Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-06-27
WASHINGTON STATE
Brief news ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
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of Our Readers.

Toledo held It's annual cheese carni
val Saturday.
Taccma's city commission, by unani
nous vote designated Saturday, June
II, as "Power Day" in Tacoma.
The Tacoma building records for
June has passed the $450,OO0 mark and
for the year the s5,OO0,000 mark,
With 935 delegates registered the
Washington Christian Endeavor so.
ciety convention opened at Wenatchee
G. A. Loudenback has bought the
orchard home of G. Il. Sterling at We.
natchee, paying $4,000 for the II
acres.
Seattle has q population of 3SS,910,
or Il gain of 29,3S5 over 1923, accord.
ing to figures obtained from the 1924
city directory just issued.
The Pacific Match company Of New
Jersey will locate factory in Tacoma,
The plant includes over eight acres
of land with large buildings.
Fire at Edwall destroyed ware.
house with 10000 bushels of grain, a
hardware store and two residences.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
Under direction of +. A. Hazeltine,
division chief of federal prohibition
forces, raids were made last week
upon several places in ThurstOn coun
ty.
Warnings of an impending forest
fire danger period were being sent out
to fire wardens and lumbermen in all
parts Of the state by the state forestry
office.
The thirtieth annual convention OF
the Skagit County Women's Christian
Temperance Union was held at Sedro
Wooley with large number OF women
in attendance.
James Gillum, deputy sheriff OF Is.
land county, was shot twice and prob.
ably fatally wounded in battle with
rum runners on the west coast of Ca.
mano island.
Yakima's game farm this season has
produced 75O Chinese pheasant chicks,
has received go from the state game
farm at Walla Walla. and has 1856
eggs Matching.
Fifty representatives Of the Wash.
ington State Independent Telephone
association, in session in Puyallup,
were guests of the chamber of com
MERGE at a banquet.
About 1000 dairymen of Whatcom
county, and members of their families
gathered at Cornwall park in Belling.
ham for the annual picnic OF the CO
operative association.
The F. C. Barnes cannery at South
Bend, long idle, is being prepared to
do double duty this fall as cannery
for both salmon and berries-notably
Evergreen blackberries.
Mrs. Joseph Bundy of Dayton suf.
fered three broken ribs and other in.
juries when roadster in which she
was riding overturned on the state
highway near that city.
Free use of the Clarke county auto
park, just north of Vancouver, for
farmers who desire to sell produce
to tourists, was granted by the board
of county commissioners.
The city council of Wenatchee has
passed an ordinance making it mis-,
demeanor for pilot to fly an air.
plane within 1900 feet of the ground
over any portion of the town.
William Bouck of Skagit county,
nominated for vice-president by the
farmer-labor convention at st. Paul,
was master Of the Washington state
grange for number of years.
Governor Hart appointed j. T. Hef, |
fernan of Seattle as member of the
board Of regents of the University OF
Washington for the term ending the
second Monday in March, 1929.
Struck by lightning as she stood be.
fore a dresser in her home, Dorothy
Grant, IA, was instantly killed at va,
kima during a thunderstorm. The
girls parents were away from home
on a picnic.
Construction of $4,000 public
school building has been started al
Ryderwood The structure is being
financed jointly by school district No |
80 of Cowlitz county and No. Sc o
Lewis county
Offers have been made for the en-.
tire peach crop Of the Thompson Fruit |
company at Yakima at seventy-five
cents box. The proposals were re,
fused, as the company expects to OBJ
tain higher price.
Governor Hart has appointed l.. d |
McTardle director of efficiency, ]. X |