White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-12-28
Washington News

cars last week.
Golf is to be adopted as minor
sport at the Washington State Col
lege. Golfers will participate in the
Pacific Coast tournaments. A six
hole course was constructed last |
year.
An English firm is seeking loca
ton for a big apple storage ware
house, either in Wenatchee or Yaki-
ma This firm intends starting a
continuous shipment of apples to
London. The storage plant will be
erected in time to handle the trade
next year. Cold storage fruit is not
wanted in England; only fresh fruit
is demanded. Meat and butter are
about all the commodities that have
cold storage trade.
Lacey " Murrow of Blanchard,
Skagit County, and Felix Rea, North
Bend, King County, have been des-
ignated by Representative Lin H.
Hadley for the West Point Military
Academy entrance examination to be
held beginning on March 4 next,
with view to admission to the
Academy on July 1, 1924.
Putting a bottle of fiashlight pow
der into the stove to see the result,
Roger Gee, 13 years old, son of Her
bert Gee, civil engineer of West Sc
attic, is in the hospital suffering
from injuries to his right hand and
face. The explosion blew off the
stove lid and broke four windows.
Four veteran workers in the Yak
ina postoffice ate their Christmas
dinners at home this year for the
first time in 81 years, due to the re-
cent department ruling curtailing
service on that day. They are:
Postmaster H. l.. Leeper, Assistant
George S. Hough, Superintendent of
Mails A. R. McWain, and Clerk
Frank Lauterman.
Many inquiries have been made
lately by men in the Middle West for
farm lands west of the Cascade
i
dairy farms, most of them having
been west as tourists during the last
summer. The inquiries are mostly
for farms ranging from 200 to 600
acres each.
F. ]. Mist, president of the Seattle
Box Company, has just booked sin
gle order for 100000 egg cases from
the Washington Cooperative Egg and
Poultry Association. To fill these
cases 36,O0O,0OO eggs will be required,
and 200 cars to- ship them to mar
ket This order represents about a
9O-day requirement of the poultry as
ISOLATION.
The shoe-making department at
the Washington State penitentiary
has reached that degree of efficiency
which makes it possible to make
by machinery all the shoes, slippers
and boots used by institutions of the
state in about 60 days if it's machin-
cry were operated to capacity. To
keep all the inmates possible busy,
the department of business control
is resorting to a great deal of hand
work.
In line with it's policy to keep the
inmates as fully occupied as posi-.
BILE, the department of business con
troll has planned the operation of the
auto license plate department during
ing will also soon take up the manu-
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ious state institutions. Officials at
the winter. The department en-
the penitentiary state that illiteracy
has virtually disappeared from that
institution No prisoner is now re
leased from either the penitentiary
or reformatory unless able to read
and write.
The former battleship "Connecti
cut" was towed from Bremerton re-
Gently to the j. F. Duthie & Co
flag of Fighting Bob" Evans, and
headed the squadron of American
battleships on tour of the world
Is years ago. Her engines were long
since dismantled, her mighty guns
spiked and useless. She will be re-
fitted to permit her movement to
San Francisco, where she will be
scrapped, in compliance with the
mandate of the Washington Arms
Conference. The Union Construc
ticn Company bought the old vessel
for junk.
One hundred and forty-fve thou
sand farmers are using sets OF radio
according to a recent survey by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. These estimates cover every
state. Federal weather forecasts
crop reports and market quotations
are now broadcast from $50 radio
stations throughout the country, as
we'll as talks on various phases OF
work of the Department of Agricul.
ture.
The erection of the Hotel Win
throp, the $1,50O,0OO community en-
terprise of Tacoma, has been award.
ed to Tacoma contracting firm
Pratt & Watson. The hetel will be
ready for operation in the spring OF
1925. The site of the hotel is at
Ninth and Broadway, which has al
ready been cleared The Winthrop
will have 253 sleeping rooms, each
with bath and shower A roof gar
den will surmount the eight stories