Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-17
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS items
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.


year In Aberdeen will be approximate
ly mills below the levies made this
year.
The Monte Cristo hotel, now under
construction at Everett, will be six
stories instead Of five, as originally
planned.
Whatcom county will spend total
of $294.7942s in 1925, according to
the budget adopted by the county com
missioners.
Steps will be taken Immediately by
Walla Walla county to curb the rapidly
increasing cost Of operating official
automobiles.
The entire business district of Bay
Center, the pioneer Willapa harbor
town, was wiped out by fire with
loss of $4,000
Officers of the Kelso club and Of
the Kelso chamber of commerce are
discussing consolidation of the two
organizations, or elimination of one.
Seven dollar day jobs are going
begging at the Puget Sound navy yard.
Only 125 men answered calls for 500
mechanics and helpers issued last
week.
N. E. Palmer, game warden Of Ben
ton county, is making violations Of the
game laws hazardous business in his
county, having secured seven convic-
lions In one week.
Dr. Edward Briley of Aberdeen was
elected grand chancellor of the Wash
ington domain of the knights of
Pythias at the closing session Of the
state lodge at Aberdeen.
Charles Henry Wilson, Jr., of Maple
Falls, II years old, fell 80 feet from
tree near his home and received
fractured skull from which he died In
hospital in Bellingham.
Figures compiled by Judge c. F.
Miller, who has been "bookkeeper" for
the Columbia county fair board five
years, show that $4,000 has been ex.
pended during that time.
Farmers and business men have
formed stock company to build a
community hall, half mile west Of
Parvin station, on the O.-W. R. & N,
between Albion and Colfax.
An application of the Northwestern
| Electric company for a 50-year fran
chise. to erect power lines along the
roads in Clarke county, was granted
by the county commissioners.
DR.. Henry Suzzallo, president of the
| University of Washington, has been
! named one of the nine advisory eX-
perts in a survey of the colonial edu-
cauional system of the Philippine
islands.
The second day of the first annual
Whitman county agricultural fair at
Garfield saw the largest crowd ever
assent led at fair in the county,
over 5000 persons passing through the
turnstiles.
Thomas ]. King, 81, shipbuilder of
Seattle for AZ years and builder in
partnership of the King & Winge
Shipbuilding plant in that city in 1901,
died in Detroit, Mich, according to
word received.
Stanley Webster, federal Judge, OF
the eastern Washington district, has
been called by Chief Justice Taft of
the United States supreme court to
preside for one month in the New
York city federal court
The Grays harbor bar is in better
condition now than ever before, &C.
cording to q. L. Carpenter, govern.
ment engineer, who has completed
survey following three months work
by the dredge Culebra.
The Tacoma board of health has
decided to reopen the city schools,
closed on account of the epidemic of
tnfsntile paralysis, Wednesday. The
schools have been closed two weeks.
The disease is subsiding
The October wheat estimate for the
state of the federal division of crop
and live stock estimates is 27,926, 900
bushels compared with 61,743,OOO
bushels last year and five.year aver.
age OF 40,61S, 900 bushels.
C. w. Nicholes, 20, sailor from the
U. S. s. Arizona, was convicted of
manslaughter in connection with the
death of Minnie Elem, 19.year-old Ia.
coma factory worker, by jury in the
superior court at Tacoma.
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