Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-10-14
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

cse section hands at the railroad camp
Of schafer Brothers Logging company
in the Satsop valley. were killed last
wee! when they fell from trailer be-
hind a speeder on the logging road.
The Washington state Knights of
Pythias grand lodge and the Pythian
Sister grand assembly closed their
annual three-day sessions in Kclso last
week, selecting Seattle as their 1928
meeting place and electing officers,
Postofiice thieves at Kennewlck
forced the locks ON the mail boxes
and took out the mail and opened it..
they were after money. as the torn
and scattered letters and checks found
indicated. Some money was obtained.
The old Nimms building in Cosmo-
polls, one of the early day landmarks
of Grays Harbor county was destroy.
ed by fire last week. The blaze ragged
for four hours and for time threat
ened a block of business buildings.
r. j. Baade has been denied a Ger.
tificate from the department of public
works authorizing freight service by
auto stage between Quincy and We
natchee, on the grounds that pubic
necessity did not require the service
With an increase in the current ex.
pense budget of S11,943, mostly to pro.
vide for the general election of next
year, the 1928 budgets were formally
approved last Monday by the Thurston
county commissioners. The general
county levy was kept at 81 mills.
The Cowlitz county budget for 1928
viii raise s236,596 for current ex-
penses. an increase of $4,000 over 1927,
due TO $4,000 for election expenses.
An s.mill levy will be made again this
year, the surplus being employed by
pay off outstanding current expense
warrants.
tax levy of 22 mills on property in
old Vancouver and 215 mills in great
er Vancouver, will be necessary to
raise sufficient funds to carry the city
government through 1928. This is 21s
mills higher than last year, due to the
faci that the dock sinking fund was
$4,000 in the red.
Knight Templars of southeastern
Washington gathered at Walla Walla
last week and celebrated the forty
fifth anniversary OF the founding OF
Washington Commandery No. OF that
city. The Washington Commandery
was the first established in what i5
now Washington state.
Two more Lewis county postmasters
have recently rendered their reslgna-
tions Unless volunteers are found at
an early date to fill the vacancies, the
department Will probably close both
offices. One is at Littell, where A.
p. Carson is retiring, the other at
Montgreen, on Green Mountain. near
Rife, where Frank Heldreth is post
master
A young buck deer, apparently flee
ing from some wild animal was caught
by two members of a Poison Logging
company train crew near TIumptulips.
The deer collapsed in the right-of-way
OF the track near the train and the two
men, L. a. Briggs and Fay Marsh,
put it in the caboose and took 1t to
the railroad camp. 1t has become
quite tame.
A total of s1SS5737S in state pro
perty viii be sold November 1, Clark
V. Sayidge, state land commissioner,
announced recently Timber appraised
at s1lS,60l.10 and sand and gravel a:
S4105 will be sold for cash, but tide
and shore lands valued at $1S,7G1.7s
and other land at SAT may be
purchased on the ten-year payment
plan with interest at 6 per cent on
deferred payments. Commissioner Sav.
idge announced.
Recommendation that the process of
wiping apples. heretofore in vogue, be
permitted instead OF requiring them
to be washed before being placed on
the market, was telegraphed the de.
partment OF agriculture at Washing
ton by five United States senators.
from Wenatchee last week. The tel
gram was signed by Senators Phipps
of Colorado, McNary of Oregon, Ken.
orick OF Wyoming and Jones and Dill.
of Washington, and by Representative
Hill of Washington
The Winlock Berry Growers last
week completed their organization by
alecting directors More than Sc acres
ave been signed and mark of 100
r more acres has been set. II is re.
ported that some attractive offers have
been maze for the 1928 yield.
The total valuation within the Long
view city limits this year is s3.973,-
4s9, an inersase of s53O,5s6 over the
1926 vaiua ion. n was stated by .Jnhn