Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-15
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF news items
Principal Events OF the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

The commercial salmon fishing sea.
son opened on the Columbia river Fri.
day
], Frank Hill, age 6S, pioneer Of
Whitman county, who had lived in
Pullman AZ years, died In Colfax Of
cancer.
Deposits in the 30 banks of Whit
man county decreased $9l,152 since
December 81, 1924, according to fig
ures compiled.
Marriage licenses issued at Van.
couver for four months of 1925 fell
is below the number issued last year.
The total this year was 7S9.
Dean David Thomson Of the Univer.
sity of Washington college of liberal
arts, has resigned from the student
board of control after II years Of serv.
ice.
A golden crucifix and chain, valued
at $3.50, was stolen by. a thief who
desecrated the altar of the st. Mich.
olas Hellenic Greek Orthodox church
in Tacoma.
No new cases of typhoid fever have
developed on Puget island and the
situation is believed to have been
brought under control by incubation
of 400 residents.
Hearing on the application of Yaki
ma and Walla Walla for reduction in
light and power rates, scheduled for
June Is at Walla Walla, has been post
poned to June 30.
The value of building permits at
Vancouver for four months of 1925
totaled S164,495, compared with $780,
27S for the same months last year,
an increase of S14,217.
Will Hanger, prominent citizen Of
Walla Walla, was fatally injured when
his automobile was forced from the
highway between Walla Walla and
Waitsburg by larger car.
The annual Kittitas county high
school track and field meet was held
in Ellensburg Saturday, with athletes
of Ellensburg, Roslyn, Gle Elum,
Kittitas and Thorp competing.
Nine contracts calling for construc-
ton work on arterial highways of the
state were awarded by the state high
way committee, the work including
the construction of three bridges.
Billy Sunday, evangelist, has accept
ed call of Yakima ministers to hold
an evangelistic campaign in Yakima,
but stipulated that it be in the fall
of 1926 instead of the coming winter,
as had been originally proposed.
George Bertrand, Gene Huntington
and Isaac Imboden of Olequa have
applied to the Cowlitz county COM
missioners for franchise for COM
pany which will erect toll bridge
across the Cowlitz river at Olequa.
One hundred seventy-five grade
school boys and girls, selected by
elimination processes from the various
schools of Whitman county, Compel
ed in the annual grade school track
and field meet at Pullman Saturday.
Three lives were lost when the tug
Ryba of the Altman Hubble Tugboat
company of Hoquiam capsized on
Grays harbor bar. The dead are Basil
Hubble, %, engineer; Harry Hubble
Jr., 20, fireman; Phil Barnes, 90, deck
hand.
The designations of Oren Leidy, in
spector of the state highway patrol;
Merit L. McCully, office deputy OF
the patrol, and ]. L. Pifer, craftsman,
all of the department Of efficiency,
have been announced to become eff
fective May 9.
Longview and Ryderwood Joined at
Longview to celebrate the 50th ami
versary of their founder, the Long
Bell Lumber company. A special train
over the Longview, Portland & North
ern railway brought company EN-.
ployes from Ryderwood.
Billy Oars, s years old, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. L. w. Oars of Alger, a town
in Skagit county, was fatally shot
while he and John Dawes, 10 years
old, and a younger brother of John
were playing with revolver in the
Dawes kitchen at Alger.
Robert Snodgrass, 81, of Portland,
was killed when a truck he was driy.
ing struck heavy boulder and plung.
ed 1000 feet into the Little White
Salmon river on a hill at Cook, in
Skamania county. The body was
found near the river bank.
Union printers of three northwest
ern states assembled in Yakima fol
their annual conference Monday, to
thresh out such questions as may be
thought necessary to refer to the In
ternational Typographical unions an