Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-14


bered 24,l33, Us compared with 21,133
In 1919.
The state has purchased the $4,000
worth OF bonds issued by the Bichland
irrigation district
Spokane county has collected 1880
In fines from motor vehicle law yiolat.
ors In the last year.
The Vancouver Commercial club Is
to be reorganizcd and the membership
increased to at least 800.
Since 1905 the county Of Clallam has
paid bounties on 1893 wildcats, 256
cougars, q timber wolves and 2 lynx.
A total Of $327.S0 was cleared dur.
Ing the last year by ii members Of the
Zelda Boys and Girls Agricultural
clubs.
1t Is estimated that fully 100000
baby chicks will be shipped to Winlock
poultrymen from California before
April /.
The cold weather checked the riaa in
the Columbia river just as It wal al.
most level with the lower docks In
Vancouver.
Receipts at the Okanogan posto'fice
during the past year we're nearly $!2,.
600, which entities the city to FREQ
delivery Of the mails.
battle-ground citizens have organized.
community booster club to advance
the interests of the city commercially,
lndustrially and otherwise.
Robert Kennedy, who settled near
Walla Walla In 1859 ana hai acquired
1400 acres Of land, died in that city
g few days ago, aged 80 years.
According to the books of the city
treasurer's office, the receipts of the
Spokane water department show an
increase of $4,000 in 1920 over 1919.
The first shipment of paper from the
new mills at Port Angeles was made
last week 1t consisted of 225 tons of
newsprint consigned to San Francisco.
Ten million bushels of the 1921 crop
OF wheat in Washington and Idaho are
now under contract with the Washing
ton and Idaho Wheat Growers asso.
ciation
Roland Mallie is in a Walla Walla
hospital suffering from sleeping sick
ness. This is the second case there
this winter, the first having resulted
fatally.
Thomas H. Connck, aged 70, prom
inent farmer of Walla Walla county,
died suddenly on a Northern Pacific
train while on his way to visit a son at
Seattle.
In future all cases of mental de-
rangement of disabled ex-service men
in the northwest will be cared for at
the western hospital for the insane at
Steilacoom.
At a meeting in Spokane last week
the going wage for all millhands where
the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum-
bermen is organized was reduced 10
cents an hour.
Jesse Barnes and U. G. Scott are
dead and e. J. Scott and Mrs. B. e.
Kirkebo seriously injured as the re-
suit of two automobile accidents in
Tacoma Thursday.
Constitutionality of the ordinance
recently passed by the Seattle city
council prohibiting sale of Jamaica
ginger as a beverage, is being attacked
in the federal court.
The report of the state bureau of
inspection for Grays Harbor county
shows assets of Sos, 634.60 over La
bilites for the period from May /,
1919, to October 81, 1920.
During 1920, 24.933 men and women
were furnished employment by the
Spokane municipal employment
bureau. This is gain OF 16 per cent
over the figures of 1919.
Arvid Strand, aged So, resident Of
Everett, was instantly killed in the
woods near that city when the bark
for tree he was cutting down fell
and crushed him to death.
A profit Of $4,000 in addition to n
years crop of wheat was realized by
J. w, Phillips from 800 acres bought
near Davenport last January and sold
last week to b. e. Despair.
Frank L. Shannon, Walla Walla
county club leader, has arranged to
ship in carload Of purebred yes to
be distributed among sheep club men,
bers of the Walla Walla valley.
The Loyal Legion of Loggers and
Lumbermen, an organization of work,
ers in the timber industry, has ex.
tended its scope by purchasing the