Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-07-14

With harvest almost here, Walla
Walla farmers are facing labor short
age that is the most serious in years.
Katie Flora Boldt lG-year.old 4augh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Bo,dt of
Dahlia, was drowned in the Columbia
river.
Aberdeen police receipts for June
we're $2S05.7O, according to the month
ly report of the department. Arrests
numbered 22S
Grays Harbor strawberries were
shipped to outside markets last week
for the first time in the history of the
county berry industry,
Phil Skillman, resident of Olympia
for 80 years and long prominent at
torney there, died at the Veterans
home at RetsiI, aged rs years.
A hundred soldiers at Camp Lewis
were called out to fight a fire raging
over 1000 acres of prairie and timber
lands on the government reservation.
Charles Rothwell of Waitsburg is
under arrest following an alleged muir
derous attack on his wife and an at,
tempt to commit suicide. He is thought
to be insane.
Plans are being drawn for the con.
struction of forty-automobi!e ferry
to ply between Anacortes and Vic
toria, B. c., in place of the two boats
now ON the run.
The Crown-Willamette company is
extending and enlarging its holdings
at Camas. Many landmarks are being
moved and torn down to make room
Tor new buildings.
With checks totaling $1,35SO0O
cashed during the annual Fourth of
July Splash" celebration, July l ana
3, banking records were broken in
three Aberdeen banks.
The $25OOOO mark has been passed
in the receipts collected from auto.
mobile dricers licenses, according to
an announcement by Direstor Fred j,
Dibble OF the department of licenses.
Miss Ruth V. Bollinger, who has the
distinction of being called reverend"
since she is pastor of the La Center
Methodist Episcopal church, has been
appointed probation officer for Clarke
county.
Martin Van Berkel, "a, of Seattle,
was killed instantly when the automo-
bile which he was driving alone crash
ed through a bridge at Des Moines,
near Tacoma and dropped GO feet to
the ground below.
Jack Regenyetter, who sued Puget
Ball. wealthy Fredonia rancher for
$150,OOO for alienation of the affec-
tons of Mrs. Regenvetter, was award
ed 100000 by a jury in superior court
at Mount Vernon.
Revised plans for a general hospital
at Everett, as prepared by Boston
architects, have been received. The
changes were sought to increase the
capacity of the proposed building to
eighty beds from fifty.
Burning out of the western Wash
ington potato crop by the siXty-day
drought is forecasted by dealers, with
estimates of reductions to so per cent
of normal in the WILDLY Island and
Puget Sound valley district
The Tilllcums of Clarke county res.
idents who were born in the county so
or more years ago, have begun prepar.
atoms for an outing at Battle Ground
lake. to which the public is invited, on
the afternoon of Sunday, July 16.
The rule of warranty applies to a
secondhand motor vehicle as well as
to a new one when sold by a dealer
on conditional sale contract, unless
the contract specifically provides 9th
erwise, the supreme court has held,
Stockholders of the closed Scandin-
avian.American Bank of Seattle are
liable for superadded liability assessed
by John P. Duke, state supervisor of
banking, to aid in liquidation of the
banks affairs, the supreme court has
held.
New classfcations providing some
increases and some decreases in rates
we're filed by the American Railway
Express company with the department
of public works. The changes are eff
fective both interstate and interstate,
July Is,
Secretary of the Interior Fall has
given emphatic and unqualified ap.
proval to the bill recently introduced
by Senator Poindexter providing for
federal investigation Of the Column
bia basin irrigation project in eastern
Washington.