Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-09-26

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the total number of licenses issued be.
ing 6s02.
Automobile licenses IN Spokane
county have netted the state S442,569
this year. The county has ISSUED ~.
ISL licenses.
C. L. Robinson, state supervisor OF
horticulture, estimates the stas's
apple crop at about $4,000 cars, in.
Guiding culls.
Arvid Johnson, 49, fisherman, was
shot and fatally wounded at the mouth
of the north fork of the Skagit river,
near La Conner.
One car of peaches which moved out
of the Yakima valley last week is
thought to have been the final ship
ment of the 1924 crop.
An increase of $42,4S2.9O. or total
of S323,541.9S is asked by Whatcom
county officials for next year, accord
ing to tentative budget compiled.
The Sunnyside cannery has packed
lab barrels of cucu:nbers this season,
using 100 tons Of the vegetable, for
which the growers received about S.
900.
So steadily has the business of the
Whatcom County Dairymen's associa-
| tion grown thu, e':'cGs'Te additions,
reEiodeling ana repl!rs are being plan
ned for the plant.
A resolution favoring the present
plan OF county control of game and
game fish, as opposed to q proposed
plan Of state control, was passed by
the Davenport Commercial club.
The tax levy for Clarke H,unty will
be reduced materially II 1925, as COM
pared with 1924, according to the ten
tat!ye bulge, adopted by the county
commissioners for county purposes.
Tie preli,',l..lry budget for Walla
Walla county calls for the expendi-
ture of about 500 more than last
year. The total current expense
and the four road districts is $685. 632.
There were 397,2S9 children of
school census age in the state of Wash
ington on May l, 1924, according TO
statistics compiled by Mrs. Josephine
Corliss Preston, state superintendent.
Three men Were severely burned
and 10 dwellings, several large oil
storage tanks aid nine cars of logs
were destroyed in a fire at Simpson
Logging company camp No. near
Shelton.
Owing to an unusual number of in
fantile paralysis eases reported in Sc
attic, Thomas R. Cole, city superin-
tendent of schools, directed that all
public assemblies be temporarily dis
pensed with.
The plant OF the Camas lumber COM
pany at Camas was DESTROYED by fire
which started in the msin building
and swept surrounding planer sheds
and lumber docks. Less wcs estimat-
ed at 100000.
w. A. Gilmore, La Foil cite state
party candidate for governor; w. a.
Groce, Olympia, deputy state fire
marshal, and Mrs. Gro.u Were bruised
when automobiles in Which they were
riding collided head IN Itar Kent.
No democratic candidate can ap.
per on the Vancouver city primary
bs,!nt this year, in the opinion of
Gil! Attorney Bates, because of the
facr that there were no democratic
candidates in the city election in 1922.
The Aberdeen city council accept
eG he offer of E. C. Finch to pur-
c..,,.e ior $3,SO0 the .ieJent auto
tourist park of the city, expend $4,000
OIL 1t to make it an uDtc-date play
ground for children and present it to
the city.
Statistics released by the depart
ment of commerce show the state of
Washington to have clipped abroad
during the six months period ending
June 80 commodities valued at $751;.
269,044. OF this amount refined cop.
per shipments maintained their posi-.
ton as the principal item, being val
ued at sl1,l40,374, followed in order
by wheat and wheat flour, valued al
s9.64l.s94; lumber S0,154,0o9. and tim
Der, s5,s24,S53.