White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-26
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for information
of Our Readers.

The midi Columbia chamber of COM
merce met at Goldendale Thursday
and completed It's organization.
The rosiest apples and the most 81"
gantic potatoes will be on display at
the Washington State fair at Yakima
September 1917.
Longview is advertising for bids for
the construction of S3S0,OOO grain
elevator to be erected at the pubic
port dock in that city.
Damage estimated at $4,000 was
caused by a fire which RACED the top
story of the G. K. Holtzinger ware
house in Yakima last week.
Forty-eight rattlesnakes were killed
by four residents of the Status dis
trict, who few days ago dislodged
the reptiles from a rocky den.
A new warehouse, 60 by 160 feet,
is being built by the Columbia River
of the main building in Vancouver.
At a special election in the Roches-
ter grade school district an extra tax
levy of 10 mills was authorized. The
levy had been defeated at a previous
election.
The Joe Polly store and the Ariel
postoffice, also operated by Mr.. Polly
at Ariel, Ia miles up the Lewis river
from Woodland, were destroyed by
fire last week.
Fred Cobb, IS, assistant scout mas
ter at Camp Kelcema, near Everett,
died from injuries received when he
fell over precipice while on Boy
Scout hiking trip.
Insect pests in the Lower Yakima
valley have been identified as earwigs
according to agriculture officials. 1t
was supposed the earwig had not yet
invaded this section.
Informal commencement exercises
marked the close of the summer ses-
sion of the Ellensburg Normal school,
when 95 students were awarded ele-
mentary diplomas last week.
The tentative budget prepared by
rent expense in 1923 totals $249,.
4S4.31, as compared with the final
budget of $1SS,151,71 last year.
C. A. Bradt, prominent Kelso dairy.
man, broke his left leg when a tractor
toppled on him as he was attempting
to drive over the Northern Pacific
railway grade which divides his farm.
The budget requests of officers for
charity and correction expenses in
Cowlitz county in 1928, as compiled by
the county auditor from the estimates
submitted to his office, total $56,170
President c. H. Fisher of the Bel
bingham Normal school states that the
cornerstone of the schools 100000
library will be laid August 25, one day
before the closing of the summer term
Rev. w. S. MacLaren of Portland
was elected president of the National
Prisoners Aid association at the 57tf
annual congress of the American Prls
on association held in Tacoma las
week.
Dedication Of the new dairy prod
ucts building on the state fair grounds
at Yakima has been set for Septem
Der IA. Invitations have been sen
to 100000 dairymen throughout tn
country.
Although $225,O0O is available 70
construction of the Wapato pumping
unit, it is unlikely that the work will
begin before next spring, w. M. Reed
chief engineer of the Indian irrigation
service, said
Four and one-half million dollar
will be appropriated for permanen
construction at Camp Lewis, within
the next two years, making it one o
United States.
Grays Harbor county deer. .Seaso
will open September 15gand close Sci
TENDER 30, both dates inclusive, it wa
announced by game commissioners
One buck with visible horns will cor
stitute the limit.
Lumber shipments from Willap
harbor for July reached total of 10
577,164 feet, the highest figure TO
several months, according to repor
just issued by E. G. Richmond, mar
ager of the Traffic association.
The Centralia city commission ha
closed a contract with Allan Borst 70
purchase of 45-acre tract ON Ford
Prairie, adjoining Centralia to tn
west, for use as an aviation field, a
an agreed price of $500 per acre. !.
Fire on the Glen Bergevin plac
southwest of Walla Walla destroyed
barn, Is head of horses, hay, harnes
and other equipment for a total los
of about $4,000. The animals wer
freed and driven from the barn, bu
ran back.
Contract for construction of ZOO
foot road up Van Wrinkle creek. tn
route of the pipeline for Aberdeen
new Industrial water project on tn
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