Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-07-04
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS Items
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for information
of Our Readers.

Five Fourth of July celebrations
will be held in Clarke county, two in
Vancouver.
James A. Smith, a pioneer of the
Olympic peninsula, died in Port Town
send, aged Sc.
Only about 100000 bushels Of 1924
wheat are left in the hands Of the
farmers, Walla Walla dealers estimat-
ed.
The 14th annual conference of
county superintendent OF eastern
Washington was held at the Cheney
normal school
Yakima business men are planning
harvest home festival this fall to
take the place of the state fair, which
will not be held.
Tenino people are bringing drill
to the j. W. Whitaker farm, six miles
west OF Charleston, and will begin drill,
ing for oil in July.
Fire did approximately $4,000 dam.
age in and around Kettle Falls when
an oil stove in the home OF Mrs. Mag.
gle Warner exploded.
A franchise to operate its lines in
Davenport for IS years was granted
the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company by the city council.
The Washington State Osteopathic
association in its annual convention at
Lake Kaches selected Longview as
the city for its next years convention
The Washington Wheat Export Com
mission league has decided to continue
the fight for the McNary-Hauge bill
which was turned down by the last
congress.
a free swimming hole for use of the
public will be constructed at Walla
Walla this summer by damming Mill
creek at the Colville-street bridge and
letting the water back up.
An apple-wiping machine, declared
by fruit men to be the best device
of its kind, has recently been perfect,
ed by Andy Moe, Toppenish imple.
ment worker and inventor.
Ralph Waller, confessed Pomeroy
murderer, was hanged Friday at the
penitentiary in Walla Walla for the
murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred VALID
man, near Pomeroy, few weeks ago
County auditors and treasurers OF
the state OF Washington, state officials
and candidates for state offices met
in Longview to attend the annual joint
state auditors and treasurers' con,
vention.
John D. Butler of Pine City was
elected president of the Whitman
County Pioneers association at the
conclusion OF an assembly of 700 per-
sons for the annual affair at Schmuck
park at Colfax.
The thrift bank installed in the
Longview school to encourage saving
among the students has been placed
in the Longyiew National bank for the
convenience of the children during the
summer vacation.
Authorities of Gilmore and Ada coun-
ties in Idaho are bending every effort
to solve the murder of F. Mills, SO,
well-to-do Seattle man, whose body is
in the morgue in Mountain Home with
bullet hole in the head.
Announcement was made at Olympia
of the resignation of Edward Clifford
as director Of the department of labor
and industries, effective June 80, to
enter actively upon his campaign for
the republican nomination for COVER
nor.
Tom Malloy, farmer near Prescott,
started his combined harvester last
week being the first to begin wheat
harvesting in Walla Walla county.
Several others started during the week
and operations are now well under
way.
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If you take home a mess of
berries, include also . quart Of