Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-11-12

| Centralla.
Manufacture OF 800 street signs to
designate thoroughfares at every corn
er in Aberdeen has been begun by the
street department
Mrs. Robert Steir is in Spokane
hospital with dislocated neck, the
misplaced vertebrae being caused by
an explosive sneeze.
C. B. Dill, democrat, was elected
sheriff OF Cowlitz county over A. R.
Todd, republican nominee, in the
greatest vote ever polled in the coun'
ty.
Fire, believed to have been incen-
diary, destroyed barn and 40 tons
of hay on the farm of William Farrell
at Battle Ground. The loss was about
$4,000.
C. I. Fleming, In charge of the fed
oral free employment agency at Walla
Walla, reports that he found employ
lnent during the past season for more
than 1000 men and women.
Fire, believed to have been of in
cendiary origin destroyed the Toledo
Shlngle company's mill on Salmon
creek, near Toledo The loss was in
the neighborhood of $4,000.
One woman, Dorothy E. Allen. 21.
was killed and eight persons were
seriously injured Sunday in automo-
bile accidents at Seattle. One of the
injured. lad of 10, will die.
Wesley Rice of Castle Rock was
taken into custody by deputy sheriffs
for investigation regarding the firing
of six shots from shot gun at Deputy
Sheriffs Shannon and Bailey.
]. l.. StanDard, Tacoma engineer,
was In Centralia experimenting pre-.
limlnary steps for the repair of Cen
trala's new reservoir, which cracked
last June when water was turned into
It.
San Jose scale is more prevalent In
Clark county this year than for sew
eral years, according to Chaplin Mills,
horticultural inspector, Spread Of the
pest is attributed to mild weather last
winter,
The Clark County Development
company On Monday started tearing
up the interurban tracks from Slfton
to the city limits of Vancouver, and
work within the limits will be started
next week.
Thieves blew off the steel door of
safe in the office OF tho main school
building at Longview with charge
OF nitroglycerlne. Evidently frighten.
cd by the explosion. the thieves touch.
cd nothing in the safe.
All annual building records for
Aberdeen have been broken Building
permits for the year totaled s1,2s5.
900. This is $4,000 more than the total
for the entire year OF 1926. which was
the banner year previously.
The statewide Hartley recall organ
ization announced at Seattle that on
36 out of 100 petitions circulated in
Tacoma and Pierce county 5000 sigma.
lures had been obtained seeking the
recall OF Governor Hartley.
The apple industry of the Pacific
northwest has reached such serious
crisis that within a year or two It
will simply be a question OF the sur.
viyal Of the flttest, N. L. Tooker. man.
ager of the Stanton Investment com.
pauy orchard told the walla walla
Ad club.
Reversing verdict Of Justice Of
the Peace Baumerl Of Aberdeen, vii.
liam E. Campbell Judge Of the super
Tor court. in ruling handed down
AZ Aberdeen held that the killing u
sandpIper snlpe Is not a state uffonse
and that state courts have no iuris-
diction A number Of Grays harhor
men recently were arrested and con.
ylcted in justice court on this charge
Judge Campbell held that sandpiper
snipe are protected only by federal
laT.
lieutenant Noel b. Evans has heof
appointed traffic. publicity and adj
vertising manager Tor the Pacific Air
Transport lines from Seattle 70 Los
Angeles. effective November 1, VerH
C. Gorst PRESIDENT Of the company
announced az Vancouver
Showing a decided reverse o. sontt
ment over the firs brnl election held
IN the port Of Olympia district two
years ago. Thursion county voters
gave their sanction to an issue oi
s25ooQo OF bonds for further Dor,
Development by a vote Of four TO one
pgelase OF three heaters In g
Seattle suburb By the Jensen & Won
Herberg rheater company is announc
ed. The company sold a chain ol