White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-10-21
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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city limits to Fourth street will be
started.
The American Legion post at Cen
tralia held a three days show, "The
Days of Forty-Nine," at the armory
last week.
-Four hundred cars of apples were
included in the shipment of 763 cars
of fruit and vegetables sent out from
Yakima last week.
Vader voters Saturday carried
school tax for general purposes py
vote of "a to IS. A special 2-mill levy
for Fairgrounds was lost by a vote OF
"a to So.
With what is considered success
full administration to her credit, Mrs.
Bertha K. Landes, mayor OF Seattle,
has announced her candidacy to sue
coed herself.
The Commercial Air Transport COM
pany through it's manager, A. r. Scott,
announces that it would construct
three airplanes in Everett, beginning
in a week.
OF the six bids opened at Ellensburg
Monday on the clearing of the 21l-acre
site of the Kittitas high line irrigation
project, the General Construction COM
pany of Seattle was lowest, $36,925.
Between 200 and 300 grocers from
all parts of the state gathered in Ia
coma last week for the 28th annual
convention of the Washington Retail
Grocers' and Merchants association.
Fremont Troubneck of Marysville,
81, is in an Everett hospital with seri
GUS gunshot wounds received when
his gun was accidentally discharged
while he was hunting grouse near that
city.
Interstate bridge tolls will remain
as at present. So voted the bridge
commission at an adjourned session
in Vancouver last week, on motion OF
Stanley Myers of Multnomah county,
Oregon.
Group No. a Of the Washington State
Bankers association, comprising the
territory between Tacoma and the Co.
lumbia river, held its midyear meeting
in Centralia last week, attended by
about Is.
A. S. Wilson was given the contract
last week for grading and graveling
two miles of the Emil West road in
the Cowiche valley, at cost of SILL
900. The work is to be completed by
December 10.
H. A. Davies, Port Orchard pioneer,
.63, died at the Virginia Mason hospi-
tai in Seattle, after an illness of only
few days. Davies came to Seattle in
1883, and joined the Klondike gold
rush in 1897.
Miss Lillian Caverley, %, was in.
stantly killed and her companion,
Claude Rae, suffered broken leg and
internal injuries Sunday morning in
an automobile collision eight miles
south of Everett
| Walla Walla city commissioners
have adopted ordinances fixing the
budget and the tax levy, and gave two
readings to an ordinance to issue $685.
900 in refunding bonds to take up the
city hall obligations.
Tom Nesbit, Yakima restaurant man,
was crushed to death under his car
Sunday afternoon when it was wreck
ed and overturned after a collision
near Wapato with an automobile driv-
en- by Frank Lowther.
Walla Walla was selected for the
next meeting place of the Northwest
Association of Credit Men, which
closed it's session in Longview last
week. The date of the next conven-
ton was not announced.
Actual production of paper at the
new Tumwater Paper mills will begin
the latter part of this week. The ma.
chinery has been placed and is in read
mess to be tested and thoroughly con.
ditioned before the expected grind.
The finishing touches are being Civ.
en- the interior of the Castle theater
vancouver's s250,00O play house, pre-
paratory to the opening next week
This will be the greatest event in the.
atrical and motion picture history OF
Vancouver.
October % has been fixed as the
date for dedication of the new two.
story Masonic temple in Pc Ell. The
ceremonial will be under auspices OF
grand lodge officers and lodges in
southwest Washington have been in.
vited to attend.
Bids were called recently by State
Highway Engineer Humes on four
contracts for November 8, including
surfacing with concrete the shoulders
on the Pacific highway between Taco
ma and Redondo, in King and Pierce
counties.
Contracts have just been let by Olaf
L. Olsen, director of business control
for $16,500 worth of plumbing fixtures
and certain pipe and fittings for the
now cell house at the Monroe reform
atory to the Seattle Plumbing Supply
company.
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