White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-04-20

left to take Carusos place in song
dom, is dead in that city, having
hanged himself because of disappoint-
ment in securing a contract.
Announcement was made at Ray
mond recently by A. G. Basil that he
had let the contract for construction
Of modern theater building, to be
completed between August and is,
and that work would start within
week on the construction.
West Coast Telephone company, It
was announced, will be the name of the
concern which will take over nine In
dependent lines in Washington and
Oregon, including the Puget Sound
company, operating in Snohomish, Is
land and Skagit counties.
Snohomish County Pioneers asso-
citation and John Wannebo Post Span.
ish War veterans, will put on three
day Fourth of July celebration in Ever.
EFT, it was announced recently. An
Indian pageant, carnival, parades, band
music and other features are plan.
ned.
Favoring development of a publicly
owned hydro-electric plant for Clark
county, Pomona grange, at a meeting
held in Vancouver recently, adopted
resolution asking that the county com.
missioners appoint committee to In.
vestigate the feasibility of the pro-
posal.
Rev. Joseph M. Cataldo, s. j., 90.
founder of Gonzaga university at Spo
kane and a prominent figure in the
development of the Inland Empire,
died at Pendleton, Or, last week.
Father Cataldo had been member of
the Society of Jesus for more than
Is years.
Plans are being completed to clear
up and landscape the grounds around
old Fort Rains near Stevenson. Peter
Burkland, who has been instrumental
in getting Fort Rains completed, and
also donated the grounds upon which
the old fort was reconstructed, is back
of this movement.
For the first time in years, If not in
history, an Okanogan county bank was
successful bidder for school bond is
sues. Bids of the Citizens State bank
Of Omak, offering premium Of few
dollars on each issue, were accepted
by the Pateros school board for $751;
900 bonds and the Okanogan school
board for $4,000.
Chaplin A. Mills, state district hor-
ticultural inspector, advises all prune
growers in the state to plow their or
chards before the trees bloom as the
best means of combating brown rot.
The rot develops from prunes left to
rot on the ground in the fall and
blowing these under prevents the
spread of the infection.
The contract for dismantling the old
steel bridge on the Pacific highway
route between Vancouver and Salmon
creek, has been awarded to R. L. Ste
yens for $225O. The material will be
removed to point on the Jaggy high
way, where it will be reassembled over
the east fork of Lewis river.
Assets Of the city of Spokane as
shown by the annual report of City
Auditor Arthur Burch, filed last week
with City Clerk Dirkes, are $30,0SS,.
60S, an increase in the year Of $685.,
494. Liabilities aggregate $S,96O,1S5
an increase in the year of $35O,O31
due chiefly to new water bond issue
of $4,000 for main extensions.
Wilbur business houses were closed
last week during the funeral of Will
liam Lauritzen, prominent pioneer
who died recently. Mr.. Lauritzen, who
was 70, was president of the Grain
Growers Warehouse company, Of the
Farmers Meat company and of the
Federal Farm Loan association Of Will
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that region.
The first bridge to span the Queets
river, a 355-foot cable suspension, was
opened to traffic last Thursday. The
bridge is for pedestrian travel only
and crosses the Queets near the ferry
at Harlow creek. 1t is one of the long
oct of tic bind in tho cfate Residants
Of the Queets and Clearwater districts
rushed the span to completion recent
ly following the wrecking of the ferry
some time ago by huge log jam.
In Saturdays special school election
the proposal to consolidate districts
2O3 and 217 carried at Toledo. The
vote in PIT, Toledo district, was very
light, but 1S votes being cast, Of which
IA were for consolidation. At the
schools in 203 the vote was as follows;
Fifty-six votes were cast of which 8;
were for consolidation. At previous
election some years ago the plan tt
consolidate lost by overwhelming op
position in 203.
Tillman Peterson has been elected
general superintendent of all Bremen
ton schools at salary Of $500 {
year. He takes the place Of Professor
D. H. Wolfe, who resigned because O
conflict between two factions in tina
city.
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