White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-04-17
Washington News

| OLYMPIA. - The State Highway
Committee has decided that the towns
benefited by state highways that run
through them will have to buy whats
ever rights-of-way may be needed in
making further improvements. The
state is finding it increasingly diff
cult to obtain rights-of-way through
the country, public sentiment which
once went to the length of giving free
rights-of-way now demanding full pay
ment. If there are rights-of-way
troubles to be ironed out in the cities
and towns this must be done by local
councils, it has been decided. Most
towns have done this in the PAST, but
in one notable case big city dumped
the wholep roblem and it's expense up
on the state.
SEATTLE.-Letters of invitation
have been dispatched to former Presi-
dent Obregon Of Mexico to attend the
18th annual National Foreign Trade
convention here next June.
RIDGEFIELD.-Plan are being
drawn for new 100000 high school
at Washougal, with accommodations
for 200 students. To build the struc-
ture the various districts will be
asked to unite.
OLYMPIA.-A statewide spelling
contest, in which county champions
from the eighth grades in the public
schools will compete, has been ar
ranged by the State Department OF
Education to be held in Olympia,
June 6. The contest is an annual
affair, the first one having been held
in 1917.
A diamond first prize and gold
second prize have been presented
each year by Representative John w.
Summers of Walla Walla, who, it is
hoped, will this year personally pre-
sent the medals to the winners.
WENATCHEE- Miss Hilma Erick-
son, Wenatchee high school senior,
has been chosen queen of the 1926
Apple Blossom Festival here, starting
May 8.
K OLYMPIA.-In order to afford bet
ter accommodations to the public, the
offices Of the state license department
will be kept open continuously from
s o'clock in the morning until S
o'clock in the afternoon, instead Of
from 8 to noon and to 4, it has been
announced by Charles H. Maybury,
director of licenses. The change will
not involve longer working hours for
any of the employees, as allowance will
be made in the working hours, which
will adjust the time Of the persons on
duty for the extra periods.
STATE COLLEGE, Putnam. J.
Smith, head of the department Of ag-
ricultural engineering of the State col
lege will be in charge of investigation
of farm power lines, the investigation
committee Of the state, this year.
Eight different districts of the state
will be studied. The possibilities of
further identification in the home for
the purpose of operating labor-saving
devices will be given consideration, as
well as possibility Of using electric
power for operating farm machinery.
Studies will be made of representative
lines at Pullman and Colfax for the
Palouse country, Nepsel and Wilbur
for the dry land section, the orchard
section in the Wenatchee area, d.
yersified farming section in the Yaki-
ma Valley, the dairy section around
Enumclaw, the very section in the
Puyallup Valley, the poultry districts
around Lynden and a section in Clark
County.
SPOKANE.-Wil Bouck, de-
posed master of the Washington State
Grange, and his associates in the
Western Progressive Grange are
without legal right to their claim of
one-half interest in the community
hall of the Narcisse Grange No. 301.
Stevens County, under a decision
handed down by Judge G. HI. Neal of
Okanogan County. The case was in
stituted in Stevens County Superior
Court in 1922.
YAKIMA.-Erle ]. Barnes, Yakima
real estate man, has been appointed
director of the department of con-
servation and reclamation and also
Of the department of agriculture by
Gov. R. H. Hartley. He relieves .di-
rectors Dan A. Scott of Ritzville and
F. H. Gloyd of the agricultural depart
ment. The two departments will he
combined under the Hartley regime.
SEATTLE.-Contro and direction
Of the pageant "The Wayfarer," which
is to be presented in the U. of W..
stadium next July, will be transferred
from the University Of Washington
student body to committee of Seat
tie men, the student board of control
decided at the request Of Darwin
Meisnest, graduate manager.
KELSO.-The Puget Sound Power
& Light Company is starting construc-
| ton work on ne wtransmission line
from ,t.s r.ain line at the juncture Of
the Kalama River road and the Pacific
Highway to Rainier, Ore, which re-
ceives its electric service from the