White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-04-13


flee for the first quarter of 1928 to-
tailed $14,443.43, compared with S13,.
479O5, an increase of S964.3S, accord
ing to the report of Assistant Post
master Gutenberg. Receipts in March,
1928, totaled $4991.53.
Entiokatchee, booster organization
for the Wenatchee blossom festival,
April 81 and %, is out to sign up 1000
members in order that the financial
end of the festival will be assured. A
membership costs $40, the money go
ing into the festival fund.
Totaling $4,000, Auburn building
permits for the past month broke
several years old record. Nearly the
entire amount consist of the $65,OO0
permit issued to the Steele Motor
Service, Inc. Auburn building permits
usually run around $4,000 month.
Remaining apple storage on April l
in the Yakima valley was 1,796 cars,
against 1000 cars on the correspond
ing date in 1927, and Wenatchee stor-
age was 1928 cars, against 946 cars
last year, according to Yakima Valley
Traffic and Credit association figures.
On petition of residents of the Ka-
lama and Cloverdale school districts,
County Superintendent w. o. Powell
set April 81 as the date for consoli-
dation elections in the two districts.
Two years ago it failed to carry in
Cloverdale district by narrow mar
gin.
Theft of about 1900 pounds of cop
per wire belonging to the Pacific Tel
ephone & Telegraph company and val
ued at $24O was reported recently to
the Yakima sheriff's office. 1t was
taken from the roadside near Gle
Elum, where linemen had left it over
night.
One hundred new street signs are
being erected in Montesano by the
local Active club. The signs will COW
er practically all parts of the town,
and will be the final preparation on
the part of the city for the forthcom'
ing establishment of free mail de.
livery.
Postal receipts in Aberdeen for the
first 1923 quarter reveal substantial
gain over the same period last year,
according to Postmaster Powell. Total
receipts for the quarter were S24,
1883. This is $125S or 5.43 per cent
above the total figure for the first
quarter of 1927
A friendly suit to test the authority
Of the board Of Cheney Normal school
in proceeding with the sale of $780,
900 in bonds for purchase of a new
dormitory and construction Of a new
building was instituted in the supreme
court at Olympia recently by Attorney
General John H. Dunbar.
Winifred Moore, IL, of Yakima, lost
both legs last week when she skated
into a freight train and was thrown
under the moving wheels. The child
was on roller skates and had been
holding to the moving cars to obtain
motion. Her right foot was crushed
and her left leg cut off below the
knee.
Forbes & Wilder, Olympia, have re-
ceived the contract to build one-half
mile of concrete pavement on the j.
A. Stephens road west Of Centralia
on bid of $11,593.03. Retimbering
and reconstruction of a bridge on the
Rynard road between Toledo and Va
der was awarded to Clark Bjork, Sc
attic, for $2385.
Completion of the new $415,000 Ho
quiam river bridge at Simpson avenue
will be effected soon by the officia
transfer of the span to the state b,
the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging
company, contractors. Final work will
include adjustment of machinery op
Grating the two central bascule lifts
and general touching up.
Starting last Sunday and continuing
through April the Pullman and Collar
chambers of commerce will engage ii
squirrel-killing contest that is ex
! pected to result in the death of thou
sands of farm rodents. The contes
is the result of an accepted challenge
? issued by the agriculture committed
= of the Pullman chamber.
Most of the 1923 wool clip off o
: the backs of approximately $4,000
3 range sheep of Klickitat county ha'
: been contracted at prices rangin,
from 31c to 35c, according to DR.. H
H. Hartley, president of the Klickita
Wool Growers association. Prices
: obtained are from 1c to &c per pount
!. more than prices obtained last year
:. Tentative plans for new women
: building on the Washington state col
!, lege campus have been drafted by tn
architectural engineering department
n Special features will be large hal
s for teas, entertainments and dances
J. an auditorium with small stage and
II seating capacity of approximately 25(
0 and a complete gymnasium, includin
}. large swimming pool.
il New business of 113 mills reporting
) to the West Coast Lumbermen's as
l. ISOLATION for the week ending Marcl