Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-12-26
Washington News

BELLINGHAM--Witb only one dis
senting vote TAO stockholders Of the
Whatcom County Dairymen's Associa.
ton recently approved plans Of the
directors to enlarge and improve their
powder milk plant at Lynden and to
install newly patented powdered
milk process at a total cost OF $780,
900. Work on the changes will begin
soon after the first OF the year and
will be carried on so that the produc-
ton of powdered milk will not be
halted. The Grey Jensen process It.
self cost $4,000 to install, while the
other improvements will come to $685.
000 The new plant is expected to
save $265 day in operating expenses,
or S9S,440 year. GeEet Vandergriend,
George Bender, George Parberry, and
w. II. Jackman, all Of Lynden, were
nominated for the three-year trustee
terms. Nominations for the two-year
term were Walter Jensen, Ferndale;
anu rISu ". REEVES, Blaine.
TACOMA. = Thomas Comfort, Az.
yearold son of A. B. Comfort we'll.
known attorney, was electrocuted re-
Gently while playing with an electric
light socket hanging above his bed.
1t is believed he placed one hand on
the globe socket and the other either
on the radiator or the side of his bed,
establishing a circuit and causing al.
most instant death.
notwithstanding conspiracy to
violate the national prohibition act,
Ralph Hendricks was sentenced to a
year and day in the Mcneil Island
penitentiary recently by Federal
Judge e. E. Cushman. Hendricks,
with Carl Sherer, was captured in a
boat OH Puget Sound by coast guard
cutter last August, after Sherer had
been wounded by gunhre from the
government craft. The officers seized
36S quarts of whisky, IL quarts Of
gin, and 1900 pints of beer Sherer
has pleaded not guilty and is to be
tried soon.
YAKIMA.-It will take two or three
years and nearly a million dollars to
complete the Chinook Pass Road
| across the Cascade Mountains, James
Allen, state highway commissioner,
said here recently after coming from
the state good roads meeting in We
natchee to inspect the Ellensburg
Canyon Road. With various other
work planned, the road budget to be
presented to the legislature will be
fully million dollars, he said.
EVERETT. = Assurance that King
County's portion of the Stevens Pass
Highway will be completed the mid.
die of July was given to a committee
from Everett that waited on the King
| County commissioners recently. On
that assurance another committee
here will at once raise $500 as Ev-
erett's quota to have the new road
over the Cascades mapped in the
tourist guide issued by the National
Parks Highway Association.
Kirkland community,
| across Lake Washington, was visited
| by its second disastrous fire within a
month when flames destroyed the
Henry Fisher cannery, just outside
the city limits, with a $4,000 loss.
The fire was of unknown origin. 1t
broke out at 1880 P. NJ. and almost
the entire population of kirkland
| turned out to aid the fire-fighters.
Only a night Waterman is on duty
during the winter months, but the
cannary has employed 200 persons
for the past three years of its opera
ton
PUYALLUP. = Debates have been
arranged between Puyallup, Sumner
and Buckley. The debate question
this year is: Resolved, That the
Philippines should be granted immedi-
ate independence" Buckley's affirm
| ative team is COMPOSED of Edward