Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-05-09

WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS items
Principal Events of the Week
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Swallowing a kernel of corn caused
the death at Yakima of Ruby Palmer,
age IS months,
The Central Labor council of Ever.
EFT has voted its official support of
the Bone power bill.
Receipts at the Everett postoffice
for April jumped more than % per
cent over April, 1923,
William ]. Taylor, II, well-known
figure In the Kittitas valley since
1870, died at Ellensburg.
April marriage license records for
the last several years were broken at
Vancouver with total of 26S.
Contracts for road construction in
Adams county amounting to more than
100000 have been let this year.
With 10 of an inch of rainfall, April
was the third driest in the history
OF the weather bureau at Walla Walla.
Longview is to have new tourist
park to be operated under direction of
the city officials and a committee of
citizens.
Mrs. Elizabeth Freeburn, age SO,
died at her home at College Place.
She had lived in the region more than
GO years.
Deficiency appropriations aggregat-
ing more than 100000 have been yot-
ed by the Seattle city council so far
this year.
The Everett school board has pass.
ed a resolution to eliminate married
women from the teaching corps of the
city schools.
Enrolment in the Chehalis public
schools for the last month was 1873
greater than for the corresponding
period year ago.
May Is was set as the date for a
special election upon the issuance of
$4,000 in bonds for erecting two
school houses in Centralia.
Automobile licenses issued so far
this year in Clarke county are far in
excess of the total number issued dur
ing the entire year of 1928.
Fred Shrier, resident of the Goble
creek district, east of Kelso, last week
killed a large cougar that measured
seven feet four inches in length.
John Fenton McCallum, IA. living
near Brush Prairie in Clarke county,
was run over by creamery truck
and killed while on his way to school.
Henry Leetsch, living four miles
east OF springdale, lost two large
barns, two granaries, threshing ma
chine and much general personal prop.
erty in timber fire.
The opening of the Emerson, $780,
600 hotel built at Hoquiam by the
subscriptions of more than 600 citi-
zens, was attended by thousands from
all parts of the northwest
With fifty delegates and as many
more members present the United
Commercial Travellers of Washington,
Oregon and British Columbia held
their annual convention at Belling.
ham.
Before the eyes of several specta.
tors, Sydney Renner former owner of
an automobile accessory manufactur
ing company, Owed under the wheels
of a street car in Seattle and was in
stantly killed.
A surplus above all expenses of
$4,000 for the year 1928 or gain
of $91, 900 over 1922, by Seattle's mu.
nicipally owned light and power sys.
TEN was shown In the annual report
Just published,
While a controversy ragged between
King county officials over the closing
of the Des Moines highway bridge,
the west end of the bridge collapsed
and the structure is now entirely out
Of commission.
Miss Esther Motanic, daughter OF
Parsons Motanic, a prominent Indian
on the UmatIlla reservation in Oregon,
has been chosen TO play the part OF
Sacajawea in the pioneer pageant at
Walla Walla May 2S and 49,
George Il, Whitfield was sentenced
at Vancouver for the second time to
be hanged for the murder OF Anna
Nosko, Battle Ground school girl The
date Of execution was sent for Friday,
June 10, by Judge George b. Simpson.
The healthy growth of Spokane
business is reflected in postoffice re.
ceipts for April, being the largest in
the history of the institution for that
month, according to Postmaster
Thomas j. Smith. Receipts were $751;.
643.
Comparing closely with the official
estimates of the district horticultural