White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-06-17
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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of Our Readers.

NJ Lake CQ0ldu sunday.
Seattle will get the 1928 interna.
tional Kiwanis convention, according
to telegram received there recently.
K. T. Henderson of Longview has
received the contract to build the new
gymnasium for the Vader schools. His
bid was $500.
The Onalaska Izaak Walton league
closed its charter list and the charter
was presented officially by G. D..
Heineman, state organizer.
The new 100000 plywood factory
of the Aberdeen Plywood company,
under construction in Aberdeen, will
be in operation by August 1.
Mrs. Mary Ann Dow, age SO, pioneer
westerner and resident Of the Spo.
kane region for more than 40 years,
died at the Samaritan home last week.
Frank H. sharkey, cashier. Of the
First National bank of Yakima, is
dead at hospital in that city. He had
been connected with the bank for rs
years.
p. j. Berry, chairman of the Van
couver school board, presented diplo-
mas to 103 graduates Of Vancouver
high school at the commencement ex-
ercises last week.
Norton B. Wilson, son Of A. S. Will
son Of Yakima, who took the examin-
atoms for both West Point and Anna
polls, has received an appointment to
both institutions.
Kelso was CARRIED in holiday attire
last week for the annual state conven-
ton of the Eagles lodge, which held
three-day session there. About 5000
persons attended.
Guardians of the states private
purse strings, 200 of the members of
the Washington State Bankers assoc
citation, met in Tacoma for their an.
nual convention last week.
AS a result of serious drop due to
late freezes, estimates of the Yakima
pear production this season are con-
siderably below normal. Predictions
range from 1900 to 1000 cars.
Mrs. Lena Weltz of Endicott was in
stantly killed near Diamond Monday
when car in which she was riding
with her husband left the pavement
and overturned in ditch.
The home of Mrs. Rosetta Graves on
40-acre tract a mile east of Machias
was wrecked last Sunday night by
three dynamite blasts. The. outrage
is laid to reprisal by moonshiners.
Grant county has larger taxable
acreage than any other county in the
state, with 1,460,707 acres, according
to Assessor E. l. Hutton. The total
valuation of the land is $13,O19,493.
Close to one million trout fry will
be released in western Grays harbor
streams by the county game commits
sion some time this summer, 1t was
announced by commission members.
Farmers in the Braynon mountain
district complained to the Cowlisz
county commissioners last week that
bears were making swimming holes
in the county road through their dis
trict.
Bidding $139,426, G. F. Martin COM
pany, Seattle, received the contract
| for construction of a three-story brick
| and concrete administration building
for the state school for the deaf at
Vancouver
Breaking all records Off early prices
received for northwestern spring
lambs, four cars of "baby woolies'
were sold by Tom Drumheller, Walla
Walla sheep man, at Chicago for
$18.75 a hundred.
Approximately SO members of the
Northwestern Typographical confer
ence from Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Montana and British Columbia will
assemble in Aberdeen June q for the
annual conference convention.
Walla Walla city commissioners
have adopted resolutions for paving
two more streets, Bellevue, from Isaac
to Melrose, and Walla Walla from Di-
visoin to White. This will make about
45 miles of paving in the city.
School census for Longview as Of
May l, 1927, shows a total count Of
24SO persons residing in this district
between the ages of four and 81. This
figure is an increase of 251 over that
of May 1, 1925. The first census for
the Longvew district was taken in
1924, and showed total count of 11O7.
Directors OF the Walla Walla cham.
Der of commerce suggested to city Of
I ficials that some "stop" and Ego" sys-
TEN be installed In the business dis
trict better to care for the constantly
increasing traffic. A resolution asked
the city to take immediate action.
Everett's Fourth of July celebration
committee announced that $500 will
be given the winner Of swim from
Hat Island. to Everett, a distance of
four miles. In. addition, prize Of
5000 wih be given. the woman who
beats members Of her sex in the swim
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