White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-01-06
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.

tie highway was opened last Friday.
Six electric traffic signals OF the
center suspended type were ordered
by the Yakima city commission last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Henry Round
tree of Klaber, near Chehalis, cele'
brated the ed anniversary OF then
marriage last week.
Fire damage in the Wenatchee for
est during the 1927 season amounted
to less than $1,000 and was conflneo
to an area of $50 acres.
According to the records OF the
weather bureau in Spokane, 1871 IS
crowding 1897 for the place OF SECOND
vettest year in the city's history.
Petitions we're filed at Everett last
Friday for the recall from office OF
Prosecutor G. T. Roscoe on grounds
Of malfeasance and misfeasance.
Leaders in Grays Harbor develop
ment affairs are urging that Aberdeen
and Hoquiam consolidate into one city
that would then be the fourth largest
city in the state.
A total Of $4,000 for the Mcneil
Island penitentiary is contained in the
deficiency bill just passed by congress-
This is for repairs and salaries of Off
GERS and employees.
The Washington state highway com
mittee has authorized the expenditure
of $4,000 highway money for the
building of bridge across the Skagi'
river at Marblemount.
Investigation Of the feasibility OF
establishing Veterans Bureau hos
pital at Soap Lake in Grant county is
provided in bill introduced in CON
gress by Senator Dill.
Yandals, presumably boys, last week
staged miniature wild west show
In the western part of Centralia, shoot
ing out street lights. Eleven OF the
lights were found shattered.
Thieves entered the post office and
general store of w. H. Reader al
Roosevelt last.week, blew the safe ane
escaped with private and postal funds
amounting to approximately $3.50.
The Veterans bureau has assured
Representative Summers that $3.50
900 of It's allotment for hospitals vii
be for Walla Walla infirmary, an az
preparation which failed last year.
Manager e. M. Sorensen Of tn
Lewis-Pacific Dairymen's associatio
announced last week that a dividen
Of approximately $4,000 will be pass
ed to it's members from the 1927 bus
ness.
. For the first time in the history G
the Seattle fire department, Their
I were no Christmas tree fires this yeal
!. Use of electric lights instead of cal
J. dies was believed to have been tn
reason.
The Union Securities company {
l. Spokane has sold all its interest
the First National Bank Of Wenatche
" to ]. K. Mccormack and his son, Ro
ert d. Mccormack, now assistant cas-
h Ter at Wenatchee.
1t Plunged to the bottom Of Lal
1t Washington when her coupe backe
r. off the rear OF the ferry Leschi I'M
Affect Of icy water, Mrs. Katheri1
M. Nanny, drowned at Seattle la
Thursday evening.
The new concrete bridge in Chels
Ia completed and the lights installe
The bridge spans the Chelan riv
, and was made necessary because
], raising the lake from the Washingtt
Water Power dam.
/. Water users of the Tieton probe
? are busy paying delinquent irrigati'
= and maintenance charges in order
avert the threatened cancellation
/. their water rights. Collections We
q nesday totaled $4,000.
James Dole, sponsor Of the Dc
0 flights to Hawaii last summer, b
placed orders for 100000 feet OF lu
a Der at Aberdeen for delivery at t
d island, the lumber to be used for i
!. provements on his estate.
The federal government will
t asked to set aside several acres
= ground IN Vancouver barracks for t
. purpose Of perpetuating the historic
importance of the Hudson's Bay apl
tree, 101 years old, and to prepare
way for rebuilding the old Hudson
Bay fort and stockade, according
W. Foster Hidden, chairman of t
, chamber Of commerce civic committ
The big task Of registering all t
. 10000 voters in Spokane county "
A begun last week when the cour
q commissioners mailed out the reg
q tration books to the county precin'
that every voter may be permitted
!. register after New Years.
!. In order TO take care Of the devel
3 ing business on the Cowlitz, Chehs
& Cascade railway, operating e
from Chehalis, which opened Its
mile extension January to traf
an additional locomotive of the lat
type has just been received.