Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-04-09

be held at Woodland from September
Z to II.
In March a total of Sc building per-
mits was issued at Vancouver, the
value OF which was SS0,42O.
Mrs. Mary Carbox, 10. was run down
and instantly killed in front OF the
Indian agency at Toppenish by an
autoist.
A large barn ON the E. Malone
hrm, mile south of Castle Rock,
was destroyed by fi2e with loss of
aiout S25OO.
Prevalence OF the strawberry root
Iweevil has discouraged Clark county
growers and a few have plowed up
their Strawberries.
The Aberdeen Central Labor coun-
Gil IS planning the construction of a
buildinss which will house all labor
organizations of the city.
Nearly SOOGNO bushels of wheat and
10000 sacks ofbarley owned by farm
ers of Garfield county are stored in
the warehouses at PomSroy
Flames believed to have been of IL,
cendiary origin caused damage of
$4,000 recently to the o. b. Williams
sash and door factory at Seattle.
Special elections will be held April
II in the Doty and Dryad schoo. dis
tricts in Lewis county to vote on bond
issues. Doty will vote on an issue
OF $4,000, Dryad on one for $4,000.
A special election will be held in
Longview to select sites for two
school buildings and TO authorize o
$4,000 bond issue and 2O-mill levy
for school operating costs for the com
ing year.
Because the mother each day i'm
prisoned her 9-year-old son in large
box in their home, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank schonschneider were sentenc-
ed to six months in the county jail
at Tacoma.
a cereal grinding mill for the manu-.
facture of breakfast foods and a fir
furniture manufacturing plant are be
ing established at Bremerton. Both
plants will be in operation as soon
as machinery is installed.
With more than S1,OoO,OOO in per
manent building Improvements under
way in Aberdeen at the present time,
the outlook is for a record building
year, closely approximating $2,OOO,OoO,
according TO city officials.
Marriage licenses issued AT Van.
couver in March totaled ISL, com.
pared with l75 for March, 1926. The
total for three months this year was
ala, compared with 5G2 for the same
months last year. loss of AS.
Twenty-nine members of the Cash.
mere Chamber OF Commerce, compos
ing volunteer road crew, have com
pleted shoyeling out three miles OF
snow on Blewett pass and the road
is now in good condition for travel
Roy Bolen. who was convicted at
Vancouver of second degree murder
for staying Walter Fleming was sem
fenced by Judge Simpson to serve
from 10 to II years in the penitenti-
ary. His attorney gave notice Of ap
penl
with a View to installing feeder
system which would maintain a uni
form hoirh' Of water in the Merrill
lake reservoir the port of ISalama
through its chairman. J. G. Gruver.
filed application with the atate by,
draulirs office at Olympia for appro.
prieton Of $50 seeond.feet of water
from the Kalama river
Preliminary construction work on
the new government fog signal at
Wostport on Gra9a Harbor has been
started The station. 20 cost about
s20 900 will be concrete and will re.
place "a wooden sisnal station destroy
Ell by fire in 1924
One rrbbar was shot ard killed by
his coufoderntes another was cap.
tured and three escaped when a gang
hold up two cigar company messcn-
gers on a downtown street in Seattle
Five hundred dollars taken by tbs
robbers was recovered.
William Dunston. state supsriutead-
cnt OF trout hatcherios, was in Cow
utz county last week inspecting an
dams relative to construction OF fish
ways as required by law. Companies
that haven't adequate fishways Tor
their dams will be required 10 install
them.
The jury empanelsd at Ealso 20 try
A. Ruric Todd recalled mayor, ON a
charge Of malicious prosecution. was
dismissed when Judge II. w. q Iiev-
en- ruled with the attorneys for the
defense that an error existed iu the
fr.f,rnsltton An qr-rnHa.5 inform. ion