Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-02-03
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF LATE STATE NEWS

said. Preparations are being made
for formal ceremony in honor of the
machine, two-passenger, ninety
horsepower, eiglty.fiye miles an hour
creation.
Centralia will be host February 1
ana . for its third convention of the
winter, when the North Pacific Fair
association meets there. important
/ fairs in Washington, Oregon and Brit.
ish Columbia are members of the as
sc iat.on. Fair dates for 1925 will
be designated and other business will
be transacted.
Efforts to hold Clark county agri-
cultural ffii this year viii PROBABLY
fail. c. P. Bush. prominent granger,
said recently, as no feasible plan has
been evolved. The farmers believe in
| the advantages to be derived from
such fair. but plans offered so far
involve too great expense without any
certainty of adequate return.
| Walla Walla city officials breathed
! freer when the dredging equipment
| arrived from Seattle ana was set up so
| that gravel began coming from the
he'd of Mill creek. About month will
! be spent digging out channel for
Mill creek. the gravel having so filled
| it that the stream will be a serious
menace in case OF another flood.
According to p S. Guilford, West
port canneryman, the crab fishermen
who have been using razor clans for
bait report the biyalves as plentiful
on the beach this season. This en-
courages Grays harbor packers and
! clam workers alike TO look FOR q prof
table clam take which commences
March 2 and continues three months.
The Puget Sound Power g. Light
company has applied to the Lewis
county commissioners for a franchise
to construct and operate power
transmission line along the Eyaline
road between Napavine and Winlock,
a distance of 51a miles. February 20
has been set by the county board as
the date of hearing on the petition
County Engineer Deako is preparing
10 replace all damaged signs at curves
on county roads of Clark county and
the Go Slow" signs on each side OF
country school houses. The signs
have been used as targets by boys,
who have knocked them down with
rocks or have shot them full of holes.
New signs will be placed where they
are needed
A hurried call for a specialist was
sent from the Longview hospital last
week, A young mother, carrying a
small hoy In her arms, had rushed her
child there after he had swallowed a
| pin. The hoy sobbed and occasionally
coughed Finally violent spasm
brought up the pin from his throat.
Mother and son departed The doctor
arrived too late.
Chelan county school directors were
urged TO make study OF the need OF
u junior college to be located some
where In north central Washington.
preferably III Wenatchee. to bridge
| the jump from the wheat fields
and smaller schools to the large uni
versities.' at the annual meeting held
| in Wenatchee. of the directors OF Che.
Ian county schools.
The state department OF public
works has fixed March ~ for a public
hearing on the movement to place
meters on telephones used in the cities
Of the state, and It is generally assum-
ed that the hearing will start lively
fight that will eventually reach the
supreme court OF the United States.
So far Everett is the only city in the
world to use the telechronometer.
which measures conversation.
That commission men are besieging
the agricultural department of the fed
qral government to assist in curbing
iurthcr development of cooperative
marketing organizations on the ground
that the farmers are receiving too
much money, was the statement made
by A. G. ziebeIl Of Marysville, presi-
ent OF the United Dairy associations
II Washington, spenking before the
annual meeting OF the Grays Harbor
Dairymen's association at Montessno
ast week
Washington counties have been
awarded si52.s0O on timber sold from
national forests within the state dur
ing 1927. The counties are given rs
per cent OF the federal sales. Jeffer-
on county receives the largest share.
35.20i. while ClalIam comes next with
22,1ls. Grays Harbor draws s749s.
md Mason receives 1886. These com
missions are on sales OF timber from
he Olympic national forest, the sales
otaling $4,000. Other southwest