Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-04-27
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE news

standstill because OF rain. and crops
viii be unusually late this year. Cha
pin A. Mills, district horticultural in
spector, said. Heavy damage to the
fruit crop is feared by Mills and L. X.
Mcintosh. advisory fruit expert
4 juvenile fair for boys and girls
under Is, who live in the Davenport
region, will be given in August by
Clinton S. Brown post of the American
legion. Prizes totaling s325 will be
given for livestock and garden pro
duce raised by the youngsters.
With more than s27O,OOO worth OF
office and business structures under
way, besides s123,000 worth of new
homes, Vancouver is continuing in
1928 the building activity begun in
1927. Construction is progressing at
rate never eQualled before, except last
year.
Bellingham is making extensive
preparations for its Tulip festival on
May IL and L. This years celebra-
tion will be !arger and finer than ever,
with beautiful pageants and floats typi-
flying the pleasure which the people
of the community take in the raising
of tulips.
Building up OF larger dairy herds is
the logical manner in which to begin
, the development OF partly idle farm
| lands between Elma and Montesano
was urged by committeeman OF cham
| bers OF commerce of the two cities
who met In Elma last week with Coun-
ty Agent Sorenson.
| Everett fire department successfully
| battled lake of fire between the
/. Great Northern railway tracks and the
t old Ferry-Baker lumber mill. Waste
oil seepage spread over water in a
( swamp and became ignited. In few
minutes spectacular fire ragged over
an area more than block long
i Eastern Washington citizens awoke
one morning last week to find noun.
tains and hillsides covered with new
coat of snow Considerable snow was
also reported on the Inland Empire
/ highway The summit between Walla
Walla and Waitsburg and between
Dayton and Tucannon showed white,
Farmers living in the vicinity of the
Yakima airport have made claim to
the county commissioners for dam
ages. They contend that the dust
kicked up by the airplanes and auto
mobiles that visit the field smothers
their crops and makes II impossible
| for their wives to keep their homes
clean
Approval of plans for the new road
along the ocean from Copalis to Ocean
City has been given by the state high
way department, according to a state-
ment made at the Grays Harbor coun.
" engineers office al Montesano. This
road will open a scenic drive along the
beach as well as open considerable
territory for settlement,
j. w, Hamilton, state maintenance
engineer for Washington. announced
at Walla Walla that the oiling of the
highway between Walla Walla and
Pasco will commence within week
Under the plans being made by the
state, Washington should get out OF
the dust this year through the oilIng
program which Hamilton will super
wise
The debris of what was believed "a
have been one of the largest cherry
trees in the world was cleared away
by residents of Snohomish last week
Fourteen feet in circumference at
the base and having a spread OF SO
feet. the giant toppled In the wind
storm which swept western Washing
ton. The tree WAS so years old and
landmark.
Returns from republican county con
vontions held throughout Washington
show that Herbert Hoover Is running
away from Frank o. Lowden in the
contest for delegates to the state con
vention. and that the state meeting al
Yakima May 5 will be In full control
of the Hoover forces. So far, 20 oi
the 80 counties hayo chosen delegates
and the tally gives Hoover S45h
Lowden l6M. Dawes 10, potential
votes
One hundred and thirteen mills re
porting to the West Coast Lumber
mems association produced l2a,070,O7l
feet of lumber in the week endinl
April IA, a report said In the previou.
week. ii2 mills produced 125.75O,62.
feet.
Announcement has been made b!
Dr. d. o. Nugent, mayor OF Centralh
hat he will erect a public market o.
'urth Pearl street on what is know
he Nudd tract, The building vii
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