White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-06-15
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July q.
H. M. Wanser has been appointed
mayor of Lind by the city council to
succeed e. w. Best, resigned.
Plans are being made for the COM
plete reorganization Of the Port Town
send grade and high school system.
Glover Valley and Marble Creek
school districts, on the Lewis river,
voted in favor of consolidation Sat
urday.
Charles Benedict, employed at the
Turvey logging camp near Ten1no. is
In the hospital with broken neck
He will recover.
r. w. Gilman, superintendent OF
the Cosmopolis schools. has been
elected principal of the Hoquiam
senior and junior high schools.
Richard Ball, pioneer of the Methow
valley, died Friday suddenly, at the
age of Is years. He was among the
first orchardists in the valley.
]. E. Sinclair, who has served as
principal of the Orchards Sifton school
for the last five years, has resigned
to accept the principalship of an Au-
burn school.
|, Presentation Of life diplomas to 1853
graduates was feature Of the pro-
gram of the annual alumni banquet of
the Bellingham normal school Satur-
day evening.
At the commencement exercises of
Ellensburg normal school held last
week, class of It's, the largest in the
history Of the institution, received
their diplomas.
Chehalis Masonic lodge No. % held
q homecoming last week, when it eel
ebrated it's 5Oth anniversary. More
than 200 attended, many outside visi-
tors being present.
The Miller & Son shingle mill at
Sumas began operations again this
week after having been closed down
for several months because of short
age of cedar timber.
Fatally scalded when his 2-year-old
brother upset a kettle of boiling
water, Anthony, 5-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Anton Petronovich, died Sat
urday in Bellingham.
Seattle building permits for the
first five months of 1928 authorize
new construction valued at $17,O7O,-
$40, nearly $4,OOO,OO0 over the cores
ponding period Of 1927.
With the close of bushes for May,
total motor vehicle collections in
Washington for the license year have
reached $5,884,285, a gain of s373.110
over the same period last year.
Records for halibut bo2ts operating
out of Seattle were broken in May
when fishermen brought in 2,199,700
pounds of the fish from deep sea
banks. The catch sold for $216,619.
The Centralia and Tono school
boards have signed contract enabl
ing Tono high school students to at
tend the Centralia high school. They
have been attending the Tenino
school.
Henry Knapp, Of Roosevelt, while
acting as timekeeper at a rodeo, seri-
ously injured himself when the gun
he was using became entangled in
his pocket and discharged itself in
his hip.
The recently completed school cen
sus at Elma shows an increase in
children of school age of 10 per cent
over 1927. This is the largest gain
shown by the census taken in several
years.
Chaplain John w. Beard of Port
land will again this year be the chap
lain for the G. M. T. G. to be held at
Vancouver this summer. He has serv-
ed in that capacity for the past two
years.
Originally designed to be four
story structure, fifth story, to cost
$4,000, will be added to the new Arts
building being constructed at the cor
ner of Main and 18th streets in Van
couver.
A Is per cent dividend was paid
Wednesday by the Security bank of
Kennewick, which has been in the
hands of receivers since closing Octo-
Der, 1926. This makes IS per cent
returned to depositors, and the Off |
Gals still have some real estate to |
dispose of and hope to be able to |
pay in full.
The first Protestant church ever
built in Vancouver is being RACED to
make room for modern brick struc-
ture. The old church was built by
the Methodists in 1857 and the first
resident pastor was Rev. c. o. Hos
ford.
A colony of beavers saw the work
Of four years destroyed in few sec
ends when ranchers at Greenwood, in
eastern Grays Harbor county, dyna-
mited huge dam which the animals
had built across Chehalis river trib
ltary.