Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-08-05
WASHINGTON STATE
News OF INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

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The state supreme court has upheld
the right OF cities to regulate motor
buses
Road work in the vicinity of Morton
has been started in number OF places
and Is progressing rapidly.
The Washington state antI,alien land
law has been declared constitutional
by the federal court at Tacoma,
State highway patrol for the appre.
hension OF yiolators Of the Washington
state traffic laws began August l.
approximately one person In six IN
Clarke county owns an automobile, &C,
cordlng to an estimate by the county
recorder.
Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
portion OF the shingle mill OF the Nc.
Lane Lumber & Timber company, stu.
atGd in Kelso.
The La Crosse roller mills has dis
posed of its electric light plant to the
La Crosse Electric company. The price
paid was $4,000,
Christian Hansen, postmaster at
Kirbwood, a small town near Seattle,
is under arrest, charged with embezzl.
ing $2S03 of postoffice funds.
Fraternity men and women made
higher grades than non.fraternity stu.
dents at Whitman College during the
college year 1920.21, Just closed.
Construction of the Aberdeen state
armory building will be started early
next month, according to present plans
of the state armory commission.
Mayor Caldwell has made public fig.
ures showing that Seattle's municipal
railway made a profit of s45 154.63 dur.
ing the first six months Of 1921.
James G. Rutter, Washington pio-
neer, who served five years in the I'm.
ion army during the civil war, is dead
at his home in Walla Walla, aged 81.
Seventy.eight former service men,
all mental cases, are receiving treat.
ment at the western Washington hospi.
tai for the insane at Fort Steilacoom.
Real estate in Clarke county shows
an increase of S10SOO0 in assessed val.
uation over last year, according to fig.
ures compiled by the county assessor.
The Walla Walla city commissioners
have set September G as the date of the
special election on the proposed per
cent bond issue to improve the water
system.
An increase in the lumber output OF
the state is expected this fall because
Of the end of the marine strike and
general awakening in the middle west
demand for lumber.
A crew of men which has been work
ing in Chehals for the past six months
is just completing the installation Of
practically an entire new telephone
system in the city.
A freight rate reduction on lumber
shipped from Spokane to eastern
pOiH19' i"HSIHS iolu " 10 per Cenl,
has been announced by the Spokane
International railroad.
While swimming with group of
boys in the Chehalis. river between Ell.
ma and Cedarville, Harry Lenahan, IL
years of age, was caught in the swift
current and drowned.
The Seattle Bar association has filed
n complaint with the state board of
bar examiners for the disbarment OF
Hulet NJ, Wells, ex-president of the Sc
attic Central Labor council.
The state Golfers have been enriched
by S132,525.17, collected by the state
land commissioner from sale of $685. 90
acres of land auctioned at the last
state land sale held July 5.
Lumber rates to Texas, New Mexico
and sections of Arizona will be reduced
September 10, according to telegram
received by w. ]. Leonard, Union Pa
cific agent at Grays Harbor.
Federal Judge Frank H. Rudkin Of
the eastern Washington district was
married at Spokane recently to Mrs.
Nellie Doty. Judge Rudkin has pre-.
sided over the district court about 10
years.
A total of $4,000 in checks was mail.
ed out last week by The Washington
Pruno Growers corporation to growers
This was the second payment on the
1920 crop, the first payment being
$4,000.
The CentralIu light plant, municipal.
y owned, had net profit of $13,419.62
uring the six months ending June 80
St according to a report by the city
lmmisslon to the state department of
aminations.
The Vancouver Elks, after returning
ON the Seattle state convention, have
cided that at the next Convention
I'd at every convention in the future
arke county prunes will be given out
o all delegates,
United States army officers and their
families at Camp Lewis are to be given
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