Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-21

Damage estimated at $4,000 result
ed from fire that Quilted the Princess
theatre at Prosser
The Boulder Lumber company's mill
four miles north OF Orient, burned
down last Friday night
Rev. Evan r. Prichard, veteran Sc.
attic minister, was fatally burned at
his home in Seattle Tuesday.
The North Bank highway between
Vancouver and Camas Is to be thrown
open to traffic on January 16.
Lorain, the S-year.old daughter OF
Joseph Meilleur, was drowned in the
South Palouse river near Colfax.
Walla Walla claims the fastest
basketball team belonging to any ma
tional guard unit on the Pacific Coast.
Congress was asked by Secretary
Houston for 100000 for the enlarge.
ment Of the Seattle immigration sta
ton
Six per cent net was earned by the
federal land bank Of Spokane during
1920. Loans now total approximately
$4,000, 900.
Lumber mills at Aberdeen will re-
sumo operations at once on part
time basis and with common labor re-
duced to $3.50.
Three 13-year-old boys we're arrest.
cd near Benton City while operating
a still dug under hill and camouflag-
ed with. sagebrush.
Total sales of state lands during the
past two years aggregate s1,977, $685.,
according to the report Of Land Com
missioner Savidge.
Labor bureaus in Washington last
year cost the taxpayers 231a cents
Job and furnished employment to a.
s26 men and women.
More than 10000 bottles OF liquor,
most OF 1t whiskey, was seized dur
ing the past year by customs officers
in the Seattle district.
Postal receipts at the Centralia post
office during the year Just ended total
ed 3S0,576.5o, an increase of s1322.29
over last years sales.
Total arrests in Aberdeen during the
past year numbered 2707, from which
fines amounting to $29,S04.S5 were lev
led by the police Judge.
The Cheney high school has been
made one of the Smith-Hughes schools
and will receive federal aid beginning
with the coming semester.
A fire at Auburn last week destroy
ed the Volmer-Clearwater company's
grain elevator and feed mill. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Corporal Robert s. Angel, % years
old, is missing from Camp Lewis with
$500 OF his company's funds Angel
was acting as company clerk.
According to Postmaster Grafton.
$25S2.20 worth Of war savings stamps
we're sold at the Centralia postoffice
during the month OF December
Burt Moore Of Centralia sustained a
broken shoulder and severe bruises
when his automobile plunged over a
60 foot embankment near Toledo.
Oscar Peterson, fuel dealer is dead
at Tacoma, having shot himself in the
presence Of his former wife, who OBJ
tanned divorce from him last week.
A turnip weighing q pounds was
raised by B. F. Anderson near La
Center. The big turnip is 20 inches
long and Is inches In circumference.
Fifteen men and women who are un.
able to read or write English have en-.
rolled In an Americanization class or.
ganiged by the Centralla school board.
Mrs. Jessie N. Lightfoot, president
OF the Seattle Women's Commercial
club, was appointed King county dep
uty sheriff by Sheriff Matt Starwich.
An American flag. raised at Rhens,
Germany, during the world war, has
been presented to the Veterans of For.
etgn Wars by Nat Komer, a Seattle
man.
Conversion of the 100000 postoffice
building in Port Townsend into hos.
potal for disabled war veterans has
became possibility OF the very near
future.
Tho body of John Salisbury, an en-,
Eineer was found floating In reser
voIr In Seattle Sunday morning. He
had been respondent over financial
matters.
Vancouver gas users are asked to
contribute 20 cents for each thousand
feet OF gas used during December to
employ counsel to fight the rise sought
by the company,
Walla Walla police are looking for