White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-11-25
WASHINGTON NEWS
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Principal Events Of the Week
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Fifteen Japanese were held in the
Hoquiam Jail last week in an asserted
plot to smuggle Orientals into the
United States.
Washington's 1927 record squash
was brought to Vancouver last week
by ]. w. Barnes. 1t tipped the scales
at As pounds.
The basement of the Methodist
church parsonage at Almira was eX
cavated last week by the church mem
bers in charge of 1. ]. Blair.
Irrigationists from all parts OF the
state attended a two-day meeting Oh
the Washington Irrigation INSTITUTE
held in Wenatchee last week.
Cowlitz Bend grange has announced
plans for new hall for it's home on
an acreage owned five miles south OF
Toledo on the Pacific highway.
Workers took the field last week in
an effort to complete the financing OF
the Walla Walla community chest bud
get. About $4,000 is to be raised.
The Independent ticket has been
placed in the field for the annual Pc
Ell election December 6, in opposition
to the peoples ticket chosen last week.
All road work in Clark county, with
the exception of maintenance, will be
SUSPENDED for the winter unless the
weather clears soon, County Engineer
Deako said.
All registration records for Aberdeen
we're broken recently with total Of
$500 qualified voters when the books
closed for the city and school election
December 3.
Constant rains of the past week re-
suited in slide which threatens to
undermine y large bulkheaded area
along Terrace Heights hill in an Aber-
deem residential area.
Timber covering 10,440 acres in the
Quinault Indian reservation, having an
estimated value Of $250,000, will be
offered for sale by the Indian bureau
after January 10, 1923.
Arrested on a charge of shortage
of government funds, Frank Whetzel
postmaster at Steptoe, will be tried at
the next session of United States dis
trict court at Walla Walla.
Seven cities of Washington, Aber
deem, Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Spo
kane, Yakima and Vancouver, are EN-
ploying 33 special teachers for sub
normal or backward pupils.
December 1, 2 and have been des
ignated as the dates for the annua
Lewis County Poultry School, whicl
will be held in Winlock under stat
college extension department auspices
Ninety candles, one for each year
adorned the huge birthday cake which
was the centerpiece of the banque
table on the birthday Of Isaac w. Car
son, civil war veteran of Vancouver
James H. Woods, manager Of the
Tacoma branch of the Pacific Mutua
Life Insurance company, died in
Seattle hospital from injuries received
when he fell from the second story o
hotel.
Picking of apples in the Walla Wal
la, Waitsburg and Dayton section
was completed last week. The crop i
about 1000 carloads, much Of whicl
has gone into storage awaiting bette
prices.
Mrs. Aaron Sherman brought VOL
River apple to Woodland recently tina
is LAX inches around and weighs 1
ounces. Her husband states that thre
years ago they raised one that weighed
26 ounces.
The Ellensburg office of the bureau
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clearing and grubbing Of the right O
way of several laterals under the mai
canal of the Kittitas highline irrigatio
project last week.
Oscar Kalo, 40, police character Q
Aberdeen, is dead, and Virgil Matsor
81, is in the Aberdeen Jail as resul
Of what the police call a Canned heat
drinking bout and subsequent figh
last Saturday night.
The contract for cell work on tn
new cell wing of the state reformator
at Monroe was let recently. The ne'
wing, containing 800 cells, is estimate
to cost S350,O00, and doubles the capa,
ity of the cell building.
II the present plans are carried ou
steps toward recognizing the plan
of the Columbia Box & Lumber con
pany at South Bend and building it
50-ton sulphate pulp mill will be take
in the early part of December.
Harvesting Of the apple crop in tn
White Salmon valley fruit belt Is pra,
, tically finished and grading and pacl
ing of large part of the crop is unde
!: full Roadway at the plant Of the Ur
derwood Fruit G. Warehouse compan
at Underwood.