Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-02-11
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

~. Washington iDr the season u ~,
otalcd is 0GS cars. During January
a37 cars were shipped, the smallest
total since the season began. 1t is es-
timated that there are from 1000 to
$500 cars in cold storage over the dis.
trict.
The issue o! 1927 automobile license
plates passed the 27O,O0O mark last
week, and established further records
for the state, according TO License
Director Charles r. Maybury May
bury pointed out that this number is
fully 10000 in excess of the total is
sued for 1923.
Building permits for January, aug
mented by 100000 perflit for a new
theatre, almost reached the 100000
mark in Vancouver. This is an in
crease of 100000 over January, 1926.
Seventeen new residences are going
Up, in addition to structures in the
business section.
Heavy rains have filled the coulees
near Ritzville so the farmers are un.
able to get to town. In the western
part of the city water is over the
bridge, the highest it has ever been.
A good deal of the water is soaking
into the summer fallow, and the farm.
ers are well pleased.
All speed records between Seattle
aud Spokane We're smashed last Sun.
day, when Major Jack T. Fancher,
1l6th Observation Squadron, national
guard flew a Douglas observation
pane from Parkwa;er field Spokane
to Sand Point airdrome, Seattle, in
two hours and fifteen minutes.
Startup, Gold Bar and the Skykom-
inh valley will soon be furnished with
water and light from the plant being
completed by the Startup water sys
TEN. The company is expending more
than $4,000 on the project A 1000
horsepower electric plant has been
erected at the foot of Olney Falls.
Forty hogs worth $1,000 were
slaughtered at the ranch of Ed Shat
tuck in the Satus district, after ihf
herd had been condemned by DR. G
w, Stickney of the state veterinarian
department, as infected with cholera
The infection was traced to carload
of hogs shipped from Spokane re
Gently.
More than 100000 was earned by
the Tacoma municipal light and water
departments during 1926. according {;
the annual report of Ira S. Daylsscn
commissioner of light and water. IN,
report showed that the light depar,
ment earneG $685. ,25S.14 Of tho 81.
plus. while the water department adj
ed s1SO.57S.s4.
The second annual Southwest Wash
ington Music Tournament will be heia
in Contralia February II and IL
Fourteen high schools haze si1rifloi
their intention OF competing. inclad
ing Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Olympia. Te.
nino. Centralla, Chehalis, Raymond.
Kelso, Castlerock, Kalama. Vancouver,
Gamas, Naravine and Ilwaco.
The members OF the Wenatchee
District Cooperative association at
their annual meeting last wook in
dorsed the Pacific Northwest Fruit
commission plan advanced in 1924 and
adopted at Yakima at the recent
growers economic conference. The
meeting was attended by the largest
crowd in the history of the associa-
tion.
Although, by using a heavy tractor.
trucks and man power, workers have
opened the Mabton-Alderdaie road, it
still is too soft for travel, according 70
recent reports. ONutT ItHuits hdie
the Ellensbufg-vantage Ferry road
was open. but In poor condition. and
the road from Ellensburg to Gle Elum
also was open but travel was doomed
inad visabie
Bad weather has delayed orchard
work and very little pruning has been
done. Chaplin Mllls. district hortleui
tural Inspector of Clark county has
announced. As spraying must be at
tended 10 as soon as the weather is
favorable, there win be less pruning
done this year than for several years.
Orchards generally are in good coudi
ton and even fig trees withstood the
cold weather.
Carl. the 1Oyear-old son Of C. o.
reskins Of Lehsm. near South Bend
was returning from school one day
last week when he was attracted by
tee screams of Mrs. Joseph Smith
nc told him that the kitchen Of the
use was ablazs inside from a kern-
ne can explosion. and her baby was
the adjoining room and that the
mes were rapidly running through