Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-10-12
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY READERS
Digest Of Weeks Happenings in and Over
the Puget Sound and State

mo annual STATE convention VI tilc
W. c. T, u. of Washington is being
held in BellinEham this week.
Bremen postoffice, on Tilton river,
30 miles east of Chehals, will not be
ro.established by the government.
A yield of thirty bushels to the acre
of spring grain on l,200 acres Is re-
ported by l.. Il. Lambrith, Davenport
farmer
Mrs. Vina |. Bowden of Missouri
was elected president Of the P. Il. O.
sisterhood at the 26th biennial con
vention In Seattle.
Pastors OF Chehalis churches and
others interested in good government
have organized the Good Citizenship
League Of Chehalis.
The grand total Of taxes to be rails
ed in Walla Walla county is approx
mately S1,656, 6,227.23 in 1924, as against
TI,oGl,oOU,ft lliS year.
Where to house the men who are
coming to Vancouver to work in the
new industries being established there
is becoming a serious problem.
Rejection of the petition for re-
hearing in the Columbia basin rate
case has been confirmed officially by
the interstate commerce commission
Washington state is to receive $50,
243 from the department of agricul
ture as its share of the receipts from
national forests in the state during the
last fiscal year
A campaign against cancery part OF
the series planned by the american
Society for the Control OF Cancer
will be launched throughout the north
west October 25.
w. ]. Gates, mill worker. was
caught between two logs at the Hui
bert mill at Everett and was SC
severely crushed that he died before
reaching hospital.
Ira L. Clark, Walla Walla, was ele
waited to be chancellor commander Of
the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias
at the closing session of the state
convention at Olympia.
Two hundred and fifty-seven tins o
opium, having retail value of $40,
500, we're seized by federal customs
inspectors aboard the Admiral Orien
tai liner President Grant at Seattle.
Registration at the University o
Washington has passed the 500,
mark. The total enrolment for tn,
school year, DR.. Henry Suzzallo, presi
dent of the university, predicted, vii
be 1900.
Aberdeen was selected as the plac
for holding the next annual conven
tion of the Pythian grand lodge an,
the grand temple of the Pythian Sis
ters at the concluding session Of tn
convention in Olympia.
Twenty.six alleged members of tn
Industrial Workers of the World, con
victed at Spokane of riding on
freight train without tickets and sen
fenced September "a to thirty day
in jail have been released.
Five hundred citizens OF Rentol
celebrated the loading at Taylor's mill
near the Renton city limits, of tn,
Forest Friend, the first large vesse
to enter Lake Washington and tax,
on cargo at the Renton wharf.
Fewer people were hauled and al
increased deficit shown in earning
of the Spokane United railways il
August compared to the same montl
last year, General Manager NJ w
Birkett reported to Mayor Fleming.
Sam Driver, prosecuting attorney 70
Douglas county, has notified the coun
ty commissioners that he will resigl
soon to become private secretary fo
Judge Sam B. Hill, democratic con
gressman-elect from the fifth district
A box of green prunes spilled OF
the Battle Ground highway near tn,
Clarke county fair grounds was tn,
cause of an accident in which w. w
Wilson of Vancouver suffered two
broken ribs, and two automobiles wer,
wrecked
The state of Washington was rep
resented at the Worlds Dairy Con
gress which held a five-day session a
Syracuse, N. Y, by delegates from
Seattle, Spokane, Chehalis, Kirkland
Chinook, Tacoma, Toledo, Bellinghan
and Walla Walla.