Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-09-02
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
Of late STATE news

Tacoma was host to the Washington
State Medical society for its anual
convention the first of the week.
The 11th annual convention of the
National Retail Lumber Dealers asso-
c!ation was held in Tacoma last week.
Struck by passenger train near
Mcmillan last week, two men and a
girl in an automobile were killed and
third man suffered serious injuries.
When struck by falling telephone
pole on his fathers farm on the Ko-
piah road. east of Centralia, Joe Hall,
10, sustained injuries that proved IA
.al.
Removal of tumor weighing IL
pounds from the body of 5-weeks-old
baby is announced by DR.. Williamson
Robinson of Spokane. The child will
live.
Residents at Dumping lake will seek
PERMISSION to kill brown bear that
has been driven out by forest fires
ana has taken up his abode at the
lake.
First peppermint oil ever produced
in suohomish county was distilled at
the j G. Robinson lettuce farms. near
Monroe. Mr.. Robinson has sixty-iiye
acres OF peppermint.
Harold L. Dewey, 20, son of Walter
l. Dewey of Tacoma, was instantly
killed Saturday night when his car
plunged from the Teeoma-Seattle high
way and struck telegraph pole.
Fire of undetermined origin COM
pletely destroyed the mill OF the South
Prairie Lumber company at South
Prairie, 81 miles southeast Of Tacoma,
with loss estimated by company OF.
ficlala at 100000,
Larson Brothers of Spokane have
baen awarded the contract for the SIS.
O90 theatre to be constructed at Pull
man by 7. W. Struppler The theatre
Will seat 700 persons and will be fin.
irhed by December
Wglla Walla city commissioners re
Gently adopted resolution limitins
downtown automobile parking to two
hours in the daytime and four at night,
The matter previously has been han.
died by police regulation.
The United Fruit Growers Cooper
ative association held a meeting in
Rochester last week to sign contracts
with growers More than 100 Roches
ter and Grand Mound growers already
have joined the association.
Residents OF the East selah district
north of Yakima and on the east side
of the YaklmS river, viii have rural
free delivery from the Yakima office
beginning September 16, Postmaster
II. T.. Leeper has announced.
Trapped in u gully for two days with
broken leg and internal injuries
Sidney Anderson of Shelton one of a
flre.fighting contingent, was found
Sunday by fellow workers who had
secured the ,cu-t IS n him.
Night Marshal Carton, 81. of chelan.
was shot to death last week when he
surprised burglars lootins the safe in
the garage Of Huni Wolverton. Car
toms body was found clutching gun
in one hand and his flashlight in an.
other.
Mayor Williams of Oalivlle accept.
ed a challenge from Mayor Tennent OF
Tacoma to horse race to be partlcl.
pated in by the mayors Of southwest
Washington Wednesday afternoon,
September q, at the western Wash.
ington fair at Puyallup.
Austin Mills, l2. was crushed to
death under the wheels OF heavy
gravel truck on the highway, five
miles north of Vancouver. last week.
when the horse he was riding became
frightened and reared uD, throwing tho
tod bonauth the wheels.
a sudden ralnstorm. amounting al
most 90 cloudbdrat, visited Naches
city aud vicinity last week. No SER
iuus damage was reported
John D. Ewart. 80. prominent Aber-
deem lumberman. who was injured in
an accident at the Roberts Logging
company camp near East Elma. last
week, died at ST. Josephs hospital, Mr.
Ewaft was checking lumber on a car
whcn a rolling log knocked him from
the car and crushed his head
When attacked by a bull while clean
ing out an irrigation ditch on his
ranch in The Mckee district. last week
Rlshnrd Meyer was knocked into the
ditch The bull followed him. but
Meyer finally escaped BY crawling part
Of lhe way with hls head under The
water. until he reached fence.