Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-06-27

construction by tho city Of Seattle,
The state department of public
works has refused the application OF
the Thurston County utilities com.
pany for an increase In telephone
rates, on the ground that the equip.
ment and service do not Justify an in.
crease.
Failing to obtain permit from the
Vancouver city council to sell fire
works, the American Legion post
abandoned the plan for a general celc.
brntiOn July A. and will hold n picnic
and horseraceB at the Bagley track
instead.
Asa NJ. Rowe, II, pioneer resident
OF Thurston county, died at his home
In Olympia. Rowe was born In New
| Hampshire and came to Washington
AZ years ago. He was a conductor on
u railroad division between Portland
and Seattle.
A survey of natural rnforcstation IN
| Rainier national forest reserve was
disclosing that, with adequate fire pro.
lection, Mother Nature, unaided, would
replace the forests slain by loggers,
according 10 A. A. Griffin OF the forest
supervisors office.
Organization Of state body Of the
Service Star legion was efrec,a,, at
Spokane recently b. members ~ four
chapters in the Inland Empire n,sating
with the Spokane chapter. Mrs. Alice
French Of Spokane was elected presi.
dent Of the new organization.
The Kelso City Council will receive
bids until July for the sale of S250,-
600 of 6 per cent water fund bonds, re
Gently authorized by the voters OF the
city to pay for extensions and i'm.
proyements of the water system and
for retirement of outstanding indebted.
ness.
Blight has been discovered In orch
ards in the Wenatchee district during
the last two weeks. Wherever found
prompt action has been taken TO re,
move all infected branches. Most of
the blight has been on pears and
Spit2enburg apple trees at high ele.
vations.
Two hundred federal employees in
the Yakima valley will receive their
usual monthly salaries and will not
suffer because congress failed to pass
the reclassfied compensation bill,
according to information received from
Washington. The cut would have total
ed $4,000.
Borst Park, Centralia's new tourist
camp and public Fairgrounds, located
on the banks of the Chehalis river a
mile west of the city was formally
opened when the chamber of com.
merce held its weekly luncheon at the
park in the new building recently
erected there
Wenatchee city officials have NOV.
ed into their new quarters on the frs,
floor of the courthouse. All county
officials are established in the new
building and there is muoh favorable
comment. The old courthouse has
been offered for rent and two other
buildings formerly occupied by county
officials have been turned into resi-.
dences.
With receipts Of S1O70922 and ex.
penditures by warrants paid of $780,
962 for the week ending June 1G, the
state cash balance jumped up few
notches to $14,440,059.95. The general
fund is the largest with $5,2O1,792.
The teachers retirement fund, newest
on the list, with the law in operation
less than two months, has S933.9O on
hand, but payments will be coming in
steadily from now on.
"No livestock from outside the state
will be permitted at the state fair next
fall" Governor Hart informed o. c.
Scots, secretary Of the Yakima Com.
mercial club in a long distance tele.
phone conversation. The governor
added that leading west side stock.
men had informed him that they would
not send their stock to the state fair,
and said it was doubtful if there would
be any livestock display at the fair.
Sessions of the Pacific district Nor,
wegian Lutheran church of America
were held at Stanwood with between
700 and 500 delegates present, Rev.
j. A. f. Naess is president of the dis
trict. Among distinguished church.
men in attendance were Rev. N. ],
Loehre of Mayville, N. D., secretary
of the Norwegian Lutheran church OF
North America, and DIR. j. A. Aas.
gard of Moorhead, Mimi, president
of Concordia, Mimi, college, and vice.
president of the church.