Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-10
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

construction of a concrete and brick
business block 90x1OO feet at Raymond.
Sixty-four graduates received diplo-
mas at the commencement exercises
for the 1921 class in the Centralia high
school.
A tent of the Daughters of Civil War
Veterans was instituted at Hoquiam,
when 20 Hoquiam women met for that
purpose.
The Union OIL company of California
will begin the construction of large
substation for Kelso and adjacent ter
ritory this week.
mass meeting of citizens and
farmers at Dayton Saturday resulted
In the formation of the Columbia coun-
ty taxpayers league.
According to decision Of the Wash
ington supreme court, Kittitas county
will have to pay James Mcqueen S1215
for sheep killed by dogs.
Ilwaco won the annual track meet
Of Pacific county at Tokeland Monday.
Schools participating were Ilwaco,
South Bend and Raymond.
Burglars who broke into the store
of D. X. Westby at Clayton, north of
Spokane, carried away the safe and
a quantity of merchandise
Word has been received at Hoquiam
that there is at present no money In
the war department funds for deep
sea dredge for Grays Harbor.
Information from Walla Walla is
to the effect that so per cent of the
wheat OF that district has been sold.
Prices range from s1.25 to $780,
Exploration work at the site Of the
proposed dam Of the Columbia basin
project at the head Of the Grand Coulee
will be started during the summer.
Charles E. Buckley, president Of the
Tacoma Rotary club, has left for Edin-
burgh, Scotland, where he will attend
the international Rotary convention.
The body OF an unidentified man,
apparently drowned two months ago,
was found floating in the Columbia
river about five miles from Cathlamet.
For the purpose of discussing the
political future of the state non-parti-
san league state convention of mem.
bers will be held at Spokane, June H.
Tacomas allotment of 100000 worth
OF OregonW Washington Canning and
Preserving company's stock has been
subscribed by the business men of that
city.
No strike or railroad tieup Is antici-
pated by railroad labor leaders in Spo-
kane because of the wage reduction eff
fective July l, according to statements
made.
The body Of an unidentified man
with n large cash under the chin and
wire coiled around the body was
found in the sound near Edmonds Sat
urday.
Rimrock dam, which will store water
enough to supply more than 100000
acres in Yakima valley, will be COM
pleted in 1926, provided work goes on
continuously.
w. e. Campbell. so years OF age,
prominent ranGher of Kennewick, was
killed when the cable which he was
using to move a house snapped and in
the reCoil struck him.
A two.story packing house with an
air.cooled storage capacity Of 10000
boxes, is under construction on the
Winthrop Fruit company tract at
Gleed, in Yakima county
A record for arrests, fines and for
FIXTURES was set in April in Aberdeen
that the police are finding hard to
break, The police report shows that
total of 237 persons were arrested.
Yakima county's claim that It has
authority to levy taxes against lands
owned by Yakima Indians is at Issue
in number OF cases before Judge
Rudkin In the United States district
court,
The popular star Dorothy Dial