White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-04-06
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

Construction Of the new clubhouse
at the Mount Adams Golf and Coun-
try club of Toppenish will start i'm
mediately.
County Assessor Anderson stated
recently that the carry-over wheat in
Klickitat county was 20,542 bushels
on March 1.
Some $50 men and women attended
a banquet at Cathlamet last week
when the Cathlamet Rotary club was
presented with its charter.
More than 300 delegates attended
the sessions of the 28th annual con.
vention of the Washington D. A. R.
held in Mount Vernon last week.
With large family dinner and re-
ception, Mr.. and Mrs. William Porter
Jewett of Marysville celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary last week.
Five hundred dollars worth of Gig
arettes were stolen Saturday night
from the Skaggs store at Yakima, the
thieves breaking a rear window to
gain entrance.
The Yakima Valley Farm Loan as
ISOLATION, including territory from
Union Gap to Benton county, has
been organized with about one hun
dred members.
| One thousand wild horses from
central and northern Washington
were delivered last week to the
American Products company at Yaki.
ma to be turned into fertilizer.
The Colville "home beautiful con.
test opened April i and will end
September L. Three prizes will be
awarded by three judges, who will
view the property at intervals during
the contest.
Winlock school board is having
plans prepared for the new gymna
SUM and community building, to be
erected on the high school grounds
patrons having recently voted $4,000
for the purpose.
| With two business days remaining
in the month, March building permits
issued by the Spokane building in.
spector's office have climbed to $4O1,
SOL, as compared with $286,299 in the
| same month last wear
Yakima apple growers, representing
a tonnage of $4,000 boxes, met il
Yakima Saturday and voted 100 pei
cent in favor of organizing along the
lines of the North Central Washing
ton Growers association.
Mrs. Sarah Anne Davis, sc, dice
Monday at her home near Colfax
where she had lived 40 years. Shit
was born at Rhonde Valley, Wales
and came with her husband to Whit
man county A years ago.
Falling into the Chehalis river al
the General Package company plant
in Aberdeen, Oscar Laakonen, go
pioneer resident of the Grays harbo1
district, was drowned last week. Laa
konen had lived in the Grays harbo1
district for 80 years.
DR.. e. A. Veateh, chairman of thu
publicity committee Of the Longviev
Lions club, sponsoring the annua
Easter egg hunt, announced that thu
event will be held April on thu
blocks west of Hotel Monticello.
TWenty-six Longview firms, TIVE
from Kelso and two from Seattle tt
date have taken space for the manu-
facturers' exhibit to be staged a
Longview April 6, and 8 by thu
women of the Community church.
Who wants to buy courthouse
Chehalis has one that originally cos
around $4,000, with paved streets
and wide cement sidewalks on tire,
sides of the lot, which is 100x10
feet in size. The board has fixed
minimum price of $4,000 on the proI
erty.
A mouthless carp weighing fiv
pounds is among the exhibits in tn
rooms of Vancouver chamber Of com
merce. The fish was caught in
trap. Evidently the fish sustaine'
life by absorbing food through it
gills, which were normal, fish ez
perts say.
A statement Of the actual profit
derived from two COWS over periot
of 20 months was made last week b.
r. M. Morris, an ardent supporter O
the Palouse cheese factory. The tw
COWS earned $5OS net profit for MI
Morris during the period. All tn
milk was sold to the Palouse chees
factory and was subject to thei
weighing and grading.
Officials of the Harris Manufactul
ing company of Stockton, CAL, ar
comforting with the Walla Wall
chamber of commerce concerning tn
moving of the plant to that city. TIL
company makes harvesting machir
cry.
G. F. Birge and his three childre
were badly injured at Pomeroy Wee
nesday when their automobile collie