Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-20

February is planned by the COWi!t&
county radio club. The show will be
held in Longview.
Workmen are making preparations
to resume logging operations at the
willamette Paper & Pulp company's
camp near Cathlamet.
Plans for the formation Of a union
high school district are being discussed
at Stevenson. Surrounding communi-
ties all favor the plan.
An increase in the office uf the &c.
partment of commerce to permit the
enlargement of the office at Seattle
was urged by Representative Summers
before the house committee on depart
ment of commerce appropriations.
A vein of hematte iron ore seven
feet in thickness was recently struck
by men while digging well on the
Schuler place two miles north of
Orchards.
Mrs. Margaret Hermesch was SEN
fenced to 60 days in Jail and fined
S100 in police court at Spokane when
she pleaded guilty to a charge of poi
soning dogs.
Fred Cameizend, As, farmer Of
Whatcom county, is in critical condi.
tion in Bellingham hospital, having
been gored by bull on a dairy farm
near Ferndale.
A report of the Tieton reclamation
area in Yakima county, where 31,O00
acres are being irrigated, shows that
the project is entirely out of debt and
has surplus of s16,592.
Auditors who have been examining
the accounts Of the Northwest Hay
association, with headquarters at Yak
ina, report assets of s26S,74O and cur.
rent liabilities as s65,6O2.
Plans for consolidating several
school districts to furnish transporta.
tion to students who want to attend
Vancouver high school were discuss.
ed at meeting held at Orchards.
Disbarment proceedings have been
filed with the clerk of the supreme
court against Ralph d. Major, an at
torney of Seattle who is charged with
issuing number OF worthless checks
Rapid progress has been made in
the last three weeks in clearing the
old spruce production plant buildings
from the aviation field at Vancouver
and the ground will soon be ready for
grading.
Little II any damage has been done
to the major fruit crops of the Walla
Walla valley by the freeze, and grow
ers are now taking precautions against
possibility of killing freeze by equip
ping themselves with orchard heaters
John Howell, now serving sentence
In the Walla Walla penitentiary from
Bellingham for automobile theft, must
go back to Vancouver, B. c., to stand
trial on a charge of holding up a city
hall messenger and robbing him OF
$4,000.
Petitions are being signed by mem.
bers of the Wenaha Wool Growers as.
sociatiOn urging the forest service not
to close the Mill creek watershed to
grazing, as has been requested by
Walla Walla city officials to protect
the water supply.
Unable to check the flow of water
through huge break in an irriga
ton dam on Moses lake, near Neppel
orchardists and the Moses Lake fish
company are building temporary
dam. The loss of water from the lake
has lowered 1t nearly ten feet.
Rain has fallen at Vancouver In
every 24hour period since December
26, 1924, according to A. A. Quarn
berg, local weather observer, and only
one clear and seven partly clear days
have been recorded in that time. A
total OF 1919 inches of rain fell.
Regular army. officers reserve ant
citizens military training camps fol
eastern Washington and northern
Idaho will be held next summer a,
Fort George Wright, near Spokane, in
stead Of at Camp Lewis, as formerly
it Is provided in orders received.
One hundred and eighteen mills re.
porting to the West Coast Lumber.
mons association for the week end
ing February Z, manufactured 97.012..
O62 feet of lumber; sold $500, ,4O4
feet and shi?ped S7,964,120 feet. New
business was per cent below produc.
ton.
The sliding OF hillside along the
knlama river near the Railston place.
seven miles above Kalama, threatens
to carry the Kalama river road into
the river at that point and temporarily