Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-05-27

are flooding the market with bread.
they complained. and the outsiders
are paying no license.
A masked woman last week shot
Mrs Goldie Reiner. &c. mother Of Ed
ward Reiuer. Aberdeen ieweler, in her
home The assailant fired once. the
bullet entering Mrs. Reiners right
breast and lodging lust under the skin
on her right shoulder.
Announcement has been made al
Grandviev that Clyde Brown OF Seat
tie viii begin erection OF cold stor-
age warehouse in Grandview and ex
poets to have II completed in time for
the fall fruit harvest 1t will have
capacity Of go carloads.
The council at Toledo voted last
week to call for bids for erection OF
new town hall. It is proposed to
hold an election to vote bonds for
he building and to improve the water
system by installing a new main pipe
line from the supply to town.
The Barr Logging company which
operates on the upper ooweeMan riy-
er, has closed down for the summer
with 100000 feet of logs in that
atream, which is not high enough to
loat them at this time Forty men
are affected by the shut down,
Mrs. James Emerson. of Longyiew,
was burned severely in a fire in
booth at the manufacturers home
products exposition held there last
week She was lighting gasoline
stove when gasoline that had been
spilled on the floor caught fire.
Gotiiob santscbi. SO, for the last
~ years a rancher in the Emerald
district near sunnyside. shot himself
last week. His body was found with
a note saying that he had become
Respondent over failure to-. locate
daughter adopted as an infant by
nelghbors.
Hail & Morgan We're given the con
tract for the erection OF the new
building at the fair grounds iii Elma
The contract calls for the construc
ton Of an automobile display room
120x9GxiS feet. with concrete floor
The contract calls for the completion
of the work by August /,
Franchises for rs years were grant
ed Puget Sound Power & Light com
pany by Lewis county commissioners
for erection Of power and light lines
alorg Tilly. ingalls,, Duyal, Palmer and
Nelson roads in Lincoln creek district
also for portion OF Cowlitz aud olym
lpa road on Newaukum prairie
Governor Hartley fighting to the
very end against the contracts let last
fall for furnishing the new admins
trative building, declared at a meet
ing OF the capitol committee that the
attorneygeneral would have to manda
mus him before he would sign out
standing vouchers for the payment
Of completed contracts,
Installation OF two batteries of rear
ing tanks will he started Immediately
at The Stevens Creek hatchery on the
Humptulips, the Grays Harbor county
game commissioner announced recent
IT, The batteries will consist Of eigh
tanks each and will be Of galvanized
iron constructed according to plans
worked out by L. D. Mayhall. state
superintendent of hatohories.
Clark county pear men met in yam
cauver last week and took preliminary
stepa to organize pear growers as
sociaiion. W j. Billings Matt Ander
son and w. G. Franklin were appoint
cd on a committee to draft member
ship contracts Later permanent
organization will BIO formed consid.
cradle acreage in Clark county has
been set out to pears in the last two
years
Plans for three wuter systems have
been submitted to the Olympia city
commissioners by j. l.. stannard
consulting engineer Of Tacoma The
satsop river skoolnmohuk river and
McAllister springs are the three posi-.
billties, all OF which would furnish an
adequate supply for many years to
come, as the present system is far
TOO inadequate to handle the growing
needs
Soyentyoue lumber mills reporting
10 the West Coast Lmbermens asso-
citation recorded large increase in
orders and shipments OF their product
for the week ended May "a over the
previous week New business or OF.
ders for the last week totuled S6257,
500 feet of lumber and shipments SO.
GOo.77s feet. Both OF these items were
considerably above the production zig
ures OF the week OF 7i,G26,525 feot
These figures compare with the pre-
yioua week ended May z, when az