Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-19
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

The smelt run is at It's height nov
In the Cowlltz river.
A movement to widen Pioneer stree
was started at Montesano.
President Coolidge nominated Ralpl
l.. Philbrick, Hoquiam, to be post
master.
Gus Anderson, As, was killed instant
ly when struck by q falling tree In thu
Carlisle Lumber company's logging
camp near Onalaska.
A drive to enroll every ex-servic'
man in Clark county in the American
Legion was atarted at Vancouver ant
will continue for two weeks.
Several hundred practical irrigation
lists and irrigation officials met a
Yakima for the 18th annual session o.
the Washington Irrigation institute.
Aberdeen's first school building
built on the east side in 1889, was sold
to a private firm for s126. The schoo
was abandoned year ago and q new
one built.
The judges of the state supreme
court have been invited to attend the
annual banquet Of the Grays Harbor
Bar association to be held February
20 In Hoquiam.
Lieutenant Carlton T. Smith, coast
guard officer, was acquitted at Seattle
of three of four charges Of misconduct
and neglect Of duty by courtmartial,
after four-day trial.
The Aberdeen city council has ap.
pointed committee to investigate the
feasibility Of providing statue of
Samuel Benn, founder Of Aberdeen, for
one Of the city parks.
A report unfavorable to any attempt
TO make Aberdeen city of the first
class was made to the city council by
n committee appointed some time ago
to investigate the matter.
The first annual Southwest Wash.
ington interscholastic music tourna-
ment was held in Centralia Saturday
with 400 students from II high schools
in the district participating.
A motion for new trial was filed
at Vancouver by attorneys for Roy
Bolen, who on January 20 was found
guilty Of murder In the second degree
for the alleged Staying Of Walter w.
Flemming.
At Centralia's annual election on
March voters of the district will be
asked to authorize special tax levy
that is designed to raise an additional
$4,000 for general school purposes the
coming year.
A proposal to change from the coun-
ell to commission form Of city govern
ment was defeated by more than a
two to one vote at Ellensburg. The
vote was light, slightly more than 600
ballots being cast.
Engler Brothers, potato growers Of
the Sara district of Clarke county,
shipped 900 sacks of certified Melted
Gem seed potatoes, the largest ship
ment Of certified seed to be sent from
the county this year.
Pomona grange, representing the
farmers of Whatcom county, indorsed
tentative plans for city.county build
ing to be constructed in Bellingham.
The proposed building would cost ap-
proximately ss25,ooO.
Joe creek, stream Of fresh water
that empties into the Pacific near Pa
cific beach, has changed It's course as
a result Of recent storms until Its
mouth is now less than 200 yards from
the Pacific Beach hotel.
At well-attended meeting Of Lewis
county sheep owners at Chehalis prac-
tically all present signed contracts
whereby they became members of the
Pacific Cooperative Woolgrowers,
which has It's headquarters at Port.
land.
Sarah Elizabeth Thompson, pioneer
Of Oregon Trail days, died In Seattle.
She was born In Brownsville, Or, In
1856 and in 1887 moved by wagon from
Shedd, Or, to Waterville, Wash,
where she lived for 10 years before
coming to Seattle.
Arthur A. Bak, 36, master mechanic
Of the Puget Sound Dredging company,
was drowned when he slipped from the
temporary dock on the south side Of
the A. ]. West bridge and fell. into
the Chehalis river at Aberdeen.
A. G. Riddell Of Portland was elect
ed president of the Northwest Asso.
citation Of Ice Industries at the clos
ing sessions of their seventh annual