Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-17
WASHINGTON 81 STATE
BRIEF news ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
Of Our Readers.

dents of the Bellingham normal
school,.
The five branches of the Oddfellows
held their state convention in Wennt-
chez with an attendance near the $500
mark.
Timber on six tracts of state land
in Lewis county will be sold at auction
July Z. The aggregate value of the
timber is about $4,000.
Reorganization of the Citizens
league of Eastern Lewis county will
be effected at meeting to be held
at Mossyrock, Saturday.
Chehaliss new s45,O0O municipal
auditorium will be named William
West memorial" In honor Of the
"Father of Chehalis," William West.
Petitions bearing the names Of 400
residents Of the Spokane valley, ask
ing the removal Of F. G. Nielsen, dis
trict horticultural inspector, were ill
ed at Spokane.
Plans to create port Of Hoquiam
and to open a new industrial district
on the tide flats at the west end OF
the city were announced by Mayor
Fisher of Hoquiam.
Estimates made by fruit men are
that 35 carloads Of cherries have NOV
ed out of the Walla Walla valley and
that Is carloads remain to be picked,
packed and shipped.
Seven hundred Shriners from Ohio
and West Virginia, returning frt>m
their convention at Los Angeles, help
ed to open Rainier national park for
the summer season.
The appointment of Thomas e.
Phipps of Seattle as valuation engi-
neer for the state tax commission was
announced by Samuel H. Chase, chair
man Of the commission.
A petition calling for special cleo
ton for the approval of an issue of
$4,000 by the city of Raymond to
purchase additional fire fighting ap-
paratus is being circulated.
Robert M. Jones was appointed by
Governor Hartley to be superior court
Judge of King county, succeeding King
Dykeman, who resigned to become
publisher of Hearst's Post-Intelligenc-
er.
W. ]. Nelson of Centralia shot
large cougar on the ranch Of Morgan
Davies. near Tenino. The beast, six
and half feet long and weighing 100
pounds, had killed one Of Davies
calves.
o. D. Wolf & Co. of Washougal re-
ceived contract from the Clarke
county commissioners to surface with
crushed rock 10 miles of highway from
Orchards to Camas on a bid OF 1884,
3O4.S3.
The largest sale of wool made in
the northwest this season was closed
when H. Stanley Coffin of Yakima sold
100000 pounds of coarse wool to be
shipped to Boston. The price was
around IS cents.
Fruit growers of the state discussed
at Seattle suggestion of Earle ].
Barnes, state director of agriculture.
for the organization of national ap.
pie advertising campaign that would
cost approximately 100000.
Thomas @. Burgess of Seattle, engi-
neer of the ferry Mount Vernon, which
plies between Anacortes and Sidney, B.
c., was instantly killed when an auto
mobile which he was driving plunged
off bridge near Mount Vernon.
John H. Piper new Boy Scout exc
cutive for Washington. Oregon, Idaho
and Montana, took over his duties at
Spokane, succeeding G. H. Oberteuf-
fer, who has accepted position as
executive OF the Portland council.
Thirty.four churches were represent
ed at the annual district conference at
Wenatchee Of the Methodist church
for Chelan, Okanogan, Ferry, Grant,
Stevens and Lincoln counties and
part Of Spokane and Adams counties.
Montlake bridge, spanning the canal
connecting Lakes Union and Washing
ton with Puget sound, is completed ex-
cept for few minor details, City Engi-
neer Blackwell announced In Seattle.
A dedication program has been set for
July 81.
Owing to irregularity In calling for
bids and in the specifications. all
bids were rejected by the Bucoda
council at its last meeting for the paw
ing Of Main street. New bids have
been called and will be opened on
June %.
After being beaten unconscious In
n fight with John Lusk, about IS years
old, suspected owner of still found
on farm about 10 miles north OF
Seattle, A. Il. Sadler, United States