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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10
RESUME OF BERRY
PROSPECTS GIVEN

A small pocket ON the mainland
at Olalla, near Gig Harbor, OPP
posite the south end Of Vashon Is
land, will lead yashon Island
Strawberries by week. la all 1850
acres in this county wiz produce
Strawberries. Raspberrics and To-
ganberrieS viii follow in July.
Vashon Island, according to p.
Monroe Smock, county horticulture
ist, produces more berries than any
other given area in King county.
The Island yields Strawberries.
loganberries, raspberics and black
berries.
The bulk of the county berry
crop, Smock says, is "cold-prcss-
ed The berries are put in bar
rels while fresh-30O pounds OF
berries to $50 pounds of sugar
then placed i'm cold storage and
served IN the winter at coufcction-
cries oil over the world.
King county leads the state in
strawberry and loaauherry pro-
duetiou. with Pierce county first
in rasphcrrics and blackberrics,
King county also has more than one
bundled acres ia gooscbcrrics and
close ia fhaf narf4uc io afirt.1,f.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10
Portage. Wash.
June Z, 1927
Editor News Record +,

A@NhAANA ~NNho ANNAO10
[ have read the letters in the
News-Reeord concerning the West
Seattle trip, The sentiment Of all
of them points to just one thing
a hearty welcome and a grand
time which the Island people wish
in some way to return. Being a
bit of Il Scot mySel, | wad like To
speer at Lillian Il T. Hail whar
She got some o the Scotch wirds She
uses, l haze been thinkin aboot
some them till I malsr Gamma
sleep. You say, ha ganged, that
soonds awfa, who wad, haze game.
dune in there. Then comes, COON.
Lillian there's NO sic wird in the
Scotch dialect, | am tell it is used
IN Cumberland, but that 5 mo
Scotch Neither dae We say TUX,
that S just plain took our Scot
land. Moo comes flippet, | just
linna ken what that means, had
We written Tippet l wad kent
mair or less ABBOTT it, (but maistly
lcss). Moo Lillian, who cowd We
say TO the nechors that we say
eel we big E., for Isle, | never
heard o sic q thing my born
days, its like lee n to the folk.
some o them MIGHT believe it, as
la lot a them diuna ken ony better.
we just say Isle the same as they
dae on Vashon, I'll no say ouy
mair In ease you get erabbit we
me an I dinna want that | hae no
doot hut YOU meant a rieht hut
you got ava on the wrang fat.
The next time you gle MS some
Scotch talk a squint at q Scotch
Dictionary or guild copy o Burns
will dae an you'll mo- gae FAR
wang
J. NJ. Ogilvy
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10
AND NOW FOR THE
BERRY SEASON

King County's berry crop this
year will be worth a million to its
growers; most Of it will start ar
irving on Seattle markets in a few
days. The crop this year is not of
the bumper variety, but will be
plenty for everyone at reasonable
prices.
Nothing is so heaithful as small
fruits and berries. Eat a lot Of
them; get some canned, if you
can.
Our county leads the state in
Strawberries and loganberries /;
Pierce county is ahead in raspber
ries and blaekbcrries.
Ever try logauberry shorteake
instead Of strawberry, for a
change Seattle Star.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10
ANOTHER LETTER

1t seems we have some Of the
good Scots of the Island up on
their toes and since it is the Ed
tors tine, paper and ink the Scots
should do pretty well. But here S
the letter.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for information
of Our Readers.

Edmonds' $4,000 bond issue for g
new tenroom school house viii be
sold July ..
The annual convention Of the yeter
ans Of Foreign Wars for the depart
ment OF Washington was held in Van
couver last week.
June 10 has been selected for the
annual meeting and picnic Of the Ca
mas Prairie and vicinity Pioneer as
sociation to he held at Glenwood.
Commencement exercises for the
first class to graduate from the new
Central high school building at Col
vile, was held in the auditorium June
s.
Growers OF early cabbage near Wal
Ia Walla, which has just come on the
market are getting 7 cents a pound
the highest price in years. The crop
is short
An all-northwest meeting of the Ma
tional Apple Advertising association
will be held at Spokane June 10 to
consider detailed plans Tor national
campaign.
DR., George H. T. Sparkling arrived
in Walla Walla from Seattle to take
up his work as county-city health Off
Ger. He has been health officer in
King county.
S. G. Norm, Spokane contractor, has
been awarded the contract for con
struction OF $4,000 boys dormltory
building at the state custodial school
at Medical Lake.
Bellarmine college at Tacoma. a
school OF the Jesuit fathers, is plan
ming the erection Of group of school
buildings that viii cost in the neigh
borhood OF sso,00O.
j. D. Hanley, Kelso contractor. was
the low bidder on the South Kelso
sewer improvement when the Cowlitz
county commissioners opened the
bids His bid was 100000.
Fire destroyed a large truck on the
Pacific highway near Martins bluff
south OF Kalama last week The fire
started as the truck was descending a
hill The driver was burned slightly.
School district No. 70 of Cowlitz
county known as the Midway district,
was dissolved by the cowlitz county
commissioners ard its territory added
to the Lougsiew school district, No.
III
The Calvary tabernacle at Centralia
has purchased a motor bus to trans
port members of the congregation to
church services and Sunday school
who have no other means Of convey.
ance.
County Treasurer Fred De Graft OF
spokane county received so much
money durlns the conclusion OF the
tax rush It VIII take him week TO
count the 100000 or more in pay
ments.
Twenty-seveu persons ana five
firms associated as the Allied Clean
ers and Dyera of Seattle we're indicted
by federal grand jury there on a
charge OF violating the sherman anti
trust act.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10

WANTED 20 slrawbcrry picker
VIII begin june is b. ID. Mukai
6-3-3l
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-10

WANTED TO BUY-A grade
Guernsey bull old enough for sen.
vice. p, A. Claus, Dockton 6-l0-lt
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31

YOUR HEALTH is
3MDMnTauT
Gf.ss Ska Q .lsAA

HEALTH is valuable thing.
Health means happiness. When you
get sick you 5ocome miserable. Ev-
eryone should sive some thought 20
keeping well. The rules CT health
are simple. Eat proper food and
keep your body clean inside and out.
Plen'y OF water is essential to health
Much water IS needed to keep the
body c.ean inside, therefore drink
los OF water every day. When the
bowels do not move regularly every
day, you should take simple lax
alive like DRIVO, as an aid to in
ternal cleanliness.
DRIVO is fine medicine to keep
you in good health by keeping the
system clean and free from poison
Gus accumulations in the bowels.
DRIVO is a splendid tonic as well
as a laxative, and is becoming pop
ular as an every day home remedy.
Many people now take DRIVO to
tone up the tissues, increase appe
tire and enrich the blood by driving
out impurities.
To prevent sicksess and to drive
out colds, and grippe and stop chills
and fevers, take DRIVO. People who
suffer from indigestion, constipa-
ton, biliousness or headaches are
advised to take DRIVO and get
well. Don't wait, but try this fine
medicine today. See how much good
DRIVO will do you. 1t has helped
others, il will help you. Buy DRIVO
at any good drug store in 25 cent
and SO cent bottles. Get bottle
from your druggist now.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31

yolksong is enjoying a revival on a
sr,,e unexampled In modern times
Because it reveals so simply and so
tzaly the feelings Of the people VINO
aeylsed 1t, folksong deserves TO De
called the common denominaeor OF
rational emotions. A comparison OF
scak-tunes sung in different countries
pvlnes out common beauty and SIN
gritty which must do much to destroy
ne claim Of any one nation to cui-
tmal superiority over the others ana
mus TO Undue the listener with the
sptrlt OF uoleration and amity- ODDLY
enough It has remained for young
Canada to point the way toward this
sd and lovely music. SO great was
me interest IN the French-Canadlan
Ycaksong Festival at Quebec last May
and In the Scottish Music Festival AZ
aantf In September. that 1t has been
o.c,ded 70 repeat both these festivals
=. lsaa. sttA syzrJ prospect a saeAe-
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31

the Official timer. A telephone sys-
tenn will be installed at station az
each mile post on an open line to
the central station. BY this means
officials will know what is happening
all along the emile course. The
speedway will be staked of with
white flags. No entrants fee is re-
quired. In Event No. 1 it Is pointed
out, the new Ford car must come
into competition with no less than
four other low priced cars, some Of
six cylinders, while at least seven cars
are expected 10 Try their mettle in
Event No. 2.
Tho entire nsset win undoubtedly
DO ono Of the most spectacular Auto
spsed nestas To world has ever seen.
Az Q daring adventure on the part
Of tho drivers tho mile speed trials
are without equal. Airplane racing
ID tame compared to the hazards OF
. atom phantom Streaktng so fast
that when caoss By you cannot turn
your head quick enough to see It. a
minute miscalculation and man and
car win either plunge into the sand
dunes O. into the Atlantic. No Amer
lean has yet reached tho 200 M p. n.
marx. Tho nearest approach was By
23-year-old Prank Lockhart ON Dry
LAks last s1nnasR Vhsn he made Q
speed Of III N. p. b.
Tns setting i0 tas mset could
not b hsaa - . better place.
It II rtght On tha mainline Of
the Florida Ease Coast Railway ana
win make ACCESS - the course vGy
cay for the thousands who v1a VI.
ness tho trials. Tts ogmond-pay.
tona Beach II 10 fastest. Gtxaaghteee
snA sraoothest natural speedway IN
NE world. Ia md = hard packed.
thc beech h 80 ~ vtdA and %
eS.,sht thae ~ sps1A shoo< . g1
down - - N - 49, .
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31
May. SE0R1vE, whose SaEEo
cRoVN NAV Ff7L@
Worlds Fastest and Most Power
full Cars Seek Terrific Speeds.

full Cars Seek Terrific Speeds.
oRMoNp-DAYToNA BEACH, Fla.
The Daytona Beach Chamber Of
Commerce which II conducting the
celebration COMMUNICATING the 26th
Anniversary Of Automobile Racing on
ormond-Daytona Beach to open here
February 18th and continue to Febr1-
airy 23rd inclusive. has completed It's
program and makes flrst announce
ment Of tho schedule d automobile
races to take place. By far the most
important event. It b stated By Prank
A. Pearson, who - managing t1As
tournament for The local body. wfn
DO the mile speed trials BY Capt. MI
colin Campbell. British racer, with his
Bluebird; J. II. White Of Philadelphia,
with his $500 b. p. tzi-motored car
'Triplex." and Frank Lockhart, Amer
lean speed ace, in specially built
creation. All three will seek to shat
ter the present worlds straightaway
speed record of 2o3 m. p. b. made last
March by Major H. o. D. Segrave OF
London. The three cars above mem
toned are without doubt the fastest
and most powerful automobile speed
creations ever constructed.
The program announced by Mr..
Person Is as follows:
February 16th:-
Event No. Race for stock cars
selling for $1,000 and under.
Event No. Race for stock cars
selling from $1,000 to $4,000.
February 17th:-
Event No. 3-Race for stock cars
selling for $4,000 and over.
Event No. A. Gentlemen's race
open only to amateur drivers. Cars
must be stocG
Rssruary 10. 10. 90. q. a and 2srd:--
! yAn ss sA a1aas f~ VERB, :
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31

Marian Parker, l2-year old
daughter of Perry Parker, chief
clerk OF the Los Angeles Trust and
Savings Bank, whose kidnapping
and Staying has aroused Southern
California and the nation.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31

u sufficient time to set up living
quarters.
~T,s typs Of tent commonly sssd
can b bought Soe about e1e. Some
Of the more fsstidious buy yellow pine
lumber. lay . noos and build stds-
walls. Often Q secondhand stone =
acquired. A. rule the company VIII
run gas line down the strest 10 sup.
ply fuel. Often the company elso
lays Q water lins.
I'm the uswsr camps . few cooking
utensils. Q install pail with o tin wash
basin, bunks built In tasrs fos the d
q AGAe shildesx ~ homszmse
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31

fishing them as annual events. The
folk-music competition announced
for next years Quebec Festival at the
Chateau Frontenac has caused COM
posers all over the world to study
French Canadian melodies.
To stimulate further interest IN
folksong and its associated music. two
additional festivals will be held IN
1928. One Of these will be new
Canadian and Handicraft Festival
next June at winnipeg. in which I'M
migrant races from northern Europe
will be invited to sing the folk-tunes
of their native lands and to display
specimens Of the handicrafts In which
they arc 20 skilled. Tho other festival
| wa 10 eeyces6 % - music and VIII
T-n-E H.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31

take place at Vancouver IN the early
fall. Vancouver. a world port notable
for the variety of Its seacrait mas
many old seamen who still remember
the old chanteys which must oe re-
corded now II they are to survive.
Other festivals are also being planned
by the Canadian Pacific. which nas
Just appointed Harold Eustace Key
conductor OF Montreal's Mendeissonn
Choir, as Musical Director oil these
festivals.
The annual Indian Pow-W Wow al
Banf next July will extend through
out a whole week. instead Of the usual
three days. and will unite In single
festival the traditional Indian dancea
games ans songs
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31

/ cH1CAGO-One type OF laborer In
Che United States gives the laugh to
the landlord and smiles at talk Of
high house rent. He is the man who
follows oil neld "excitements" and
takes part In new developments. says
bulletin Just issued by the Amer.
loan Research Foundation.
Every now oil dsld has IT. Rag
Town. o tented distrtot whore LIE 70
primitive but comfortable" states the
bulletin. ."As . rule no rent II paid.
Employees simply come IN bringing
wife. children. and Q tsut-usually In
On aAxqxassd 1etos - - Sew
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31
straightaway speed record - one

straightaway speed record - one
mile.
Event No. 4, the Gentlemen's stock
car race, according to MIR. Person
will bring together galaxy Of auto
mobile executives. plotting their own
make Of cars unparalleled in racing
history. The race will be ten times
around barrels on the beach covering
O two-mile course, or the equivalent
Of making 20 sharp turns at high
speed ON . level track. It is . race
which calls for daring and technique.
M. Fred 9. Duesenberg. maker oe
Duessnberg cars has written Mr.. Pier-
son thAk ons Of his new stock cars
viIl b ready. II - expected that he
vsn drive Il himself. Henry Yord.
VINO % years ago startled tho auto
mobile world with his famous '9s@
whan hs DID o mile in 50 seconds on
thin same beach speedway. win be
invited to drive one Of his new Ford
cars. Mr.. Fred Moscovics, President
of the Stutz Motor Company. assured
Mr.. Pierson last fall during the lat
ter's visit to Indianapolis, that he
too, would sit behind the wheel Of
a Stutz car to compete in the Cen
tlemen's race.
Conditions for Mile Record.
The meet win be held under tho
supervision OF the Contest Board of
the American Automobile Association,
Sanction No. 1e44- The conditions
are as follows:
Trials will be made On 9-mile
straightawey cos;r~e. This allows
miles for picking Up speed. mile Tor
the official tas:. ard rniiso 70 slow
down. According to the A. q. A.
trials must &c YnAde II Zach dtseS-
ton In CIDER to strike an average
whic; .seccmes the official tins. Is
e., entrant wishes to be tined fex
. niles end ta kilometert No eaA
y aka shja aeAsn1ss.4 - RssDr
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-12-31
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Evening star., 1927-11-17
TWO WIVES FIGHT
FOR BODY Of MAN
Slain inventors "Wid0WS''
Halt Funeral in Cemetery.
Burial Is Delayed.
b. thr Associated Press.

b thr Associated Press.
HIGHLANDS. y. j., November IL
The FinGy of Herbert q. Mesterknecht
elsir inventor. rested today in GENE
ter" ~ seiving vault. While two women
eacl, cia inning to be his lawful widow
ha. led for possession Of the remains
The body had been given Mrs. So
rhie Npisterknecht. known as the soc
ord nift of tho inventor. hut the fu
neral Yesterday in Fairview Cemetery
WAS interrupted for almost two hours
whan Mrs Susan Meistprknecht of
Y0nkers, \. Y. and her 15-year.oid
daughtpr Martha appeared and de
nan,;ed il he given 10 them.
I.p.al representative of Mrs Susan
MejSt rknecht who said she WAS never
divorced from her husband served pa
rers ~ tho undertaken forhiddinc him
to nrncecd with the burial
Martha supporting her mother,
cried ont tn Mrs. Sophie Meister
inneh.: MY mother is in no Conditlon
n ston vnu. hut Will he isn't going
to - brought anywhere except to
Yon,c Mother has the right To
him."
After lonc pickering the body was
placsd in the receiving vault pending
fnaI decision.
\. ~ PoStern. the undertaken, said
Mrs. S. phje MeiStorkne"ht, VIII" iS
under $40 GOO bond rs 4 materiai vii
ness in the shaving Of the inventor, had
marriage license and also A paper
signed by Mrs. Susan Meisterknecht
that she had been divorced This
paper, Mrs. Susan Meisterknecht told
police, shad been signed under drreSs.
Meanwhile police search continued
for Alex Schreiber. brother Of Mrs.
Sophie Meisterknecht. who is accused
of killing the inventor.
Evening star., 1927-11-17
LAWYER URGES CURB
ON LABOR ACTIVITIES
Manufacturers Counsel Says Eng
land Has Put More Drastic
Control on Unions.
RY the Assorialed Pres.

Ry the Associated Press
KEW YORK, November Thames
A. Emery counsel for the National
Asaocia ton of Manufacturers. vester-
day urged the United States to
emulate Great Britain in curbins labor
combinations. lie spoke at the open
ing session of the tWo.daY convention
Of the National Founders Association.
Referring to the trade disputes and
the trade unions act passed by the
Brit ish Parliament July -. he said
England had withdrawn labor from
its privileged position and placed upon
its activities "a more drastic control
than has been proposed lin American
legislation or effected by judicial in
terpretatiO of existing law"
This popular reaction in Great
Britain" he continued lis Of special
signifiCa to US in view of the
asserted determinat ion of the Amer.
lean Fedora ton of Labor to renew it's
efforts in both Federal and state
Jurisdictions. TO impair the powers of
the courts to afford effective judicial
protection in trade disputes.
Mr.. Emery praised that portion of
the British legislation providing dras
tic penalties against strikes without
rpa sonable cause. of public service
employees and the provisions establish
ing the open shop in public employ.
ncnt.
William If. Barr of Buffalo. presi.
dent Of the Founders Associa ion
accused American l9hor organizations
of seeking 10 dominate industry an,t
Of throwing ont smoke screen Of
9nti-CommuniStic propaga nda in ssder
To put through projects which ne
said verged upon the communistic.
Evening star., 1927-11-17
MOTOR POLICEMAN
HURT IN SKID MiSHAP
Fondahl Injured as Cycle Slips.
Three Others Are Traffic
Victims.

John r.. Fondahl, member Of the
police motor cycle corps of No. II
precinct, was slightly injured early
today when thrown to the roadway on
Woodland drive between Garfield and
rhirty-Second streets by the skidding
Of the motor cycle on wet leaves.
Alfred W. Mckinney, sailor, de-
tailed at the navy yard. sustained
slight injuries last night when his
automobile collidcd with motor
vehicle of the Potomac Electric
Power Company on Good Hope road
southeast. lie was given first aid
by Dr. r. -. Mudd
While crossing at Rhode Island
avenue aud Eleventh street yesterday
Miss Minerva Steele. 1922 Belmont
street. was knocked down hv an
automubile receiving a head injury.
Miss Steele was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital. where her condition
Was reported undetermined. Police
did not learn The identity OF the
driver,
Morton a. Cooley. 55 years old,
Suitland. Prince Georges County,
Md. was bruised yesterday after
noon when an automobile in which
he was riding collided with a Street
car st Thirteenth and a streets
southeast. He was treated at
Casualty Hospital.