Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-08-26
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
The Puget Sound State

Approval has been given by Adju.
tant General Thompson to the forming
Of another coast artillery company at
Aberdeen.
A report of DR., Paul Turner, director
of health, to Governor Hart claims a
saving OF rs per cent has been made
under the code in the past four
months.
The state capitol committee has
adopted plans for construction of the
legislative or administrative building.
The cost is estimated at not less than
100000.
DR.. Paul Turner, director of health,
announces there is danger of an cpl
demlc of infantile paralysis in Wash
ington unless precautions are taken to
prevent its spread.
A contract for eight lighting fixtures
to be installed in the temple of Justice
at Olympia at a cost Of $4,000 has
been awarded to the II. Z. Gleason
company of Seattle.
James z. Mahoney, accused of MUIR
dering his wife and placing her body
in a trunk which was found in Lake
Union in Seattle, is said by officials to
be feigning insanity.
Sixty thousand dollars have been
spent for botterments in the telephone
system in Chehals by the Pacific
Telephone &, Telegraph company with
in the last few months.
After locking two officers of the
Metaline Falls State bank at Mstallne
Falls, in the bank vault two unmask-
ed men escaped with about $4,000 in
liberty bonds and $4,000 in currency.
Five ex-seryice men are held in the
county jail at Seattle pending an in
vestigaton of alleged fraudulent
claims said to have been cashed on
the state fund for INDECENT soldiers
and sailors.
Olson brothers of Lake Quinault
have discovered a rich copper vein on
the Little South QuiHault, five miles
from where it flows into the main
river. They report an outcrop of from
30 to more than 100 feet.
Certificates of necessity will be re-
Quired for the operation Of motor
buses between Aberdeen and Ho-
quiam, in spite Of the fact that they
run entirely in city territory, accord
ing to an opinion from the attorney.
general.
The first sale of potatoes at $50 a
ton has been made at Toppensh. The
potatoes which were extra fancyrwere
grown by Billy Hirano, a Japanese
farmer in the Hara section. Grow
ers expected $35 to $40 a ton at dig
ging time
The new Ocean Beach highway con-
Meeting South Bend and the outside
world was opened to the public Tues
day, and it is now possible to make
journey by land from Ilwaco and
other ocean beach points to the out.
side world.
New price lists for Washington
mined coal, showing reductions Of
fro'1 $3.50 to 50 Il ton from prices in
effect last March when commercial
mines Of the state closed down, will be
issued shortly operators representa-
tiyes have announced.
In three decisions the supreme
court has upheld Governor Hart in his
veto Of the funds for the operation of
The women's industrial home and
clinic at Medical Lake. Habeas corpus
proceedings brought before the su-
premc court wore denied.
Priests and laymen will Join church
heads ana prelates OF all the Pacific
coast states on September 8 in cele.
bratIon Of the 25th anniversary of the
conservation of the Right Rev. Edward
J. ODca, bishop Of the diocese OF Sc.
attic, Ceremonies will be held in So
attic.
Because he preferred the life of n
student to that Of an executive, Dr.,