Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-09
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FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

replace old wooden mains in the city
and for extensions.
c. NJ. Sutor of Bellingham, who, on
September 20 was convicted at ColfaX
of driving a car more than 30 miles an
hour and given day in jail and fined
$50, served his sentence last week Mr..
Sutor drove nearly 1900 miles to com
ply with the order
Orrin Griffith, convicted recently at
Bellingham of manslaughter in con
nection with the death OF Hobart Ham.
lin, aged 5, has been sentenced to from
one to 20 years in the penitentiary at
Walla Walla. The boy was killed by
an automobile driven by Griffith
Jesse Fits, Rigefield youth, was ser.
iously wounded and Ferdinand Weber
and Leon Potter slightly wounded
| when Grover Hurshbarger is alleged
to have fired at the lads with a shot
gun as they were going through an
alley back of his premises in Ridge
field.
| Though a number of extra watch.
men were placed on duty at Wapato,
burglars broke down the front door of
| the towns leading pool hail. rolled
out 400-pound safe and hauled it by
| truck TO the river, about a mile away
The robbers got about $3.50 for their
nights work.
Loans aggregating s1,250,OOO to ag.
ricultural interests of the Pacific
| Northwest have been made by the Fed
eral Intermediate Credit Bank of Spo.
kane since its organization several
months ago, according to a report
made by Ward NJ. Buckler, manager of
the institution.
Olympia civic organizations, includ.
ing the American Legion, the Cham
Der of Commerce, the labor unions,
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, will spend
Armistice Day in Yelm, helping the
Legion of that town to build an audi
forum, which they expect to construct
in single day.
A permit was issued to the Buchan.
| an Lumber company of Olympia, by
| Marvin Chase, supervisor of hydraul-
les, to divert and appropriate the wa
| tiers of Schneider's creek in Thurston
| county, for mill and boiler supply.
The improvement will cost between
$4,000 and $1,000.
More than 375,0OO,OO0 feet of lum-
Der will be the total export mark for
this year by north Pacific coast mills,
according to statistics announced in
Seattle by officials of the Douglas Fir
Exploitation G. Export company, an
organization comprising the majority
of the export mills.
Officers of the annual Brethren cor.
ference of the Pacific German Congre-
gational churches. in session at Walla
| Walla, were elected as follows: Rev.
H. Hagelgauz of Portland, chairman;
Conrad Walter of Odessa, vice-presi
dent; George Frank, Walla Walla, sec.
rotary; j. Vail of Lind, treasurer.
Increased output and sales were re
ported to the West Coast Lumber
mems association by 1919 mills for last
week. Production was 10G,706,GlT
| feet, 20 per cent above normal output
with an eight.hour shift, as compared
with 20 per cent advance the pro.
ceding week. Sales were 57,50G5Gi
| feet
Several hundred Indians drawn from
a score of tribes throughout the north
west attended the convention Of the
Northwest Federation of American IN
| dams held at Everett The conven.
ton was called to petition the gov.
eminent for compensation for land
taken under the terms of former
treaties.
A school district Of the second class
cannot unite with a district of the
first class to form union high school,
so the attorney generals office in.
forms the state superintendent of pub,
lie instruction. A union high school
district may, however, be formed from
two or more contiguous districts Of
the second and third class
Wounded world war veterans IN
Cushman hospital, Tacoma, have re.
ceived as personal mementoes photo.
graphs OF the late President Harding
and Mrs. Harding, taken when the
presidential party visited them last
summer. The presentations were made
| by Colonel j. X. Dean, chairman OF
| the state decentralization committee