White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-16
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Postmaster General New last week
ordered that Tacoma be added to the
Seattle-San Francisco-Los Angeles air
mail route.
The western Washington conference
of the Christian church convened in
Montesano last Saturday and Sunday
for it's annual session.
Robbers not only stole John Chris
tianson's safe from his hardware store
in Everett, but they used Christian
sons own truck to haul it away.
Tragic death records were broken
in Spokane last Monday when five
persons met violent deaths by bullets,
a motor truck and streetcar wheels.
A tentative budget approved last
week by the Vancouver city council
totaled S1S2,143.25 compared with
final budget of S173,SOS.03 last year.
Total enrolment in the four schools
of Mount Vernon on the opening day,
Tuesday, was 1924, an increase of
twenty over that of the same day last
year.
Plans for the expansion of the Ia
coma Hotel at a cost of more than
$1,000000 were announced in Tacoma
recently by ]. F. Hickey principal
owner
The Kalama, Castle Rock and Wood
land grange exhibits attracted more
than the usual attention at the Cow
litz county fair held last week at
Woodland.
Two inches of snow fell at Bird
Creek Meadows, about eight miles
from Troutlake, last Tuesday night,
one of the earliest snowfalls recorded
there in years.
Mrs. Sarah Ellen Reeves, 81, who
came to Vancouver 35 years ago from
Snohomish, died at her home in Van.
couver less than one hour after she
was taken i'll.
Mrs. Emma Smith De Voc, 70, for
many years Acknowledgment ,wo-
mans suffrage leader and equally
prominent in the republican party,
died Saturday in Tacoma.
Fire which burned over seven acres
of grass, famed by stiff breeze,
threatened the Thurston county fair
buildings at Tenino Tuesday afternoon.
No great damage was done.
Fine art will be one of the most
important features of the Western
Washington fair at Puyallup from
September 10 to Is. Paintings valued
at 100000 will be exhibited.
A fifty-year franchise to supply
Aberdeen and it's environs with natur-
al and manufactured gas was granted
the Washington Gas & Electric COM
pany by the city council last week.
Plans and specifications for the new
steel bridge to cross portion of the
Skagit river at Mount Vernon were
approved by the board of county com.
missioners and bids were called for
Contracts for a new street lighting
system in Bellingham's business sec
ton have been awarded by the city
council. About 20 blocks will be light
ed. The work iSto be completed De
cember Is.
The annual conference of the United
Brethren church for the district O
Oregon and Western Washington will
meet in Vancouver September Is tt
10. About 100 ministers will attent
the conference.
With bullet hole through his heat
and his jaw broken, the body of bud
ley Pease, TO- was found in the kitchen
= es~his home at Elma last week by his
wife and stepson who had just re
turned from an out-of-town visit.
While hunting last week City Mar
shall Joe Fahey of Selah jumped dowr
into a narrow canyon, and found hi!
way out barred by a host of angr.
rattlesnakes. He was forced to xii
20 of them before he routed them.
Preparation of the aviation field OF
the United States hospital grounds IL
Walla Walla is partially in anticipa
ton of the awarding of contract soor
for air mail service from Portland vie
Walla Walla and Spokane to Montana
points.
Robert Mcbride, "a, of Centralia
and Fred Wurst, 80, were killed las
Monday while working at the MUMMY
Logging company's camp at Malone
near Elma. An overhead line broke
and in falling struck both men, frac
turing their skulls.
Delayed for two days because of in
clement weather, apple picking started
in the Walla Walla district last Thurs
day morning. 1t is expected thai
within week work will be in full
swing on the bumper crop which this
district will ship this year.
Death ended the colorful career ot
Auburn's oldest pioneer when it claim
ed the life of James E. Faucet. Mr.
Faucet had lived in that vicinity fol
60 years, coming there with his fam
lily as the first white settlers in that
region. He was SO years old.