White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-04-13
WASHINGTON NEWS
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OF Our Readers.
Schools of Walla Walla last year
cost the people total of 100000. The
cost per pupil was sS7, the highest in
the state.
An electric hotbed holding dozen
trays Of earth for seed propagation is
being used by the agriculture depart
ment of the Prosser high school.
First spring district board meeting
of the Al organization was held at
Raymond last week, with representa-
tives from Al mills on Willapa harbor
present.
Having been lost in the woods for
70 hours without food or shelter, Ed
Morganroth 65, died from exposure
Sunday in logging camp near Mount
Vernon.
A spectacular fire destroyed large
paint and repair plant at the Great
Northern railway shops in Hllyard
last week, with damage estimated at
100000.
The Washington and Lincoln grade
schools of Ellensburg and the local
public library were ransacked by bur-
glars last week. Loot was confined
to $40 in cash.
Ferry service between Anacortes,
the San Juan islands and Sidney, B. c.,
has been inaugurated with one trip
daily. Starting May 2, two trips will
be made daily.
With the registration nearly $500
and many unregistered, the Both an
nual Inland Empire Education asso-
citation convention was held in Spo-
kane last week.
Frank Bigler, county game warden
at Walla Walla, killed wild dog Sat
urday that during the past four weeks
had killed sheep, hogs, chickens and
ducks valued at $500.
Harry Hammonds Of Edison, AZ
years old, was killed recently when
he was caught in shaft at the Edison
single mill while attempting to adj
Just belt on a machine.
Scorning $1,000 in silver, youthful
robber escaped with $4,000 in currency
after forcing the cashier and clerk
of the State Bank at Roy, near Taco
ma, in the vault last week.
Stanwood won the sweepstakes OF
the first Snohomish county music con-
test, held last week at Snohomish,
with a total of As points. Snohomish
was second with 81 points.
To perfect their new organization,
the Northwest Shoe Retailers from
I Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana, will hold their first annual con-
vention in Seattle June 1927.
Ira Henderson, fisheries inspector
for Washington, reported while in
Kelso that the smelt fishing season
is over for this year. Salmon fishing
will start May in the Columbia river.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Insurance Agents League of Wash
ington was held in Aberdeen, with ap'
proximately $50 delegates represent
Ing all districts of the state present
Mount Saint Helens council, Boy
: Scouts of America, comprised of all
troops in Clark, Cowlitz and Skamania
counties, held its fourth annual meet
ing in the new Evergreen hotel al
) Vancouver last week.
Y Bellinghams first airport was 6
reality last week when Arthur Hool
3 and R. G. Graham flew there from
: Puyallup with three-passenger plane
and landed it on their field, six miles
!. outside the city limits.
q Charles H. Johnson Of Gig Harbor
: veteran powder man, was killed las
e Saturday by delayed blast at the
D Strong & Mcdonald construction CAM
= on the Olympic highway, approximate
= ly 20 miles north of Hoquiam.
+ Nine independent telephone com
: panies of Oregon and Washington arr
: to be merged into an $8,000,000 cor
e poration, which will be headed b.
Charles Hall of Marshfield, Or, ant
' w. N. Winter of Everett, Wash.
- The Easter school vacation of Mar
: garet e. Erdahl, 10, and Herbert
q Brodahl, II, ended fatally last week
A raft on which they were adventur
d ing on pond at Milton, near Tacoma
It capsized and they were drowned.
. Bellingham bought a 1000-gallol
- American-LaFrance pumper for it
= fire department last week. The pump
It er will be delivered July l and viii
If pump 1000 gallons a mintue at IL
= pounds pressure and will cost $13,50(
/ The Skamania county May festiva
u will take the shape of pageant, dc
- veloped from the history of the cour
n ty Skamania figured strongly in tn
v history of the west. The pageant vii
T. show this development from pionee
days.
Y. Walter R. Rowe, Yakima, has bee
n appointed by Governor Hartley a re
D gent of Washington State college t
IL serve the unexpired term OF A. Dur
can Dunn drowned in ferrybOat az