White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-06-22
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

A total Of 144 cars of apples and /
of potatoes left Yakima last week 10
the markets of the world.
An average of 14R tons Of straw
berries is being shipped out of Wood
land daily, according to recent reports
The 33d annual three-day conven
ton of the Washington Bankers as
sociation convened in Longview las
week.
Spokane will be host June 81, q
and % to more than 5000 Elks during
their three days state convention IL
the city.
Sufficient flow is being pumped
from 60O-foot we'll on the ranch o.
Lester Pearne on Simcoe creek neal
Yakima to water large hop field.
Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston
state superintendent, was the princi
pal speaker at the dedication Sunday
of the new $4,000 Lacey school build
ing.
Construction work has been started
on brick two-story business block on
Wapato avenue in Wapato. 1t is be-
ing built for G. G. Bower and will cost
$4,000.
The kirkland Packing company at
kirkland began operations June 1 and
is now packing the largest crop OF
Strawberries ever raised in that sec
ton of Washington.
Contract for construction of the
school building at Oroville, recently
authorized by vote of bonds, has
been let by the board to Okerlund &
Hutcheons of Seattle for $35,863.
An explosion during fire of unde'
termined origin at Everett last week
caused damage estimated at $4,000 to
the Medical and Dental building, the
largest office structure in Everett.
Starting Monday, four new passen-
ger Boeing airplanes will carry pas
sengers between Vancouver and Los
Angeles. A six-passenger Fokker will
be used between Vancouver and Seat
tie.
Richard Wayson, connected with
the Milwaukee railway shops in Taco
ma, who had been deaf for IA years,
has regained his hearing following a
crash last Saturday evening between
two motor cars.
The Riverside hotel at Cosmopolis
burned to the ground recently with a
loss of about $500. The building,
containing 20 rooms, was one Of the
Landmarks At Cosmdpolis, having been
built in early days.
The 18th annual picnic Of the Alder
Greek Pioneer association was held at
Cleveland park, four miles east of
Bickleton last week. Approximately
5000 attended. The speaker was Sam
f, Kegfer ef Yakima, ... ,,sss: rt.zsz,4---
Pheam Boyle Of Everett has applied
to the state supervisor of hydraulics
for permission to take 10 second feet
of water from the Sultan river in Sno-
homish county for the development of
a 100000 power plant.
Resignation Of virtually all city Of
ficials subject to the mayors appoint
ment was asked by Frank Edwards
when he assumed the executive chair
at Seattle recently relinquished by
Mrs. Bertha X. Landes.
A sewage disposal plant to cost $780,
900 will be the next improvement to
be installed by the Yakima city COM
mission. The project will be discuss.
ed with the state sanitary engineer at
a conference within the next few days.
Pullman's population increased by
236 during the 12-month period be-
tween May 1, 1927, and May 1, 1923,
according to figures compiled by Geo.
Schroeder, who has completed the an
nual census of school children and
general population.
Plans for large and modern bust
ness block to be erected in Yakima
were announced by Frank Mageau,
building contractor of Los Angles,
who selected Yakima as the place in
which to build, after visiting several
other Pacific coast cities.
A total of $500 barrels of strawber-
ries have been packed in sugar and
placed in cold storage by the Wash
ington Growers Packing corporation
at Vancouver, and the plant will op-
crate in a small way for about ten
days more. This equals the pack Of
last year. Machinery for the can
ming plant is on the ground and will
be installed as soon as the strawberry
season closes.
The Longview Fiber company has
started commercial operations with
its new 172-inch Yankee type Proud
rinier paper machine, which is manu-
featuring kraft wrapping paper. 1t is
producing from rs to 80 tons of paper
per day.
Physical examinations and issuing
of equipment and getting the men as
signed took up the opening day of the
reserve officers training corps mill.
tary camp and citizens military train.
ing camp which began at Vancouver