White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-11-18
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

With development this week Of
test well pumping 100000 gallons a
day, the town of Bucoda is assured of
an adequate supply of pure water for
the future.
Grading Of Division avenue south
Of Main street was ordered by the city
council last week, to be paid for joint
ly by the city Of Elma and by the
school district.
John Medeen, about go, resident
of Edmonds for thirty years, died from
suffpcation when he was caught in
cave-in of a tunnel on an Edmonds
sewer project.
The town of Calvin, miles west
of Centralia, was threatened with de-
struction by fire last week, until the
blaze was subdued by the Centralia
fire department.
The storehouse Of the Associated Oil
company, in Yakima, with some $50
drums of lubricating oil, fuel oil and
gasoline, collapsed recently, dropping
the drums to the earth.
License Director @. r. Maybury has
installed Is electrically driven type
writer's which will double the speed
with which motor vehicle and other
licenses may be written.
A year-old 13O-pound cougar was
shipped from Olympia to Pullman and
presented as mascot to Washington
State college by Governor Hartley at
the Idaho football game Armistice day.
Leo. F. Bruno, Klickitat stockman,
near Grand Dalles on the Columbia
river, says that water fowl have not
been as plentiful on the ponds along
the Columbia this year as in former
years.
The annual Winlock election has
been called for Tuesday, December g.
A mayor for the term Of two years,
two councilmen for two-year terms
and a treasurer for one year are to be
elected.
Members of the Odd Fellows lodges
from Island, San Juan, Snohomish,
Skagit and Whatcom counties met at
Burlington Monday for the district
convention. More than 200 delegates
attended.
A total Of 1874 motor vehicle Ii.
censes has been issued in Vancouver
this year, compared with 1924 for
the entire year of 1926, a gain of 1880.
Sale of 1928 licenses will start De-
cember 1.
Prices in the Yakima pear pool Of
the American Fruit Growers, Inc.
closed out last week, were announced
as $3.50 box for extra fancy, 1905
and larger; $1.S5 for extra fancy 1885
and smaller.
Bankers of Klickitat county met last
Wednesday night in Goldendale with
view of forming county unit of
the Washington Bankers association.
Representatives from all banks in the
county were present.
George Cheney Gleason Of Yakima.
who died at the home of his son, the
Rev. ]. M. Gleason, on Summitview,
was eighty-five years of age, Civil
War veteran and the father of three
Presbyterian ministers.
Rain has delayed work on the new
school building at Orchards and the
building will not be ready to occupy
by December 1. The contractors are
making every effort to complete the
building before Christmas.
With the approach of the holidays,
poultry thieves are becoming active
in Clark county Charles Freytag,
who lives on Fourth Plain road, re-
ported the theft from his chicken pens
of 80 Rhode Island Red hens.
The five-foot knife made to carve
Yakima's giant apple pie has been
sent as a present to R. G. Phillips of
Rochester, N. Y, secretary of the In
ternational Apple Shippers associa
ton, and will hang in his office.
An Ellensburg youth last week gave
County Auditor Fred Briggs of Yaki
ma county the first bad check ever
paid for a marriage license. He came
to Briggs home the same night and
gave Briggs $3.50 to take up the check
Mrs. c. M. Taylor, 81, died of in.
juries sustained when she was crush.
ed between logs that rolled from a
runaway logging train near Doty last
week. Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor were
walking up the track to their home
near Doty when the train bore down
upon them. They left the track but
the train wrecked and the logs went
splitting down upon the woman.
Frank Jacobs, for "a years news.
paper man of Grays Harbor county
and until recently editor and owner
of the Elma Chronicle, has been ap-
pointed by Mayor Patrick to fill out
the unexpired term of A. w. Fry as
police Judge for Elma.
A movement to obtain the famous
navy cruiser Olympia, now at Philadel.
phia navy yard out of commission, for