White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-01-20
WASHINGTON NEWS
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Principal Events Of the Weak
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ton at the annual meeting in Wenat-
chez.
w. H. McCrabbe of Conconully, who
has stocked private lake with brook
trout, last week shipped 100000 trout
eggs to Japan.
Alaskan reindeer meat is to be tried
out in the mess Of the Bremerton
nevy yard to see if it can win place
on the navy's ration menu.
Mrs. Anna Slater Jones, 66, the first
white child born in Bellingham, died
Saturday night at her home near that
city, where she was born in 1851.
Wall Walla city commissioners hope
to be able to open bids for the main
part of the sewage disposal plant sys-
TEN on February Is, 1t is announced.
Plans are under way for reorganiza-
ton of the Centralia chamber of COM
merce disbanded last week following
resignation Of its board Of directors.
All schools in the state of Washing
ton observed January 16 as temper
ance and good citizenship day in COM
pliance with an act of the legislature
of 1923.
Damage estimated at 100000 had
been inflicted at Gle Elum by flood
waters Of the Gle Elum river, which
was Overlooking it's banks as the re-
suit Of melting SHOWS.
Announcement was made recently
Of the formation Of the North Central
Washington Growers association, a
non-shipping concern having in mind
the promotion Of the interests of the
fruit growers.
Yakima county farm organizations
have appealed to Governor Hartley to
have the state aid in solving the pota,
to marketing puzzle. 1t Is not practic-
able to ship the product because of
the low prices.
Two of the 10 pupils of consolidated
school district No. 81, injured last
Thursday when a heavy stage crashed
into a school bus at Scatter Creek,
five miles south of Tenino, are near
death in hospital at Olympia.
The executive committee Of the
American Bar association, in session
at New Orleans recently, selected Sc.
attic as the place for the next meet.
ing. The association will be in con.
vention there from July 20 to %.
The farmers union has opened a
store at Chelan. It Is selling feed, fuel,
groceries and tires. The feed and
fuel ia being stocked in the old trans.
fer building ON Woodin avenue, and
the groceries and tires are being sold
in the Crow Brothers store.
Toppenish postoffice employees who
opened the office one morning last
week found John A. White, postmas-
ter, dead upon the floor at the back
Of the work room. w. M. Drake, dep
uty coroner and undertaken, was
called and pronounced the death sui.
eide.
A contract for the sale of 57,328
acres of timber land in Cowlitz and
Lewis counties and of the timber on
1909 acres Of land from the Weyer-
haeuser Timber company to the Long
Bell Lumber company, was filed at
the Cowlitz county auditors office re-.
Gently.
With all streams flowing from the
Blue mountains bankfull, transporta-
ton between Walla Walla and other
towns south of the Snake river was
seriously crippled. Stages to Pasco,
Pomeroy and Colfax were unable to
operate because of washed out bridges
and highways.
Traffic over North Bank highway
has been limited to vehicles weighing
not more than one.half a ton by the
state highway patrol Clearing of the
nine-mjle stretch between Carson and
Cooks has been under the personal
supervision OF State District Engineer
Scharaz and Maintenance Engineer
Mckenzie.
On February 10 at the Ellensburg
offices of the reclamation service will
be opened bids for construction of
the Kittitas diversion dam in the Yak
ina river near Easton, and for con-
struction Of section Of the main Kit
titas irrigation canal earthwork, lining
and tunnels. Construction of the dam
will necessitate diverting the Yakima
river from its present channel while
the work is going on, and most of the
work will be done during the fall and
winter of this year.
The midwinter conference Of the
executive board of the Washington
State Federation Of Women's Clubs
was held in Ellensburg last week.
The board voted to hold the annual
state federation meeting in Aberdeen
during the last week Of June.
The Kelso city council will con-
struot a jail in the basement OF the
city auditorium, and w. H. Richard
son, city engineer, was instructed to
proceed with the work. The present
jail quarters in the Liberty theater
building will be vacated February !
For 100 women that make their own