White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-21
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week ColIectedf0r
Our Readers.

| 1t Will De financed by IdcOmd duu
Seattle capital.
A free veterans employment bureau
has been established in the office Of
City Treasurer Ranck Of Vancouver
in the Legion building.
Although snow is reported to be IA
inches deep on the level. cars are still
going over Blewett and Snoqualmie
passes without difficulty.
President Coolidge has nominated
John F. Meyer as postmaster at Col
lege Place, T. B. Stidham at Doty and
w. G. Hubbard at Klickitat.
Postoffice receipts at Spokane for II
months of this year were in excess OF
$95O,919, an increase of 100000 over
a corresponding period last year.
Dedication of the new St. Patricks
school. which will cost s10S,00O, took
place at Walla Walla recently. Forty
priests took part in the exercises.
Plans for raising $150000 to finance
the Palouse Pulp & Paper company
were formulated recently at the bar
becue held in the Palouse auditorium.
The Bank of Colville, one Of the
oldest banks in Stevens county, has
closed its doors and gone into the
hands of the state banking depart
ment.
The canning plant of the Washing
ton Growers Cooperative at Vancou.
yer closed after successful run of
three months on prunes, pears and
apples.
"A turnip more than IA inches in
diameter and weighing 10h pounds
has been raised by George l.. Evans,
rancher living Is miles north of Ho.
| GUAM.
| Directors of the Fishermen's Pack
ing company of Everett have authoriz.
ed additions and alterations to their
salmon packing plant involving cost
of $4,000.
More than 100000 golden seal plants
have been set out in various parts Of
is extracted a medicinal principle
known as hydrastin.
Schools were closed in South Gle
Elum and in Gle Elum in northern
Kittitas county last week when large
proportion of the student body was
stricken with influenza.
Albert ]. Hoskins, As, former reader
of the house of representatives was
crushed to death under his automo.
bile. which left the highway recently
one mile north of Spokane.
AN epidemic of colds, influenza and
| pneumonia is sweeping over Clark
county and the situation has not been
improved by the coming of rain and
warmer weather, physicians report.
Robert Briley, detective and city
claim agent, who wears star No. of
the Spokane police department, has
been retired and will receive half pay
for life. He has been a member of
the force since 1899.
A meeting of the Schoolmasters'
club of Southwestern Washington was
i held in Chehalis last Saturday. The
club is composed of all men in the
teaching profession in southwest
Washington and meets annually.
Grand Master of Washington Mas.
ons John E. Fowler and other grand
lodge officers of Washington and Ore.
gon met members of the order from
Clark, Cowltz, and Skamania coun.
ties in Vancouver Saturday night.
Burglars. who broke into the Dial.
rymple garage at Grandview recently
and dynamited the safe, after batter
ing off the combination knob, failed to
get the safe open, but damaged ii
much more than the $40 that it con
tanned.
AL VI SOuli WCoIClu VetoAiA6Soh "AA4
participate in the celebration of the re
moval of toll from the Interstate
bridge, according to plans discussed
BY directors of Vancouver chamber oil
committee at the regular weekly
luncheon.
Twelve western Washington coun
ties, extending all the way from Clal
lam and Jefferson in the Olympia pen
insula and Whatcom to the north tt
Clark and Cowlitz on the south were
represented at the second highly sue
cessful sheep conference held in Che
halls. Total attendance was around
$780, and applications for 900 additional
sheep were filed by farmers who at
tended.
The Washington Berry Growers as
ISOLATION at Puyallup has mailed
checks amounting to 100000 to its
members as final payment on cherries
currants, rhubarb, loganberries, straw
berries, gooseberries, apples ant
squashes.
Miss Ethel Morrison, 26, daughter o
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Morrison o
Longview, and Allen Coleman, %, Ia
coma, were killed when an automobile
overturned on the new Seattle-Tacom;
ighway about mile and half nortl
Des Moines.