Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-07-23

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In an irrigation ditch near Wapato.
The 37th annual convention of the
| Washington State Pharmaceutical as
scciation was held at Hoquiam.
As a result of brooding over family
troubles, Mrs. Anna York. ~, commit
ted suicide at her home at Winlock by
taking poison.
Federal crop reports for Washington
indicate an increased production fol
arUits and potatoes. with decreased
production for wheat, oats and barley
Figures compiled by Postmaster
Robertson show an increase of approx.
mately 10 per cent in the postal re-
ceipts of the Montesano office for the
fiscal year ended June 80.
Leona Boldman, 3 years old, died
and her sister Edith, 5, was burned,
when a doll exploded into flames.
The doll was OF celluloid and the chill
dren touched match to it in play.
Clark county, the only county in
Washington to benefit from the refund
of taxes on the Oregon and California
land grant, will receive $4,000 on about
two sections of land north OF Zelda.
It is announced that Governor Hart
ley has pardoned los men and women
from paroles and suspended sentences
to the Washington state penitentiary
and the Washington state reformatory.
Fire destroyed a three-story frame
hotel building at Carlisle, mill town,
20 miles northwest OF Aberdeen. A
shingle mill and several stores ada.
cent to the hotel were saved with diff
ficulty.
Electing to hold the next annual
convention in Centralia with Chehalis
assisting the host city, the Western
Washington Christian Missionary so.
ciety ended its 22d annual convention
at Tacoma.
Timber rehabilitation OF the Pacific
northwest was called vital economic
problem OF today by E. T. Allen, OF
Portland, Or. before a convention of
the American Society of Civil Engi.
neers at Seattle.
George Taylor, 23, OF Lewiston, Ida
no, was killed and John Dereberry, 16,
OF Charleston, seriously injured when
car they were driving went over
an embankment at Cape Horn, about
10 miles east OF Camas.
Aberdeen building operations for the
first six months OF the year broke all
records for a similar period in the
city's history. according to statistics
OF City Engineer Grant Ross. Five
hundred and forty permits were IL.
sued for total expenditure Of $780,.
O83.
Washington apples on July / gave
promise OF heavy crop, exceeding
slightly the large crop Of 1923. The
estimate for commercial apple produc.
tion is 2e.i6O,0OO bushels, against a..
05O,O00 bushels. the average OF com.
inercial erops during the last five
years.
The firm OF James Tobin & Son,
contractors. Waila walla. were low
bidders on the project of reconstruct.
ing the skouskla section OF the Lewis
& CLARK national forest highway in
Idaho, II was announced by the United
iiatea bureau OF public roads. The
bid OF the walls Walla firm was sGs..
2s2.
The rrih for public office. begun
Friday In all the counties OF the state,
reached It's height in point OF numbers
in King county. where LOG persons
presented themselves at the auditors
office, paid their filing fee. and so
gave formal notice Of their readiness
to serve the public In all sorts Of ca.
pacitIes.
Il will cost s2,3sI,23s more 10 run
the city OF Seattle through 1927 than
for the current year, according to the
aggregate OF estimates filed with the
finance COMMITTEES OF the city council
BY the heads Of the municipal depart.
men,s Ths total allowance for this
years operations of city government
was s6,is1 900.
More than 200 new fores, fires we're
ignltsd in eastern Washington snd
northern idaho by lightning. forest Of
iicials report
Two additional serious fires added
10 the feeling Of tension that existed
at Ellensburg following a dozen tirss
that caused loss Of si25.000 on the
edge of the business district The
act that there were five separate
res starting within a brief period.
"a TO the suaplcioa that a flrebug had
zen at work
The probability Of the interstate
mmsrcs commi sion taEiae oeef ihe