White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week. Collected for
Our Readers.

Enrolment in Endicott schools last
week was 253, the high school having
70 and the grade school $50.
James O'Day pioneer rancher near
Sunnyside. was found dead in a corn
field, where apparently he had fallen
while cultivating.
Births in Spokane in August mum.
bered 1877 and deaths 1874. Among the
deaths II passed away from heart dis.
ease and 16 from cancer.
The plant of the Oregon Packing
company at Vancouver is now operat.
ing night and day with crew Of 500
women and large number Of men.
John West, Chehalis' popular mayor,
has been nominated for county com.
missioner of the I'd district on the
democratic ticket by the use Of stick
ers.
Automobile license receipts in the
state of Washington during the past
nine months aggregated S6,37O649, or
S2S7812 more than the total receipts
for 1927.
To date 1900 cars of prunes have
been shipped from the Walla Walla
valley, bringing gross returns of ST.
100000 and the payment of 100000
for labor.
The Broadway districts new school
building in Yakima, for which $4,000
in bonds was voted last spring, has
been completed and will be dedicated
September II.
Seven hundred dollars worth Of Gig
arettes were taken by thieves last
week from the Payne tobacco ware.
house in Yakima. the loot being re-
moved by truck.
The Catholic church at Vader was
robbed last week, golden vessels val
ued at $3.50 being taken. This is the
fourth time this year the Catholic
church has been pillaged.
Tripping at the brink of a precipice,
Walter l.. Ryder Of Bremerton plunged
100 feet to instant death Wednesday
along the Dosewallips river where he
was camping with his family.
Vandals who invaded commercial
airplane hangers at Felts field in Spo-
kane last week damaged airplane mo-
tors to the extent of $4,000 by putting
emery dust in some of the motors.
Green grapes eaten by the 3-year-
old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Blomseth at
Yakima last week caused intestinal
poisoning and commissions which re-
suited Saturday night in its death.
Lyle Tracy, motorcycle patrolman
at Seattle, was fatally injured Satur-
day when his revolver fell from it's
holster and discharged, the bullet
striking him in the base Of the neck.
Charged with setting fires without
a permit, Alex Parke was arrested in
Clark county on complaint of Fire
Warden Shoemaker and fined $25 and
costs by Justice Blair at Vancouver.
Scores of Filipinos and the usual in
flux Of Indians from the coast and
British Columbia are arriving in Yaki-
ma county to help in the hop harvest,
which promises to be the best in years.
Records for IS years for any one
day at the Spokane Interstate fair
were broken this year, figures show.
ing an attendance of 35,O27 on the
first day. compared with 32,331 in 1927.
Miss Billie Armstrong, 10, was fatal
ly injured at Seattle Wednesday when
the machine in which she was riding
struck p pile of gravel and overturned.
Five others in the car were cut and
bruised.
Mart Lockerby, so, pioneer resident
of Hoquiam, died in Hoquiam hospi-
tai as result Of injuries received
when he was struck down by an auto
mobile operated by Clyde Hunley, Of
Hoquiam.
The Allen Packing company has the
largest crew of the year engaged at
its cannery at Longview at present,
working on pears and beans, and on
Tuesday canning of salmon will be
started again.
The new boulevard light system for
the Hoquiam business district prob
ably will be completed by October 1,
according to report made by Hoquiam
Electric company, contractors, to the
city council.
A report submitted to the Spokane
park board by B. A. Clark, playground
supervisor, shows 1,189,253 children
visited Spokane's nine playfields dur
ing the season up to last Wednesday
and that 24O,574 swan in the three
municipal pools.
Grading and graveling of 61 miles
Of highway between Fall City and the
Miller road is contemplated in four
projects for which bids were called
by the state highway committee last
week. Contracts are to be let Octo-
Der 9.
A permit for $4,000 irrigation and
water supply project was issued to
the Chelan Falls Irrigation district by
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