Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-05-12

The average percentage Of attend.
ance of the 3046 pupils enrolled in
Aberdeen schools was 9719 during
April, according to the report issued
by Superintendent Miller.
Favored with ideal weather and the
city jammed with visitors from all
parts Of the northwest, north central
Washington's third annual apple bios
som festival was held at Wenatchee.
Three state bodies of the Masonic
order will hold their conventions in
Aberdeen May 1913 inclusive. and
more than 200 members from outside
lodges are expected to attend the cere.
monies.
Confidence that Snoqualmie Pass,
on the Sunset highway, will be open
for travel by May Is, as scheduled, is
expressed by William Adams, chair.
man of the Kittitas county commits
sioners.
A gavel made by l.. U. Crane, SO,
and said to be the oldest living Elk
in the United States, was presented
to the lodge at Vancouver by Mr..
Crane himself. The gavel is made of
elk horn.
Carl d. Geisert, 19-year-old Puyallup
boy, was sentenced at Tacoma to a
life term in the Monroe reformatory
by Superior Judge Clifford. Geisert
pleaded guilty to an attack upon an
S-year-old girl.
Because she married a Camp Lewis
soldier simply to spite her husband,
Mrs. Ethel Williams of Seattle was
sentenced at Tacoma to from one to
five years in the state penitentiary at
Walla Walla by Superior Judge Cliff.
ford.
Camp Lewis will not be abandoned,
but will continue to be divisional
headquarters and will have not less
than 1000 troops, even if the army
is cut to minimum of $4,000 men,
Representative Johnson is quoted as
saying.
DR.. Grover c. Daniel, the first Of
seven public health service surgeons
ordered to report for duty at the new
veterans hospital at Walla Walla, has
reached Walla Walla and the staff
of nurses and other workers is as
sembling.
Walla Wallas water commission
is in favor of thorough investigation
of plan to develop a hydro.electric
plant in connection. 1t would cost
100000 above the cost of the new
system now being installed, which will
cost 100000.
Tacoma's method of sewer laying
has reduced the cost on the Buckley
gulch sewer, now under construction,
from 81 foot to so cents, and sewer
constructors in Portland, Spokane
and other cities are profiting by the
system and using the method.
Because there are AZ holders Of
certificates to operate passenger
stages between Tacoma and Camp
Lewis and more time is required by
department accountants to prepare
the records of these Independent op-
orators than was expected, the de.
partment of public works postponed
until May 16 the hearing on the protest
of Major-General Muir against these
operators on proposed increase Of
fares.
Another half-million-dollar increase
in the state treasury balance Is shown
by the weekly statement of the treas
urer to the state auditor The bal
ance at the close of business April 29
was $11,O24,72S.95.
The dock and gravel bunkers hav-
ing been completed, Joe Warter, con-
tractor for the Olympic highway paw
ing, is assembling his crew to begin
active work next week connecting the
paving between Kamilche and Shell
ton
Oregon fish buyers using scows or
other water craft and operating on
the Washington side of the Columbia
river are required to pay a license fee
in Washington, Assistant Attorney
General Schumann held in an opinion
to Ernest A. Seaborg, state supervisor
of fisheries.
Chelan Landing is to be the per
manent location of Great Northern
railway passenger depot, the depart.
ment of public works has decided, set.
ting controversy pending in the de.
partment and courts since 1914, Che.
Ian Falls, Ia miles away, will have
O freight station only.