Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-05-16
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS items
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

Women of Port Angeles are waging
war on billboards.
Elghty.two students will be gradu,
ated from the Centralia high school
this year.
Mrs. Maybell Beckmeyer has been
appointed postmaster at Barger, Ben,
ton county.
Grays Harbor citizens celebrated
the 1Slst anniversary of the discovery
of Grays Harbor on May z,
The casting clubs of the Pacific
coast will meet in tournament to be
held at Seattle, August s, 0 and 10
Fifty-two building permits, the to-
tai valuation of which was approx
mately $4,000, were issued in Van.
eouver du.:ng April.
The body OF w. r. Westlake, so,
Tacoma butcher and lodge officer,
missing for several days, was found
on the beach at Everett.
The 37th annual convention of the
Western Washington Baptist conven.
tion was held in Centralia Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Omak city council ordered the
clerk to prepare to sell sufficient
bonds to build an additional water
reservoir at cost of $4,000.
Plans for forming a Northwest Pro-
duce association will be discussed at
the annual meeting OF the Seattle Pro
duce association in Seattle, May "a.
Three thousand persons attended the
Community Day Fete at Wapato, the
feature of which was May pageant
participated in by 1000 school chill
dren.
Election of q bishop for the Protes-
tant Episcopal diocese of Olympia, in
which deadlock arose at Seattle, will
not be attempted again until autumn,
1t is said.
The Adams county commissioners
selected Mrs. NJ. A. Ripplinger, Gun
bingham, as county school superin-
tendent to succeed the late Professor
]. H. Perkins.
University of Washingtons five-man
rifle team finished tenth in the ma
tional intercollegiate rifle tourney, &C
cording to returns received from
Washington, d. c.
Fire wiped out the new mill plant of
the Busy Lumber company, located
about ten miles east of Olympia, The
machinery had just been installed.
Loss is estimated at about 100000
Final decision will be made soon
whether or not the cooperative mar
keting plan of the Northwest Fruit
Growers Commission shall be put into
operation to handle the 1924 fruit crop
Rumors of the presence of foot and
mouth disease arising from the death
of horse near Wapato were quieted
by statement of Dr. T. B. Larson, a
veterinarian, that the animal died of
other causes.
Readings on the flow of the Column
bia river at Kettle Falls taken by the
! Washington Water Power company
showed $4,000 cubic feet a second as
compared with 100000 feet at this
time last year.
Fred o. Yeager of Longmont, Colo,
has been selected by the Lewis county
commissioners as county agriculturist
to succeed Robert G. Fowler who re-
Gently resigned to accept position in
Jackson county, Oregon.
Auto license receipts at the Cow
litz county auditors office for Janu-
airy, February, March and April total
ed $4,000, compared with but $4O,-
900 for all of 1928 In a year the
number OF automobiles in the county
practically has doubled.
Lumber shipments by water from
Grays halbor continue to increase over
the 1928 monthly average, according to
figures given out by shipping officials.
During April more than 75OOO,OOO feet
of lumber was taken out, bringing the
total for this year to 347341,773 feet.
Exceptionally healthy banking and
business activity during the first
quarter of the year is indicated by the
consolidated statement of $50 state
banks and six trust companies, com
piled by State Supervisor of Banking
Duke upon statements as of date of
March 81.
For the first time in months lumber
sales in the state exceeded produc-
ton, the excess being per cent, ac-
cording to figures published by the
West Coast Lumbermen's association.
The association review, covering the
week ending May g. showed the cut
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