Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-09-29

this state the week beginning October
9, in accordance with message which
Governor Hart has sent out.
Three girls escaped from the Grand
Mound Industrial School for girls last
week and efforts to locate them by
the institution force have proved un.
availing.
Bids are aked by the state high
way department for $4,000 yards OF
gravel for use in paving the Pacific
highway from Kalama to Toledo next
summer.
Pacific county is now very much en-
crossed in series of community fairs
which are being given by the small
towns in competition for silver cup
offered by the South Bend CONNER
cial club.
As a result of an acute shortage of
cars, the Union Pacific system vir.
tually has laid an embargo on grain
is now handling Inland Empire grain
only to Portland
With 5000 weddings performed in
his fifty-two years as a minister the
record for number of marriages is
claimed by the Rev. A. D. Skaggs,
retired pastor of the Christian Church
at Vancouver.
Sheriff Barker of Ferry county,
under indictment in the United States
district court at Spokane on liquor
running conspiracy charge, has been
renominated on the democratic ticket
by majority of four votes.
Announcement that an election on
the creating of port district to be
known as the Port of Olympia and to
embrace all of Thurston county, will
be voted on November 7, was made
by the Thurston county commission.
ers.
A decrease of approximately $780,,
600 was shown in the balance in the
state treasury in the treasurer's re.
port at the close of business Sep
TENDER 1, as compared with Septem.
Der s. The balance September 16 was
$SS%S,5575O.
Sixty tons of hay belonging to the
Benton Land company at Benton City
was burned while A. e. Whau was
baling it for shipment. The engineer
attempted to fill the gasoline tank
while the engine was running and the
tank exploded.
Tobacco growing can be made a
commercial success in Washington il
a market can be found for the weed
is the assertion of John Strander, a
nurseryman at Renton Junction, who
said he has been growing the plant
for two years.
Heroic action of five nurses and a
bucket brigade of citizens saved thirty
orphan babies in fire that partially
destroyed the rescue home of the
Pacific Coast Rescue and Protective
Society at Medina, on the east shore
of Lake Washington
Paul Staren, aged 40, laborer, en-
tered plea Of guilty in superior court
at Ephrata to charge of first degree
murder in connection with the slay.
ing of August Bongiorni, 19.year-old
rancher at the Bongiorni ranch near
Wilson creek last Tuesday
Portable houses for $50 men are be-.
ing built by the McCcG-Loggie Timber
company at Bellingham. Each house
will be equipped with steel hunks and
will accommodate 70 men The COM
pany is building five miles of railroad
into the heavy timber near Kulshan.
The state department OF public
works will issue an order at once sus-
pending the proposed 81 per cent in.
crease in telephone rates of the Pa.
cific Telephone & Telegraph com.
pany for six months, according to e.
V. Kuykendall, head OF the department
of public works.
The accumulated profits of the Ia.
coma municipal light department in
the past eight months total $477,-
93714, with the August profits given as
S59,O24.o9, according to reports sub,
mitted to the city council. A profit of
$64173.69 was shown in the water de.
partment for the cght.month period.
Senator Miles Poindexter received
an usual compliment from the state
association of county commissioners
and engineers in session at Walls
Walla when they unanimously gave
him vote Of congratulation on the
Endorsement he had received at the
bands of the voters in the primaries.