Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-02

school fair was held at Yakima with
more than 1000 exhibits.
Averaging $500 each the entire
Guernsey herd of II. e. Angel & Son
of Mabton was sold at auction at Sun.
nysde.
Retail merchants of Pullman were
hosts to retailers of other Whitman
county towns at banquet and meet
ing in Pullman.
The Pacific coast cranberry crop
this year is enormous. The yield in
Pacific county will be between 10000
and $4,000 boxes.
The Yakima city school district has
sold $780, 900 worth of bonds, the mon
ey to be used in constructing two new
school buildings.
An eight weeks intensive course in
agriculture will be given in January
and February by the Washington State
college at Pullman.
A bankers basketball league, com
posed of teams from IL local banks,
will be established in Seattle for the
1924 basketball season,
Edwin Robertson Morrison of Ellens-
burg has been nominated by Senator
Jones to take the examinations March
for admission to West Point.
Mrs. c. F. Southwick of Dryad was
elected chairman of the Rebekah dis
trict assembly Of Lewis and Pacific
counties at its meeting in Chehalis.
A special election for formation of
water district west of Wenatchee
and the election of directors has been
called by Chelan county commission
ers.
Judge Fred d. Yale, 81, died at his
home in Seattle. He served a term in
the state legislature in 19l5-1917 as
a representative from the Bellingham
district
The annual assembly, Washington
state society, Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, was held in Chehalis,
with all of the SO chapters in the state
represented.
William Douglass, millwright of
Anacortes, died an hour after being
I taken from beneath his auto, which
overturned in ditch two miles south
of Anacortes.
Roy Westby and Peter Smith We're
killed and Claude Payton injured when
their automobile was bOwled over and
thrown to the sidewalk by a street
car at Bellingham.
w. H. Talley, secretary of the state
farm bureau, and Brick Burford, Whit
man county agent, reorganized the
Whitman county farm bureau at a
meeting at Thornton.
All pre-Volstead records were shat
tered in the number of arrests for
drunkenness during the month of Sep
TENDER, Police Secretary w. l.. Jack
son announced in Spokane
Representative from ninete en-
southwest Washington Knights of Py-
thias lodges will meet in Chehalis
Thursday evening as guests of ST.
/ Helens Lodge at that city.
Members Of the Washington and
British Columbia Gymnasium Leaders
Corps, representing Seattle, Tacoma,
Vancouver, Bellingham and Everett,
held three days conference at Ever
EFT
Binding and gagging two employees
and a customer who drew up for gaso-
line. four masked men blew the safe
of the Yost Automobile company at
Edmonds and escaped with $500 in
cash
Announcement Of his candidacy for
the republican nomination for COVER
nor at the next election was made in
newspaper statement by Colonel Ro-
land H. Hartley of Everett, published
in Spokane.
Contract for the construction of a
7OO0.ton combination passenger and
freight steamship for the Southern
Pacific lines has been awarded TO the
Todd Drydocl; & Construction com
pany at Tacoma.
An auditors statement for the year
1888 found by Deputy County Auditor
Calender shows that the total tax.
able value Of Clarke county property
at that time was $5,72723O compared
with s1I7S4,SO4 for 1922.