Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-16
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

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A plunge of four stories from Sc,
attle hotel window killed Mrs. Louise
Moore, So, Of Wenatchee.
During 1924 new buildings valued at
$205,440 were erected In Pullman and
10 blocks OF new pavement We're laid
Petitions are in circulation through.
out Raymond asking the return OF
some of the outlying districts to Pa.
cific county.
Fees collected by Miss Mary Grimm,
Lewis county clefk. for 1924 were
&701SO5 compared with s6576.15 col.
lected in 1923.
Investments in new buildings In
Yakima during the past year totaled
$S76,000, or about 500 more than was
expended in 1923.
Walla Walla had a dearth of build.
ing in 1924. Total permits were 1874
and the value of the improvements
was only $16O,55S,
Nearly 100000 is represented in per-
mits for new buildings and repairs
which have been taken out in Aber-
deem since January l.
An ordinance fixing the salary of
the police Judge of Longview at 500
month was passed at the first an.
nual meeting of the council.
The Older Boys Conference of the
Y. M. c. A. for southwest Washington
was held in Longview with more than
100 outside boys in attendance.
Hearings have been started by the
house public lands committee on
bill proposing to change the name of
Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoma.
Fire destroyed the Radding general
store building at Silver Lake, six
miles east of Castle Rock, with all
contents, entailing loss of $4,000.
w. H. Oxman, merchant of Cath.
lamet, has been elected mayor to sue.
ceed e. M. Orth, retired Mr.. Oxman
served on the city council for many
years.
Centralia's first 1925 civic improve
ment was started when petitions were
circulated for construction of 5.foot
cement sidewalks in the south end of
the city
The Kelso postoffice broke all rec.
ords for postal receipts in 1924, when
$27,790.O3 was received, compared with
s25.1S1.65 in 1923 and approximately
$4,000 in 1922.
A religious educational conference
was held in Centralia Tuesday under
the auspices of the Western Washing
ton Baptist conventions department of
religious education.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles has
decided TO include an auditorium to
seat about 5000 persons in the plans
for Its S1,000,000 home now under con-
struction in Seattle.
James Empey, Aberdeen councilman,
and head of the city water committee,
was instructed by the council to pro-
ceed with survey of site for a
reservoir of 100000 gallons capac.
fly.
Federal Judge Neterer at Seattle has
ruled that prohibition agents cannot
legally enter private residence, even
with search warrant, unless they
have positive evidence that liquor is
being sold.
H. w. A. Tramm of Chehalis was
reelected president of the Lewis Coun.
ty Guernsey Cattle club at It's annual
meeting in Chehalis. Plans were laid
for carrying on an intensive campaign
during 1925.
Diminishing business due to auto
competition has caused the O..W. r. &
N. to discontinue its motor car serv-
ice between Walla Walla and Dayton,
limiting the service to one train each
way each day.
James G. Johnson and George
Martineau were seriously injured by
premature blast while clearing right
of way for the Long Bell Logging rail.
way near Ryderwood Both men may
lose their sight.
Senator Jones has introduced bill
in congress instructing the director Of
the veterans bureau to construct
hospital with capacity of $50 beds on
the site of the abandoned Cushman
Indian school at Tacoma.
Discovery that asparagus shipped
from Walla Wala was not as good as
that from other districts, led to such
an increase in the standard that last
year, with 1000 fewer boxes to SELL
the growers made $4,000 more.
Action to obtain fees aggregating
apDrOyimately S1150OO for their work