Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-20


show that 81 divorce decreos were
issued in 1924, compared with 3I2 mar,
riage licenses issued in the year.
Increase of rates for the Mountain
Springs Water System, an Oregon cor
poration owning and operating the
system supplying seaview and Long
Beach and vicinity, Pacific county,
was allowed by the state department
of public works.
Plans are being formulated at Long
view for the open house festival to be
staged there on April 4, commemorate
ing the beginning of passenger sarv.
ice between Ryderwood and Longyiew
and the opening OF the new $3.50, 900
Columbia theater.
SiXty,six small dwellings, a ware.
house, garage, electric shop, main
shop, mess house, steam plant, barn
school house and plumbing shop at
Rimrocl will be offered at public sale
on Wednesday, when sealed bids will
be received and opened,
Advised that smallpox was mildly
epidemic at Vancouver, B. c.. DR.. G..
NJ. Magruder, in charge at Seattle
for the United States public health
service, ordered that all persons from
that city be vaccinated before cross
ing the American border.
4 compromise has been reached, ii
is announced, in a suit charging com,
bination in restraint OF trade which
the government filed July IS against
25 Seattle defendants. The defend.
ants included the Seattle Produce as
ISOLATION and its members.
Acting for the interstate commerce
commission, the department of public
works held hearing at Port Town
send Monday, on Joshua Green's ap-
plication Tor permission to scrap the
Port Townsend Southern railroad be-
tween Port Townsend and Quilcene.
On showing OF considerable losses
for years past, the Great Northern
railroad is to be permitted to aban.
don regular passenger train service
and substitute mixed trains on the
Marcus division, uader an order is
sued by the department of public
works.
Auto stage companies operating
short routes on the Pacific highway
between Seattle and Portland have
incorporated the Portland-Seattle
Stage company and within so days
will put on line OF specially con-
structed passenger stages to handle
interstate traffic exclusively
Request OF the Ilwaco Telephone
& Telegraph company to discontinue
telephone service between the towns
of Long Beach and Oysterville and
interlying territory was denied by
order OF the department OF public
works, and the company required
greatly to improve its facilities and
service.
Judgment and sentence OF l. ].
Lasswell, convicted by Stevens
county jury of Incorporating and
converting to his own use $1S,373.72
of the funds of the city OF ColviIle,
of which he was treasurer, was affirm
ed by the supreme court. Lasswell
was sentenced to three to five years
in the penitentiary.
Seed wheat to the value of $4,000
has been shipped to farmers of Doug
las county by the seed wheat corpo-
ration, it was announced at Spokane
by j. K. Mccormack, the president.
Applications for wheat are coming in
rapidly, Mccormack said, but it had
not yet been determined how much
seed will be asked for.
Reporting mills of the West Coast
Lumbermen's association showed ia
vorable condition for the week ending
March Z, as new business was 8 per
cent above production and per cent
above shipments. Production of 11s
mills was s0SS7,52O feet; shipments
were 102, OS6,224 feet and bookings as
grogated 1Og,OO6,109 feet.
Lee NJ. Lampson, manager OF the
Three Rivers Growers Association
and the Central Washington Canta-
loupe exchange, and representing the
Northwest Hay Growers and the
Walla Walla Gardeners, has returned
from an extended trip east, on which
he made a close study Of marketing
conditions for the various products
handled by the organizations he repre-.
sented.
W. L. Brown of Chehalis president
and manager of the Cowlitz, Chehalis
& Cascade railway Chehalis local
railrond line which extends to La
camas, 10 miles southeast, has made
application to the interstate con.
merce commission for approval of o