Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-09

messenger for Seattle store, on a
downtown Seattle street and escaped
with S270O in cash.
Rev. Joseph Pope, 5S, superintend.
ent of the Washington Anti.Saloon
league, died at his home in Seattle
after a short illness.
Four hundred fowls were displayed
at the Yakima Valley poultry show
in Yakima. 1t was the first Yakima
show of poultry in eight years.
Lynn ]. Adams, 40, was critically
wounded following a quarrel in the
business district of Bellingham over
building contract with ]. II. Stages,
So.
Kelso sustained a 100000 fire loss
when the Vogue theater building was
Quilted by fire that started in the Kelso
cigar factory from al overturned oil
stove.
Fink Brothers Cooperage company
at Kalama, suffered a heavy loss when
a raft of logs. torn loose from its moor.
ings by ice, swept down the Columbia
river.
All state highways in northeastern
Washington are open to travel and
virtually all have been cleared of
snow, according to state highway Of
ticials.
Walla Walla bakers have announced
that the pound loaf Of bread would
be 10 cents straight hereafter. Sew.
eral have been selling three for
quarter.
A combined county leader and agri
cultural agent will be employed by
the Cowlitz county commissioners
about February 1, the commissioners
have decided.
Forty.eight persons were fatally in.
jured in Seattle traffic accidents DIR
ing 1924, compared with so in 1928.
The total number of persons injured
in 1924 was 1868, compared with 2014
in 1923.
An increase of 124 in the number G.
marriage licenses issued at Vancouver
in 1924 as compared with 1923 was
shown by the records in the county
audiior's office. The total for 1921
was 2SO6.
Watson C. SQUIRE, governor of the
territory of Washington, first COVER
nor of this sttae AZ! former United
States senator, is +, ported i'll at his
home in Seattle. H. was So years old
last May.
An order for 500 boXcars to be built
an estimated cost of s1,OO0,OO0 was re,
ceived by the Pacific Car & Foundry
company of Seattle from the Northern
Pacific railroad
Despite early es imates for short
prune crop, the 1924 production in
Clarke county was heavier than in
previous years, according to shippers
and packers. The total production
for 1924 is estimated at 11,7SS,000
pounds,
Thomas F. Ragsdale, special Grim.
inal investigator of the prosecuting at,
torneys office of King county for near.
ly two years, was dropped from the
payroll and will be prosecuted on q
charge of driving an aui ionobile while
intoxicated.
All of Yakima's residence district
was without electric lighting; street
cars were stopped and such local in.
dustries as rely upon electric power
we're closed, due TO break in the
Pacific Power and Light company's
line near Lind.
II the IS ships which sailed from
Grays Harbor during December car.
ried 9S000,000 feet of lumber, as did
65 ships which sailed in November
the port during 1924 shipped more
than 1,6O60OO,OOO feet of lumber by
water routes. Official figures will be
available in two weeks.
/
Most of the pruns growers OF the
| Walla Walla valley are willing to
pledge SO ton for serveral years to
finance dryers and committee OF
growers and business men will recon-
mend that they be prepared to dry al
least 1000 tons year
Washington's industrial products
during 1924 totaled S1,100,000,00 a
record increase OF more than S100,
100000 over 1923, Clancy NJ. Lewis
secretary of the Manufacturers Asso
citation of Washington, announced in
the associaton's annual report.
some sawm!lls in the southwestern
pas Of the state have resumed cutting
Of lllA.er after an enforced shutdown