Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-09-02

WaiIa Walla has an epidemic of in,
fantile paralysis
Profits of 35,S59G3 is shown in tho
report of the Seattle municipal rail,
way for July.
1t is now said that the 1921 wheat
crop In Washington will exceed 81,
100000 bushels.
Grain men estimate that the 1921
yield of wheat IN Wala Walla county
will reach 100000 bushels
Damage to the amount of $4,000 re,
suited from n fire that started in the
telephone exchange in Toledo.
The date for the dedication OF Cen.
tral!a's new armory has been changed
from September Is to September %,
The Pacific highway from Pioneer
to La Center will be opened officially
September 10, It has been announced,
Mabton's hay palace fair will be
held September IA to II inclusive.
Many valuable premiums are offered,
Slx-yoar-old Albert O'Brien was kill.
ed instantly at Seattle while dragging
a loaded rifle into a woodshed to shoot
a rat
Mrs. Cora Flolo, believed to have
been the oldest resident in Tacoma,
died at the age of 1Ol years, s months
and II days.
Apple growers in the White Salmon
valley, according to w. W. Under.
wood, will produce 100000 boxes of
apples this year
Smut explosion in a thresher on the
William Martin ranch near Walla
Walla destroyed combine and more
than 1900 sacks of wheat,
The Kelso city administration has
planned a number of improvement pro,
jects this winter to absorb the unem-
pIoyed labor Of the vicinity.
T. D. Daken of Seattle was re.elect-
ed president of the International One
Hundred Per Cent club at the second
annual convention at Seattle.
Approximately $4,000 cut-throat
trout from the hatchery on Gold creek
have been distributed in Clarke county
streams during the past week
Valuations on ali property real and
personal, in Grays Harbor county were
reduced 10 per cent by unanimous vote
of the county board of equalization.
Open season for salmon fishing on
Puget sound is extended up to and in
Guiding September 5 in an order made
public by the Washington state fish
cries board.
Establishment Of several game.bird
preserves in various parts of the coun-
ty for protection of birds is planned
by the Grays Harbor county game
commission.
Tentative plans for establishment Of
cheese factory in the Humptulips
valley we're made at meeting at
Aberdeen, which was attended by
about 30 farmers of the district.
Alleged to have poured poison into
cup of coffee given her foster
mother, a 6-year-old girl, whose name
is withheld, is being held in the ju-
venile detention home at Seattle.
The conviction of p l. w. w. mem
hers, sentenced by the Pierce county
superior court March ., 1920, has been
set aside ana a new trial for the de-
PENDANTS ordered by the supreme
court.
Because Of an error OF one letter in
the name Of l. K. Fritts, nominated
and confirmed several weeks ago for
register of the land office at Water
vile. President Harding had to return
the nomination to the senate again.
Because a scourge Of cutworms has
completely dey0sted the Woodland
diking district following the flood this
spring, many of the Woodland dairy,
men have been forced to move their
herds, which were short OF feed and
pasturage
George II. Walker, an attorney wide,
ly known in the west, died Mt Seattle
He had been prominently identified
with politics, was several times a dele,
gate to the republican national con.
vention and recently Harding presi'
Dental elector.
Albert b, Fall, secretary of the in.
terror, arrived in Seattle from Tacoma
Saturday and spent Saturday and Sun.
day there Monday and Tuesday he
visited the yakima valley looking
over various irrigation projects, leay
Ing Tuesday night for Spokane,