Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-06-22
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

Pullman will celebrate July with a
big community picnic.
Fire of unknown origin caused about
$4,000 loss in Bellingham.
The Chelan county bar association
meeting has been postponed until
June 26.
Eighty-two nonresident students at
tended the high school at Davenport
last year.
The North Bank highway, between
Camas and Washougal, will be closed
until July 10.
City finances of Walla Walla are in
good shape, according to report of
William S. Shank, state examiner.
The annual district convention of
Christian churches OF the Wenatchee
district was held at Waterville Friday.
Sheriff Green of Columbia county
arrested seven alleged bootleggers at
Dayton in the biggest liquor raid ever
held there.
gain of 14,S3S head was made in
hog receipts at the Spokane Union
stock yards in 1922 over 1921, or 45
per cent.
A combined Fourth of July celebra-
ton by the communities of Addy, Gift
ford, Incheleum and Blue Creek will
be held at Addy.
More than 3oS,O0O trout have been
planted in Clarke county streams
since March i, according to Game
Warden McCurdy.
James Davis, so, survivor Of the first
battle between the Monitor and the
Merrimac in the Civil war, died at his
home In Seattle.
George Dinas, a restaurant keeper
Of Morton, was convicted at Everett
Of murder in the first degree for the
death of Gust Karas.
The Walla Walla Pageant assooia-
tion has voted unanimously for repeat
ing the pioneer pageant, "How the
West Was Won," next year.
The 41st annual epcampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic OF the de-
partment of Washington and Alaska
will take place In Spokane June 2S to
20, inclusive.
Colonel T. NJ. Knox of the quarter
master corps, United States army, has
arrived at Vancouver barracks, where
he will succeed Captain Goodrich as
post quartermaster.
Prosecuting Attorney Sumner Of
Chelan county faces charges of mall
feasance In office, made in petition
on file in the office OF the county audi
tor demanding his recall from office
The northward march of Oregon's
caterpillar army is giving considerable
apprehension in this state as to possi-
bilities of the pest reaching Washing
ton, and If necessary they will meet
with hot resistance by the state de-
partment of agriculture.
The Washington State college veter-
mary hospital, conducted in Spokane
Tor the last IA years in conjunction
with the course in veterinary surgery
at the college at Pullman, is to be
closed Immediately, II is announced by
President e. o. Holland.
The use of Muzzey's history of the
United States, which had been criti-
cised on the ground that 1t belittled
The victory Of the colonies over Great
Britain in the revolution, will be con.
tinued in the Seattle public schools,
The school board has decided.
Hundreds of veterans who heard the
call for volunteers in the feverish days
Of 1898 will hold reunion July 10,
20 and q, when the United Spanish
War veterans of the department of
Washington and Alaska will hold their
annual convention in Vancouver.
Dentists of the state held their an
nual convention In Walla Walla. Next
year they will meet at Tacoma. The
following officers we're elected: Dr..
A. f. Wilbur Tacoma, president; Dr..
Ray Peterson, Lewiston, Idaho, vice
president; Or. Will G. Crossy, Seattle,
seoretary; Dr.. George Chapman, Col.
lax, DR.. Robert Shank, Spokane, DR..
George Ellsperman, Blaine, and DR..
3. A. Fulton, Walla Walla, executive
board