White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-06-10
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

Edmonds' $4,000 bond issue for
new ten-room school house will be
sold July 5.
The annual convention of the Veter.
ans of Foreign Wars for the depart
ment- of Washington was held in Van.
couver last week.
June 10 has been selected for the
annual meeting and picnic of the Ca
mas Prairie and vicinitySPioneer as
sociation to be held at Glenwood.
Commencement exercises for the
first class to graduate from the new
Central high school building at Col
vile, was held in the auditorium June
Growers of early cabbage near Wal.
la Walla, which has just come on the
market, are getting Z cents a pound,
the highest price in years. The crop
is short.
An all-northwest meeting Of the Ma
tional Apple Advertising association
will be held at Spokane June 10 to
consider detailed plans for national
campaign.
Dr. George H. T. Sparkling arrived,
in Walla Walla from Seattle to take
up his work as county-city health Off
hos hao1fb nfPipnrs in
King county.
S. G. NORM, Spokane contractor has
been awarded the contract for con-
struction of a $4,000 boys dormitory
building at the state custodial school
at Medical Lake.
Bellarmine college at Tacoma, a
school of the Jesuit fathers, is plan
ming the erection of group of school
buildings that will cost in the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
j. D. Hanley, Kelso contractor, was
the low bidder on the South Kelso
sewer improvement when the Cowlitz
county commissioners opened the
bids. His bid was $160,400.
Fire destroyed large truck on the
Pacific highway near Martins bluff
south of Kalama, last week. The fire
started as the truck was descending
hill. The driver was burned slightly.
School district No. 70 of Cowlitz
county, known as the Midway district,
was dissolved by the Cowlitz county
commissioners and it's territory added
to the Longview school district, No.
III
The, Calvary tabernacle at Centralia
has purchased motor bus to trans
port members of the congregation to
church services and Sunday school
who have no other means of convey
ance
County Treasurer Fred De Graft of
Spokane county received SO much
money during the conclusion of the
tax rush it will take him week to
count the $1,OOO,OOO or more in pay
ments.
Twenty-seven persons and five
firms, associated as the Allied Clean
ers and Dyers of Seattle, were indicted
by federal grand jury there on
charge of violating the Sherman anti
trust act.
A. j. Edwards of Silver Lake cut
his left leg severity and broke both
bones in it when his ak slipped as he
was cutting on a piece Of piling at
Clark Studebaker's logging camp near
Silver Lake.
Plans for the construction Of two
and one-haf miles of water mains in
Beverly Park, near Everett, were an
nounced by the Beverly Park Water
company. The company will issue
100000 in bonds.
Permits for new buildings to the
value of S67,44 and for repairs to the
value of S10,034 were issued by City
Clerk Mcdonald of Vancouver during
May. Twenty permits were issued
for dwellings.
Bishop Z. M. Cross of Spokane will
deliver the address at the thirty-first
annual commencement to be June ID,
when nearly 400 students will receive
their degrees from the Washington
state college at Pullman.
Contracts amounting to over $1,000
600 were awarded for the construction
of IL miles of the Kittitas high line
canal on bids opened at the Ellepsburg
offices of the United States reclama-
ton service last week.
Joseph Wigley, fourteen, was be-
lieved by Edwin Twilmyer, state high
school inspector, to be the youngest
high school graduate in the state this
year. Wigley was graduated from the
Darlington school last Friday.
Realty tax receipts at the Cowlitz
county treasurer's office May 81, were
$101,973.93, County Treasurer Eden
Durham announced, with 1887 receipts
issued, which set record for the
county in number Of receipts issued
in one day.
Fivesixths of the fifth grade pupils
of the Spokane public schools are
strictly honest, according to the re-
suits of an honesty problem that SUI
perintendent O. C. Pratt lad fifth