Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-07-11
WASHINGTON State
BRIEF Jews items
Principal Events Of the Week
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c0uVer barracks aviation REID VIII adG
large area to the landing space.
Vancouver's building permits for the
first six months of 1924 totaled $780,.
sSS, according to City Clerk Crandall.
Arthur Riley, AZ, was fatally wound.
cd by one OF four alleged robbers in
his room in lodging house In Seattle.
w. NJ. Johnson, a farmer near Port
Angeles, took several sticks of dyna.
mite to an open pasture and blew him.
self up.
Building Inspector Charles Miller is.
sued II building permits in Kelso dur.
ing June for total construction value
Of $4,000.
Deposits for the three Chehalis
banks June 30, show gain of S20l,.
200.21 over the corresponding date 4
year ago.
Elmer Peters, 40, an employee Of the
Clear Lake Lumber company, is held
at Mount Vernon on charge of at.
tempted suicide.
Eighth grade graduation exercises
were held at the state industrial school
for girls at Grand Mound, when 30
girls received diplomas.
The midsummer meeting of the di,
rectors Of the National Lumber Manu-.
facturers association, will be held in
Longview, July 80 and 81.
Three children were burned to death
when the home of G. Gebbers, six
miles up the Methow valley from
Pateros, was destroyed by fire.
An inspection by B. A. Slocum,
apiary specialist of the State College
at Pullman, shows that nearly half
the bees in Lewis county are diseased.
J. L. Lytel, superintendent Of
bitches for the Tieton and Sunnyside
projects, warns of possible short
age of water in September and Octo.
Der.
Spokane postal receipts for the first
six months of this year total $4S9,34S,
or gain Of more than $4,000 as COM
pared with the first six months Of
1928.
Auderin Stocker, 8, and her sister
Frances, IL, daughters Of George
Stocker, residing near Snohomish,
were drowned while bathing in Bats
slough.
Vancouver Prunarians have decided
to hold their annual picnic in honor
of the farmers of Clarke county in
August, instead of on July 16, as pre-
viously decided.
Eighteen tribes of Canadian and
American Indians, numbering more
than 1000, took part in the war canoe
races that were the principal features
Of the two days Fourth OF July cele
bratlon at Anacortes.
D. S. Conover and NJ. w. Penning
ton, buyers for eastern fruit jobbing
houses, who have been in Clarke coun-
ty for two weeks buying green prunes
for shipment to eastern centers, have
contracted over $50 carloads.
Two carloads of onions were ship.
ped from Walla Walla last week, one
to Seattle and one to Portland, the
earliest carload shipments on record.
The crop this year is estimated to run
between 500 and $50 carloads.
The dates for the state D. A. R. con-
ference to be held in Seattle have
been set for September 90 and "a.
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, president
general of the national society, will be
present at the two day meeting.
Mrs. G. W. Gibson, her young son
and her father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jordan, were killed when
their automobile was struck by
Milwaukee passenger train in a rock
cut two miles south of Cheney.
Edward Deer, government employee
at Rimrock, died in the government
hospital there, after lying for SO hours
with broken back and other serious
injuries. He fell from a work train
at the government dam and was run
over.
Statistics released by Collector Of
Customs Willard T. Harrison at Seattle,
show that customs collections for the
six months ending July from the
Washington district exceeded last
years corresponding collections by
more than 100000.
In an attempt to reduce expense
many farmers near Oakesdale have
purchased combine harvesters and will
pool their horses and workers, thus
reducing the shocking and threshing
bill to considerable degree and low
ering the need for outside help
Seattle's municipal street railway
operating under Sb cent fare had
revenue receipts of s512,027.95 during