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

ana Friday at WaterVllle.
The Sunday school convention for
the northern district of Whitman coun.
ty was held at St. John Monday.
Edward Choate, about 20, was kill
ed at the Eufaula company's logging
camp in Eufaula, near Longview.
Civil service examinations have been
announced for November Is to select
postmasters for Bridgeport, Dryden
and Prescott.
Fully two weeks ahead Of previous
years, the apple harvest is rapidly
drawing to close in north central
Washington.
The Columbia Valley Lumber COM
pany has sold it's lumber, wood and
coal yards at Douglas and Waterville
to the Waterville Hardware company.
Julep Mohawk, the setter which was
winner in recent field trials in Ellens-
burg and at Wapato, has been sold by
her owner, Rollo Skillin of Wapato,
for $1,000.
Thirty-one aliens from Seattle and
II from Portland left Seattle in Great
Northern coaches for New York, from
where they are to be deported to their
native countries.
A special tax levy Of mills for
school purposes failed to carry at an
election held at Vader Indications
are that the school there will have to
close in February.
Asahel Curtis, Seattle, was elected
to the national executive committee
Of the Washington branch Of the Vel
lowstone Trail association at the ninth
annual convention at Kirkland.
Expectation that extension of the
air mail service from Ogden, Utah, to
Pasco would be recommended by the
postmaster-general and that it would
be authorized by congress in time to
be put into effect by next July was
expressed at Spokane by w. Irvine
Glover, third assistant postmaster-gen-
eral.
Beginning of operations of the sec
ond shift of the Long-Bell Lumber
ccmpanys mill at Longview gave per-
manent employment to q full crew of
600 men in the sawmill, re-manufact-
uring plant, timber dock, green chains
and stackers. This number will be
increased to 500 to equal the day
shift.
The first election in the Kelso port
district since organization of the dis
trlct three years ago, will take place
December 6, the law providing that an
election be held the first Saturday in
December. For two years this law
has not been followed so all three
commissioners will end their term
this year.
A Packard automobile containing
81 cases of Canadian whisky was seiz-
ed near Marcus by Sheriff l.. P. John
sen and Deputy Sheriff Richard Bone
Of Stevens county, following long
race with the driver of the car, who
was arrested. This is the largest
single carload of whisky ever seized in
Stevens county.
The lives of eight men and woman
were imperiled in spectacular fire
which burned the Puget sound steam
er Chaco to the waters edge off FONT
Richmond, near Tacoma. Those on
board escaped by launching the single
half full of water when reached by
passing launch.
Apple shipments from the Yakima
district totaled 1916 carloads and from
the Wenatchee district 1917 carloads,
W to October 4, while the total of all
fruit shipments from Yakima for the
season reached 4412 carloads and from
Wenatchee 90G2, according to report
of the Yakima Valley Traffic and
Credit association.
More wheat was shipped out of Sc.
attic this fall than at any time within
II years, according to w. S. Cahill
traffic manager for the polr of Seattle.
During October the Hartford street
grain elevator will load more than l.,
100000 bushels OF wheat, Mr. Cahill
estimated, or more than 100000
bushels this season.
A railroad car loaded with three.
quarters of million ferns from Cow.
litz county was the unusual shipment
made last week. The car was shipped
by Sam Roake and son of Cast,
Rock. 1t is the first full carload ship.
ment of ferns ever made from this
part of the country. The shipment
was consigned to Oklahoma.
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