White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-12-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of: the Week
Assembled for Information,
of Our Readers.

A new rural mail route, to accom-
modate 121 families in the district
north of Sedro- Woolley, may be added
soon
Radio station KOWW Of Walla
Walla was ordered deleted as OF NO
vember 80 by the federal radio COM
mission last week.
Their 61st wedding anniversary was
celebrated last week by Mr.. and Mrs.
j. D. Griffin of Centralia. Mr.. Griffin
is 81 years of age and his wife is 70.
Dedicatory services Of the new
American Lutheran church at New
port will be held on December IL,
conducted by Bishop A. M. Skindlov
of Spokane.
The State Bank of Charleston will
become the First State Bank OF Bre-
merton, due to the consolidation OF
Bremerton and Charleston, effective
December 16.
The last stretch Of graveling on the
Roosevelt Yakima highway was COM
pleted last week, giving an excellent
year-around road from the ferry at
Roosevelt to all points northward.
Three miles of highway on the north
fork of Lewis river which was under
water last week is being repaired by
using a grader and scarifier, Clark
County Commissioner Ungemach SAID.
Construction work has started on
the plant of the Willapa Pulp and Pa
per Mills pulp plant midway between
the cities of Raymond and South Bend,
and it is hoped to have the plant IN
operation by spring.
The Active Club Of Elma WILL fol
lowing its usual custom, decorate the
downtown streets of the city for the
holidays. Last Sunday club members
brought in small trees with which they
lined the business streets.
All charity work in Vancouver should
be combined and taken care OF by
community chest raised in one drive
instead of depending on drives for sew
eral organizations, business men OF
the city decided last week.
By an action taken by the school
board at Tono, coal mining community
northwest of Centralia, the school will
be closed, a result of the death of a
pupil from infantile paralysis and the
reported illness of two others.
Alarmed by report Of another case
of infantile paralysis in Yakima, fol
lowing a case last week, DR.. Henry
Storgaard, city and county health Off
Ger, ordered strict quarantine of all
members of the family of the patient
Ralph Owens, single weaver for
the Aloha Lumber & Single company
was killed last week when his foot
became entangled in a single machine
pulley. Owens attempted to replace
q belt on rapidly moving pulley with
his foot.
Contracts for installation of the
Vancouver street lighting system on
Main street were signed by the Ne
Page Mckinney company last week
The agreement calls for beginning work
within 10 days and for completion il
100 days.
Fire of undetermined origin destroy
ed the South Bend hotel last week
business district of the town. Com
bined efforts of the South Bend anc
Raymond fire departments kept the
blaze in check.
Five hundred thousand pounds O.
Clark county prunes are aboard the
Royal Mail freighter Lochmonar
stranded on the coast of the British
Isles near North Crosby, short dis
lance from Liverpool, it was announc
ed at Vancouver.
Everett Albertson, 10, of Vancouver
lost two fingers and the thumb Of hi
left hand, and may lose the sight o
his left eye as result of playlni
WIN a QynamlC6 cap, WHICH he VI
tanned Sunday while on a visit to tn
farm of his uncle.
The Sand Bend ferry in the Cowlit
river near Castle Rock is still tied uI
due to high water which has made tn
approaches so slippery they cannot b.
used. The Ross Island ferry in tn
Lewis river was taken out by the higl
water of last week.
A proposal to reunite the two Chris
tian churches Of Kelso, which hav
been split for more than two years
has been received favorably by men
bers of both congregations. Unto
services were held last Sunday an
were we'll attended.
The Wenatchee plant Of the Big
apple warehouse will be enlarged an
improved for next years bushes
Manager Des Oranges has announce,
The plant was used to pack apple
from the upper Yakima valley as we
as the local crop this year.
Water, which reached depth of 9
inches in the tunnel under the Loni
view, Portland & Northern railway O
the highway leading from Longvie
IN the Pacific highway, made it nece