White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-07-01
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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Centralia's annual rose show was
held Saturday under the auspices OF
a committee Of the Women's Civic
club.
The Longview American Legion
drum corps was in Woodland last Sat
urday assisting in Planters day fes-
Invites there.
The Aberdeen Active club elected
officers and arranged for a joint in
stallation to be held in Aberdeen the
first week in July.
Planned as neucleus for the fu'
ture development of aviation in that
city, the Longview Aero club, Inc,
was organized last week.
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed the grocery store of f. ).
Cotterell at Minnehaha last week.
The loss was about $4,000.
Arterial highways are soon to be
marked in Olympia, in accordance
with the new state highway laws, the
city engineer announces.
The Yakima school district has 7O64
persons of school age, according to
census just completed. This is gain
of 2S6 over the 1926 figures.
Traffic conditions are nearly normal
again at Rock Point, north of kelso,
where huge slide of rock covered
the Pacific highway June IL.
Between 5000 and 1000 dairymen
and members of their families gather
ed at Island Park, Everson, for their
annual picnic last Saturday.
Mrs. Martha A. Bentley, Is, who
crossed the plains from Missouri in a
covered wagon as a child of four,
died at the home of her daughter in
Kelso last week.
The Cowlitz and Coweeman rivers
at Kelso are full of logs due to the
high water in the Columbia which pre-
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along the Columbia
Industrial and commercial leaders
from all sections of the state were
in Bellingham last week for the
fourth annual meeting of the state
chamber of commerce..
The oath of allegiance was admin
istered last week to 504 students at
the citizens military training camps
at Vancouver barracks by Lieutenant.
Colonel C. R. Hotchkiss.
E. p. Brewster, Chehalis contractor,
took out a permit last week for $780,
600 for the new Chehalis Junior high
school building, contract for which
was awarded him recently.
On celebrating their golden wedding
anniversary at Tacoma last Monday,
Mrs. H. A. Herds cut the cake she
made for her wedding in Grand
Rapids, Mich, so years ago.
Rodeo will be staged at Lewis every
other Sunday to provide entertain.
ment for tourists, fishermen and
others who visit eastern Lewis coun-
ty, the first was held last Sunday.
The Yakima commission recently
enacted a new traffic ordinance fix
ing the maximum speed within the
city at 25 instead of 20 miles an hour
and the rate at intersections Is miles
The new cement highway leading
to the Kennewick-Pasco bridge from
Pasco has been thrown open to traffic
from Washington street east. The
new road is expected to be oper
July 4.
Actual construction of Hoquiam's
new $3,000,O0O pulp plant has beer
started and contracts for the con
structon of the main unit will be lei
during the coming week, officials an
nounced.
Wilbur's $4,000 community swim
ming pool, just completed, will be
dedicated July 4 by celebration
which is being sponsored by the com
mittee which supervised the building
of the pool.
The cherry market opened in We
natchee last week when two firms
started buying Bings and Lambert'
at II to IS cents and Royal Annes a
from 8 to 10 cents. Picking has start
ed all over the valley.
With the installation of Colone
Byron Phelps, S5, Seattle, as com
mander of the Grand Army of tn
Republic, department of Washington
and Alaska, and Mrs. Kate Burnham
Spokane, as department president o
the Woman's Relief corps, the cul
tain dropped on the business ses
sions of the 45th annual encampmen
held in Wenatchee last week.
In the vicinity of Elma, the straw
berry center, growers estimate tina
the 1927 crop will be from rs to 3
per cent greater than the harvest Q
1926. Rains of May and June hav
also improved the hay prospects G
the county.
Establishing local improvement
district for the purpose of installin
q modern lighting system in Vancol
ver's business district and the prt
posed repaving of Twenty-sixth stree