White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-02
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Yakima's community chest budget
this year is $50,275, to be distributed
among nine charitable organizations.
Robert L. Nash, 60, pioneer settler
of Okanogan county. is dead at his
home near Mallot from injuries re.
ceived when gored and trampled by a
bull.
Olympia is now assured an adequate
supply of pure water for all city
needs, second newly-tapped well re-
Gently bored having brought in flow
of 100000 gallons daily.
Because the fire department is in
need of new quarters and new equip
ment, Wenatchee citizens are asked to
vote on $4,000 bond Issue at the
general election in November.
w. X. Reid, for many years connect
ed with the Old National bank of Spo'
kane, has joined the Federal Land
bank as auditor, newly created posi-
ton.
Flames which lighted up Puget
sound for several miles between Alki
point and Vashon island destroyed the
tug Cinema of Olympia, causing loss
of $4,000.
"Near Aberdeen, Wash.," was Chi
cago radio announcer's location Of Sc
attic as sent out over the air by a
Windy City broadcasting station last
Friday night.
Plans for the new Port of Ilwaco
will be voted on at the general cleo
ton November 6. Money for the i'm
provement is in sight without levying
further taxation.
Stacked alfalfa hay in the irrigated
farming district of the lower Status
creek valley is being baled and ship
ped as fast as possible to keep jack
rabbits from eating it.
DR.. Frank S. Salisbury, head of the
research department Of the Belling-
ham normal school, has resigned to
accept the post Of director Of teacher
training at Ohio university.
Nut growers report an exceptional
yield of a fine grade Of English wal
nuts throughout Clark county. Fill
berts in the Burton district are heavy,
the fruit being well developed.
Grain men estimate that more than
third of the wheat crop OF Walla
Walla county has been sold and ship
ped, leaving about 100000 bushels
| yet in the hands of the farmers.
One hundred twenty tons Of spill
peas, constituting three $4,000 pound
carloads, were shipped from the G. B
Pyle plant at Palouse. Most of the
peas were consigned to New York.
Three of Winlock's baby chick
hatcheries are looking forward to a
record breaking season next year and
are taking steps to enlarge the capa
city of their plants before January l
The library, canteen, fire station
and recitation hall at the United
States Veterans hospital in Walls
Walla are being wrecked to maxi
room for the new $25O,O0O infirmar.
building.
The Ryderwood school district
which comprises district 20 of Cow
litz county and district SO of Levi
county, will vote October II on tn
question of special levy for mair
tenance.
E. B. Curry, Centralia city do
catcher is in local hospital as tn
result of being kicked by a horse
Curry had impounded the animal,
stray, and was endeavoring to plac
q halter on it.
Mrs. Herbert Farley and her 2-yeal
old daughter of Everett were kille
when Herbert Farley turned their al
tomobile into ditch to avoid strikin
a gravel truck near the summit {
Snoqualmie pass.
Walla Walla city and county hav
11,1S4 persons eligible to vote Noven
Der 6. This is an increase of PIG
over the number registered for Ii
primaries, and an increase of 1874 owe
the total in 1926.
Yakima turkey growers organize
recently, electing w. F. Miller of Sela
as temporary chairman. The purpos
of the organization is to put ste
to thefts, which in many cases hay
caused serious loss.
Five prominent Thurston count
bulb growers have just received fro
Europe shipment Of more than
tons of daffodil bulbs, said to be tt
largest shipment of the kind in tt
history of Washington.
John Rausch, who has contract
construct reinforced concrete culve
ten feet square on the La Center-A1
boy highway, to carry off the waite
of Lockwood creek, has completed tt
excavation and will start pouring tt
concrete soon.
Concrete bases for the ornament
lights OIL Main street from Thirteen
to Twenty-sixth streets in Vancouv
have been set in place by the contra
tors, and the work of installing Il
system will be rushed as soon as Il
cables and standards arrive.