Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-02
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF news Items
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
Of Our Readers.

installing a hardwood sawmill at
! Woodland.
The Cowlitz river was frozen over
above Rocky Point for the first time
since the winter of 1919,
Mrs. F. p. Farnsworth, Riverside,
okanogan county, was burned to death
when fire destroyed her home.
A gift OF 500 from N. b. Coffman of
Chehalis for purchase of books for the
Chehalis free public library is report
ed.
Organization of Clallam county
branch of the Northwest Indian asso-
citation has been perfected at Port
Angeles.
Walter S. Fulton, 81, well-known
lawyer in the Pacific northwest, died
in Seattle after an illness OF six
months.
Mrs. NJ. R, McEwen, So, for the past
40 years a resident of the Cowlitz
valley, died at the home OF her daugh-
ter, Mrs. ]. NJ. Lewis, at Toledo.
The extent of damage to the oyster
beds in the vicinity of Olympia from
the long cold spell is the subject of
speculation among the oystermen.
The number of marriage licenses
ISSUED at Vancouver the day before
christmas broke the record of the
last three years with total OF so.
| Charles F. Vandewater, 54, district
freight and passenger agent of the
low. R. & N, died suddenly of acute
indigestion at his home in Walla
Walla.
| Ralph C. McAllaster, 60, editor of
i the Masonic Tribune of Seattle and
prominently known among Washing
ton state Masons, died at his home in
Seattle.
Albert Stevens, 70, who homestead,
ed farm five miles west of Ellens-
burg in 1873, died within a mile OF
his homestead at noon Christmas day
Of pneumonia.
For every two marriage licenses is
sued in King county, which includes
Seattle, during 1924, one divorce ac-
tion was begun, according to George
A. Grant. county clerk
Five of six suspects in a $4,000
robbery December IL of the Nanaimo,
lib. c., Royal Bank of Canada, were
identified sufficiently at Seattle to
warrant holding them.
Mrs. Kathryn Miracle, one OF Sc
attle's two women members of tbs
city council, was the first to file foi
reelection March 10 when the ten.day
filing period was opened.
Elmer W. Scott, u, was killed in
stantly at the Long-Bell Lumber com
pany camp at Ryderwood when
choker on the main line came loose
and struck him on the head.
Two unmasked bandits held up
; Martin Strege, cashier of the Everett
Seattle 1nterurban station in the heart
of the business district of Everett and
escaped with about $500 in silver
Captain John Mattson, IS, one of the
Oldest mariners on the Pacific coast.
died at his home at Port Blakely.
cambridge island, near Seattle. Cap.
tain Mattson came to Seattle in 1867.
! Serenty-fiye Sunday school children
rehearsing their Christmas exercises
were removed without injury When the
Mission Lutheran church in Hillyard.
an outlying district of Spokane, caught
fire.
Award of $4,000 for a public play
ground to Hillyard, a suburb of Spo
kane, by the F. w Harmon founda
ton of New York city, was announc-
ed by j. d. Meyer superintendent OF
the Hillyard schools.
Grant Green. aged II, died in hos
pital in Seattle as the result of burns
sustained when the Grant hotel at
odessa, in Lincoln county was de.
stroyed by fire. Several others re.
ceived minor injuries.
One of the biggest cougars ever kill !
. ed in Thurston county was bagged
Friday by A. E. Hull of Yelm and
companion, and brought TO Olympic
for collection of the $40 bounty. The
pelt measures nine feet from tip to
tip,
Surplus of 1882. S6s.S9 in the annuity
reserves of the Industrial insurance
division of the department of labor and
industries, is reported by the state in
surance department upon completion
of its annual valuation Of the reserve
funds.
beet sugar factory viii be built