White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-04-20
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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OF Our Readers.
Fifty members Of the Western Wash.
ington Principals association gathered
in Olympia Friday for two-day ses-
sion.
Chehalis' new $145,O00 junior high
school building was dedicated Wednes-
day evening with appropriate cere-
monies.
A spectacular fire in the Standard
Oil company's service station in Ever
cit caused damages estimated at $1,000
last week.
Aberdeen's annual cleanup, paint
up" week will be held April 22-29, &C
cording to announcement Of the cham
Der of commerce.
Pursuant to an act of the legislature
the state has decided to the port OF
Vancouver all unsold shore lands on
Vancouver lake.
The Walla Walla county Parent
Teacher association was organized re.
Gently with Mrs. w. M. Davis of Col
lege Place, president.
William M. Mason, Bickleton sheep
man, has been brought to Yakima.
He was suffering from what was dag
nosed as spotted fever,
Seattle's per capita fire loss during
1927 was the lowest in the history of
the city, $1.36, according to the annual
report of the department.
Austin Carey, 40, was instantly kill
ed last week when struck by a log in
the lumber workings of the Samtsh
Bay Lumber company at Blanchard.
James R. Dickinson, sc, who came
to Dungeness from England in 1859,
died in a Port Angeles hospital last
week, after an illness of two weeks
A fire Sunday at the Poison Log
ging company's Camp No. near Ho
GUAM entirely destroyed the commits
sary, office, bath house and one bunk
house.
George Dodman, A, steam shovel
1 operator for the Saginaw Timber com.
pany, died in an Aberdeen hospital
last week. He was crushed beneath
the shovel dipper.
A cold storage plant with bins cap
able of holding 1000 tons of potatoes
power sorters and refrigerating ma
chinery is under construction at Sun
nyside by Roy Fits.
F. G. Sloan of the Washington-Idahc
Seed company is spending week il
Walla Walla county signing contracts
with foothill farmers to grow beans
and peas for canning.
The herd of McCorkle Bros Of Kel
so led the Cowlitz County Dairy Hero
Improvement association for Marcel
among herds Of over Is cows, averag
ing 1925 pounds Of bukterfat.
M. w. brennan, 70, veteran race
horse trainer and handler, of Yakima
was found dead in bed at the cabin
where he lived near the stables which
held several horses in his care.
The Epworth league annual rally
was held in Stevenson Friday and Sat
urday This is the mid-Columbia sub
district, which includes all leagues il
Kickitat and Skamania counties.
A meeting of the Grays Harbo
Poultry association to honor Leslie
Sorenson, new county agriculture
agent, and Robert Cowan, departing
agent, was held in Elma last week.
Work Of grading Centralia's airpor
was started last week and the fielt
will be ready for use in several days
Construction of a hangar is included
in the plans for Improvement of thu
field.
A fire of incendiary origin earl!
Friday morning destroyed the poultr.
house, 1000 laying hens and 1900 bah.
chicks belonging to Kenneth Keesee
near Marysville, entailing loss o
$4,000.
A committee of Puyallup bushes
men has secured a summer camp TO
the boys and girls of Pierce count,
on an island at the east end of LAX
Taps, a 22-minute drive from Puy
allup or Sumner.
Yakima had 1895 cars of apples il
cold storage April and had shippe'
9643 cars, making a total crop of II
430 cars, according to the monthly re
port of the Yakima Valley Traffic an
Credit association.
The Northern Pacific-Great North
ern depot at Auburn was damaged t.
the extent of $500 last week when
box car that was being shunted int
side track jumped the rails an,
crashed into the building.
Award Fairbanks, sculptor, who wa
selected to carve the figure OF tn
"Pioneer Mother" for the $4,000 Craw
ford fountain to be erected in Esthe
Short park in Vancouver, is workin
on the statue while studying in Ell
rope.
Yakima fruit shippers want frui
and vegetables left out Of the McNar!
Haugen farm aid bill. The Yakim
J Valley Traffic and Credit associatio