Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-05-26

The western congress- Of the Bap'
tiet church In session In Everett select.
cd Tacoma for the place Of meeting
next year.
l.. h, Steehammer of Vancouver
has been named district adviser for
Clarke county Of the Manufacturers
association of Washington.
The sawmill Of the ForbesW Wilson
Lumber company, near Maple Falls,
and 100000 feet of lumber were burn.
ed. The loss ia placed at 100000.
II. Perry Niles, for many years
prominent In state republican politics
and formerly deputy state land com.
missioner died at his home in Ever
EFT, aged 60.
The body Of Abram Holm, II years
old, was found lying on n sidewalk
In West Seattle, under circumstances
indicating, according to police, either
murder or suicide.
AT the meeting of the grand lodge
of Knights of pythias, held at Spo.
kane, the formal approval for locating
the pythian home in Vancouver on the
site selected was given.
A county may be held for damages
for injuries resulting from an acct.
dent caused by highway being rut-
ted and the ruts filed with water,
the supreme court has held
A complaint challenging rates, serv-
ice and facilities of the Puget Sound
Power & Light company at Puyallup
was filed with the department of pub.
lie works by the city Of Puyallup.
A big bear wandered in on the
George Baker farm not far from Long
Beach and killed calf and severely
wounded a COW. It was chased up a
tree by dogs and shot by Mr.. Baker
Senator PoindeXter, who was oper.
ated upon recently in Washington, d.
c., has left Georgetown University
hospital. He expects to be able to
resume his official duties next week.
Receipts of the state treasurer's
office for the week ending May l6 to.
tailed about 100000 more than the
warrants paid, the balance at the
close of business on that date being
slO,S59, 1887.
Within few days the bridge across
the Tilton river at Lindberg, which
was washed out last winter, will be
replaced and active operations resum.
ed by the Tilton River Bituminous
Coal company.
A southwestern Washington base
ball league is in process of organiza.
ton and 1t is proposed to have a
series of games this season between
teams from Raymond, South Bend, Pc
Ell and Ilwaco.
with election of officers and choice
Of Olympia as next years meeting
place, annual sessions of the grand
lodges of Washington, knights OF
Pythias and Pythian Sisters, were
concluded at Spokane.
Spokane streetcar fares will be re-
duced from cents cash fare to 7
cents cash fare and 6 cents ticket
fare, beginning June 1, under an ap.
plication made by the Spokane City
Railways company to the department
of public works.
The Grays harbor cranberry crop
this year will not only be bigger than
ever before, but will be composed Of
better berries, according to growers.
Unless something unforeseen hap
pens, the crop will be twice as large
as that of last year.
The Farmers Cooperative Light &
Power company was temporarily en-
Joined by Judge Wilson In superior
court at Olympia from constructing or
maintaining telephone lines in Thurs.
ton county, Oh petition of the board of
county commissioners.
Grain should be listed and assessed
In the road district and school dis.
trict in which the owner resides and
not where the grain is stored, At.