Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-05-30
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for reformation
of Our Readers.

reached TOTAL Yalue OIL TOonr5Jo,
Citizens Of Tekoa have decided on
building SWIMMING pool at the auto
park.
The Raymond Rotary club was hes:
to Is high school senior boys and 50
grade senior boys at banquet,
A mammoth incubator, capable of
handling 10000 eggs, was received at
Wenatchee from Cleveland, Ohio.
Logging camps of the Murphy Tim
Der company at Yacolt, in Clarke Coun-
ty, have closed down for an indefinite
period.
At the present rate, Mays cargo
movement out of the port of Boiling.
ham will total about 2O,OOO,00O feet
Of lumber
DR.. E. c. Hsckett will commence
construction Of three-story brick
hotel and store building to cost $780,
900, at Kelso.
The plant of the Oregon Packing
company at Vancouver will open for
| the season about June l for a 30-day
run on Strawberries.
A new clubhouse is being built on
Samish island for the Camp Fire Girls
Of Skagit county by the carpenters
union Of the county.
Raymond sawmill workers, by
vote of Al to 33, decided to end the
strike IN Raymond mills which had
been in effect more than two weeks.
A wage reduction of SO cents day
In all -Four l. logging camps of Grays
Harbor county was voted by Four L
employees at meeting held in Ho-
quiam.
An invitation will be extended to
the Masonic grand lodge to hold its
1925 convocation at Wenatchee, when
the 1924 conclave opens at Bellingham
in July.
Announcement was made at Mon
tesano of the organization of a new
company which will operate the plant
formerly run by the Montesano Pack
ing company
Bankers from Chelan, Douglas
Okanogan and Grant counties, com
posing group l of the state bankers
association, held their annual conven-
ton at Wenatchee.
Mildred Weber, aged ii, of Walla
Walla, was stung in the neck by some
insect, presumably bee, and taken to
doctors office, where she died about
20 minutes after being stung.
With death rate of only 96 per
1000, Seattle claims to be the health
lest oity of 100000 or more population
in the United States, according to
provisional statistics for 1928.
Members of the Everett Elks lodge
voted to spend 100000 on a new
addition and alterations to the pres
ent building which will give the lodge
one of the finest homes in the state
The May apportionment of state
school funds is announced by Jose
phine Corliss Preston, state superin-
tendent, with total of S351,S45 dis
| tr1buted among the various counties.
Provision for preliminary eXamin-
alton OF the Columbia river between
Martins Bluff and the mouth of the
Lewis river with view to flood con
troll, is contained In bill passed by
the senate.
Applications have been received by
the state capitol committee for 1890
acres of capitol grant timber lands in
Stevens county. OF the 10000 acres
In the original grant, 10000 still re-
main unsold.
Bids for three miles of paving to
adjoin Spokane city limits, at cost
of approximately 100000, will be ad
vertised for letting June "a, accord
ing to james Allen, state supervisor
OF highways.
Petitions are being circulated ask
Ing congress to appropriate $4,000
for completion of the Wapato pumping
( project, in the Yakima reservation.
/ The work would bring about 10000
acres under cultivation.
Only eight applicants who took the
examination for state license as Certi-
FLED public accountants in Olympia and
Spokane last week, succeeded in pass.
Ing, according to the list announced by
Director of Licenses Dibble.
Application for rights to divert
water from the Dungeness river in
Clallam county for municipal water
supply purposes, was filed by George
w. O'Brien, city clerk, for the city
Of sequim, with Marvin Chase, super.
visor of hydraulics.
Figures Of shipping activities for
the port Of Everett for the first -four
months of the year show a total of Oh