Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-23


ington held statewide convention
in Seattle Wednesday.
Liquor law violations led all crimes
In arrests and convictions in Chelan
county last year, according to Sheriff
Bert McManus.
Clarence, the 12-year.old son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Sautter of Daven-
port, accidentally shot and killed him.
self while hunting.
First annual carnival and circus will
be sponsored by the Parent.Teacher
directorate in the Longview main
school building Thursday.
DR.. Mary L. Hendricks of Spokane,
divorced wife of City Commissioner
Ralph Hendricks, is under arrest
charged with passing bad checks.
Mrs. Emile Burcham was nominated
by mass meeting of women at Spo-
kane as their candidate for city COM
missioner in the election March 10.
Four hundred Rotarians from all
over the northwest enjoyed get.to-
gether banquet under the auspices of
the Tacoma Rotary club at Tacoma.
Edward N. Huntington, So. survivor
of Captain Delaney's wagon train,
which crossed the plains in 1913, died
at the home of his daughter at Castle
Rock.
Only eight homes in Longview are
now under quarantine for scarlet fever
and the contagion scare is over, ad-
vises DR.. George H. Coffin, city health
officer.
Twenty.seven physicians and two
were licensed to practice
medicine in this state, it was announc-
ed by Fred j. Dibble, director of
licenses.
Three hundred boys from points
in northwestern Washington attended
the annual Older Boys conference at
under the direction of the
Y. M. c. A.
Colonel Welborn, commander OF
Fort George Wright, was badly injured
near Spokane when his automobile
skidded and went over 1O0-foot grade
June 10 to June 13 have been set
as the dates for the annual convention
of the Washington State Association
Of Osteopaths, which will take place
in Longview this year.
Captain C. S. Otis, who had resided
in Hood River for many years, died
recently at the home of his son,
Charles Otis, in Spokane. Captain
Otis was 80 years old.
Disbarment proceedings have been
filed in the supreme court against
Earl A. McVicar, Seattle attorney, who
is charged with appropriating S10,-
600 belonging to clients.
Kitsap county commissioners an
nounce the appointment of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. D. Calder, of Bremerton, to
the superintendency of the Kitsap
county farm at Sunnyside.
John E. Russell, who farms near
has just been given a
check for S110,SO7 by the Seattle Grain
for his 1928 and 1924 wheat
crops. The price was $3.50 bushel.
Clearing of the site for the proposed
plant of the recently organized Lewis
River Pulp & Paper company, be-
tween Kalama and Martins Bluff on
the Columbia river, has been started.
Claude Harris, 80 years old, is under
arrest at Mukilteo charged with using
the mails to defraud. 1t is claimed
that he has swindled Seattle mail
order house out of several hundred
dollars.
Fishermen near the mouth of the
Cowlitz river are turning their atten-
tion to the run of smelt in the Column
bia river and daily shipments are be.
ing made from Longview, Kelso and
Another 75-foot, rapid fire rum
chaser was launched at Seattle, bring
ing the total of the United StateS
coast guard rum fleet on Puget Sour d
to II large and snail boats now in
George B. Dunn OF Seattle was elect.
ed president of the Pacific Cost Mer
chant Tailors' association at its sixth
annual convention in Seattle. The as
sociation is to convene in San Fran.
cisco next year.
Stealing unobserved from her sick
bed in the home of Marion d. Chase
in the Naches Valley, Mrs. Manley
Maloy, "a, of Nile, walked half mile
across fields in the snow to the Naches
river and plunged into the icy water