Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-03-23


fix up an undeveloped tract belonging
to the city water board as recreation.
al park for boys.
Dairymen Of Walla Walla county
have decided to form cooperative
creamery and will establish a $4,000
plant at Walla Walla.
Hiram B. Runnels, a lumberman
credited with cutting the first tree on
the site of Seattle, died in that city
last week, aged IS years.
DR.. Hubert Work, the new secretary
of the interior, has accepted an invi
tation to visit the Columbia basin pro
ject the coming summer.
Scott Williams of Seattle, employed
as night fireman at the Wallitner
shingle mill at Port Angeles, was killed
when the boiler exploded.
Seattle's newest high school, the Gar.
field, being erected at cost of $780,
600, will be ready for the opening OF
the school year next September.
Skagit county is to have new court
house, it was decided by an almost un.
animous vote of county citizens com.
mittee which met at Mount Vernon.
A mass meeting to discuss charter
changes when all civic organizations
will be asked to have delegates present
will be held on March 2S at Belling.
ham.
A late blossoning period for the
prune orchards of Clarke county has
been forecast by growers and experts.
The usual blossom period is about
April 10.
Narcotics estimated by federal Off
GERS to be worth S15O,000 were seized
on the steamship Delrosa at Tacoma
dock by inspectors of the customs de.
partment.
Building permits issued at Seattle
during January and February repre-.
sented a value of s4,135, $3.50, approxi-
mately double that of the first two
months of 1921
A reward of S10O was announced by
Mrs. A. f. Larson, president of the
State Federation of Women's clubs,
for the best Washington state song sub.
mitted by May 1.
The Clarke county game commission
has ruled that the two deer allowed
each hunter this year shall be further
limited by the stipulation that the ami.
mails shall be males.
Douglas L. Cauley, soldier station.
ed at Fort Lawton and charged with
the murder of comrade, Frank e
Peterson, has been indicted by fed
eral grand jury at Seattle.
The body of an unidentified man,
tied to an overturned launch, was dis
covered by members of the crew of
the Canadian Pacific steamship Prin-
cess Charlotte, off Port Townsend.
Members of the Elks' state executive
committee, meeting at Everett with a
local committee, have selected August
13, ID and Is as dates upon which the
1928 state convention of Elks will be
held in Everett.
Public hearings on the applications
Of three companies operating automo.
bile freight lines between Everett and
island points or through Everett, will
be held by the state department of
public works at Everett.
Objections of the state of Washing.
ton to the issuance Of federal license
for power project on Flathead creek
were filed with the federal power com.
mission, but previous plans for hear
ing on the question were Cancelled.
Charles Watts, a real estate dealer,
has been named receiver for the
Smith-Reynods American Legion post
of Vancouver The receivership was
asked by the legion in order to pay
off liens totaling more than $4,000.
Three hundred forty.one courses will
be offered at the University of Wash
ington summer session this year. The
university has secured "a prominent
educators of England and the United
States to give instruction, in addition
To the regular faculty
william NJ. Short, president of the
State Federation of Labor, has been
rendered the compliment of more than
so per cent of the votes of local labor
councils in the biennial nominating
primary election, Short received the
nomination for reelection from 10 OF
the " local unions which sent in thell
vote.