White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-02
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF. INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
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of Our Readers.


Tacoma was host to the Washington
State Medical society for its annual
convention the first of the week.
The 18th annual convention of the
National Retail Lumber Dealers asso-
citation was held in Tacoma last week.
Struck by a passenger train near
Mcmillan last week, two men and
girl in an automobile were killed and
third man suffered serious injuries.
When struck by falling telephone
pole on his fathers farm on the Ko-
piah road, east of Centralia, Joe Hall,
10, sustained injuries that proved ia
tai.
Removal of a tumor weighing ~
pounds from the body of a 5-weeks-old
baby is announced by DR.. Williamson
Robinson of Spokane. The child will
live.
Residents at Dumping lake will seek
permission to kill brown bear that
has been driven out by forest fires
and has taken up his abode at the
lake.
First peppermint oil ever produced
in Snohomish county was distilled at
the ]. G. Robinson lettuce farms, near
Monroe. Mr.. Robinson has sixty-five
acres of peppermint.
Harold L. Dewey, 20, son of Walter
/. Dewey of Tacoma, was instantly
killed Saturday night when his car
plunged from the Tacoma-Seattle high
way and struck telegraph pole.
Fire of undetermined origin COM
pletely destroyed the mill of the South
Prairie Lumber company at South
Prairie, 81 miles southeast of Tacoma,
with loss estimated by company Of
ficials at 100000
Larson Brothers of Spokane have
been awarded the contract for the $751;
900 theatre to be constructed at Pull
man by P. w. Struppler. The theatre
will seat 700 persons and will be fin
ished by December.
Walla Walla city commissioners re-
Gently adopted a resolution limiting
downtown automobile parking to two
hours in the daytime and four at night.
The matter previously has been han
died by police regulation.
The United Fruit Growers Cooper
alive association held meeting in
Rochester last week to sign contracts
with growers. More than 100 Roches-
ter and Grand Mound growers already
have joined the association.
Residents of the East Selah district
north of Yakima and on the east side
of the Yakima river will have rural
free delivery from the Yakima office
beginning September 16, Postmaster
H. l.. Leeper has announced.
Trapped in gully for two days with
broken leg and internal injuries,
Sidney Anderson Of Shelton, one of a
fire-fighting contingent, was found
Sunday by fellow workers who had
secured the countryside for him.
Night Marshal Carton, 81, of Chelan
was shot to death last week when he
surprised burglars looting the safe in
the garage of Hum Wolverton. Car
tons body was found clutching gun
in one hand and his flashlight in an
other.
Mayor Williams of Oakville accept
ed challenge from Mayor Tennent Of
Tacoma to horse race to be partici
pated in by the mayors of southwest
Washington Wednesday afternoon
September FL, at the western Wash
ington fair at Puyallup.
Austin Mills, IL, was crushed to
death under the wheels Of a heavy
gravel truck on the highway, five
miles north Of Vancouver, last week
when the horse he was riding became
frightened and reared up, throwing the
lad beneath the wheels.
Sam Chess shipped the first straight
carload of peaches of the 1927 season
from Wenatchee last week. The peach
crop is short this year and may not
amount to more than forty cars, com
pared with seventy-eight last year, &C.
cording to George Harter, district hor.
ticultural inspector.
At a special meeting of stockholders
of the Lewis-Pacific Dairyman's asso
citation held in Chehalis recently, the
trustees were authorized to take steps
Immediately to engage in supplying
dairy feed of all kinds to the mem
bers. The new business will be han.
died comparatively.
A disastrous fire in Napavine de.
stroyed three dwellings and church
and the town itself was saved only by
reason of the fact that the wind was
favorable, and the prompt assistance
of the Chehalis fire department which
made the run in record time.
Bernard Suttle, Mckee newsboy
whose skull was fractured few days
ago by an accidental blow with a goli
club in the hands of younger broth
er, was reported showing symptoms OF
meningitis. Fears were expressed
that his injury might result fatally.