Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-07
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
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of Our Readers.

ness.
Vancouver city primaries will be
held on Saturday following the gen
oral election.
Plans are being worked out for the
construction Of fiye-story office
building at Wenatchee.
Movement of cargoes from Puget
sound is increasing on account of a
continued improved lumber market.
The Warden Hardware company and
q. l.. Davis stores and postofflce at
Warden were broken into and robbed,
The southern division of the Puget
Sound Power & Light company suf,
fered damage estimated at more than
$40 900 by the recent storm.
1t is believed that apple shipments
from Wenatchee for October will ex.
coed the original estimate of 5000 cars
and may run as high as $500.
During the month of October, 9,415,-
900 feet of lumber was shipped from
the port of Bellingham. This figure
falls below that of last year.
H. H. Macdonald, 63, for 80 years
steamship man on the Skagit river,
died at Mount Vernon, where he had
been i'll for six weeks from pneumonia.
The Longview, Portland & Northern
railway plans to have the entire road
from Ryderwood to Longview in oper.
alton by December Is, it has been
announced
Insurance men from all over the
state gathered in Tacoma Friday for
the annual business meeting and ban.
quet of the Washington State lnsur-
ance league.
The Kelso school board has called
an election for November s, when the
proposition of voting $4,000 in bonds
will be submitted to the voters Of the
school district.
Bids for the erection of a steel
hangar 66 by 14O feet, with capacity
of nine airplanes, have been called for
by the quartermaster department of
Vancouver barracks.
Returning from a drive Howard T
Skinner, rancher at Wide Hollow, in
Yakima county, and his family surpris-
ed four occupants of California car
ransacking their home.
The Yakima Poultry club will hold
show January to and has invited
Harry Collier, Tacoma chicken breed
er, to be judge, according to Secre-
tary Harvey B. Bayer.
The United States dredge Russell,
which is being built on the east coas;
for Grays harbor, will arrive abou
January l, according to advices re
ceived by port authorities.
Western Washington teachers, prin-
cipals and county superintendent met
in Seattle for the 3Sth annual conven
ton of the Washington Education as
ISOLATION, western division.
Miss Marparet Watson is in a crit,
zeal condition in a Walla Walla hos
pital with fractured skull, broken
Jaw and her right eye torn out, the re
suit of an automobile accident.
George Uee, IA, was drowned in
Willapa harbor when a boat in which
he and companion, Oliver Back, 10,
had been duck hunting, sprang leak
and sank. Back swan ashore.
The Battle Ground grange has pur-
chased building and win convert it
into a grange hall in time for the
monthly meeting of Clarke County
Pomona grange, November II and 13.
Robert Mccartney, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. R, H. Mccartney, who recently
received his badge as an Eagle Scout,
the only one in the county, died at his
home in Cheney a few days ago OF in
fantile paralysis.
The Long-Bell Lumber company has
crew of men clearing ground at the
mouth of the Cowlitz river in the
vicinity of what is known as Blakeley
drift. to open the drift as the perman-
ent channel of the Cowlitz.
Ticton project collections for the
month of October have been fifty per
cent better than they were in the cor
responding month year ago, accord.
ing to Floyd. Foster, secretary of the
Teton Water Users association.
Officials of four northwestern trans
continental railroads at meeting in
Spokane voiced their approval of the
Columbia Basin project and declared
they would aid in the development of
the plan to irrigate 1,75O,000 acres.
Richard Conner was found guilty of
murder in the first degree, without
capital punishment, by a jury in fed.
eral court at Tacoma on the charge
of numbering his wife, Pearl Conner,
on the Camp Lewis reservation last