Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-01

r. ID. Sloan of the Yale university
faculty has been appointed professor
OF electrical engineering at the state
college at Pullman.
Farmers and business men of Clarke
county will be guests of the Vancouver
Prunarians at an all,county picnic
to be held June 90.
Crops of the Walla Walla valley
are in excellent condition, although
the seasonal deficiency of rain has
reached five inches.
Prune and apple crops of the Walla
Walla valley are about three weeks
ahead of last season and give promise
of being the best in years.
Douglas Tancred, SO, breeder of
Leghorn chickens, whose hens won
three consecutive worlds records, died
last week at his home in Kent.
Bellingham normal won the first
annual state normal school track meet
at Ellensburg with 5S points to 4Oh
for Ellensburg and 2S1a for Cheney.
Mrs. SarahG Buchanan the last OF u
children OF Lawton Case, who came to
Washington in 1851, died last week
at Olympia. She was 73 years old.
A recent survey of building opera
tions in Seattle shows that there are
1885 homes. hotels, factories and
stores under construction or newly
built.
Facilities to move the anticipated
apple crop of $4,000 to $4,000 cars in
the Wenatchee valley this year have
been assured by the Great Northern
officials.
Cedro Panichrni, 40 years old, was
slain two miles west of Hoquiam in
q scuffle with Karl Kirch, who ac-
cused Panichrni of annoying his
daughter
Twelve twin calves within a few
months time is the record of 40 Hol-
stein cows on the ranch of NJ. B. Gun
ningham, dairyman living east Of
Vancouver.
Marriages of minors in Clarke coun-
ty this month have been near the
record Since May /, "a minors have
iourneyed to Vancouver to obtain we'd
ding licenses.
What is believed to be the first car
of head lettuce ever shipped from the
Yakima Valley rolled out of Wapato
last week for Omaha. The car con
tanned $50 crates.
Internal injuries suffered by George
Moland when his car went over a 95
foot embankment in Seattle, resulted
in his death at the city hospital. He
was 81 years old.
The twenty-fifth annual session Of
the Oregon, Washington and British
Columbia grand council of the United
Travellers of America will meet at Sc
attic June / and 2.
An ordinance TO increase fares on
the Seattle municipal street car sys
TEN from cents to 10 cents cash or
1-3 cents on tokens was vetoed by
Mnun,. ITIuip I
Gus Main, 2S, was fatally injured
and three others badly hurt when an
automobile in which they were riding
crashed into the bulkhead OF a bridge
between Gold Bar and Sultan.
Mrs. Amanda Wyman, aged 1O1, and
probably one of the oldest living mem
bers of the Eastern Star in the United
States, died at the home of her son,
Elder c. A. Wyman, at Olympia.
After arresting and failing one man
at Auburn, c. j. Bush, special agent
for the Northern Pacific, was himself
held up by a second man, robbed Of
his pistol and $40 in cash and tied to
tree.
Mrs. Blissy Moxley, said to be more
than 100 years old, died at her home
on the Indian reservation near Oak
vile. She represented the first OF
five generations residing on the reser-
vation.
A resolution "emphaticaliy denounc-
ing" the order of Under-Secretary Gill
bert of the treasury department al
locating 14,5OO,OOO ounces of silver
purchased under the Pittman act to
restoration OF subsidiary coinage was
adopted by the Northwest Mining
Mems association in convention at
Spokane.