White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-07-15
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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Work was begun last week on the
south Kelso sewer project. for which
]. D. Hanley of Kelso has the contract.
Triplet girls were born to Mrs. Lee
Roi L. Smith Of Stevenson, last week.
They were all healthy babes, weighing
81, 3A and Az pounds.
Plans for Vancouver's community
hotel were accepted recently by the
building committee, and bids for con-
struction will be opened July 26.
H. M. Henderson, of Auburn, was
low bidder on the construction Of the
new transit shed for the Port of Olym-
pia docks with a bid of $12,232S6.
Receipts having last year passed
the $4,000 mark, as required by the
postal department, the Centralia post
office on July advanced to the first
class.
An architect has been employed to
draw plans for Seattle's civic auditor
ium and actual construction of the
building will be started about Septem.
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Burt j. Williams was confirmed
Wednesday night as city attorney of
Wenatchee, succeeding Martin Eas-
ton, who has gone to Honolulu to prac-
tice law.
The Cowlitz Pomona grange will
hold it's annual picnic at the fair
grounds at Woodland, July 81, and A.
S. Goss, master of the state grange,
will be the principal speaker.
Ellensburg business houses were
closed last week during funeral serv-
ices for Alva Tucker, chief of police,
who was slain in pistol duel with
John Emerson, Ellensburg youth.
Instead of meeting for Pomona ses,
sion on July IL, the Western Klickitat
Pomona grange held big picnic for
all oranges on that date at Allison's
picnic grounds in Trout Lake valley.
Aberdeen postal receipts for the fis.
cal year ended June 80 amounted to
$98,345.23, the largest in the city's
history. The increase over the pre-
vious year was $7110.51, approximate
ly 8 per cent.
The road to Mount Baker lodge is
now open. The Whatcom county steam
shovel broke through the last drift
last Thursday morning and automo-
biles followed it to the doors of the
big new hotel.
Improvement work on the Castle
Rock Methodist Episcopal church, in
Guiding construction of new base
ment, is nearing completion. The i'm
provements represent an investment
of about $4,000.
Steel plates are being used to rein
force the Pacific highway bridge over
the Lewis river near Woodland. A
crew of mechanics and engineers are
working on the job, which will take
several weeks to complete.
Director of Licenses Charles r. May
bury stated that the new drivers IL
censes were "going like hotcakes,"
declaring that in the first three days
of issuance over $4,000 licenses had
been mailed out at Olympia.
Whether the people of Clark county
are willing to sell the county's share
of the interstate bridge to the state
for $250,000 will be decided at an cleo
ton to be held August %, the county
commissioners have decided.
United Spanish War Veterans OF
Washington will meet in annual en-
campment at Aberdeen July Fl, % and
49, An elaborate program has been
arranged for entertainment of approx
imately 1000 visitors expected.
An attempt to blow up the business
offices of the Spokesman-Review and
the Chronicle with a powerful dyna
mite bomb failed last week when the
fuse of the internal machine burned
to within 21s inches of the percussion
cap and then went out.
Puget sounds wheat shipments fol
the last year were 7,50S,0OS bushels
and the year before were 3,434,37i
bushels. The flour movement from
the Puget sound district amounted tt
2,427,156 barrels, and during the 1925
&c season was 2,O15,324 barrels.
A total of 1896 persons crossed
the interstate bridge over the holidays
exclusive of street car and stage trav
ell and toll receipts for the three day.
totaled $S84740. The record for toll
receipts for one day was broken b.
$500, with a total OF $37O4.65, received
from 1888 persons, 9735 large auto
mobiles, 1887 small cars and Al motor
cycles.
A movement to bring the so-callet
Portland differential grain rate cas-
once more before the interstate com
, MERGE commission was started las
} week by the Seattle port commission
meeting with IL leading grain shipper
of that port.
The Washington State Association
of Letter Carriers and the Washington
State Federation Of Postoffice Clerk
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