Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-01-14
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

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and county officer, was killed when
his automobile was struck by an in
tarurban train near Seattle last week.
Guibesron had lived in Kent 40 years
and had served as postmaster 20
years,
Postal receipts in Aberdeen for 1926
increased 1873 per cent and assured
the city OF reaching the 100000 mark
next year if a proportionate gain is
continued The postal business
amounted to s96,7Os.47, gain of Sill
100 over the previous high mark, set
in 1895.
Agriculture in Columbia county is
on sound basis as shown by railroad
| shipments of products during 1926
During the year the two railroads
shipped 702 cars OF wheat, which rep
resents about two-thirds of the years
crop in the territory adjacent TO Day
ton. Isl cars of apples, so carloads of
live stock, and five cars of hay.
A net increase o. s436,351 in 1926
gasoline tax receipts over 1925 was
shown in a report by State Treasurer
| Potts. Net collections for 1926 We're
S3.457,16S ana for 1925 s3.O20,S12. Re-
| funds for gasoline used in non-vehicle
consumption in 1926 amounted to
s2lS,i23. The grand net total tax re-
ceived by the state since its inception
in 1921 amounts to s11,6413S1.
Placing the Palouse wheat crop
aboard ship at Portland Or, costs
approximately 20 cents a bushel II
the grain is shipped at once, and ma
terially more If held in local ware.
houses until spring. declared A. E
Kelly, president of the Kelly.Hughes
Grain company. Pullman, when speak
ing before the grain marketing school
in Pullman on Necessary Costs of
Handling Grain"
The Grant county commissioners
engineer and attorney, met with the
Dcurlas copntv commissioner In Wa
tervilla lao, weo, IN consider rr,no
gition Of financing new road connect
ing the Sunset and the North Central
highways by building road down
Grand coulee via Soap Lake The new
read is to be 25 feet wide and will
make an openine to Dry Falls plue
/ Lake and other natural attractions Of
The Grand coulee.
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