White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-03-30
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

day and Sunday on the Grand Mound
course.
Carry-over of wheat in Walla Walla
county was 100000 bushels on March
i, James L. Riley, county assessor,
stated recently.
The Columbia River Presbyterial
held its 10Th annual session at the
Onalaska Presbyterian church Thurs
day and Friday of last week.
An emergency ordinance has been
drawn by the Aberdeen city council
providing for the construction of a
$1,000 annex to the city hall for use as
police quarters and Jail addition.
The 10 state institutions had S274
inmates at the end of February, an
increase Of 1923 for the year, the de-
partment of business control announc.
ed.
Cowlitz countys bonded and warrant
Indebtedness at the close of business
March / totaled $1,616,126.80, accord
ing to report of County Auditor Rem.
ner.
Approximately $50 Knights Of Ply.
thias from all parts Of southwest
Washington will assemble in Aberdeen
April % for the semi-annual district
convention.
Prospects for bumper small fruit
crop in Clark county this year are ex-
cellent, L. R. Mcintosh, fruit expert
who is acting in an advisory capacity
to fruit growers, said.
A group of 1900 representative citi-
zens met in Spokane Sunday to cele-
brate the 92d birthday anniversary of
the Rev. Father Joseph Cataldo and
his rs years of service in the ministry.
Contract for the construction Of
14OO-foot tunnel through Campbells
Harbor Pulp company water line, has
been let to Swan Dahlberg Of Port
Angeles.
Executives and convention commit
| teemen of the Washington and Oregon
state oranges met in Longview Satur
day to make plans for joint session
Of the two state organizations to be
held there June IL.
After shut down of several months
to remodel building and overhaul plant
and to install modern cheese-making
equipment, the Western Goat Pro-
ducts company of East Standwood, re-
sumed operations Tuesday.
w. e. Vines, owner Of public mar
kets in several west side cities, an
nounced last week the purchase Of
property north of the Masonic tenn
pie on Fourth street in Yakima and
plans to build 100000 market there.
Twenty-five-year power and light
franchises were granted Puget Sound
Power & Light company by the Lewis
county commissioners over portions
Of P. H. Roundtree road in western
Lewis county the Toledo and Salmon
creek road near Toledo.
City Clerk Carter has been instruct
ed by the Montesano city council to
issue call for bids for installing the
proposed new ornamental street light
ing system on four blocks of Pioneer
and Marcy avenues and Main street
In the business section.
Building permits issued at Wenat.
chez during the first twenty days in
March are $43,15O more than the total
issued in the same period in February.
The total to date is $S5,500, more than
double the amount issued in the first
three months of last year.
Rev. Hiram F. White, 70, of Taco
ma, who founded the First Presbyter-
was the guest of honor there last week
at banquet celebrating the church's
10th anniversary. The minister de.
fled illness to come for the celebra.
ton.
Opposition was voiced at meeting
of the Yakima county commissioners
last week to the granting of fran.
chise asked by the Wiley City Tele-
phone company. The directors of the
Ahtanum Wiley Telephone company, a
mutual company, opposed the new
project.
The record for toll receipts on the
interstate bridge this year was broken
last Sunday with total of $2305.S0,
about $500 more than the highest pre-
vious total this spring. The traffic
included 22,294 persons, 1915 large au-
tomobiles, 2179 two-passenger cars and
% motorcycles.
Chairman Henry Rayton stated at
Chehalis that all but two small tracts
of right-of-way have been obtained for
the new permanent highway to be
constructed between Winlock and Va
der Less than half mile is yet to
be purchased.
Shipments of Columbia river smelt
this year have been much heavier than
year ago. and it is estimated that
more than 100000 pounds, or 10000
5O-pound boxes of the smelt have been
taken from the Lewis river and ship
ped by rail or by truck.