Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-25


-ard Creek, near Oakville in eastern
Irays Harbor county, Wednesday.
| Grays Harbor will be made regu.
lar port OF call this winter or early
next spring by three foreign steam.
ship lines.
The Central Washington Sweet Po-
tato association is now shipping, at
price averages Of to 3h cents a
pound I. o. b. shipping point.
With the beginning Of open season
Tor fishing, the Kalama river hatcher
les are again busy with the annua.
run of salmon up the Kalama river.
Voters will decide whether Tacoma
police, fremen and other municipal
employees shall receive increased pay,
| It was decided by the Tacoma council.
Preliminary figures for the 1926
Cowlitz county budget show grand
total of $224,3s2 is required for the
current expense fund for the county.
September rs and &c have been an.
nounced as the dates for the fourth
annual Boistfort community fair, to be
held at the Baw Faw grange hall at
Klaber.
Associate Justice ]. r. Bridges Of
the state supreme court, who has been
in a Spokane hospital with intestinal
trouble, Is reported improving, with no
operation necessary.
R. B. Davis and Earl r. Baker, col.
ored, were arrested on highway near
Walla Walla with $500 worth Of mar.
cotics in their possession. A woman
companion escaped arrest.
The vader Water company is In
stalling a chlorinating system at its
water plant to purify the water, which
recent tests showed contained too
large quantity of bacteria.
Thursday was set as the tentative
date for the laying Of the cornerstone
of the new home for girls, being erect.
ed at Fords Prairie by the Washington
Childrens Home-F Finding Society.
w. H. Crawford, who arrived in Se-
attic by automobile on world tour
in behalf Of international peace and
justice" was sentenced to six months
in Jail for failure to support his son.
]. w. Tremain, 40, fireman, was
fined S25 and costs in superior court
at Bellingham for refusing to allow
his 9.year-old son to attend school
because he was required to salute the
flag.
A state college contribution to the
interstate fair at Spokane was large
chart showing replica Of the entire
state college campus at Pullman, the
work Of students in the department o1
architecture.
A total of $4,000 men are at present
employed in the logging camps and
sawmills of Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, as compared with 91,700 men
May of this year, and $4,000 men
one year ago.
James B. O'Brien, As, for IA years
an employe of the Puget Sound Power
G Light company, died in hospital
at Vancouver from injuries received
when knocked from freight car by
a trolley wire.
The Mountain States Power com
pany has decide,' to move its head
quarters from Albany, Or, to Tacoma
The company operates properties sup
plying 70 communities with total popu
lation of 275,O0o.
Charles A. Palmer, physical direc
tor of the Stadium high school, has re-
turned to Tacoma after completing q
9OOO.mile trip by motorcycle. His re-
turn trip, starting from Springfield
Mass, was made in 16 days.
Six men escaped from the King
county Jail when they held up three
| jailers, two doctors and an attorne,
with four pistols and knife fastened
to the end of broomstick. The pris
oners fled in physicians automobile
The early catch Of Chinook and sill
yer salmon on Grays Harbor has beer
light, according to fishermen. The
salmon are running in large numbers
| off the bar, but are not heading fol
the spawning grounds in any grea
numbers.
The Tacoma plant Of the company
has taken over the holdings of the
Chehalis crossarm and reworking
plant of the Walville Lumber com
pany. Thousands of crossarms for
telegraph lines are shipped from the
plants each week.
Aberdeen pioneers and other citi
Zens honored Mrs. Jean B. Stewart
last Wednesday on the occasion of the
flftieth anniversary of her arrival In
the city-or on the townsite, rather
for there was then no Aberdeen. Mrs