Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-07-31

Rox Davis, 15.ycar-old son OF Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. ]. Davis of Chehalis, died
,rom injuries received in a runaway
accident last week.
The first car OF pears Of the 1926
crop was shipped from Wenatchee to
Vancouver, B. c. This Is 10 days
earlier than last year.
Several cars of npricots and one car
Of Transparent and Harvest apples
were shipped last week from Wenat'
ctee to the Chicago market.
Severe electric storms over north
orn Washington and Idaho were re-
sponsibla for the setting Of large
number Of small forest fires.
A certificate authorizing the Broth
erhood Bank & Trust company of Sc
attle to begin business was issued by
Harry G. Johnson, state supervisor OF
banking.
Charles Larson of Ostrander had
to call in his neighbors to help him
rescue his COW, which fell into dry
well, which had been boarded over
and aband doned.
Eugene Anderson, 18, and his broth
er, Verne, s, were drowned In the
Kettle river near Curley while their
mother stood on raft in the river
unable to help them.
The seventh case of typhoid fever
developed at Walla Walla last week
and the health department issued an
other warning to the public to be care
ful of its water supply.
The safe at the Ryderwood Mercan'
tile company store, in Ryderwood, &c
miles north of Longview, was blown
and $4,000 in cash was stolen and two
cash registers were rifled.
Lucille Dyer, 10, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. o. G. Dyer, Cosmopolis, died
at the Aberdeen general hospital as
a result of bullet wound accidentally
inflicted by her brother Edward.
What is believed the first flour
ground from 1925 crop wheat in Wash
ington was milled by the Northern
flour mills in Walla Walla last week
1t was from Jenkins club wheat.
new fireproof two-room school
house to replace the building burned
last summer is under construction at
Salmon Creek and will be completed
by the time school opens this fall.
Orlan Dewalt, 80, and Nels Nelson
35, died in Snoqualmie hospital Sat
urday as result of injuries received
in short circuit in the power plant
of the Snoqualmie Lumber company.
Seattle entertained 1850 midship'
men of the United States naval
academy who are on their annual
training cruise on the battleships New
York, Arkansas and Utah last week
Contracts for furnishing six state
institutions in western Washington
with $4,000 tons of steam coal at an
aggregate cost of s40,575 have been
awarded by the state purchasing
agent
Approximately 10000 young men
and women were graduated from the
l,rrh nf ln OF OF nf h,
ington during 1925, according to an
estimate of the state department OF
education.
Unable to swim, and while floating
in the lake with an inflated auto
mobile inner tube, Mrs. Gladys Peter
son, 24-year.old bride, was drowned
in Lake Union within a few feet OF
her home.
Blasting operations on new road
leading into Ryderwood, head OF the
Long Bell logging operations 80 miles
from Longview, are under way. The
now road will provide more direct
route to Vader.
Charges of first degree murder were
filed by Prosecuting Attorney Graham
of Montesano against Deputy Fred
Lomax of McCleary in connection with
the killing of Elkanah Crisp in Nc
Cleary July Is.
About 400 Lewis county livestock
owners have signed petitions to Coun
ty Agent Yeager asking that their
cattle be given the tuberculin test,
1t was expected that petitions yet out
would run the total to 100 owners.
Contract for all bridge cranes
mono.rals and transfer cars for the
second unit of the Long.Bell Lumber
company's manufacturing plants has
been awarded to the Milwaukee Elec
trio Crane company of Milwaukee,
Wis.
Three car loads of machinery for
the Washington. Oregon Linen Mills
company arrived In Vancouver last
week. Four more cars will arrive
soon. Some of the pulling machines
are operating In the Willamette val