Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-30
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR our BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

From a half acre of sandy soil, be.
tween two and three tons of peanuts
have been harvested by Japanese
gardener at east Wenatchee.
Members of the 1924 Kittitas coun-
ty fair board at an organization meet
ing at Ellensburg, elected w. C. Fudge
president for the coming year.
Daniel Campbell of Bellingham was
elected president of the Association Of
Pacific Fisheries at the annual meet.
ing of the organization in Seattle.
AS one of the events of the remem-
brance of Thanksgiving day this sea
son, special holiday gift car of ap
pies was shipped out of Wenatchee to
Chicago.
Extensive engagements of business
equipment and output are being made
by the Willapa Harbor Single COM
pany at its plant few miles south of
South Bend.
Two bandits held up and robbed the
Spokane State bank, located in the out
lying business district of Spokane, and
escaped with about $1,000 in currency
and silver.
The Endicott grade school won first
place in the Whitman county spelling
contest, with an average of 1928 per
cent Winona came second with an
average of 1888.
With the idea of advertising Wenat-
:hee apples and enlarging the market
for the fruit in the orient, C. L. Long
we'll, Wenatchee shipper, will sail from
Seattle on December 4.
Fort Worden has just completed
small arms firing drills for 1928, with
unusual recnrds of efficiency with the
rifle and pistol for the headquarters
coast artillery posi- personnel.
The Potlatch Lumber company of
,fice at Watsburg was broken into and
: 200pound safe placed in car, taken
one mile east on the state highway to.
ward Walla Walla and blown open.
Iodine treatment for goiter proven
ion in all schools of Yakima county
was unanimously Endorsed by vote
If the Yakima County School Direc-
.ors' association, in its fall meeting.
Residence heating by electricity is
the subject of an article recently pub
ished in Electrical World magazine by
g. A. Loew, associate professor cleo
.rical engineering, University of Wash
Ington.
Acting under orders from tie war
department at Washington, D. c., army
officers at Vancouver barracks have ne
.un an investigation to locate the ac-
Ma site OF the original Fort Vancouver
;tockade.
Soren Sorenson of Ellensburg, pres-
lent of the Washington State Farm
Bureau Federation, will represent the
'cderation at the national farm bureau
convention to be held at Chicago, De.
,ember 10.
Three prisoners escaped from the
oenitentiary at Walla Walla by climb
ng the west wall. The men are Jerry
Jennings and Lawrence Cotton, sent
rom Pierce county, and C. s. Pigeon,
sent from Pend O'Reille county.
I A new national bank for Tacoma,
operated upon cooperative basis,
With the control in the hands of four
abroad hrotherhoods, was announced
Is development which the city may
expect within the next 80 days.
Although there is an increase of
;51 ,2S4 in taxes for Walla Walla county
his year, figures of the assessors Of
lice show there has been a big reduc
ion in taxes since the peak was reach
I'd in 1920. The decrease since 1920
S 1881 $50.
Recent light rainfalls and prospects
ST more to come give promise of re-
lief to Tacomas municipal electric
system, which has been forced to pur.
chase current from the Tacoma Rail.
way Power company because of
shortage of water in the Nisqually
liver,
Berries, stone fruits and problems
connected with growing fruit in west.
,rn Washington will be discussed at a
conference of the Western Washington
Horticultural association at Everett.
December 6, Z and s, according to
Charles L. Robinson, supervisor of
horticulture. About 300 from the west.
,rn part of the state are expected to
attend,