Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-01-20


for the construction of $4,000 thea
ter building and the other to Elmer
Anderson for the construction of a
$4,000 bath and apartment house.
Centr'alia's postal receipts in 1927
totaled s42,5S6.43, a gain of more than
$4,000 over 1926, it was announced at
the postoffice. The 1926 total. which
advanced the Centralia office to the
first class, was $40, 5S6.43. Every quar-
ter of 1927 showed an increase over
the corresponding period of the pre-
ceding year.
Congressman Summers has given
notice to onion growers OF Yakima and
WaIla Walla valleys OF hearing on
the onion tariff by the tariff commits
sion February 8. About 30,0O0,0YO
pounds OF onions are Produced in
these districts and the growers seek
an increase in the present duty OF 81
cents a bushel.
New business offered the Federal
Land bank of Spokane for December
amounted to SS74,525, making $685.
17S for 1927. This represents gain
over 1926 of nearly S1,250,0OO. The
peak was reached in October with a
total of s1.70O,O00 in loans applied for,
since when there has been normal
/ seasonal decline.
Members OF the Washington Grow
ors' Packing corporation have been
mailed the first payment since the
initial payment on delivery of their
1927 strawberry crop, w. Fl. Wood,
manager. said. The 1927 pack, 1900
50.gallon barrels, was double that OF
the year preceding. Another bumper
crop is expected in 1928.
The registration at the Ellensburg
normal school of SEC students, is with
| IN one OF the record enrolment for
that school, SGT. made two years ago,
II was stated by Miss Sophia Fowler,
RI gistrar. Additional registrations are
expected. thus setting new attend
ance mark. OF the 566 now in school
| 1tI are men students, a new high
record.
To punish herself for some sin, Mrs.
Envy Tochi, %, Japanese maid at Sc
| attic, cut about an inch off her tongue
| last week. She was in hospital and
| physicians expressed doubt whether
| she would ever be able to speak again.
| The offense the woman believed she
had committed was not known. but
| Japanese there said their countrymen
frequently punish themselves in sim
liar manney.
The 18th infantry celebrated the
130th anniversary of the organization
of the regiment last week, with an
appropriate program given in the Vie
| tory theater, Vancouver barracks. The
18th infantry was organized under the
act of congress approved in July, 1913.
The battle of 1'ippecanoe was the first
in which the regiment was engaged
and the Aisne-Marne and Meuse-Ar-
gonne offensives were the last.
The net income from the interstate
bridge IN 1927 exceeded the net in
come in 1926 by s27s3i.74 and dis
bursements In 1927 were s3bOGO2 less
than in 1926, according to the report
Of Auditor gne. made at the monthly
meeting OF the commission held in
Vancouver lass week. Gross receipts
in 1927 from all sources totaled $685.
| 225.14; disbursements totaled si6.-
9S1.59; net Tor distribution, s512..
| s47.55
Whether or not leap year has had
an adverse effect on marriage or there
is general tendency TO avoid matri-
mony the fact remains that only SO
marriage licenses had been issued in
Vancouver up TO January II. compared
with % for the same period last ysar,
a loss OF 81. That the women fear
they may be charged with taking adj
vantage of leap year II they rush into
marriage early in the month was one
explanation offered to account for the
slump.
Production OF West Coast Lumber
mems association mills was on high
or scale during the first week of 1928
than in the preceding week, but the
volume of sales was smaller and ship
ments showed but a negligible gain
The output of the 11S mills reporting
for the week ending JanuGsy was
63.s76.727 feet. orders accepted were
for 64,6S1.o74 feet and shipments to-
tailed 6S,se5,560 feet. Production the
preceding week, when 100 mills re-
ported. was 49.23S,474 feet, new bust.
ness was 67317914 feet and ship
ments e6.522,971 feet.
Washington ranks first in the Unit
ed States and Whitman county first
IN the state III the holding power over
,rhool chiIdrau II vra, hrCuoht 81.