Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-13

More than 200 deaf persons attend
ed the biennial convention of the
Washington State Association of the
Deaf in Spokane.
Building activity in Bellingham has
been steady throughout the year with
the first six months showing total
OF S430,168 taken out in permits.
George D. Mclean, founder of the
Skagit National bank and prominent
citizen Of Skagit county for 80 years,
died at his home In Mount Vernon.
Mrs. B. F. Westmore of Spokane
was elected president of the Safe Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs at the an
Gual convention in Mount Vernon.
Contracts have been let on seven
road and bridge jobs on three arterial
highways in the state of Washington
reaching an aggregate sum OF $27S.573.
An intensive campaign to eradicate
potato bugs from the fields of south
eastern Washington will be launched
this week by district horticultural Of
fices.
Found in possession OF several rails
ed money orders and what are believ-
ed to be forged checks, Leo Russell,
10 years old, is being held in the city
jail at Seattle.
Harold L. Dixon, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. l.. Dixon of Palouse, has left for
Annapolis, Ind, where he will take a
four-year course in the United States
naval academy.
Nineteen cars Of oilpaper-wrapped
Winesap apples shipped recently from
Wenatchee brought price on the
New York market that netted the
growers SAIL box.
The Grandview Pioneer association
held it's first annual picnic at Blaine
park in the orchard tracts on July 10.
All who have lived here 12 years are
considered pioneers"
The city council of Anacortes award.
ed the contract for paving twenty-eight
blocks of streets in the westside resi-
dental district to R. c. Stevenson, Of
Seattle. for SS5.O2964
With hundreds of acres of alfalfa
hay cut and In the shock, the Palouse
country promises to harvest one of the
best crops Of hay in its history. Yield
and acreage are above normal.
With 715 applications for sS,351, ,955
In loans, the Federal Land bank Of
Spokane set new record during June
During the month the bank closed $40
mortgage loans for S1,492,500.
Contract for constructing a 10000
gallon elliptical steel water tank for
the Davenport city water system was
awarded to the Chicago Bridge & Iron
Works, whose bid was S10,100
A permanent injunction was issued
at Seattle prohibiting the port COM
mission from issuing the $350,000 in
bonds recently voted to purchase the
Skinner & Eddy shipbuilding site.
Announcement was made of the re.
appointment by Governor Hart of w.
B. Whitcomb of Bellingham as mem.
ber of the board of trustees of the
state normal school at Bellingham.
The Washington State Music Teach
ers' association at its closing session
in Bellingham elected Mrs. ]. Alexand.
er Mahan of Ellensburg president and
chose Spokane as its 1924 meeting
place.
A contract was awarded by the state
highway commission for the paving
with concrete Of ~ of mile on the
Pacific highway from Chehalis south
to Albertson, Cornell Bros. & Walsh at
$34,9O0.
The question MS to whether baseball
Is an extra.hazardous employment bob.
bed up in Olympia when Assistant
Htaorney.General NJ H. Wright hand.
ed down an opinion at the request
of Supervisor Kenneth Durham OF the
state industrial insurance department
The opinion, rendered in the case OF
Leslie G. Ready, night employee OF
a lumber company, who is member
of the company's ball team in the
Twilight League, and who was injur
ed while practicing on company time
and under instruction from his super
ior, holds that Ready is not eligible
to compensation under the law.