White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-05
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week CoIIectedfor
Our Readers.

OF the PUBIC port or kelSO.
Walter P. Bower of Spokane has
purchased a 640-acre ranch near Ritz
vile for a reported price of $4,000.
The city Of Edmonds has purchased
the privately owned water system of
the city, for which $4,000 will be paid.
Automatic signals to better regulate
traffic on Main street are being urged
by Walla Walla chamber of commerce..
Much interest is being shown at
Vancouver in tobacco plants, which
have been successfully grown in that
vicinity.
Fire at Omak has destroyed the saw
mill and dry kilns of the Biles-Cole-
man Lumber company, causing a loss
of 100000.
One thousand four hundred and
seyenty-seven cars of fruit and vege-
tables were shipped out Of Yakima
valley last week.
An estimate Of the apple yield in
the Wenatchee valley this season is
nearly 10000 carloads, of which about
1000 cars will be culls.
Restoration of the old capitol, at
Olympia, partially destroyed by fire
a few weeks ago, will be started with
in a few days at a cost of 100000.
James Dandy celebrated the Tooth
anniversary of his birth at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. J. w. McCutch-
con, seven miles west Of Chehalis.
Toledo's third annual community
fair was held recently in the commun-
ity building erected last summer. All
departments were well represented.
The second day of registration at
Washington State college showed 1882
students, or a gain of 131 over the
registration of the second day last
year.
The McClintock Turnkey company
has sold to F. M. Gardner 800 acres of
wheat land adjoining the town Of Wal
lada, in western Whitman county, for
$4,000.
Cowlitz county's assessed valuation
for 1928 totals $27,650,O41, the state
tax commission announced at Olym-
pia, which is an increase Of $641,561
over 1927.
Montesano's second annual mer-
chants exposition will be held in the
knights Of Pythias Hall Thursday and
Friday, October Is and SO, 1t was an
nounced recently.
The first Jewish religious service in
the history of the Kelso community
took place at the Elks' temple recent
ly, in celebration Of Yom Kippur, the
day Of atonement.
When the lettuce and bee farm Of
John Schuckle, between Elk and Lake
Eloiki, near the Pend Oreille highway,
was investigated by federal agents
the finest liquor factory in the In
land Empire was found.
The assessed valuation of all prop
erty in Clark county on which the tax
for 1929 will be levied totals s20,571,-
$50, an increase of sS9O,271 over the
valuation for 1928. The increase in
Vancouver was $4S6,352.
The board Of education will ask Ho-
GUAM voters to approve a bond issue
Of from $4,000 to 100000 at the com
ing city elections, according to plans
made public by H. G. C%rumpacker, city
superintendent of schools.
Twenty-seven hundred and fifty-six
persons who had registered in Walla
Walla, failed to vote in the primaries,
according to figures given by Deputy
Auditor A. G. Moore. There were 8949
registered in the county and 6913 OF
them voted.
Klickitat stockmen are rounding up
herds in the summer pastures Of the
Simcoe mountains and are making
the annual fall turmoil of prime grass.
fed beef. Summer rainfall in the
mountains made forage very good and
stock thrived.
Operations were begun recently by
John Andall, South Bend logging op
orator, on roads into the 232-acre tract
of timber on Fairchild creek which he
recently purchased from the Siler Mil
company.
One thousand dollars of the $17OC
given in log-rolling prizes at the west
ern Washington fair at Puyallup, was
won by Longview men. The bulk Of
the $1,000, $685., was won by Harold
Hooper, who is 26 years old, and Is q
boom man at the Long-Bell log pond
at Lorgview.
E. w. Ransier Of White Swan was
fined in justice court at Yakima for
failing to send his thirteen-year-old
son to school, though 1t is necessary
for the boy to travel six miles to
school.
The Walla Walla county fair made
q profit Of $1o79.12 this year, accord
ing to q report made by Charles Ba
ker, secretary to the directors. Total
receipts were $12,168.50, which in
Guided $4,000 from the county for the
premium list. Gate receipts were
$4320.25.
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