White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-06-08
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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! cipal golf course last year.
The Hoquiam city council is prepar-
to acquire the local water system.
The house and barn on the Knizek
farm, near Doty, were destroyed by
fire last week with loss of $4,000.
Work will be started in few days
on the oiling Of 105 miles of highway
between Davenport and Winchester.
| Kelso police officers made clean
up over the weekend and arrested IL
men for being drunk on the streets.
The barreling plant Of the Wash
ington Growers Packing corporation at
Vancouver was started last Monday.
Federal funds allotted to the state Of
Washington for forest fire control and
prevention during 1928 amount to $685.
1855.
Sale of five farm tracts in the Pa
louise country for total Of $S7,745
cash, an average of $50 per acre, is
reported.
Eight families in Walla Walla we're
forced to seek new quarters as re-
suit of fire in the Colonial Court
apartments. ..,:. ;s ss..5, ~,
-Four hundred tons of Cowlitz coun-
ty Strawberries has been contracted
for by the Allen Packing corporation
at Longview.
Frank Scott was elected president
of the Washington state association
Of master plumbers at the state con-
vention at Bellingham.
Members of the graduating class Of
Whitman college at Walla Walla have
voted to present the school with a
memorial fund of $4,000.
Lieutenant L. ]. Forbes, a member
of the Seattle police department for
20 years, was named police chief by
Mayor-elect Frank Edwards.
The browning of Bernice Metz of
Everett as May queen climaxed the
festivities of the annual women's day
at the Washington state college.
The hall of the Bremen Improve.
ment club, community building, 35
miles east of Chehalis on Tilton river,
burned to the ground last week.
Visible from a height Of 1000 feet,
a 100-foot white arrow has been paint.
ed on Lookout Point, just north of
Yakima, as beacon for aviators.
The state fair committee has re-
ceived the announcement of the rail-
roads that they will give reduced rates
from all parts of the state this fall.
Cowlitz county's first radio broad.
casting station, KUJ, went on the air
last week at Longview. 1t will oper,
ate on 1891 meters and so watts pow
er.
Berry shipments of the Yakima val
ley are twice as great as last year.
Ten cars of berries have been move
so far. Asparagus shipments have
amounted to rs cars.
Three slight earthquake shocks were
felt in Bellingham last week and ap.
parently caused no damage. Few PEG.
pie felt the temblors and the majority
of the persons were not aware of the
shocks.
Wheat ranchers in the Goodnoe
Hills section Of Klickitat county, who
have small flocks of breeding ewes in
connection with their wheat farms,
marketed choice output of prime
mutton this year.
Organization is the only thing that
will save the fresh prune business in
Walla Walla, r. H. Kipp, marketing
specialist of the Portland chamber of
commerce, told prune growers at
Fruitva1e last week.
California Packing corporation Of
ficials announced recently plans for
immediate construction of a one-story
hollow tile fruit canning plant at va
kima, to be completed in time for
operation this season.
Marriage licenses issued at Van.
couver in May this year totaled 22S,
as compared with 223 isued in May,
1927. The total for this year up to
May was 1913 compared with GAL for
the same period last year.
Increase of s2,275,s49 in total assess
ed valuation of the three big telephone
companies Of the state is shown in the
report just announced by the state tax
commission of the valuations as certi-
fled to the various county assessors
totaling $26,7S4,945.
Contrary to predictions the Column
bia continued to rise at Vancouver
last week and the gauge registered
1856 feet. The river is the highest
been kept, beginning in 1908.
The 1928 school census gives Kelso
school district 2492 children, a de-
crease of III from last year, but &C
tually an increase of more than 100,
as territory containing more than 225
was transferred from the Kelso dis.
trfct to the Longview district during
the year.
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