White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-20
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.


berries is being harvested in the Che
halls district.
Less than 10 per cent Of the normal
prune crop will be harvested in Clark
county this year.
The McCammon hotel, store and
garage at Moclips were destroyed by
fire with loss estimated at $4,000.
The annual convention of the Wash
ington Good Roads association will be
held in Walla Walla October IL and
~.
A contract was let to ]. P. Douglas
and son of Tonasket for the construc-
ton Of two miles of road from LOOMS
east.
Potato fields were dust against the
flea beetle which is doing consider
able damage in Cowlitz and Lewis
counties.
| Extensive improvements are under
way at the southwest Washington falr
grounds, midway between Chehalls
and Centralia.
The sheep industry, although young
in the vicinity Of Ridgefield, is grow
ing fast, with farmers adding flocks
| to their stock.
Over 300 delegates, alternates and
visitors attended the three-day con-
vention of the Washington State Fed
Grafton of Labor at Wenatchee.
The Oregon Packing corporation has
begun work at Yakima on large mod
ern cannery, 28Ox16O feet, that will
provide payroll for 900 people.
The Pacific National bank, organic
ed two months ago at Seattle with
capital stock of $2,500,O00, has increas-
ed it's capitalization to $4,0OO,O00.
Reports come from Dayton, Wash
tucna and other points in eastern
Washington that grasshoppers are do
ing considerable damage to the potato
crop.
A special field day for farmers and
other interested persons of Grant and
Douglas counties was held at the Wat
erville experiment station Saturday,
July IA.
Convicted of bombing a theatre at
Seattle, Thomas ]. Woodhouse was
sentenced Saturday to serve from to
Is years in the penitentiary at Walla
Walla.
George Wagner, farmer of Ritz
Vile, died as the result of a broken
neck sustained when he fell from some
farm implement on which he was
working.
Eighteen passenger were injured, two
seriously, when a North Coast Trans
portation company bus en- route from
Portland sideswiped a garbage truck
in Seattle.
The annual picnic Of the Lewis coun-
ty Jersey breeders will be held We'd
nesday, July rs, near Toledo. Three
of the Jersey herds of Cowlitz valley
will be visited.
At depth of 1858 feet Sunnyside's
new municipal we'll is in a stratum OF
basaltic rock. When that is pierced
the drillers expect to strike flow OF
pure filtered water.
The school board of the consolidated
Davenport district has purchased four
large buses for the transportation OF
children to and from school. The
price paid was $13,340.
Vancouver is growing, judging from
the budding permits issued. In June
the figures were S276,S44, by more
than $4,000 the second largest month
the city has ever known.
Masonry work has been completed
on the new Marcus Whitman hotel o,
Walla Walla and plastering has begun
The weekly payroll Of the construc
ton company is now $500.
Fire of undetermined origin at Bel
bingham caused damage estimated al
100000 to the Daylight block ant
$4,000 to Montgomery Ward & Co.
occupants of the structure.
Payment of per cent of month!
salary of the office sought will bt
required of candidates filing declara
lions of candidacy, announces f. II
Floyd of the secretary of states OF
fice
. All of the holly grown on the Sher
man Vogel farm in the Lexington dis
trict north of Longvisw during tn
next ten years has been contracted
for by j. A. Schoonover Of Oregon
City, Or.
The Clark county Tillicums, an OF
/, ganization comprised Of men and VIC
. men more than SO years old who wer
born in Clark county, held their fit
, annual picnic reunion Sunday at FIST
, er's landing on the North Bank higf
( way.
Thomas L. Murray, former Dunbar
3 Neb., banker. arrested in Mount Vel
non on charges of embezzlemen
agreed to waive extradition and re
turn to Nebraska to face trial. His al
rest ended a search Of more than
year.
D Modern houses are not much warm
or 'tl,op thoir rrnfC ro ffuhf