Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1928-05-04
CONDENSED SYNOPSIS
OF late STATE news

NHippiS hiceh, oli tnc IdSlilc NiEHNdy
II miles from Vancouver, killed his
wife Amelia, his daughter Ruth, IL,
and his son Alfred, A, and then blasted
himself to bits with dynamite.
A Boy Scout rally during the Walla
Walla air circus May 26 and 27 is be
ing planned Several hundred scouts
from the Blue Mountain council will
participate in the rally which is to in.
clude modern aircraft tournament,
"Rube" Zimmerman, 2S, ranch fore
man OF Snowden, died as sequel to
a tragedy in which Mrs. w A. Nutter,
his employer, was slain at her home
at White Salmon, Officers said Zim-
norman shot her to death and turned
his revolver upon himself.
The bumper strawberry crop OF last
year will not be repeated this year,
W. II. Wood, manager of the Washing
ton Growers Packing corporation,
said recently. The plants are smaller
and many of the early blossoms blight
ed because of rain and cold weather.
A. e. Allen, manager OF the Alien
Packing company, operating can
merry on the Port of Kelso docks an
nounced that his firm closed deal
recently which will enable him to pur-
chase the entire strawberry output of
Cowlitz county at 5 c.saits per pound
hulled.
Florence Nederlee of Mount Vernon
is the champion typist of Skagt coun-
ty. In the annual test held in Mount
Vernon she wrote fifty-nine words per
minute. Her nearest opponent was
Evelyn Norbeck of Sedro-Woolley,
Marilla Blakesley of Anacortes was
third.
The largest monthly state and coun-
ty apportionment for school purposes,
ever received at Vancouver is being
distributed from the office of County
School Superintendent Krohn. The !
total was $126,472S2. The state CON
ss5,336O2 and the county SAL.
1860.
ber industry by means of general
sawmill merger was assured recently |
with the announcement that approx
mately 75 per cent of the sawmill |
operating interests OF the Aberdeen
district have signlfied their intentions
of entering into a consolidation.
Shot through the abdomen by the
bullet from 22 callber rifle, which !
he picked up barrel first at his home /
at Bay City, Leon Bowen. 14-yearold
son of A. w a. Bowen, died in 81 |
Joseph's hospital in Aberdeen. The
rifle was lying on a bed and the trig
ger became entangled with the cloth
ing.
Trapped in their beds, Louis, G, and
George, 3, sons of Mr. and Mrs Joseph
Woiberg of South Bend, were burned
to death when fire destroyed their
home, The parents had built fire
in the kitchen range and gone to
barn a quarter Of a mile away to milk
the cows. They left the boys sleeping
upstairs.
The new Great Northern $4,000.
coo tunnel under the Cascade noun.
tains in Washington state. which was
"holed through by blast set OFF by
President Coolidge Tuesday, is expect.
ed to he completed and trains run
ming through It before the end OF this
year The tunnel is eight miles long
between Scenic and Berne.
The orchard census OF Spokane
county, included in the annual report
Of f. G. Nielsen, district horticultural
inspector, shows a striking change in
the brief space of five years The
greatest change has come in the NUN
her OF apple trees In 1922, Spokane
county had l.1si.6sG apple trees. In
1927. this had dropped to 252.O17, about
the number
With metal tag on his wrist ask
ing anyone who found him to com.
with his parents in Port
Townsend a little nlne.yearold lad