Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-07-15
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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of Our Readers.

Work was begun last week on the
south Kelso sewer project, for which
j. D. Hanley of Kelso has the contract.
Triplet girls were born to Mrs Le-
Roi L. Smith OF Stevenson, last week
They were all healthy babes, weighing
8la, sA and AZ pounds.
Plans for vancouver's community
hotel were accepted recently by the
building committee, and bids for con.
struction will be opened July &c.
H. NJ. Henderson, OF Auburn, was
low bidder on the construction of the
new transit shed for the Port OF olym-
pia docks with a bid OF S12,2S2.s6.
Receipts having last year passed
the $4,000 mark, as required by the
postal department, the centralia post
office on July advanced to the first
class.
An architect has been employed tc
draw plans for Seattles civic auditor
ium and actual construction of the
building will be started about Septem-
Der l.
Burt j. Williams was confirmed
Wednesday night as city attorney OF
Wenatchee. succeeding Martin Eas.
ton, who has gone to Honolulu to prac.
tice law.
The Cowlitz Pomona grange will
hold its annual picnic at the fair
grounds at Woodland, July 81, and A
S. Goss, master of the state grange
will be the principal speaker
Ellensburg business houses were
closed last week during funeral serv-
ices for Alva Tucker, chief OF police.
who was slain in a pistol duel with
John Emerson. Ellensburg youth.
Instead OF meeting for Pomona ses-
sion on July u. the Western Klickitat
Pomona grange held a big picnic for
all oranges on that date at Allison's
picnic grounds in Trout Lake valley.
Aberdeen postal receipts for the fis-
cal year ended June 80 amounted to
S0S.Si5.2S. the largest in the clty's
history The increase over the pre-
vious year was s7l1O.51, approximate
1y per cent.
The road to Mount Baker lodge is
now open. The Whatcom county steam
shovel broke through the last dris,
last Thursday morning and automo
biles followed it to the doors OF the
big new hotel.
Improvement work on the Castle
Rock Methodist Episcopal church, in.
Guiding construction Of a new base
ment, is nearing completion. The i'm
proyements represent an Investment
of about $4,000.
Steel plates are being used to rein
force the Pacific highway bridge over
the Lewis river near Woodland. A
crew OF mechanics and engineers are
working on the job, which will take
several weeks to complete.
Director of Licenses Charles X. May
hurry stated that the new drivers Ii
censes were going like hotcakes.
declaring that in the first three days
OF issuance over $4,000 licenses had
been mailed out at Olympia.
Whether the people of Clark county
are willing to sell the county's share
Of the Interstate bridge to the state
for s95O0OO will be decided at an cleo
ton to be held August %, the county
commissioners have decided
United Spanish War Veterans o.
Washington will meet in annual en-
campment at Aberdeen July 81. % and
2s. An elaborate program has becf
arranged for entertainment OF approx
imateiy 1000 visitors expected.
An attempt 10 blow up the businos.
offices OF the spokesman-Roview ant
the Chronicle with a powerful dyna
mite bomb failed last week when tn,
fuse Of the Internal machine burned
to within 2iA inches OF the percussion
cap and then went out.
Puget sounds wheat shipments iol
the last year were 7,5Os,OOs bushel.
and the year before were s.l3l.37-
bushels. The flour movement from
tho Puget sound district amounted e
2.427156 barrels. aud during the 1926
20 season was 2ol5.a2i barrels.
A total OF ssae5 persons crossed
the Interstate bridge over the holiday.
exclusive OK street car and stage tray
el and toll receipts Tor the three day.
totaled Sssl7.io The record for col
receipts Tor one day was brokon bl
$500 with a total OF Sa70i65 receive,
from aI59s persons, e7s5 large nuio
mobiies. 2937 small cars aud 81 motor
cycles.
a movement 20 bring the so-callo,