Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-11-09

The Washington State League OF
Women Voters held their third annual
convention in Seattle.
The annual meeting Of game
wardens and commissioners of the
state was held at Ellensburg.
Mrs. c. E. Reed, SO, who lived on
farm northwest of Elk. was found
dead in her bed recently by neighbors.
Saikum postoffice, twenty miles
southeast of Chehalis, has been re-es.
tablished. Floyd M. DUEL is postmas-
ter.
Continued building activity in Ever
EFT is indicated in that during Octo-
Der permits were issued totaling $751;
CTS.
NJ. A. Peacock of Yakima has pick
ed this season 2S,1O0 boxes of fine
apples from 50 acres of 11-year.old
trees
Deposits in the 80 banks of Whit
man county now total S9,S40, S46 an in
crease of more than 100000 since
June 80.
A fire at Grandview destroyed the
Grandview dehydrating plant and
Sparkes' confectionery, causing loss
OF $1,000
Gain in Everett postoffice receipts
for the month of October was s2,511.16,
the receipts for the month aggregating
S12,29221.
Having laid the cornerstone on Sep
TENDER %, ex-service men will dedicate
their new memorial home in Wenat-
chez November H.
Construction work has begun on the
first six miles of the ]. c. Biles Lum-
Der company railroad between Omak
and the company's mill.
Measuring nineteen inches across
the back, with legs foot long, Jap
anese or Siberian crab was taken in
Fidalgo Bay, near Anacortes.
The congregation of the University
Christian church at Seattle has com
pleted plans for the erection of new
church edifice to cost S225,000
The housing question in Vancouver
is serious, according to real estate
dealers, who are swamped with appli-
| cations for desirable residences.
The Seattle city council has sustain.
ed Mayor Browns veto Of an ordi
nance changing the name of Olive
street and Olive Way to Harding Way.
B. NJ. Atkins, manager Of the North
| Coast Power company, states that the
company will soon commence rebuild
ing it's light and power system in
Woodland
With arrival of complete plans for
the new Hotel Winthrop in Tacoma,
the directors of the Citizens Hotel cor
poration are arranging to let contracts
so that building operations may start
by December l.
John o. Peterson Of Deer Park, in
the employ of the Pacific Telephone
d Telegraph company, was struck by
an automobile near Chewelah and SUI
fered a broken neck. death resulting
almost instantly.
Adams county has more than 1000
miles of roads, Of which 231 miles have
been improved at cost of S1,379S07,
The county has not levied a tax for
two years and has more than $780,.
600 in the road fund
There is a movement on foot among
Wenatchee orchardists to secure an
appropriation sufficient to keep the 10.
cal employment office open the year
round, in order to be assured of an
organization for the apple harvest.
Ada Blackjack, an Eskimo woman
who was the sole survivor of an expe.
dition led to Wrangell Island, in the
Arctic ocean. by Allen r. Crawford of
Toronto in 1921, arrived In Seattle
from Nome, Alaska on the steamship
Victoria.
Fred Lindgren, Bixty.one, Of Silver
Lake, died at an Everett hospital from
injuries received when an auto driven
by Charles Holmes Of East Stanwood,
in which Lindgren was passenger,
struck another machine on the Marys.
vile road,
Bids for 2O.5OO feet of cast iron
water pipe ranging in diameter from
four to twelve inches were ordered
called for by the city water board Of
Nottingham. The pipe will be used to