Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-07-25
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
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OF Our Readers.


two banks of Pullman had resources
of $1,G6S,7GO and deposits of Si,4O9,.
SCI.
Two typhoid fever cases at Walla
Walla have been traced to spring
near the power plant on the Walla
Walla river,
The nth annual convention of the
Pacific Coast Association of Port
Authorities is to be held in Seattle
September and A.
The ninth annual Skagit county
excursion to the western Washington
experiment station at Mount Vernon
will be held this week.
Fire last week in the Y. w. c. A.
building at Yakima drove IL young
women, lightly clad, into the street
and caused loss of $4,000.
Lewiston, Idaho, was chosen as the
1924 meeting place at the final bust
ness session of the Washington State
Morticians' association at Everett.
Forty-eight owners have entered
TAG horses from Everett, Vancouver,
B. c., Carnation, Camp Lewis and Fort
Lawton for the horse show at Seattle.
Ezra Meeker, "a, of Seattle, an
nounced that he would stump the state
for Coolidge this summer and fall
working independently of the state
committee.
Contrary to the general belief
southeastern Spokane county will
have fine wheat crop. 1t is report
ed that some Sc bushels to the acre
wheat may be threshed.
Rebuilding the sawmill and box
plant Of the Yellow Pine Box and
Lumber company near Winesap, re-
Gently destroyed by fire with a loss
OF 100000, is under way.
Charged with the murder of his
wife, Pearl Conner, "a, who dropped
from sight under mysterious circum-
stances two months ago, Richard Ccn-
ner, 81, was arrested at Tacoma.
In the second bad grain fire of
the season standing grain on more
than 600 acres was destroyed in the
Fields gulch region, IL miles north
OF Prescott in Walla Walla county.
| c. w. Sorrells and his son, John,
were drowned in the Okanogan river
two miles below Malott when the
team they were using to move logs
fell into the river pulling the men in.
Louis L. Kennedy, so, sustained a
crushed pelvis, causing his death soon
after, when the wheel of combine
passed over his body on the Robert
G. Kennedy ranch near Walla Walla
Preliminary steps toward forma.
ton of a tri-city manufacturers asso.
citation, with manufacturers of Kelso
Longview and Rainier as members
were taken at a meeting in Longview
Rains in several sections of eastern
Washington and northern Idaho with
I other favorable weather conditions
enabled firefighters to bring under
control many blazes in those sections
Younger & Israel of Dayton have
purchased the Turner warehouses at
4 MILESTONE, Delany and Turner from
B. NJ. Turner who will operate the
Pacific Coast elevator warehouse sys.
TEN.
/ Unanimous endorsement of initia.
tive measure No. So, the Bone power
bill, was voted in the closing session
of the annual convention of the Wash,
ington State Federation of Labor at
Olympia.
! Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the entire cut of Lantzy's sawmill
six miles from Lincoln, across the
/ Spokane river The lumber burned
totaled nearly 100000 feet and was
OF the best grade.
Rose stover 14-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. ]. II. Slower, Bunker
/ Hill precinct, Is miles west OF EDhra
ia, is dead as the result OF fall
/ down a GO,foot cliff near her home
in Grant county.