White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-10-12
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings of
the Week CoIlectedf0r
Our Readers.

OF gdSOlln6 exploded.
More than 1900 pupils are enrolled
In Seattle's night schools. A wide
variety of courses Is offered and fees
are reduced to minimum.
E%vaporated Fruits, Inc, of Selah,
with 100 women and rs men workers
has started an apple run of $4,000 tons
that will end about February i.
The Woodland Park Floral company
Of Sumner has leased several acres OF
ground near Eatonville and will plant
this fall two tons of daffodil bulbs.
J. p. Peterson of Snohomish was
found dead, face downward, in shallow
water on the beach of Soap lake,
Heart trouble was the cause of his
death.
Salmon have been scarce in the Ka'
lama river this year, and the take of
salmon eggs for the Kalama river
hatchery probably will fall below the
average.
Seattle police are searching for a
hit-and-run driver who struck down
and fatally injured q 60-year-old
couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph G.
Stevens.
Yakima police are hunting for the
person responsible for the death Of
seven valuable dogs in the last week
by poisoning them with strychnine in
raw meat.
Plans were instituted recently for
the establishment of an airport at
Elma and the purchase of a plane has
been authorized by a group Of men
interested.
The lower Columbia river young
peoples conference met in Longview
recently, guests of the Christian En-
deavor society Of the Longview Com
munity church.
A horde of silver and black salmon
started their belated trek up the Che
halls and tributary rivers last week.
Fishermen were reported making
record catches.
The fifth annual Lacey community
fair was held recently at the Lacey
school building. The enterprise re-
ceived general support from Thurston
county residents.
The Rev. Stewart G. Goude of Port
Angeles has been ordered to report to
the naval examining board at Bremen
ton for examination for appointment
as acting chaplain in the United States
navy.
An agreement leading to the merger
of the Fidelity National bank and the
American bank of Spokane has been
reached by a majority of stockholders
Of both institutions, it was announc-
ed recently.
In figures released recently by the
census bureau showing population Of
cities Of more than 10000, Seattle is
credited with a population estimated
at 3S3,2OO, Tacoma Ito, 500 and Spo-
kane 10000.
Henry Spangle was honored recently
on his S7th birthday by the Spangle
Woman's Community club. Mr..
Spangle is the only surviving Civil
war veteran in Spangle and has lived
there Sc years.
Notes of consolidated school district
No. 222 at Winlock defeated a special
5-mill levy for conducting the schools
and a special 3h-mill levy for com.
pleting the new gymnasium at a spe.
cial election held recently.
Lightning struck the residence of
John M. Schaffer at Pioneer, tore
out the front, broke IL windows and
badly damaged the interior, but with.
out injuring Mrs. Schaffer and her
children, who were inside.
Three men were killed almost in.
stantly when a Northern Pacific pas
senger train bound from Seattle to Ia.
coma crashed into a large sedan on a
crossing just north of Dieringer, about
II miles northeast of Tacoma.
A total of 257 marriage licenses
were issued at Vancouver in Septem-
Der, compared with 22S in September,
1927. The total this year up to Octo'
Der / was 1866, compared with 1860
for the same period last year.
More than 100 Eastern Stars and
Masons gathered at Cathlamet upon
the occasion of the Cathlamet chapter
receiving it's charter. Mrs. Mabel G.
Clark of Seattle was the deputy grand
matron presenting the charter.
Judge John B. Davidson of the super
ior court of Kittitas county is dead al
his home in Ellensburg following q
stroke of apoplexy while riding on a
mountain trail at the head of Lake
Chelan. He was brought out % miles
on a stretcher.
Farmers in the irrigated district oil
lower Status creek valley, on the Yaki
ma Indian reservation, adjoining the
eastern Klickitat county dry-farming
wheat belt on the north, have finished
harvesting and shipping a big crop oil
onions this year.
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