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

attendance at the annual meeting of
The Skasit Dairymen's association
held in the Grand theatre at Belling
ham last week.
A new record was established last
Thursday when all of the 80 attor
neys who appeared before the state
board OF bar examiners successfully
passed the examination.
George Jones, chamber of commerce
president, received word that. Wenat-
chez had been awarded first prize for
the best National Apple week celebra-
tion for cities OF its class
]. j. Griner OF the state department
of agriculture places valuation of
0,0O0,000 on the wheat, apples, po-
tatoes and other crops marketed by
eastern Washington in 1927.
A. S. Goss. master of the Washing
ton State Grange, has been invited to
be the principal speaker at u meet
ing of farmers and business men to be
held at Mount Vernon in February
a bumper Bartlett pear crop in
Clark county this year is predicted By
members OF the Bartlett Pear Grow
ers' association, which was organized
last summer with 35 charter members
DR.. Edwin j. Brown, coloriul ex
mayor of Seattle, who was defeated for
reelection in 1926 by Mrs Bertha k
Landes. filed his candidacy for mayor
with the hopes OF winning back the
post.
A S2OOO,OOO medical arts building"
10 stories high and measuring 100 by
2S5 feet, will Se erected in Spokane
during the coming year by l.. N. Ros-
enbaum, New York and Seattle CAPT
talist.
annual convention, ana Robert 7.
Reid of Bellevue was elected presi-
dent OF the Western Washington
horticultural association at its recent
meeting.
Governor Hartley changed his mind
about allowing the new capitol to be
occupied Monday. and all plans for
moving last Saturday had to be aban.
doned by state officials, who had char
tered vans.
Kiutus Tecumseh, who claims direct
descent from the famout indian chief
Tecumseh, presented President Cool
idge with a box of apples grown on
his fathers farm at Wenatchee. He
was clad in full indian regala.
Three members of the mob which
drove Filipino workers from the Yald-
ma reservation November were
found guilty by a jury in the court OF
w. H. White. justice OF the peace.
The three were sentenced to ten days
in Jail.
Seattle's first automobile show since
1924, giving promise of being the most
comprehensive exhibition Of modern
transport ever displayed there. will be
held at the new University of WASH
ington athletic pavilion, beginning Fri
lay. February 10.
The las, steel on the new National
gailway OF schafer brothers was laid
asst wSsk. Crews working both lron
west and cedarville ends met at Cal
,ow. Part OF the road has been bal
lasted and the remainder will soon be
completed This line connects the
main schafer line at Braoy with the
company's new holdings in eastern
Grays Harbor county.
State highway crews have the three
mile bridge near Wallula in shape
again and II can be used Immediately.
It was damageo by the Hood ON Janu
ary ls and since thar time deiour
has been used. Part Of the bridge
ad to BE- redocled.
Legal and technical problems We're
discussed at meeting OF county
uperintendenta of Northwestern
Washington in Everett last week. Mrs
Josephine Corliss Preston stressed the
ueed OF expert clerical and steno
graphic help for superintendents
The annual Yakima reserve
crop report mace puihc Ny
dian irrigation seryice. annomcal
total 1927 crop valuation I'd ssiioula
and ar average PEI acrs produ ion
sGliO The report covers Sesai acre
on the Wapato. Status, Ahtanum ant
Toppsnlsh-simcoe units
The 246 state chartered banks Is
Washington held deposits totarr.
j1S0.0i77a6 at the end Of 1927. az IL
crease Of s4.0s6.0e0 during ihe yeai
according TO the annual report %
Banking Supervisor Johnson Lean
and discounts totaied si0s 27lgaJ.
decrease OF 500 sis durin- 1927