Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-09-16

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miles from Walla Walla.
Members of the Auburn Fire depart
ment are now adequately covered il
case of accident or death by actor
taken by the city council recently. A
blanket accident policy covering the
volunteer members of the department
during their activity as firemen was
taken out by the council
Barney & Hinchman of Portland
Or, were given the contract by the
Orchards school board for the erection
of modern four-room brick school
building at Orchards, on a bid of S12,
397.5O. Construction work will be
started soon and it is expected to
complete the building by December l.
The interstate commerce commits.
sion denied the application of the
Northern Pacific railroad for author.
ity to continue rates on wool from
Oregon, Washington and Idaho to GER
tain central and eastern points with
out observing the long and short haul
provision OF the interstate commerce
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Assurance that the preliminary in
! vestigation of the Burbank irrigation
district will be continued and com
plete report prepared was given rep
resentatives of the district and mem
bers OF the Walla Walla and Pasco
chambers of commerce by Governor
Hartley at meeting in Pasco recent
ly.
The second dividend amounting to
25 per cent will be paid by the Napa-
vine State bank, which closed last
January, on September %, bringing
the total paid back to depositors to
Is per cent. Liquidation of the bank
has cost the banking department vir-
tually nothing, Supervisor Johnson
said.
Two large plants announced recent
ly are said to assure the continued in
dustrial growth of Montesano These
are the establishment OF charcoal
and wood by-proaucts plant, which
will be the first OF it's type in this
country and the building OF 22 miles
OF new railway by Schaier Brothers,
local loggers.
Two hens and one gobbler, hatched
from Kentucky wild turkey eggs, have
been received at the county game pens
on Cold creek and will be used to
hatch broods for release In Clark
county Game Warden McCurdy an
nounced Five hundred Chinese pleas.
ants are being held at the pens for
release after the hunting season
closes this fall.
Construction of new bridges on the
Pacific highway to span the Cowee-
man river south OF Kelso aud the Ka
lama river north OF Hnlama is under
consideration by the state highway
committee, following a report by o. A.
Piper construction engineer, that the
present bridges are virtually beyond
economic repair Engineers were in
structed 10 prepare plans for new
bridges across the streams. They are
estimated to cost about SilO,OOO.
Losses and damage from forest fires
IN Washington this year are less than
for any other year In the history of
forest fire protection There has been
less ground burned over, less loss to
standing timber, second growth, logs,
logging equipment and other classes
OF property than In any year OF the
past 20 and yet the year was unpre.
cedented for fires set by lightning
The total number OF fires from this
and other causes viii be well up to
average.
The heavy rains Of the past week
HANINNA Hll Atul was HttHtu W EiNt
the Oregon and Washington cranberry
district at the mouth Of the Columbia
river one Of the finest crops in his-
tory, according to leading growers.
The rains will serve to swell the ber.
res lust before the final ripening put.
ting the fruit In the best Of size and
condition. with the eastern crops
Hght, the outlook for Oregon and
Washington cranberries is exception.
ally good.
Klickitat farmers are rushing the
seeding Of fall grain. trying to get the
new crop planted before the heavy
fa.l rains commence IN the Klickitat
valley The 1927 crop is practically
aii harvested The yield did not come
ill ia pre-harvesi expectations
Governor Hartley. State Highway
sineer IIumes and party Of state
ieIals were in EllensbGrg last week
Joined an automobile caravan to
mage 10 dedicate the new safe high
3 bridg on tho North Central high.
uey across the Cotumbla river