Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-03-02

Estimates put the Wire worm damage
ia the Yakima valley last year at
100000.
Ten acres of land on Puget island
will be seeded to lettuce during the
coming season by w. G. Coates of
Cathlamet. Should the market war
rant and the undertaking prove sue
cessful. Mr.. Coates plans TO go into
the business Oh a larger scale next
year, he advised
The executive committee OF the
Klickitat Wool Growers association,
is working on plans for the delivery
OF mutton this year (. o. b. nearest
shipping station instead OF driving the
flocks overland to main line shipping
points or loading at interior points
for shipment to main line.
The Pacific Telephone G. Telegraph
company will spend about sS.OOO,O00
in Washington. most OF it in the south
west section of the state, in telephone
extension work, it was stated in Long
view recently by George A. Walker,
Seattle. division commercial superin-
tendent of the company
With crew of 113 men employed,
actual construction on the Longview
port district grain elevator was CON-
| Inv nd -t-ilI hn t:,,-
uea day and night until the s370.OO0
7tructure is completed. Phe building
will be 100 feet high, with a steel
superstructure 80 feet high rising
above il.
The city council of Vancouver has
approved resolutions OF intention to
improve Twentysixth street. from
Kaufman avenue TO X street, Is
blocks. by laying hard surface pave
ment, and Twentieth street from
broadway to Reserve by Grading. gray
cling and laying concrete curbs and
sidewalks.
| John Johnson. 49, one of the first
sailors ever to enter Aberdeen, and a
pioneer harbor shipbuilder, died last
week, following brief illness. John.
son came to Grays Harbor first 46
years ago, when he came as mate OF
one OF the first commercial wind
tanners ever bringing cargo to
Aberdeen.
Walter Herman. IL, was shot. prob
ably fatally, and his brother Owen, 10,
Spanish.American war rifle with
which the boys were playing at their
home, IL miles north OF Vancouver,
exploded last week. The boys were
trying to fire modern cartridge in
the rifle.
Work was resumed on the $4,000
Skagit river span at Mount Vernon,
when Skagit county officials. who had
ordered work halted, reached an
agreement with contractors. The span
already erected will not be tore down,
as was ordered, but defects Will be
corrected while the remainder OF the
bridge is being put In place.
1t takes something more than mere
financial support to put an education.
al system in first rank, study of
school statistics for the United stat ~
. | pls fire In,
holding power. or keeping children in
school. and heads the list OF states In
the United States bureau OF educa-
tion's survey based on general excel.
lence
More certified seed potatoes are
I raised in Clark county than in any
other county in Washington, Chapin
i Mills, state district horticultural in
spector, said. Potatoes for certified
seed are inspected three times. twice
during the growing period and once
| at harvest time, and the seed is a safe
guard against disease. About 10 ear.
loads we're raised in Clark county last
year.
The Mutual Association OF Rural
Letter Carriers Of Lewis, Thurston,
Mason and Grays Harbor counties
held It's semi.annual meeting in Oak
vile last week Tho towns OF Elma
Rochester, Centralia, Chehalis. Yelm
Winlock, Ceres. Olympia. New kamil.
chic. shelton. Little Rock and Oakviile
were represented. The next meeting
will be held In Priest Point Park
Olympia, June IL. It was announced.
seinwat owhi. daughter of Kittl-
tas valley Indian chieftain, died at
Ellensburg at the reputed age of 1903
years. Seinwat was born in the Kitti-
tas valley, and had been living for
years with her sister, Cecilia, in El
lensburg.
Two youthful robbers obtained
about s100 in cash when they held uy
tommy Ferrell night clers at the
sia4h netau hotel In Kelso. and four