Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-29


Northwest millers was held at Wenat.
chez.
The fourth district convention of
the American Legion was held in Ray.
mond.
A crowd estimated at more than
1000 attended the annual picnic at
Vancouver of the Prunarians.
The growers warehouse at White
Salmon has shipped IS carloads OF
Strawberries thus far this season.
A force of 21O people is engaged in
thinning the apples in the Stanton In-
vestment company's 6OO-acre orchard
near Walla' Walla.
The Nooksack Timber company has
greatly increased its logging facilities
and is now shipping to Bellingham 80
or more carloads of logs daily
The Clarke County Bar associations
annual picnic and high jinks scheduled
to take place at Ridgefield Saturday,
has been postponed to Saturday, July
IA.
Miss Fannie Dunwoodie, Walla
Walla, was elected president of the
Washington state chapter, P. e. o.,
which held its convention at Walla
Walla.
The Cowlitz Produce company Of
Winlock has shipped eleven carloads
of Strawberries to the Oregon Pack
ing company to be used at it's plant at
Vancouver.
The contract for the buildings to
house the big sulphite and paper mills
being established at Vancouver by
the Columbia River Paper Mills cor
poration will be let soou.
The Wenatchee Stage company has
been granted permit to extend its
service from White Bluffs to Wenat-
chez via Vantage Ferry. and Quincy
by the department of public works
j. A. Veness of Portland, Fred
Venese and G. Shivis Of Winlock and
civil engineers are working out a
plan to extend railroad line into the
rich timber belt lying east of Toledo.
For price reported to be s250,000,
Patrick Mccoy, Seattle logging oper-
ator, has purchased tract of AGO
acres on Sunderland inlet, having ap-
proximately 150,OOO,0O0 feet of tim
ber.
The cornerstone of the new Kittitas
county courthouse, which it is said
will be the largest and finest building
in North Central Washington, was
laid with fitting ceremonies at Wenat-
chez.
The Dean-Bowen Lumber company's
combination shingle and lumber mill
at Reevton, nine miles east OF Port
Angeles, was totally destroyed by fire,
causing an estimated loss of more than
$4,000.
Norman Everett, Cal Lobinger and
f. Makashima were killed when an
empty logging car in which they were
being hauled up a heavy grade at
National broke loose and dashed 10
the bottom.
Failing to effect a reconciliation
with his wife, from whom he was
separated Erwin Watts. 25-year.old
World war veteran, shot and killed
himself on the porch Of his wifc's
home at Everett,
Lincoln county officers are search.
ing for Robert Cress and a woman
companion from Wenatchee who are
suspected of breaking into the sheriff's
office in Davenport and stealing 2G
cases of bonded liquor.
IIito Va iiiilih' ihuohlht uhu lNi
fox furs showed an advance at Ia.
coma when more than 100000 worth
of furs, mostly from Alaska, were
sold at the regular auction Of the West
Coast Grocery company.
Where the department of labor and
industries received no notice that an
officer of a company Is on the pay
roll, industrial insurance cannot be
collected on a claim In his behalf
the supreme court has ruled.
The Washington department of ma
tional forests will use portable gaso
line force pumps to combat forest fros
this season, according to an announce
ment OF w. G. Weigle, superintendent
OF Snoqualmle national forest.