White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-03-23
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
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OF Our Readers.
Twenty tractors and 100 volunteer
workers graded Yakima's new airport
on South Broadway last week.
Four hundred Yakima county teach
ers attended the annual spring insti-
tute at the First Methodist church.
Miss Hannah West, eighty, who
came to Lewis county sixty years ago,
died at her home at Napavine last
week.
Inheritance tax receipts in Wash.
ington for February on ia cases to-
tailed $43,O53.79, while one escheat
case brought in $203.11.
The Yakima Fruitgrowers' associa-
ton announces an increase in its cap
ital stock from 100000 to $1,000,OO0.
1t is cooperative concern.
Longview's first spring opening will
be held March 20, and will include an
automobile display, civic parade and
benefit dance for the baseball team.
The new Evergreen Community no.
tel was formally opened in Vancouver
last Saturday. The feature of the
opening was banquet for ESQ invited
guests.
| Plans for cooperative purchase Of
purebred Guernsey cattle have been
made by Fern Prairie grange and a
committee is at work gathering prices
and other data.
The state of Washington, with bid
of AZ per cent at part, has purchased
the 100000 Selah district school bonds
issued for the purpose of erecting
new building.
The Ryderwood school board has
announced the appointment Of J. H.
Miller as superintendent to succeed
Glen G.. Hill, whose resignation takes
effect June 80.
| Machinery is being installed at the
plant of the P. and Fl. Brick and Terra
Gotta company at Elma, and early
operation Of the plant is announced by
the management.
| Membership in Vancouver chamber
of commerce has been increased to
479, the largest in it's history, and the
drive is still in progress, E. ]. Berry,
president, announced recently.
Plans for the giving Of another
bench show this spring by the Grays
Harbor Kennel club have been aban-
doned, d. P. Pearson of Elma, secre-
tary of the club, announced recently.
DR.. Oscar A. Tingelstad, one Of the
outstanding educators of the Lutheran
church, has accepted the appointment
as president of the Pacific Lutheran
college at Falkland, south of Tacoma.
Walla Wa1la's Oldest citizen cele-
brated her birthday anniversary last
week. Mrs. Mary Pickett, resident
of that city for the past forty-five
years, is one hundred and one years
old.
The Carlisle Lumber company re-
sumed operations Tuesday at it's mill
at Onalaska following three weeks
shutdown, the result of a short circuit
burning out all the motors in the
plant.
Announcement was made recently
that employing printers of Portland,
Tacoma and Seattle will hold a con-
vention in Centralia April %, when a
northwest organization will probably
be effected.
The Grays Harbor National bank of
Aberdeen and Cosmopolis National
bank were sold last week to the Ma
rine Incorporation of Seattle last
week. The consideration involved was
not announced.
In an election last week to deter
mine whether the Larene, Held and
South Egypt school districts, north Of
Davenport, should consolidate with
the Davenport district, the proposition
carried overwhelmingly.
Port Angeles was assured an air
port recently, when the chamber of
commerce approved plans Of it's avia-
tion committee, to spend about $500
in putting the port commission fill in
condition for landing field.
Mrs Bertha K Landes, Seattles
first woman mayor, was decisively de-
feated for reelection last week by her
opponent, Frank Edwards. Edwards
polled 59O33 votes to Mayor Landes'
39,S99, giving him majority of 1874,
the largest ever accorded a mayoralty
candidate in the city. City bridge
building, involving nearly $2,000,OO0,
carried by huge majorities, as did a
bond issue for another 100000 grain
elevator for the municipal port.
The Oregon-Washingto Railroad &
Navigation company mailed to the var
ious county treasurers Of Washington
state an aggregate of $1,047, 1926, COW
ering 1927 taxes on properties Of the
railroad and its subsidiaries in the
state.
Automotive traffic is now able to
travel over Snoqualmie pass from the
west as far as Camp Duncan, four
miles east of the summit, and the path