Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-27
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE State news

Recall charges against A. Ruric
Todd, mayor, are being circulated at
Kelso.
A $4,000 lodge building will be
erected in South Aberdeen by the
local branch of the National Crotian
society.
Announcement has been made that
the O.-W. R. & N. would discontinue
its passenger and express service be-
tween Centralia and Tono April 1.
Bellingham's sixth annual tulip fes-
tival will be held May 7, s and 0. A
tulip queen will be selected from the
schools of Whatcom and Skagit coun-
ties.
The new Wishliah river bridge, un-
der construction at Aberdeen at cost
of 100000, will be completed and
ready for use by May l, it is an
nounced.
Edgar and Albert Robbins of Long
view bagged their second large cougar
of the season when they shot cat
which measured nine feet six inches
from tip to tip.
Some $50 dentists of Pacific north
western states and Canadian prov
inces attended the Washington state
dental society's annual four-day con-
vention in Spokane.
Mrs. Rosalie Claire Simpson, Sc,
one OF General Lees special mes
sengers during the civil war, died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.
G. Sears, in Seattle.
Plans for the erection at Spokane
of $500,O0O theater by Warner
brothers, motion picture producers,
were announced by ]. G. Beckman,
their representative.
Robert Hoag, so, was killed and four
others injured when an automobile
Hoag was driving plunged backward
down a steep hill and over a S5-foct
embanlsment at Spokane.
j. Webster Hoover of Everett will
become state highway engineer April
/, supplanting James Allen, who was
appointed by Governor Lister in 1916,
it was said at the governors office at
Olympia.
Investigation of the practicability
ontinuation of the states White
Bluffs -Hanford soldier settlement pro-
ject has been asked of Governor Hart
ley by Lloyd Hill, state commander
of the American Legion.
Collection of 1924 taxes in Cowlitz
county set new records during the re-
bate period. Total collections were
$6S6,69S, compared with S643,735 last
year, and 1855 receipts were issued
compared with 1855 receipts last year.
The Wahkiakum o1un.y commission
ers have awarded the contract for the
construction of five small bridges on
Puget island to Holman and Lindwell,
at S2T07. The same firm has the con-
tract for the highway across Puget
island.
Members of the Winlock Rod and
Gun club have determined as the first
activity of the organization to en-
deavor to secure the establishment OF
a 3,0GO-acre game reserve on Drew's
Prairie, and Grand Prairie, east of
Winlock.
Failing in an attempt to poison Dan
iel Sill, chicken rancher, six miles
from Kent, midway between Seattle
and Tacoma, to get his ranch, valued
at $4,000, Mrs. Della Hannah Buoye,
30, killed herself by hanging in the
Kent city jail.
The state department of public
works will be represented at the in
terstate commerce commission hear
ing at Washington, d. c., March 30,
on the Columbia basin wheat rate
case by o. 0. Calderhead, traffic ex-
pert OF the department.
Differences which arose between
sheep men and the United States for.
est service concerning grazing grounds
were adjusted at meeting OF the
Washington Wool Growers associa-
tion advisory committee and govern
ment forest men in Yakima.
Chaplain Robert S. Stubbs, one of
the oldest ministers in the nation,
died at the home of his daughter Mrs.
Charles Bedford al Tacoma, lacking
but three months of being 1902 years
OF age. He was chaplain in the
union navy during the civil war
A petition asking permission to form
an irrigation district on Wheeler Hill,
that a $4,000 dam may be construct
ed there this summer, was presented
to the Chelan county commissioners.
There are forty-nine tracts Of land
in the proposed district, totaling 5l2
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