White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-12
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

Contracts for street improvements
to cost $4,000 were awarded last
week by the Hoquiam city council.
Kelso suffered no fire loss during
the month of July, the report OF CHIEF
George Miller to the city council
showed.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the Kitsap county fair at
Port Orchard from September Is to IL
inclusive.
The Skamania county fair will be
held in Stevenson September ~ to
"a. Exhibits are expected from ada
cent counties.
A feature of the fifth annual round
up at Sumas will be cowboy buck
ing contest for the championship OF
North America.
The Cowlitz County Pioneer soci'
ETY. will hold its annual picnic in the
Pleasant Hill auto park near Castle
Rock, August 81.
Pioneer friendships were renewed
by more than 1000 old settlers OF
Skagit county at Pioneer park in La
Conner last week.
The total assessed value of Yaki.
ma county now is $36,676,S90. This
is an increase of about $250,0OO over
last years valuation.
The "Sportsmen's Paradise" is a
term which has been applied to Gle
Elum, a city of about $500 inhabi-
tants on the Sunset highway.
Henry Ernst Of Ritzville and Harry
Becker, II, son of Henry Becker Jr.
were killed Saturday in a threshing
machine accident near Odessa.
Gilbert Terrell, 16, son of Peter Ter
rel of Rosalia, was drowned Sunday
in Williams lake, near Spokane, when
a boat he was rowing capsized.
Extensive preparations are being
made by A. e. Lawson for the ap-
preaching Washington state fair, to
be held in Yakima September IL to
II.
The new Tenino cannery started
operations last week with a crew of
IS employed. The operations are be-
ing devoted largely to beans, with
some beets.
The Kelso Paper company, which
recently acquired site on the Cow
litz river in North Kelso, will com
mence construction of it's plant about
September /.
Librarians and trustees of small
Libraries of western Washington will
meet in Longview August 30 to dis
cuss informally problems peculiar to
small libraries.
A total of $500 automobiles, with a
valuation of $1,O05,113, are on the
assessors books Of Walla Walla coun-
ty. This is decrease from 5000 as
,sessed last year.
1t is thought the Indian hospital at
White Swan will be abandoned, the
Indians insisting that the money to
be expended on the hospital should
be given to them directly.
Five thousand people attended the
sixth annual farmers and merchants
picnic at Alexander park, in which
Chehalis business men were hosts to
Lewis county country people.
Permits for buildings in Wenatchee
during July totaled $4,000, according
to figures issued by City Engineer
Fred Sharkey. Total permits to Aug
ust / for the year are $415,775.
Harvesting of grain in the Ridge
field section Of the country is under
way, ideal weather prevailing and all
Indications pointing to a heavy yield
Threshing will commence soon.
An extra tax levy Of 10 mills for
school purposes was defeated last
Wednesday, at a special election in
the Calvin district, west of Centralia
The vote was &C to Sc against the
levy.
Fruit experts estimate that the
prune crop of the Walla Walla valley
this season will run around 500 car
loads. Prunes are beginning to turn
and will be moving in a couple OF
weeks.
Because the Carlyon law apparently
Cancelled the right of Clark county to
collect tolls on the interstate bridge
it is the belief of both proponents and
opponents of free bridge that an
election will not be necessary to
decide whether Clark county's share
of the bridge shall be sold to the
state.
With 1928 Cowlitz county COWS test
ed for tuberculosis with only IS re-
actors, Or only 1.25 per cent, accord
ing to the latest reports, splendid
progress is being made in the cam
paign to rid Cowlitz county Of tuber
cular cows.
Luther Ellis and Ted Baker last
week were found guilty Of murder in
the first degree in connection with
the death of Sheriff Wood, shot in a
raid on the Baker still in the woods