Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-08

Commercial Club has been perfected,
Building permits for May at Walla
Walla totaled 26 and the amount was
s4I52O
Normal school diplomas were award
ed to 129 members of the senior class
Of Ellensburg normal school.
One OF the heaviest June rains on
record fell at Walla Walla when the
precipitation was 1882 inches in two
hours.
Four hundred and thirty-five stu.
dents received certificates or diplomas
at commencement exercises at Cheney
State Normal school.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Mount, widow of the
late Judge Wallace Mount, prominent
resident of Olympia, died at the family
home at Olympia Monday
Vancouver weddings during last
month broke the May marriage
records for four years when 2o2
couples journeyed there for licenses.
Mrs. Mary Alma Lister, widow Of
Ernest Lister, ex-governor of Wash.
ington, died at her home in Tacoma,
following an illness of nearly two
years.
,
Struck by the butt of tree he had
just felled, Charles w. Howard, age
43, logger, was instantly killed near
the north end of Newman lake in Spo.
kane county.
The Inland Empire is rejoicing over
heavy rainfall. The total precipita
tion was considerably over an inch
Farmers are jubilant and declare that
crops will be greatly benefited.
The McCleary Timber company's
veneer plant, located at Olympia
which burned Sunday, will be rebuilt
at McCleary and operated in conjunc
tion with the big McCleary door plant
Lawyers have discovered that in
amending election laws the last ses
sion of this legislature may have cut
more than two months from the term
of DR.. Edwin ]. Brown, mayor of Sc
attic.
May broke all records for the mum
Der of drivers licenses forfeited in
court for the offense of driving while
intoxicated with 27, according to re-
port of Fred ]. Dibble, director Of
licenses.
The Everett Fruits Products com
pany will begin canning Strawberries
this week with crew of 200. 1t Is
proposed to pack 10000 cases this
year as against 10000 cases put ur
last year.
appointment of additional soil ex
perts to speed the work of the fed
eIal survey of the Columbia basin ir
rigation project has been authorized
by Secretary Work Of the department
OF the interior.
Policemen of Bellingham should
have one day off in seven, the Central
Labor Council believes, and 1t has
sent a communication to the city coun
Gil asking that body to grant the re
quest of members of the force.
The Federal Land bank at Spokane
In May closed 427 new farm loans fol
81 ,4O3, 200, according to the monthly
figures announced by D. G. O'Shea
president. This brings the total tc
date to 2S,S77 loans for SS6,513,S35.
Jury service in Clarke county has
been Stunned this year by women, ac
cording to County Assessor Palmer
who estimates that of at least 5000
women IN the county eligible for serv
ice less than 200 have agreed to serve
R. E. Ostrander, formerly of Seattle
and recently appointed brief clerk BY
Attorney-General John H. Dunbar. ha'
been named legal assistant for the de
partment of public works. to succeed
Anthony w. Dolphin, Spokane, resign
ed
Township citizens do not have tt
register to vote in township elections
and the officials of the township have
the night to set any reasonable elec
tion hours they wish, according to al
opinion Of the state attorney-general'l
office. {
The attacks Of William Jenning
Bryan on advanced thought in religion
were indorsed by Bishop william
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