Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-02-29
WASHINGTON STATE
Brief NEWS items
Principal Events Of the Wee'
Assembled for information
OF Our Readers.

The annual run OF smelt in the Cow
litz river is at its height.
Formal opening Of new genera
hospital at Everett took place Wed
nesday.
Landing in the Yakima valley antI
the Horse Heaven region is as higf
as ITO per cent, 1t is reported.
B. e. Brotherton, Port Huron, Mich.
will contract with farmers of Fair
field to raise seed peas this year.
A movement has been launched by
the Kiwanis club of ColfaX for or
ganization of Better Colfax club"
Resolutions opposing the McNary
Haugen farm relief bill were adopted
by the Spokane Grain Merchants as.
ISOLATION.
The Selah school district on March
will vote on 3-mill levy for build.
ing and equipping a gymnasium, to
cost about $4,000.
A special election will be held at
Pullman March % to vote on pro.
posal to bond the town in the amount
of $25,200 for Improvement and exten.
sion Of the sewer system.
Company E., Washington national
guard, of Bellingham, claims the cham.
pion cake eater of the state. Private
Robert Andrews devoured q pieces
of cake at feast provided by the
w. c. T. U.
Dedication services for the new $685..
900 Methodist church at Toppenish,
which has been under construction
nearly three years, were held Sunday,
Bishop w. o. Shepherd, Portland.
Ore, officiating.
The dam and log pond OF the Biles-
Coleman mill at Omak have been com.
pleted and one-third Of the grade of
the 15-mile logging railway, which
will open $4,000 acres OF virgin TIM
Der, is finished.
Mrs. Margaret Becker, who came
from Baltimore, Md, by way of the
isthmus of Panama and settled at Old
Fort Steilacoom, in 1853, died at the
home of a granddaughter, Mrs. Anna
G. Benston in Seattle.
Bids on approximately 17,S40,000
feet Of timber on $3.50 acres of the
Spokane Indian reservation were ask.
ed for by the department of the in
terror, the proceeds of the sale to go
toward replenishing the tribal funds
Plans for sugar beet drive to sign
up 1000 acres in land around Yakima
were launched at a conference held
between officials of the Utah.Idaho
Sugar Beet company and the CONNER.
cial clubs of Yakima and Toppenish.
Forty.eight hogs were sold at Walla
Walla at the fourth annual consign-
ment sale Of registered bred sows and
gifts by the Walla Walla Valley Pure
bred Breeders association The aver.
age sale price was $40 to $35. about
half the price received last year.
An attempt will be made by Senator
C. G. Dill to obtain investigation OF
leaf hopper, which is said to be the
greatest menace to growing sugar
beets in the Yakima valley. according
to wire from him to Secretary o. A.
Scots of the Yakima commercial club.
The cornerstone of Jones hall, the
first building of the new College of
Puget Sound at Tacoma, was laid Fri,
day in the presence of Governor Hart,
Bishop Shepard of the Methodist
church of Portland, state and local of.
ficials, and educational and religious
leaders.
While recommending no quarantine
for all of Franklin county DR.. Glen
R. Bach, predatory animal inspector
for the United States biological sur.
vey, has issued warning to residents
around Cornell to be on the watch
for appearance of rabies in any of
their farm animals.
Companies writing burglary insur-
ance in Seattle are considering with.
drawing from the field, or at least
surrounding every policy they handle
with the delay incident to approval by
the home offices of their companies,
because Of the wave of robbery and
bandtry in the city.
Frank NJ. Lowden Jr., chairman OF
a committee to investigate whether
to ask for a grand jury to investigate
the office OF Sheriff Charles Springer
Of Walla Walla county, said that 1t had
been impossible to get meeting of
the committee. Most Of the members
do not want to serve.
The Inland Empire lamb crop, the
first agricultural activity Of 1924, is
being harvested and is running high,
according to reports Other reports
are that seeding is under way particu