White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-05-11
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
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of Our Readers.

OoWeT ripe company duuouuCcu uoo'
day that the factory would soon be in
operation.
A tulip show, expected to be the
first of an annual series, will be held
in Aberdeen this week in the Pres
byterian church.
Seven families visiting the Yakima
tourist park this spring have pur-
chased homes in that city or farms
In that part of the valley.
The knights of Columbus held a
three-day state convention in Wenat.
chez, starting Sunday. Between 200
and 300 delegates attended.
The 1928 commencement program
Of the Chehalis high school will be
given at the new junior high school
auditorium Friday night, June /.
Premium lists for the third annual
Thurston county fair, opening in TIE.
nino September 8, are being distrib-
uted by George G. Cody, concession
holder.
Consolidation of the First National
and Metropolitan National banks of
Seattle, with combined resources of
approximately s3O,OOO,OOO, has been
announced.
The home at Camas Of G.. S. Simp-
son with it's entire contents was de-
stroyed early Monday morning by a
fire Of unknown origin. The family
was away at the time.
Clinton E. Mccarthy of Chehalis
was taken to Centralia hospital Fri
day night suffering from injuries re-
ceived when his automobile hit dog,
skidded into pole and overturned.
Postal receipts at Walla Walla were
the largest for the last month of any
April in the history of the local Of
flee, business reaching $9113.58. This
is 90 per cent greater than last year.
The 100000 estate of Mrs. Eta Yes
sey prominent woolgrower of Yaki-
ma, who died suddenly last week, was
willed to her former husband, William
H. Wesley, whom she divorced in 1905.
The first annual Clark county grade
school track and field meet will be
held May Hip on Vancouver high
school grounds, A. F. Krohn, county
superintendent of schools announced.
City mail delivery service in Mon
tesano is now definitely scheduled to
| begin August l, according to tele-
gram received by Postmaster A. M.
Robertson from Congressman Albert
Johnson.
Municipal, county or port owner
ship of the commercial airport at Van.
couver was urged by Eugene j. Berry,
president of Vancouver chamber of
commerce, at the meeting of the board
of directors.
More than two score civic-spirited
residents of Renton turned out We'd
nesday to clear the right of way for
the projected road to Eagles beach.
The road is being constructed as
community enterprise.
A joint concert of the Tacoma and
Vancouver Orpheus male choruses
will be given May IS in the Castle
theater at Vancouver Fifty singers
from Tacoma and SO from Vancouver
are schadu1ad To sing
When a blowout wrecked the auto
mobile Of G. Dunbar Of Ellensburg on
the canyon highway recently, he man
aged to crawl out from under the over
turned vehicle in time to escape the
flames that consumed it.
Agitation for Inauguration of a com.
munity chest for Vancouver, in pref
erence to numerous charitable and
other drives scattered over the entire
year, has again been aroused, this
time by the Kiwanis club.
AS his grandmother watched him
from the yard of their home nearby,
4-year-old Vernon Kilmer walked upon
a railroad trestle near Spokane and
was knocked to the ground 80 feet
below by freight train.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
has awarded to the Sumner Iron works
of Everett contract for $175,0OO worth
of machinery for their sawmills under
construction at Longview. Delivery is
specified within 80 days.
down of several Grays Harbor mills,
and to a surplus of logs on hand,
Schafer Brothers have announced that
all of their logging camps will be clos
ed during July and August, following
the usual plan of summer shutdown.
A car carrying II members of four
families rolled over on the highway
between Hillyard and Mead, resulting
in the death of Phyllis, 5-year-old
daughter of Jake Lake of Colbert, and
painful injuries to the other 10 occu-
pants.
Missing since the middle of Janu-
ary the body of Fred Erickson, we'll
known trapper and prospector, was
found Saturday imbedded in ice and
snow on Ingalls, creek, near Blewett
pass. He had been caught in an ava.
lanche.
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