Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-03
.sHi"c7oN STATE
B.llEF kEr.'S ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

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Fire of undetermined origin destroy
ed the Ridgefield hotel with an csti-
mated loss OF $4,000,
William II. Kincaid, age so, for the
last 33 years resident of Pullman, Is
dead after an illness of two years.
j. r. Logan Of Adna has been elect
ed president of the Lewis County
Superintendents' and Principals asso-
citation for the coming year.
r. d. Lee of Pendleton, Ind, want
ed in indianapolis on murder charge,
was arrested in Seattle on suspicion
Of robbing gasoline stations.
The Seth annual Cowlitz county
teachers institute will be held at
Longview November "a, 25 and rs.
There are 200 teachers in the county,
Robbers entered the office of r. e.
Bennats at Tacoma, stole light truck,
loaded into it safe containing $4,000
In cash and checks and drove away.
Karl Amdahl, Spokane, was elected
president of the Pacific Northwest Dis
play Mems association and Portland
was chosen for next years meeting
place.
A stockmen's banquet will be the
leading feature of the last night OF
the Whitman county agricultural fair,
which will be held at Garfield, Octo-
Der 8, 8 and 10.
Thirty or more witnesses are to be
called for the trial at Kelso of Rudolph
Otto, charged with first degree murder
of his wife, Sybil Otto, which com
mences October Z.
Mrs. Warren W. Tolman of Olympia
was elected state regent of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton at the organizations state con-
ference in Seattle.
Fire broke out in the 100000 jam
plant of the Pacific Northwest Can
ming company at Puyallup and did
damage amounting to $4,000 before
it was brought under control.
Bonds have been sold, the contract
let and work begun on the Riverside
irrigation district project, which will
put under wster 1920 aces, Is miles
up and down the Okanogan river.
A heavy decrease in the number of
insane patients in Clarke county for
the year was shown as compared with
other years, according to County Clerk
Schaefer. The total for the year was
"a.
Glen Bean, democrat, of Walla
Walla, nominated as candidate for
the legislature from the 18th district
by stickers while he was on his vaca-
ton, has announced that he would not
make the race.
With 176 whales caught and
brought to port sa,a May, the Amer
lean Pacific Whal.n S company of Bay
city, on south Grays harbor, will sus-
pend operations for the year within
the next two weeks.
Frank Staulp of Orting was killed
and Michael Perry was probably fatal
| ly injured in an accident while load
ing logs on railway cars in the St.
Paul & Tacoma Lumber company
camp near Eatonville.
Because he lost his eyeglasses, Clay
| ton Emery, IS, junior at Lewis and
Clark high school in Spokane, shot
and killed himself. His father attribut-
ed the boys nervous breakdown to
| eye strain, caused from loss of the
glasses.
Farm prosperity in the middle west
has resulted in increased volume of
rail lumber shipments from Grays
harbor the past month. The bulk of
| increased lumber orders comes from
Kansas, Nebraska, Montana and the
! Dakotas.
The Tacoma schools were ordered
closed by the city health board due
to the prevalence Of infantile paralysis
In the city. There have been several
deaths from the malady and 40 cases
have been reported to the health au-
thorities.
A "a per cent drop in butterfat pro
duction as compared with tie proceed
ing month is shown by the August
report of the Grays Harbor Cow Test
| Ing association. The average fat pro-
duction per COW for the month was
% pounds.
In general order issued to the Sc
attic police department, Chief Of
/ Police w. B. Severyns attached
warning that if "all undesirables with
In the city were not rounded up with.
in week or 10 days, drastic action
is to be taken"
Within thirty days the wing dam
of the Burbank irrigation system in
the Snake river will be completed, 1t
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