Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-06
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

lHuo diS buuci way W itOi SuhihS
the Pc Ell chamber OF commerce.
The Whitman County Grade and
Rural Teachers association met at
La Crosse Saturday.
Construction, of the new 100000
community church at Longview is ex-
pected to begin May /.
]. P. Tlbbets, accountant of the
Shell Oil company, has been appoint
ed city treasurer of Wenatchee.
A permanent retail trades bureau
was organized at meeting of the
Bellingham chamber of commerce.
The midwinter banquet Of the
Stevens County Live Stock associa-
tion was held at the Colville Congre-
gational church, about 100 being in
attendance.
Bernard Olson, so, and Albert John
son, 3S, both of Shelton, were killed
when their automobile plunged off
the Olympic highway and fell into
Hood canal.
The city of Seattle disbursed S25,922
in pensions to 33 former employees or
their heirs in 1924 according to the
annual reports of the police and fire
pension funds.
-Four carloads of machinery for the
new sugar plant have arrived in Bell
ingham from the dismantled Toppen-
ish factory of the Utah-Idaho Beet
Sugar company.
Final plans have been made by the
Wenatchee aple blossom festival COM
mittee of the chamber of commerce
for the program for the sixth annual
festival in May.
Residents Of the Ellensburg school
district voted to authorize construc-
tion OF a S115,O00 grade school build
Ing, to replace the structure destroy
ed by fire last fall.
The Pacific Northwest Hardware
and Implement association held its
Goth annual convention in Spokane,
with many merchants of Washington
and Idaho in attendance.
Othello claims one OF the Oldest men
in the Inland Empire G. w. Foster,
who has reached his ninety-fifth year
and who prides himself upon having
smoked pipe for 81 years.
The third annual banquet of former
and present telegraphers living in
and around Wenatchee was held at
the Elks' dining room in Wenatchee,
with more than 200 in attendance.
Mrs. Oliver T. Cornwell, wife of ex-
State Senator Cornwell, died sudden
ly at her home in Walla Walla fol-
lowing stroke of apoplexy. She had
resided in Walla Walla since 1874.
Governor Hartley and Walter F.
Meyer, president of the Washington
State Elks association, participated in
the formal ceremonies dedicating the
new 100000 Elks home at Everett.
Former Governor Il. e. Campbell
of Arizona and Francis II. Goodwin
of Spokane will spend ten days in the
Yakima valley between May 12 and
90 as q reclamation board Of review
Governor Hartley vetoed senate bill
49, the forest protection bill, and signi-
fled his intention of allowing house
bill 60, the omnibus appropriation bill,
to become law without his signature
Jay T. Homas of Seattle, editor of
the Washington State Weekly, was
named state printer by Governor Hart
ley, to succeed Frank Lamborn, who
has held the office since January Is,
1918.
Fire losses in Yakima last year
amounted to S487,300, according to the
report of Fire Chief Harry g. Haw-
kins. This was the heaviest loss in
any one year, the nearest being $l34,-
532 in 1921.
The supreme court disbarred Elmer
s. Smith, Centralia attorney, on
charges of "having advocated and ep-
proved sabotage, syndlcalism and gen
eral violation of laws as means of
social reform"
Reports show that virtually all win
ter wheat south Of Rosalia was de-
stroyed by the cold weather of De-
cember To the north there are oc-
casional fields that will come through
all right, owing to the fact that they
were protected by light snow.
A Choha.is municipal ordinance
making 1t unlawful for occupants of
apartment houses to park their auto
mobiles on streets near an apartment
house except on the side of the street
adjacent to the building, was de-
clared unconstitutional by the supreme