White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-23
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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of Our Readers.

Klickitat grangers would do away
with the expense of conducting teach-
ers' Institutes.
The 1928 state annual convention OF
the National Congress of Mothers ana
Teachers will convene in Longview
and Kelso.
Hugh Currie, "a years old, pioneer
logger of Shelton, died there last week.
With his brother, 80, now living In
Seattle, he came to Shelton in 1884.
Mrs. Corintha Land, who crossed
the plains in 1870, died at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. H. B. Allen, in
Walla Walla last week, aged SO years.
Sheep trains from the west and
north were consolidated into one train
at Wenatchee last week, and train
load of thirty-eight cars rolled for Chi
cago.
Nearly all newspapers of the state
were represented at the forty-first an
nual convention of the Washington
State Press Association, held in We
natchee last week.
Rain has stopped threshing in the
Othello district Farmers will do more
fall seeding this year than for the past
10 years, as conditions are excellent
The state board of equalization has
been requested by the Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul to cut it's valuation
from s5O,OOO,00O to $2O,0O0O00 or $685.
100000.
the state board of equalization to re-
duce it's valuation from $131, 900,
as fixed by the state tax commission,
to s7o,ooo,oOo.
Lake Chelan is now twenty feet
above it's former level, according to
Cyril Debrish, engineer in charge Of
installing the butterfly valve in the
penstock Of the power dam.
Three miners employed in Mine No.
z of the Northwestern Improvement
company at Gle Elum were trapped
last week by cavern, and one of the
victims was not accounted for.
Fire, believed to be Of incendiary
origin, destroyed $4,000 prune dry
er belonging to Max Resch, a farmer
living in the Lake Shore district. The
loss included 600 boxes of prunes.
"The Castle" will be the name of
the new $15O,0O0 theater in Vancouver,
which is nearing completion. 1t Is
planned to open the theater, which
will seat 1850 persons, on October 8.
A course in game farming will be Of
fered at Washington State college this
fall, for the first time. A study of the
general principles in the conservation
Of wild life will be included in the
course.
Progressive citizens of Auburn, AL
gona, Buckley, Enumclaw, Orting,
Puyallup' and Sumner will organize
Puyallup Valley Boosters association
to advertise throughout the United
States.
The work of repairing the damage
from the disastrous cell house fire at
the state penitentiary at Walla Walla
one year ago has been completed and
the convicts are we'll housed for the
winter.
Fields in the vicinity of Wilbur have
been soaked to depth of more than
six inches by recent rains. Standing
spring grain is damaged some, but the
ground. will be in excellent condition
for fall sowing.
Registration in the public schools
of Elma show an increase of about 10
per cent. The high school increase is
about twenty, while grade school regis
tration. shows 446 an increase of 80
over the same time last year.
Washington's timber resources never,
will be exhausted at the rate scien-
tific reforestation is being put into
practice by the big timber and mill
operators, George G. Joy of Olympia,
state supervisor of forestry, declared
while looking over the forestry ex-
hibit at the state fair in Yakima last
week.
Total cash balance in the various
state funds sagged back about half a
million dollars last week, the receipts
having been only s526,544.67 for the
week ending September 8, while ex-
penditures by warrants paid totaled
$1,020,46766, as shown by the report
of State Treasurer w. G. Potts. The
general fund holds $2,3O5,O52; the mo-
tor vehicle fund haas $3,467,097 on
hand for state highway work; the, per-
manent highway fund holds $1,403,OO5
in trust for the various counties.
The Great Northern railway has
more than 1000 men at work on the
Chumstick cutoff between Peshastin
and Winton. The crews are working
in two directions and sixteen camps
have been established.
Great Northern railroad officials
have announced that an electric repair
shop to cost $150,000 will be built in
Wenatchee next year. The shop will
be equipped to care for all work on
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