Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-05-20
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Woodburn school district has voted
favorably to bond the district for $500
To build new two-room schoolhouse.
The annual picnic of Alder Creek
Pioneer association will be held at
Cleveland park, near Biekelton, June
IA.
The Washington auto license plates
next year will have an orange back
ground with black letters and numer-
ais.
W. W. Briggs, manager of the Grays
Harbog Railway & Light company,
was elected president Of the Aberdeen
chamber OF commerce.
Accidentally driving off culyert
near Cheney Friday, Charles E. Lauek,
So. was killed when his car overturned.
crushing him beneath.
Plled driving contracts for the first
unit of the Grays Harbor Pulp & Pa
per conipany plant, TO be located in
Hoquiam, were let last week.
centralia was on water rations
again last week as the result Of
break that occurred in the pipe line
of the elty's gravity System.
Placing OF 100000 cuttthroat trout
and eastern brook trout in Lake MGR
rin has been completed by Game War
den Leichhardt of cowlitz county
Earnings of the Spokane city water
system for the first four months of
this year were $3.50, 4OS, a gain over
the same period last year OF $3.50.
L. l., Lane, prominent Metallne meI-
chant, was instantly killed Friday at
ternoon when the speed truck he was
driving LETT the highway and was de
molished
The mercury rose TO "a in Aberdeen
last Thursday the highest mark OF
the year, after two days OF unusually
heavy rains and relatively low TEN.
peratures.
The annual meeting Of the Mount
st Helena council Of Boy Scouts. com
prsing cowlitz, Clark aud skamania
counties, viii be held at the Kelso
club May ~
Thomas oleson, SS, stevedore, was
Instantly killed in Aberdeen when
struck by a sling while engaged in
understanding work on the steamer
George Allen.
The LongvIew hoard OF education
has announced that it had named the
half million.dollar high school building
under construction there the Robert
A. Long High
William Bradley OF Kalama suffered
a broken back and other severe iniur-
les when he was struck by falling
tree while clearing land five miles up
the Kalama river
chehalis' municipal landing field
will be officially dedicated Saturday,
May 81 On that day also the River
side golf course viii be formally open.
ed 10 the public
SIX thousand delegates and visitors
from odd Fellows lodges in Washing
ton and Alaska are expected 10 attend
the eonelaye Of the order beginning
June in Yakima
Miss Wilma Dudley, daughter Of
Mayor and Mrs. W. 3 Dudley. was
crowned May queen OF the Yakima
high school in connection with the
schools annual May fete.
Three women employees of the Dit
ter Coffee shop in Yakima, Mrs. Wag
ner, Mrs Dellgne and Mrs. DuIrwach.
ter, were seriously burned Sunday by
explosion OF fuel oil in stove.
Contract for the paving OF Roose
Welt Alice and Mckinley streets in
Waila walla was awarded By the city
to standard Asphalt Paving company
Of Spokane for a total OF s2Lss2.35.
Eight hundred sacks OF wheat ano
barley were destroyed last week when
two grain warehouses belonging to
Killer Brothers and Shelly Aldrich
burned at MIL Creek In Walla Walla
county
The quarterly session Of Clark
County Pomona grange Was held a.
Charter Oak last week. The grange
will hold eight onoday sessions IN the
future, instead OF the quarterly two
day sessions
Whom Mr. and Mrs Leo Jacobs were
riding In thoir automobile north Of
Granger a bee aliehted on alr Jacobs
arm. Mrs Jacobs leaned over to
brush ou and ln some way The CAP
plunged into 4 ditch and upset Mrs
Jacobs was pinned under % aud in.
lused seriously
The Cowiitz county commissioners
will reeDlvo bids again May 81 Tor the
construction Of the south Keiao sewer