Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-06-03

1t Ia estimated by dealers that 81
per cent Of the wheat In Walla Walla
valley has been sold. Prices range
from SIPS to $130.
The first colored Masonic lodge In
Southwestern Washington was organ
lied at Aberdeen recently with an mi
tlal membership Of Is.
Francis Chappell, aged SO years. who
had made his home at Bucoda the last
thirty-three years, died there at the
home Of his son-in-law, E. W. STAN
baugh.
OF the twelve teachers who com
posed the Mabton school staff, only
four have signed up to return next
year. The others, it is rumored, will
all be married.
Closing of the locomotive department
Of the Great Northern shops at Hill,
yard from May 20 to July is an.
nounced. About 400 men are concern.
ed in the orders.
Centralia's home products education.
al exhibit and strawberry festival will
be held June Is to IS, under the joint
auspices Of the chamber of commerce
and Women's Civic club.
The first carload of supplies for the
new public health service hospital at
| Walla Walla he's arrived and the build
ings and grounds have been turned
over to the health service.
Auto polo matches will be feature
Of the state fair at Yakima in Septem-
be, according to Beriah Brown, special
state fair agent In the office of e. l..
French, director of agriculture.
A campaign has been started at
Aberdeen to market $4,000 worth of
stock to finance the proposed Loyal
Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen
cooperative store in that district
Topographic surveys of the proposed
Columbia Basin irrigation project,
which will water several million acres
in Washington state, will be made this
summer by federal and state officials.
At a meeting of the Washington Hay
Growers association at Toppensh it
was decided that the growers of Ore
gon and Washington will establish one
central agency to serve as sales head
quarters.
An examination of the books of John
F. Hemenway, assistant secretary of
the Trades Union Savings & Loan as
ISOLATION, who committed suicide at
Seattle Monday, shows an alleged
shortage of $4,000.
Initial development Of the Skagit
river hydroelectric project by the Sc
attic city light department will cost
approximately s11 100000 and will pro.
duce 1880 horsepower, according to
revised estimate.
Nationwide search has failed to give
any clue to the disappearance of Mrs.
James e. Mahoney, Of Seattle, rich
and 70, whose husband, alleged ex-
convict, 81, is held in the Seattle Jail
on forgery charge.
The body of David P. Corn, killed
at Chauteau-Thierry July 10, 1918, was
buried at Sunnyside with military
honors. A squad from the marine d.
vision headquarters at Portland fired
salute at the grave.
The state highway board has started
two condemnation suits in the Lewis
County superior court here to obtain
right Of way for a new route Of the
Ocean Beach highway leading up the
Chehalis valley westward from Che.
halls.
Ward Taylor and Johann KrabEe,
two Bellingham high school boys, were
given a reward of $25 for discovering
seventeen cases of whisky cached near
Doe Bay, Orcas island. The booze
was hidden under bushes, where the
boys happened to be looking for botan.
ical specimens.
Enthusiastic over the possibilities of
the Columbia Basin irrigation project,
sixty Spokane business and profession.
al men, headed by George A. Phillips
of the Spokane chamber Of commerce,
made an auto trip in which was seen
about one,quarter Of the land 1t is
proposed to irrigate,
Dr.. Enoch A. Bryan, ex.president of
the state college of Pullman, will be
commencement speaker at the college
June 16. Dr. Bryan Is at present state
commissioner Of education in Idaho
with his residence at Boise, The bac.
calaureate speaker for Sunday, June
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