Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-21
WASHINGTON STATE
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idge club has membership Of 300
Forlyfive Clarke county teachers
have Joined the Washington Educa.
tional association,
Forly.nine new cases of measles
have been reported at Walla Walla,
making 400 this year.
Incorporation Of the city of Bingen
was authorized by vote of So to 6
at an election held last week
March 81 has been set for starting
the spring cleaning and identifying
OF Yakima by the commercial club
Preyentable diseases in the public
schools cost the district last year So,
600. DR., w. G, Hughes told the Walla
Walla Rotary club,
Figures made public by j. L. Reayis
auditor, show that Walla Walla county
residents paid less taxes in 1923 than
in 1922 by $313,235.
Landing has started in sheep camps
along Snake river. The percentage of
twins is heavy and owners are much
encouraged over prospects.
John P Lynch, %, employed by the
Murphy Timber company near Yacolt,
was crushed between a swinging log
and a tree and killed instantly.
Six weeks in advance of normal,
motorists may now drive to the en-
trance of Rainier national park on the
White river road, it is reported.
w, H. severyns, chief of police of
Seattle, has notified his department
that vice. gambling and bootlegging
must be eliminated from the city.
In the first two months OF 1924,
33,OS4 hogs were received at the Spo-
kane Union stockyards, compared with
14,172 in the same months in 1923.
The hull Of the freighter Rubaiyat,
which sank in Puget sound on Septem-
Der 30, carrying three men and
woman to death, has been raised,
By an overwhelming majority land
owners under the Whitestone recluma-
tion district approved a 100000 bond
issue at an election held at Loomis.
Track teams OF Gonzaga university,
Washington State college and the
University of Idaho will meet at Spo-
kane April rs in a triangula. meet.
tourist conference will be held
at Oroville on March 20, when dele
gates from towns from Wenatchee
north to Penticton, b c.. will be pres
ent
Ground has been broken on an so.
acre site for the North Pacific Live
Stock Show association exhibitions at
Everett A half.mile racetrack is to
be built.
The Murphy Timber company,
operating two logging camps and
sawmill at Yacolt, has closed down for
an indefinite period, due to the dull
lumber market
Clarke county nut growers will con.
Tene at Vancouver, March q and %
Tor the purpose of considering the fill.
bert and walnut industry which is in.
creasing rapidly,
Louis Merrazo, age 40, Spokane, was
instantly killed when a motor truck
he was driving, with 10 other Italian
laborers as passengers, left the Al
powa grade, IA miles from Lewiston.
To protect the water supply of Ia
coma, the war department has asked
congress for authority to survey the
Puyallup river, An eight.foot chan.
mel 60 feet wide was recommended at
Deep River.
Lincoln Hutchinson, special invest
gator for Secretary Herbert Hoover
of the department of commerce, is in
Yakima investigating conditions af
fecting the growing and marketing OF
Yakima fruit.
To insure the city of Port Angeles
an adequate fresh water supply. the
city commission has secured an Oh
tion on forty acres, comprising a water
site on Morse creek, four miles east Of
Port Angeles.