Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-04-24
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

JuuRe j, i. RoHulu.
Thirteen ships carried 6555,237 feet
OF lumber from the Grays Harbor
port dock during March.
A cottage unit to house children will
be added to the Washington-O Oregon
Pythian home at Vancouver.
Fire destroyed the processing plant
of the American Squash Products com.
pany at Mabton, with loss of $4,000.
Hailstones an inch In diameter fell
during storm In Sunnyside and piled
up three inches deep In some places.
Contract for the erection Of q $685.
900 high school at Chelan was award
ed to Lloyd Corle, Wenatchee contrac.
tor.
The constitutionality Of the habitual
criminal statute Of the state of Wash
ington was sustained by the supreme
court.
Fire destroyed more than half of the
town of Hamilton, In the upper Skagit
river valley, causing loss estimated
at 100000.
Receipts at Vancouver postoffice for
three months of 1925 showed gain Of
s2196.55, compared with the same
period last year.
Property owners In the Millerdale
district near Wenatchee voted to form
an irrigation district, there being only
one dissenting vote out of 40 cast.
Construction at Camas in the i'm.
mediate future of sulphate pulp mill
has been definitely decided upon by
the Crown Willamette Paper company
Mrs. Jessie p. Hedges, Yakima, was
reelected president of the Washington
State Music Teachers association at
the annual convention In Wenatchee.
Vancouvers historic apple tree,
grown from seed brought from Lon.
don and planted by Dr. John McLaugh-
lin in 1926, was a mass of pink.white
bloom again this spring.
The firm of Henry & McFee of Sc
attle have received the contract for
the construction of repair and fit
ting-out pier at the Puget sound navy
yard at a price of Si167,394.
Two young men, apparently about
10 years old, held up the State bank
of Marysville, ten miles north of Ever
EFT. and obtained $4,000 in currency.
They escaped by automobile.
A new pamphlet containing informa-
tion and data from federal engineers
reports on the Columbia basin irriga-
tion project has been issued by the
Columbia Basin Irrigation league.
What is believed to be a northwest
lumber loading record was set at Aber-
deem last week when the Japanese
steamer Oridono Maru was loaded
with 2,SO0,OG0 feet of lumner in seven
days.
S. B, L. Penrose, president of Whit
man college, has announced receipt OF
a gift of $4,000 from the Carnegie
corporation, which will be used as an
endowment fund for the college IL
brary.
Mrs. Emma Perry, SO, wife of DR..
Henry V. Perry, retired physician,
formerly of Ellensburg, was found
dead in hotel in Seattle. Police de-
clared she killed herself by cutting
her throat.
Net receipts of the interstate bridge
at Vancouver for three months of
1925 gained nearly so per cent over
the same months in 1924 according
to report of Auditor Rae. The total
for 1925 was S75,29O.S6.
]. B. Woods, forest engineer in
charge of the forestry department for
the Long-Bell Lumber company, has
arrived III Longview to undertake
thorough study of the company's west
ern land and timber holdings.
II. E. Wallace of Seattle and Mrs.
Kreebs were killed instantly and a
man named Strayer was injured when
their automobile struck tree beside
the Olympic highway at the Wynooche
turn, mile west of Montesano.
Bids for seven improvements on
STATE highways will be opened by the
state highway committee May 12. Two
of the jobs are on the Inland Empire
highway, two on the Olympic high
way, and the remaining three on other
state roads.
1t will cost the Seattle municipal
street railway system approximately
100000 to comply with the mandate
of the Circuit court of appeals, hold
ing the city liable for three-fourths of
the general taxes levied against the
system in 1919
w. H. Paulhamus, president of the
Western Washington Fair association,
who has been i'll for several weeks at