Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-17
WASHINGTON STATE
Brief NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
Of Our Readers.

September by the municipal free EN-
ployment bureau OF Spokane.
Filing of the 18th party ticket for
the general election was made Tues
day by the La Toilette state party.
An intereity Rotary club banquet,
held in Vancouver, was attended by
ATS members from Oregon and Wash
ington.
The value of taxable property IN
Clarke county was increased $l,3S6,'
| 1893 this year, according to Assessor
Palmer.
Phil X. Eaton of Olympia has been
appointed claim agent in the depart
ment Of labor and industries, it hat
been announced.
Police court receipts in Spokane for
the first nine months of this year
| we're $52,576, a decrease Of 1855 over
the same period last year.
i The annual report of Sheriff Thomp'
son of Clarke county showed 524 ar
rests were made by his office during
the year ending September 30.
The funeral of John ]. O'Connor, age
eS, one of the last six before the rail
road" pioneers of the Wenatchee val
ley was held Saturday at Wenatchee
The Centralia city commission last
week purchased two cub bears, which
will be placed in Borst park next
spring as the foundation for a menag'
erie.
Fruit shipments from the Wenat
chez district for September were 2o6G
cars. OF these 1868 were apples, 90
mixed, III pears, peaches and
prunes.
Both the high and grade schools OF
Montesano have been closed becaus.
OF an epidemic of infantile paralysis
Four cases and one death have beer
reported.
From 500 to 600 more men will b,
added to the Long-Bell Lumber com
pany mill crew at Longview Octobe'
Is, when second or night shift will
be added.
Police receipts at Yakima vert
boosted during September through
fines and forfsitures Of $2S46, beiH;
the high month under the present cit!
administration.
]. ]. Hubbell, for eight years con
struction engineer on Indian reclaim
alton service projects In this state
will be transferred to the Casa Grande
Arizona, project shortly.
Pleading guilty at Seattle to l;
counts charging prohibition law viola
lions, Clarence D. Wood was finet
$500 and sentenced to two years II
Mcneil Island penitentiary.
The Crown Willamette Pulp Pa
per company is building several mile!
of grade to extend its logging railwa!
deeper into the timber back of Cath
lamet, in Wahkiakum county.
Second only to Seattle, Tacoma.
import business during June was So,
65S,307, according to the report o
Willard T. Harrison, collector of Gus
toms for the Puget sound district.
Margaret, the 2-months-old daugh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Epplin, dis
appeared mysteriously from her par
ents' ranch near Renton Junction las
week and no trace of the child ma
been found.
Due to the fact that more funds ar
needed to keep open the Vader schools
special election has been called TO
\ Wednesday, when voters of that plac,
will be asked to authorize specia
s.mill levy.
4 Andrew Jacobson, commander Of III,
Yakima post of the American Legion
Il Ndb hIIltu " utll lie ltll llOHl IL II tlEH
car and was run over at Geed,
shipping point few miles northwes
OF Yakima
One hundred and four trainmen o
the Seattle municipal railway hav,
lost a fight in superior court agains
a civil service commission regulation
giving employment preference to ex
\ service men.
H The Northern Pacific Railway com
H pany has applied to the interstate com
H merce commission for authority Il
H construct IL miles Of main line IL
H Mason county at cost of approx
H mately 100000.
II Everett G. Griggs of Tacoma, demo
H cratic nominee for congress In tn
v third district, filed his Withdrawal
H from the race In letter to the sec
H Rotary of state. Mr.. Griggs gave n,
II reason for his action.
\ Authority to issue promissory note
for s19.765 to purchase locomotiv
WIS granted by the interstate con
II merce commission to the Longvlea