Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-28
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

Jones of Monroe as superintendent oil
the state training school for boys al
Chehalis to succeed Thomas p. Horn
resigned, The appointment becomes
effective February |.
Old Fort Walla Walla, at Walla
Walla, will become hospital for dis
abled soldiers If congress acts favor,
ably upon provision placed in the
general hospital bill soon to be re-
ported out of the house committee on
public buildings and grounds.
Windows In houses all over Lebam
were broken when dynamite was used
to prevent the spread Of a fire. The
town Y. NJ. c. A. building was blasted.
The flames destroyed a mercantile
establishment and threatened the
business district Of the town.
A committee of prominent Chehalis
citizens went to Olympia to present
the protest Of citizens of Chehalis to
Governor Hart and the state board of
control against the displacement of
Thomas p. Horn as superintendent OF
the state training school for boys.
A force of armed men firing from
across the street and nearby roofs,
forced the surrender of burglar who
had looted the Summit mercantile
store in Aberdeen Of quantity Of
merchandise and had been discovered
attempting to open the store safe.
Seven of the eight crafts employed
at the G. M. Standifer Construction
company's yard in Vancouver are re-
ported to have voted in favor of ac-
cepting the company's proposal of a
reduction in pay rath than have the
number Of workers at the yards re-
duced.
The little coal mining town Of Fair
fax, three miles from the border line
of Rainier National Park, will be NOV
ed three miles east of its present To-
cation. The vein of coal which the
company has been working there ran
out several months ago, but new out
roppings were found.
The Crescent Shingle company of
Kelso made the best shingles man
ufactured in the northwest in 1920,
according to the rating of the Rite
Grade Single association. The Ores
cent company's record for 1920 far
surpassed that of the nearest com
petitor among the mills.
First action toward wiping the
names of married women who have
working husbands Off the payrolls Of
transporting governmental organiza-
tons was taken By the Seattle port
commission when it voted unanimous
ly to drop from its rolls on February
1 every married woman whose hus-
band is employed.
Patrolmen Neil Mcmillan and w. T.
Angle were shot and wounded in the
Capitol Hill residence district in Sc
title when they attempted to search a
suspect for concealed weapons and
half an hour later Detective James
O'Brien was killed at Second avenue
and Cherry street, in the heart of the
Seattle financial district, in gun
battle with John Smith, who was him
self probably fatally wounded.
The value of all crops for Washing
ton in 1919 was $227,212,OOS, the CEN
sus bureau has announced. The value
of wheat was S91, 2O6642; of oats, 49,
O73,4S1; of barley $3,374,792; of hay
and forage, $4I71L065; Of potatoes,
H2,2GO,093, and Of apples, S3S,S23,641,
AS compared with 1909, the total value
of crops shows an increase of 2O6.6 per
cent; wheat, 1898 per cent; oats, S7.5
per cent. and potatoes, Bib per cent.
For the first time this season smelt
were dipped in the Cowlit2 river last
week. A few smelt had been gillnetted
in the Cowlitz earlier this winter and
for the last two weeks the Columbia
river gill METERS have been getting
smelt on the lower Columbia. 1t is
thought that the present run is what
is known as the early winter run and
that the main run of the little fish
will not come for several weeks more,
A. C. Rumble OF Prosser, arrived in
Washington, D. c., last week with the
electoral vote of Washington state,
which was presented to the vice.presi.
dent as president OF the senate, The
town of Prosser enjoys the distinction
of twice having furnished the man to
carry the states electoral vote to the
national capital In 1913, George A.
Haynes, Prosser newspaper publish.
ar, and lively bull mooser, took the
states electoral vote to Washington
to be cast for Roosevelt and Johnson