Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-04-18
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS items
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

Frost heavy enough to kill cherries
WINS reported from Prescott
Sportsmen of Kittitas county have
organized the Cascade Field Trials
club.
John L. Canada, age 81, died at the
home of his son, william Canada, at
Amira.
EIusum is planning the erection OF
n community club house and the. es
adjustment of an auto park.
The Rotary clubs show at Yakima
Inst week for the benefit of crippled
children netted more than $4,000.
w II. Baker for IA years deputy
sheriff OF Whitman county, has tend
red his resignation, effective May /.
CHE. of Police j. &. Kuntz of Olym.
in has resigned, effective May l. His
acaoasor has not yet been determin-
3D.
The Longyiew city council has
authorized the purchase of two auto,
ogbias for the use OF the police de,
artmmt
The annual conventions of auditors
and trefsurers Of the state of Wash.
lag on will be held in Longview, June
20, q and Is.
Deposits in the four Wenatchee
banks on March 81 were $4,72l,11O, or
nearly 100000 more than at the call
of April 3, 1928.
The total amount of fines collected
by The city of Olympia for the month
OF March was $31S5, of which liquor
cases bought S15S1.
w. " Hooper, who is running a
large band of sheep near Winona,
says that check Of lambs indicates a
1875 nor cent increase.
The first forest fire of the 1929
@s9E and the earliest ever occur
ring in the Wenatchee national forest
has been extinguished.
Wheat over the Walla Walla valley
lis in good condition, according to A
w. hasten, county agent. In some
places fall sown grain is twenty
inches high.
Charles Poison, 60 years old, and
Yrs Edna Weber, rs, were found
end in Seattle, both having been
asphyXiated by escaping gas from
opened jets.
Committees from Colfax and Pom
eroy met at the Central Ferry bridge
| TO perfect permanent organization
10 arrange a celebration for opening
Of the bridge.
Fifty citizens of Pullman recently
went to farms nearby and assisted
farmers in poisoning squirrels. More
than 5000 pounds Of calcium cyanide
were distributed.
Kelso will vote May 20 on issuing
S250,O0O in water fund bonds to re,
| tire outstanding bonds and warrants
and finance repairs and extensions
of the water system.
A strange malady that recently took
| the lives of three Yakima children
probably was not diphtheria, but in
fantile paralysis, DR.. II. H. Smith,
city health officer said.
SnoQualmie pass will be opened for
this seasons traffic May 1, according
TO an announcement by the state high
way department. The pass was open
ed last year on May Is.
Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Taylor, 81,
member OF the Mckinley circle, Ladies
OF the G. A. R., and known through
out the Pacific northwest as "Old
Glory" died at Puyallup.
Enrolment in the Chehalis public
schools is 153 greater than for the
same period last year. There is also
an increase of 200 pupils at the Catho-
lie school opened last fall.
Eighty.seven COWS owned by mem.
bers of the Lewis County Cow Test
ing association were slaughtered dur
ing the year 1923, because they we're
found Improbable after tests.
Milling operations and business gen.
orally in the coal fields of Washing.
ton We're suspended last Tuesday
while the miners celebrated the 31st
anniversary of the eight-hour day.
An ordinance calling for special
election on May 20 to determine
whether the city shall issue bonds for
$4,000 to pay 40 per cent of the cost
Of paving Morgan street was passed
by the Davenport council.
A petition for the recall of Sheriff
Gibson OF Grays Harbor county was
filed with the county auditor at Mon
tesano by Frank L. Morgan of Ho.
Quiam, vice-president of the Grays
Harbor Law Enforcement league,
That the Indian department of tbe