Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-05-20
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

The c. f. Putnam shingle mill at
Skamokawa was totally destroyed by
fire Friday.
or the 1860 acres of land in
Lewis county 226, 1852 are in farms valu-
ed at s23,59O,65O.
Injuries received as the result OF
l fall caused the death of Marion Hoge,
81, at Walla Walla last Saturday,
At recent school election in Kalama
40, 900 in bonds was voted for the cree
ton of new high school building.
Auburn is planning for its first an
nual midsummer fair to be held for
eight days from June 81 to July 4.
/ Nearly 200 Rebekahs Of district No.
attended the 30 semi-annual conven.
ton of the order at Satsop last week.
The Lewis county antituberculosis
league will hold its annual meeting in
Chehalls at the Citizens club rooms
May 2l.
Governor Hart left Sunday for Wash
nigton, D. c., and Denver and Lieu
tenant Governor w. ]. Coyle is now of
ficiating as governor.
Voters Of the Centralia school dis
trict at recent election authorized the
Issuance of $4,000 bonds for the cree
ton of new buildings.
Standard Oil company drillers have
reached depth OF nearly 1000 feet in
the trial well at Moclips and over 300
feet at Pacific Beach.
The annual defamation contest for
Klickitat county schools was held at
Goldendale with schools from all over
the country represented.
Pierce county during its fiscal year
Of 1920, did business involving the
collection of s1o,761 ,441.14 and the e1-
penditure of s10,467,725.5S.
The largest crew for many months
so men-is at work on the extension
Of the Olympic highway from Ho-
GUAM to the Queets river.
The Bucoda Land company has six
houses under construction at Bucoda,
and several more will be built during
the summer by the company.
Tacoma was awarded next years
state reunion Of Scottish Rite Masonic
bodies Of Washington at the second an
nual reunion session in Spokane.
A tract of land located in the north
end OF Bucoda has been donated to the
Bucoda Improvement club for park pur-
poses by the Mutual Lumber company.
| The good roads bond election in
Walla Walla county last week was
lost by II votes. Out of 1912 register
cd voters only 2O63 went to the poles.
Raymond shull, 5-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Willis Shull, was injured
fatally when he was struck by an auto
truck on the highway west Of Oakville.
Hoquiam is now listed at the top
| il Ile ScSohu'Cidso poololilSSo VI NeSh
ington, receipts having increased dur
ing the past year from $4,000 to $685..
900.
| The Near East relief committee at
Seattle is conducting a canvass to
raise 1000 tons Of flour for shipment
June 8, $50 tons of which have already
been subscribed
Mrs. Carrie Peterson, 66, was badly
burned at Spokane when coal oil with
which she was starting fire ignited
her dress, dying shortly afterward at
st. Luke's hospital
John D. Ankeny Of Walla Walla has
been elected president of the Columbia
National bank of Dayton to succeed
his father, the late Levi Ankeny, who
had held the position 80 years.
Tacoma business men have started
drive for 100000 to speed up the
sale of stock in Northwest fruit can
ming projects sponsored by Portland,
| Tacoma and Seattle financierS.
Japanese consular officers at Seattle
have completed arrangements for the
return to Japan of the 65 passengers
and crew of the steamer Tokuyo Maru,
burned off the Oregon coast recently.
Sam Kenuris, Greek section hand
at Ketron near Steilacoom, was shot
through the hand by two negro ban
dts while he was defending the North
ern Pacific railroad office from rob-
berry.
A delegation OF $40 members of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce will
visit Vancouver Wednesday, May %,
anu while there will be guests of the
Prunarians and the chamber of com
merce.