Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-21

leading banker of kitsap county, died
suddenly Sunday.
Wenatchee has voted to change It's
government to the commission form,
the proposal carrying by SS4 votes to
1893.
Work was started Monday at Van
couver on building 1O0x2OO feet in
an area to be used by the Columbia
River Paper Mills company as fin.
ishing room and warehouse. 1t will
be of steel and brick construction and
will be built at cost of $4,000.
The worlds champion producing
COW among Holstein junior 3.year-olds
is Canary Snowfall Gettie of the herd
of Western state hospital, Fort Steil.
accom-. In 10 months test period
the COW produced 22132 pounds of
milk and 767.7S pounds of butter.
Doubling Of the capacity of the hy-
dro-electric generating plant at Wenat.
chez is part of the 1925 construc-
tion program of the Puget Sound
Power and Light company, it is an
nounced. This will increase the ca.
pacity of the plant from 1000 to 1000
horsepower.
A decline of S7179.70 in toll receipts
on the interstate bridge at Vancouver
for October, as compared with Septem-
Der, was shown in the report of Audi
tor Rae to the bridge commission.
Toll receipts for October totaled $780,
S50.60, compared with S3S,030.30 for
September.
Shot through the heart and appar
emily dead several days, the body of
John Abraham Davis, 46, saw filler for
the Workman Creek Logging COM
pany, and a resident of Aberdeen, was
found on the bank of small creek
about two miles from the camp at
which he was employed.
Wednesday the newly-created inter.
national halibut treaty commission, in.
cluding Miller Freeman and Henry
O'Malley, named by President Calvin
Coolidge as the two American mem.
Usrs, and w. A Found and John P.
Babcock, appointed by Canada, met
in Seattle for its first session.
The Port Townsend & Puget Sound
railway and the Port Townsend &
Southern railroad have petitioned the
interstate commerce commission for
authority to abandon portion of their
lines extending from Discovery juno
tion to Quilcene, IA miles. The ter
ritory was said to be adequately serv.
ed by water and bus lines.
Colonel w. l.. Braden of the United
States engineering corps, who con.
Quoted hearing at Ellensburg on
plans and specifications of the Van
tage Bridge company for a bridge
across the Columbia river at Vantage
Ferry, announced that the state high
way department protest did not come
within the scope of the hearing.
Washington, Oregon and California
pack half of the canned foods of the
United States, according to circular
of the Manufacturers association of
Washington, published at Seattle
Washington leads the nation, the cir.
cuiar showed, in quantity and value of
canned berries and salmon, in clans
it was first in value and second in
quantity, in shad and apples it was
second in quantity and value, in pears
it was third in quantity and fourth in
value and in prnnes it was third in
quantity and value.
The first attempt on large scale
to solve the reforestation problem of
the Pacific northwest, perhaps the
most vital question with regard to
the future prosperity of the state of
Washington, will be made by the
Weyerhaeuser interests, according to
an announcement made by George S.
Long, general manager of the Weyer.
haeuser Timber company. The plan
Includes the organization of a $1,000.
900 corporation, to be known as the
Weyerhaeuser Logged Off Land com
pany, which will take over all the
cut-over timber lands held by the
Weyerhaeuser interests in the state.
With highway construction contracts
awarded during 1924 by the state high.
way committee aggregating S4,S52, ,430,
and holdover contracts from 1923 GOV.
ering grading and surfacing of 10
miles OF road totaling $1,675,O00, the
year now closing has been marked
with great activity in the state high.
way program, according to resume
by James Alien, highway engineer.
New improvements included 354 miles
of highway and construction of six
permanent bridges New work incud.
ed 22l miles of grading and surfac-
ing, OF which 1885 miles was resur-