Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-25
WASHINGTON STATE
Brief News ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
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OF Our Readers.

Building permits at Olympia for the
first half of the month OF April total
] S92,4OO.
a concerted drive against autoists
who disobey parking and driving rules
is planned at Wenatchee
The date set for the celebration OF
the opening of the Central Ferry
bridge across the Snake river is May
Il,
Lack of funds will cause the Walla
I Walla Y. w, c, A. to cease all public
service work on May l, it is announc.
ed
Maurice Thompson, adjutant.gener-
al is planning on establishing infantry
units in Walla Walla to replace the
battery.
Lotteries of any description, for So
ciety benefit or charity purpose, are
strictly banned in Pierce county
henceforth.
Every publisher in Washington has
been invited to attend the southwest
Washington meeting at Lopgview,
May and 10.
Eatonville's annual Community Day,
to be observed this year on Friday,
is expected to be bigger and better
than ever before.
Five men, one an ex-patrolman,
were arrested, and more than $4,000
worth of liquor was seized at Seattle
by federal prohibition agents.
Yakima wool growers report that
buyers have practically deserted the
district, and the wool movement for
the time being is at a standstill.
The University OF Washington re-
tanned the rowing championship of
the Pacific coast by defeating the
University of California at Seattle
The Great Northern railroad will
have available this fall 24,2OO freight
refrigerator cars, according to ]. F.
Pewters, general agent at Spokane,
]. D. Hanley has started work on
the installation OF Kelso's new water
:, filtration system, for which he re-
ceived the contract some time ago.
Purchase of $4,000 Wenatchee park
bonds has Just been completed by the
state. The proceeds are to be used
in purchase of lands for public park
purposes.
Acreage planted to potatoes in
Clarke county this year will probably
fall below normal. Growers consid-
er returns unsatisfactory for the last
two years.
Formal announcement of his candi-
dacy for governor on the republican
ticket was made by Edward Clifford,
director OF the department of labor
and industries.
Reports from the field staff of the
horticultural office at Wenatchee,
show that no damage has been done to
soft fruit by the cold weather of the
last few days.
Farmers of Spokane county have
purchased more than a ton of cal
cium cyanide which is to be used for
gassing squirrels to death while they
are in the ground.
Blewett Pass was opened to traffic
by crew of 81 volunteer citizens
from Leayenworth, Cashmere and
Dryden. They shoyelled through four
feet OF snow on the summit.
Reports to the Yakima school SUI
perintendent show a decreasing per-
centage OF full.blooded Indians at
tending the pnblic schools compared
with the number of part-bloods.
Bankers from the six counties of
the state constituting the northwest
group of the Washington State Bank
ers' association met at Everett for
their annual spring conference.
Acting Governor William j. Coyle
has issued a proclamation urging the
citizens of the state to wear poppies
IN commemoration of the overseas
dead on Memorial Day. May 80
Mayor John West has announced
that the city of Chehalis this month
has paid off $4,000 of its general
fund Indebtedness and that next year
the city will go onto a cash basis.
President Coolidge has signed bill
granting consent of congress to the
greater Wenatchee irrigation district
to construct and maintain a bridge
across the Columbia river in Chelan
county
The First National bank Of Sunny
side, which closed its doors April S,
Will reopen soon with W. L. steinweg.
president of the First National bank
of Yakima, as head of the reorganiged
institution