Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-04-02

held in Longview this year. May 20.
81 and %.
The Windsor hotel at Mount Vernon
was destroyed by fire with loss put
at s15O,OO0.
Blewitt pass over the Cascade range,
is open. according to word received
from the summit.
A convention of the Retail Furniture
association of Washington was held
in Seattle Friday and Saturday.
Sheriff l.. d. Luce and posse of
deputies are searching for man who
robbed the Naches State bank of $1,000
in currency
April 1 the Puget Sound Power &
Light company will begin construction
Of an eight-mile extension from Tono
into the Hanaford valley.
Ainsley S. Bowers. "a. private in
company NJ, 18th infantry at Vancou-
yer, was shot and wounded fatally by
another soldier, while resisting arrest.
The Woodland Springs Floral gar
den, on the Pacific highway Just north
of Woodland, is shipping 10000 daffo'
dis daily to Portland and other mar
kets.
A plan of extending the Aberdeen
municipal water system to Montesano.
Elma and Cosmopolis Is being consid-
cred by the officials of these Grays
Harbor cities.
Three prune dryers. to be built OF
steel and concrete, will be constructed
soon for Clark county prune growers
by the Puccineili Dehydrator company
of Los Gatos, Cal.
Fire of undetermined origin caused
loss of about $4,000 when 1t de-
stroyed three dry kilns and 100000
shingles at the Robert Gray shingle
mill at Hoquiam,
Nine hundred dollars worth of rugs
were stolen from the Kaufman-Leon.
ard furniture store at Aberdeen by
thieves who gained entrance through
4 second-story window.
The annual crew race between the
Universities of California and Wash
ington, scheduled to be held on Lake
Washington at Seattle April 9, may
be postponed 20 a later date.
All available fire apparatus WAS
called out at Tacoma TO combat seri'
Gus blaze sweeping through the mill
of the Dempsey Lumber company on
the tide-flats. The loss was estimated
at $4,000
w. ]. Grant was convicted at Ritz.
vile of second-degree murder for Kill.
ing George A. Bostwick, a neighbor,
February i6. Grant said he shot in
selfdefense In the course OF quarrel
over wagon.
A permit has been issued at Aber.
deem to the Grays Harbor Building
company to construct a three.story re-
inforced concrete business building,
costing more than $4,000. This per
nit Will bring the March building to-
al Of Aberdeen to more than 100000
il is estimated.
A committee to plan national ad
yertising campaign for Washington
apples and one to recommend new
grading rules for the next crop were
appointed at Seattle by Asahel Curtis
chairman of recent growers con.
ference. and Erie Barnes. state dlrec
tor OF agriculture.
Abandoning the theory that he had
committed suicide. Seattle detectives
and coroner's deputies declared that
Charles Alfred Edwards, So San Fran.
.isco broker, who was found dying at
the bottom OF a four.story shaft In the
New Richmond hotel in Seattle, had
come to his death accidentally
Washington water power company
officials announced at Spokane the re-
celpt Of telegram from the federal
power commission authorizing the Che
Ian Electric company OF Seattle to pro
ceed with the water power develop
ment project in Chelan county. The
project Involves expenditure OF ii0..
100000.
Contracts for grading and erecting
eulverts on "a miles Of logging rail
roads and spurs were let at Longview
by the Long-Bell Lumber company. the
work TO be done In the companys hold
ings at Ryderwood
William r. Brook, so. Of Portland.
civil war veteran. who said he beat
a snare drum at the funeral OF Abra-
ham Lincoln. was married at vancou-
yer by Judge Simpson. to Miss Mabel
L. Pritchard. IS, OF Hillsboro. or.
Out OF a total apportionment Of
S721,s26.41 for March. King county
with S1sl.374 takes the biggest por-