Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-06-17
WASHINGTON News
lIEaiS OF Interest
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for information
OF Our Readers.


Seattle viii get the 1928 interna.
tic1al ilIwanis convention, according
to a telegram reeeiyei there recent.
K. 7. Henderson CT Longview has
received the contract to build the new
gymnasium for the vader schools. His
BID was 5000,
The onalasla Izaak Walton league
closed its charter list and the charter
was presented officially by c. L
Heineman, state organizer,
The new 100000 pIywood factory
OF the Aberdeen Ply5ood company,
under construction in Aberdeen, will
be in operation by August l.
Mrs. Mary Ann Dow, age Sc, pioneer
westerner and resident OF the Spo-
kane region for more than 40 years,
died al the Samaritan home last week.
Frank ii. sharkey cashier of the
First National bank of Yakima, is
dead at hospital in that city. He had
been connected with the bank for rs
years.
h. j. Berry, chairman of the Van.
couver school board, presented diplo-
mas 10 1913 graduates of Vancouver
high school at the commencement ex-
ercises last week.
Norton B. Wilson, son of A. S. vii.
son OF Yakima, who took the examin.
atoms for both West Point ana Anna
polls, has received an appointment to
both institutions.
Kelso was garbed in holiday attire
last week for the annual state conyen.
tion of the Eagles lodge, which held
three-day session there. About 5000
persons attended.
Guardians of the states private
purse strings, 200 of the members OF
the Washington State Bankers asso.
citation, met in Tacoma for their an.
nual convention last week.
As a result OF serious drop due to
late freezes, estimates of the Yakima
pear production this season are con
siderably below normal. Predictions
range from 1900 to 1000 cars.
Mrs. Lena Weltz of Endicott was in.
stantly killed near Diamond Monday
when car in which she was riding
with her husband LETT the pavement
and overturned in a ditch.
The home OF Mrs. Rosetta Graves on
a 4O-aere tract mile east Of Machiaa
was wrecked last Sunday night by
three dynamite blasts. The outrage
Is laid 10 reprisal by moonshlners.
Grant county has a larger taxable
acreage than any other county in the
state, with 1.4GO,7O7 acres. according
TO Assessor f. l. Hutton The total
valuation OF the land is sl3,O19,493.
Close to one million trout fry will
be released in western Grays harbor
streams by the county game commits.
sion some time thia summer, it was
announced by commission members.
Farmers in the Braynon mountain
district complained to the Cowlitz
county commissioners last week that
bears were making swimming holes
in ihe county road through their dis.
trict
Bidding S189,42e c. +. Martin com.
pany seattle, received the contract
for construction OF three story brick
and concrete administration building
for The state school Tor the deaf al
Vancouver
Breaking all records Off carly prices
received for northwestern spring
lambs, four cars OF baby woolies''
were sold By Tom Drumheller. Walla
Waiia sheep man, at Chicago for
SlS75 a hundred.
approximately so members Of the
Northwestern Typographical confer.
ence from Washington, Oregon, idaho.
Montana and British Columbia viii
assemble in Aberdeen June q Cor the
annual conference convention.
Walla Walia city commissioners
have adopted resolutions for paving
two more streets. Bellevue from Isaac
to Melrose. and Wala Walla from ID.
visoin to White. This viii make about
IS miIos Of paving in the city
School census Tor Longyisw as oil
May I, 1927 shows a total count oil
24sO persons residing Ia this district
between tha ages of four and "a Tns
figure is an increase ol POI over that
of May (, 1925 THE Hrst census .of
the Longyiew district WIS taken in
1924, and showed a total count OF ii0s
Directors Of the Walla Waiia cham
Der Of commerce suggested to city ii
ficials that some stop" and go" sys
TEN be installed IN the business di
trict better to care lor the constantly
Increasing traffic. A resolution asked
the city TO take immediate action.