White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-05-25
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of Chehalis, had $4,000 fire last week.
Representative Summers of Wash
ington is seeking an appropriation Of
$1,000 for first-grade weather fore.
casting station at Yakima.
Northwest Washington Dokkies, a
department of the knights of Pythias,
met in Mount Vernon last Saturday
for the annual spring ceremonial.
Yakima launched the beginning Of
modern traffic regulation last week,
with automatic light and bell signals
| at six Yakima avenue intersections.
The Winlock school board has
awarded contract to Ed Brewster,
Chehalis, for construction of $4,000
gymnasium and community building.
Edwin Kinsey, 26, is dead at Seattle
of injuries received when service
airplane in which he was passenger
fell 300 feet into the Duwamish river.
King county commissioners will put
to a vote of the people next November
the question of building new county
hospital costing from 100000 to 3d.
100000.
W. S. Doran 70 Toppenish was elect
ed head of Group No. 5 of the Wash
ington Bankers association at the
close of the annual meeting in Yakima
last week.
A gas-electric car was put in service
by the Milwaukee line recently on the
run from Grays Harbor to Mayton,
speeding up the schedule to Puget
sound points.
Trustees of the Southwest Washing
ton Pioneers association met in Cen.
tralia recently and set August as the
date for the organizations annual pic.
mic at Rochester.
All union carpenters in Seattle are
now working only five days a week,
in line with the recent referendum i
which they instituted the five-day
week Tor their craft.
The Pacific American company, a
$7,5OO,OOO corporation, has been organ
lied in Seattle to operate the Pacific
American fisheries, the largest pack
ers of salmon in the world.
More than 1000 residents in Yakima
have signed petition urging Mrs.
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, evangelist,
to come to Yakima at the conclusion
of her campaign in Portland.
Gus Carlson, 60, of Cromwell, suffer
ed a fractured skull Saturday while
working on the new ferry landing at
Point Fosdick and died shortly after
ward in Gig Harbor hospital.
| The Life Saving Corps Of vancou.
yer has just received a charter from
the American National Red Cross. The
charter membership is Is and Mayor
John p Higgins is the president.
An attendance of 5000 delegates
from 1903 clubs in the United States
and Canada is expected at the twelfth
annual Kiwanis International conven-
ton to be held in Seattle June IL to
81.
The Washington Grain & Milling
company has purchased the ware
houses at Davenport and Omans and
will erect an elevator at Davenport to
take care of bulk grain this coming
harvest.
The general contract for the new
100000 parish school of the Holy
Ghost and st. Anthony at Spokane has
been let to Edward j. NORM, who will
begin work Immediately on the ex-
cavation.
Schafer Brothers have completed
the extension of their new railroad
from Cedarville to Balch in eastern
Grays Harbor county and have started
operating trains, it was announced at
Montesano recently.
Vernon Louis harrington, professor
of English at the University of Wash
nigton, has been awarded the largest
Pulitzer prize of the year, $4,000 for
his historical work, "Main Currents of
American Thought"
Everett Merchants association and
score of outlying groceries recently
petitioned the Everett city council to
pass an ordinance duplicating the state
Sunday closing laws, forbidding the
sale of groceries on Sunday.
Ernest F. Crabtree, A, steam donkey
engine fireman at the logging camp
Of the Long-Bell company at Ryder
wood, was killed last week when
flying choker line crushed his skull
and hurled his body against a heavy
block
While his mother was absent on a
trip to the mail box half mile away
Chester, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Nickerson, was burned to death in
fire that destroyed the cabin home
near Usk. The child had been left
asleep in bed.
The new $50, 900 transmission line Of
the Grays Harbor Railway and Light
company, which will supply light and
power for communities and ranches
between Hoquiam and Pacific Beach,
will be cut into service by the end OF
this month, according to officials.