Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-04-08

| A stump pulling and land-clearinB
demonstration will be held in Clarke
county April 16 on the Yacolt-Van
couver railroad.
Building contractors of Everett have
adopted wage scale IL 1-2 to 20 per
cent lower than the present one for
building trades.
Reports from over the state indicate
that Hoquiam will be host July to 4
to $500 service men at the convention
of the American Legion.
1t Is said that s675,000 will be spent
this season on the Rimrock storage
project In Yakima county. The pro-
ject is a 100000 affair
The Walla Walla county commission
ers have appropriated $4,000 for the
building of concrete bridge across
the Touchet river at Bolles.
One hundred and sixtyfive new
members were signed up in member
ship contest between two teams Of the
Centralia chamber of commerce.
James e. Gould of Seattle, civil en-.
gineer and architect, has been named
to succeed Arthur R. Priest as dean
of men at the University OF Washing
ton.
| The st. Paul & Tacoma Lumber com.
pany mill at Tacoma, the largest mill
In western Washington, will shortly
shut down for the first time in its his
tory.
Thousands of members Of the order
throughout the northwest gathered at
Bremerton last week to take part in
the dedication of the new S135, 900 Elks
temple.
| Information was received in Spo-
kane that Pat Whalen, for 10 years a
member Of the police department of
that city, was killed at Oklahoma City
last week.
| Pullman suffered its third disastrous
fire In few weeks Saturday when the
three-story flour mill on East Main
street was destroyed, entailng loss
of 5000
John N. Cobb, director of the college
Of fisheries Of the University of Wash
lngton, is being considered for appoint
ment as United States commissioner
of fisheries.
| Henry Lunt, assistant cashier of the
State Bank of Charleston, shot himself
last Saturday because of i'll health
His records at the bank were declared
to be in order.
Homeseekers' special rates to Spo-
kane and points In eastern Washington
as announced by several transcontin-
entail lines, have been concurred in by
the O.-W. R. & N.
In raid near Valleyford, deputy
sheriffs secured still, six gallons Of
moonshine and 10 barrels of mash A
J. Gage, said to be former Baptist
|
Roads between Walla Walla and
Pendleton are in splendid condition
and the hard surface road is complete
with the exception of about five miles
between Milton and Weston.
George Williamson of Tacoma, for
merly attorney for the Scandinavian.
| American bank, has been arrested on
three indictments returned by the
grand jury He was released on $780,.
600 bail.
Lauriene Smith, S.year-old daughter
of j. II. Smith, disappeared several
days ago from her home in Leaven-
worth and it is feared she has persisted
either in the Wenatchee river or in the
mountains.
The first important move since the
armistice toward rehabilitating the
army's air service was taken when the
war department placed orders for 200
| Thomas Morse type pursuit airpanes
| md 35 Martin bombers. The pursuit
| !ane contract went to the Boeine
mpany of Seattle, and totaled about
100000. Secretary Weeks announced
Paul Brown, for two years secretary
Of the Y. NJ. c. A. at Bremerton, has
gone to Shanghai, China, where he
will take charge of the new Y. NJ. G.
A. building to be constructed there at
a cost of $4,000.
Members of the building trades of
Walla Walla have decided to form a
cooperative building association and
construct buildings at actual cost of
labor and materials, thus eliminating
the contractors profit.
Ole S. Larson, president of the de-
funct Scandinavian American bank of
Tacoma, pleaded not guilty to charge
of accepting deposits after he knew