the pro-
posed Columbia river irrigation and
dam project show that there were 405
votes for and $40 against. A two
thirds vote was necessary to carry
the measure.
The Great Northern railway has
rendered to the state department Of
public works its line from Northport
to the Canadian line, distance of
about ten miles, to be converted into
a public highway. The line includes
4 bridge across the Columbia river
that cost 100000.
Deer are being forced out of the
mountains by snow which has covered
their forage and they are coming down
into the Walla Walla valley in search
of food. Several have been reported
in the last few days in the immediate
vicinity of Walla Walla. Apparently
they pay little attention to humans.
Construction of the new Kelso high
school building will begin as soon as
preliminary work can be completed
following the successful bond cleo
ton Saturday, when $4,000 was vot-
ed by citizens of the district for the
purchase OF site, construction of
the school and furnishing the build
ing.
More than one.third of all the apples
shipped in the United States up
to December 10, this year, were con.
signed from points in the state of