Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-10-28

| SnOVel lnONSu out,
Formal dedication of the recently
completed 100000 unit of the st. Hell
ems hospital in Chehalis will be hel(
Sunday. October 80.
The Washington Manufacturers as
sociation will hold it's spring meeting
in Yakima late in April, according L
a recent announcement.
A score of men and 22 teams wert
at work on the Weyerhaeuser Timbel
company's mill site in Longview las
week, grading for railway spurs.
Bids will be opened November .
on City of Walla Walla bond isan'
to refund the outstanding City Hs
bonds, 100000 of which fail due caF'
in 1928.
Three or four trucks were useo \.
thieves who over Sunday stole IL,
sacks of wheat from the ranch G.
Blanchard Bros. in the Horse lleavei
district
r. j, Evans was critically injure'
during an electrical and wind st1M
near Northport Sunday. when lra~
fell across his automobil., pinning hin
to the wheel
Between $50 and 200 delegates anc
visitors attended the convention 0i
District No. 5 OF The encampmal'
branch of the Odd Fellows, held ii
Elma last Saturday.
With the levy for state purposes
fixed at l179 mills the consolidate
levy for the city of Spokane for 1925
is SIS mills, three-flfths OF mill low
er than the 1927 levy,
Kicked on the side of the head by
horse while she was playing neal
the animal, Laura Anderson, A, was
brought to Yakima hospital criti
cally injured last week,
Warrants have been drawn by the
state auditor for the purchase OF $500
OF per cent 10-year bonds issued b.
the town of Yelm for the construction
cf municipal waterworks.
The clover.seed harvest In the vlcin
ity OF Woodland has been interrupt q
by early rains and farmers who Were
growing ihoir clover for seed will SUI
fer nearly so per cent loss,
Walnuts are being harvested IL
Clark county and the yield is lieht
There ARE about SO acres Of bearin
walnut trees in Clark county, countir
scattering trees ana estimating 9,
trees to ihe acre
Louis Alvin sizemore, Stevens coun
ty warden, shot last Sunday, presGm
pbly by hunters, who had boon uppro
hended after they had killed a femal
deer, did IN Colville without regain
ing consciousness.
Doro.hy May Oakley s, was hllle,
aud hor mother, tho wife OF ~ a. O1t
lay, principal of the Auburn hlHl
school, critically injured when u pns
sanEer train struck the Oakley car Al
blind crossing In Auburn,
The late potato crop in Clark county
will fall below early estimates, accord
ing to Charles II Greeley. The tubers
arc large and smooth, but there nrs
few to the hill A heavy frost Is need
ed to kill the tops and set the akini
OF the potatoes before digging can b,
started High land potatoes are fully
matulod hut those planted on over
flowed land are stlll growing.
Request has been made by ,h,
Walla Wana city commission that tbs
portion OF the oitys watershed Lyme
In walla Walia and Columbia couatio,
BE- made a permanent Eama preserv,
by the game commissioner of thes,
counties
In order 10 save dirt and grnv5let
roads In Clark county, The commits
sionors last week signed an order clos
ing "a tor the winter TO aii rugE
welghinF more than 1000 pounds. loal
ell or empty. The roads closed tots
1855 milea.
Bids viii be invited shortly uu two
law divisions of tho siitllHa high Int
canal, naV vel unter ,ons'mr'iUH
approximately sa0o1.e0o viii De spent
on tha kiutss project next year, go
cordins 20 the ehici engineer
Eighty per cont % the ffl scedin
has been eomrletel by WaHa Wan
wheat growers. actordins 60 mlis
made by Efain dealers IN suma D.
stances sran sasn this iaH has al
ready popped Through the ground
lin Hnll. operator o. the lauHch VS.
sonia, is st bis hame Ia South rsud
ragovefiue from burns aud aaes sus
ainod from a gasoline esrlos 50
Ms boat Becauss the esfi1sios fiav
him clear ou, % the boat cabin, he ls
alive today.