White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-07-29
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

The 2eth annual convention of the
Washington State Federation of La,
Dor was held in Centralia last week.
Officials Of the Prosser Golf club
are negotiating for the purchase OF
tract of bottom land for a new links.
The sixteenth annual fair of the
Northwest Washington Fair associa-
ton will be held in Lynden August
1927.
Fire caused damage estimated at
100000 when it wiped out more than
half the town of Govan, west of Will
bur last week.
John Admunson, tree faller at the
Smith & Link mill in the Mount
Book district was killed last week
when a tree fell on him.
Yakima's municipal waterworks
system will be in operation one year
from this time, city engineer Charles
Wilson predicted last week.
The Skagit Dairymens association
has extended it's milk route SO miles,
to serve farmers throughout the Ska
git valley, up to Marblemount.
Growers of hay in the Walla Walla
vicinity went on record as, unit in
favor of accepting federal grades for
hay instead of state grades.
The newly remodeled Olympia city
hall was declared to be a fire hazard
by Fire Chief Kingsley in a letter to
Mayor Johnson, just made public.
Mayor C. B. Halbert of Wenatchee
died last week at his home from heart
disease. He was pioneer resident
and prominent business man.
others damaged and a family of eleven
was left homeless as a result of fires
In the Aberdeen district last week.
Purchase of a new $13,500 Ahrens-
Fox 1000-gallon pumper to replace the
fire engine destroyed in a recent fire
has been authorized by the Aberdeen
city council.
The Yakima DISTRICT, which usually
ships about $500 carloads of peaches
will have only about 300 carloads this
year, and all these will be sold in
Oregon and Washington.
Five generations and 81 descendants
were represented at reunion held
last week at the home of Mrs. Julia
e. Jones, in Vancouver, marking he1
Goth birthday anniversary.
E. G. Durdle, recently elected Ben.
ton county agent, took up his duties
last week. He will have his office
In Kennewick, but will have all OF
Benton county for his territory.
Investigators of the state depart
ment Of agriculture are making a sur
valley, to determine the location and
extent of Colorado beetle infestation.
OlllClulS c6GhLluS HOIc Iudll
three-fourths of the 80 counties Of the
state attended the annual state con
yention Of county auditors and county
treasurers held in South Bend last
week.
A fire last Wednesday at Pasco par
TALLY destroyed a meat market, hard
ware store building, jewelry store ant
damaged the town theater. The loss
of about $4,000 was said to have beer
insured.
J. d. Guthrie, public relations repre-
sentative of the United States fores
service, said that the Dayton-Tollgate
road along the top of the Blue noun
tains probably would be completed
this year.
Bucking horse contests will be in.
cluded on the afternoon programs Of
the Walla Walla county fair, Septem.
Der S-10 Racing has been the only
form of sport given during the fair in
recent years.
A total of s5S1,291.72 was appor.
toned to the thirty-nine counties in
the state from the state current school
fund, as of July 20, according to State
Supervisor of Education Josephine
Corlis, Preston.
Construction work will start in a
few days on steel three-span bridge
across the Wenatchee river at Cash
mere at a probable cost of $4,000. 1t
will serve growers on the north side
of the river.
Yakima county commissioners have
granted another year of grace to land
owners with delinquent drainage as
easements in this county. These liens
and those for general taxes will be
foreclosed next year, when the law
requires action on the general liens
Because of extreme fire hazard con.
ditions in certain sections of Rainier
national forest some $4,000 acres OF
forest lands on the Cispus river, q
tributary Of the Cowlitz river, have
been closed to campers, fishermen and
mixers.
Joseph Wheeler, Vancouver, was
elected commander Of the Washington
and Alaska department of the United
Spanish War Veterans at the annua
convention In Aberdeen last week. Ia