White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-28
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

GU year VIII nave cut approximately
400,000,0OO feet OF lumber.
In Whatcom county the number OF
cooperative poultrymen exceeds by
400 the cooperative dairymen.
The first 100000 of the 1929 motor
vehicle license plates have been
mailed to counties and cities by Direc.
tor Of Licenses Maybury.
Members of the Yakima ministerial
association are outspoken in their ap.
proval Of the recent activity OF Sheriff
Luce in law enforcement.
The-shingle mill which has been
operating for several years at Skamo-
kawa is moving to Rainier, Or, where
1t will employ about 80 men.
Car movements through the four
railroad gateways in the state totaled
1881 in November, compared with
62,366 the same month in 1927.
The Wilson Greek State bank has
been ordered closed by the state bank
examiner. The stock is owned princi
pally by farmers in the vicinity.
Thirteen more boy babies were born
In Spokane in November than girl ba'
bies. The total births for the month
were 1879 of which So were girls.
Crop returns from the Sunnyside ir-
rigation project in Yakima county this
year amounted to $5,467,157. an in.
crease Of liz per cent over the re.
turns In 1927.
Yakima's 1923 hop production was
28,361 bales, against 2O,284 in 1927. A
survey has shown 1900 bales still in
growers hands. A year ago growers
held $500 bales.
Mrs. Mary Pickett, Walla Walla's
Oldest citizen. is dead at the age of
101 years and nine months. She had
keen mind to the last but her eye.
sight had failed.
The Pacific Power & Light company
is making arrangements with business
men at Lyle, on the Columbia river in
Klickitat county. to furnish light and
power for the place.
Pasco will soon have broadcasting
station that will be erected by the de.
partment of commerce for use in con-
nection with the airmail lines. The
cost will be $4,000.
1t Is estimated that approximately
one billion baby chicks will be Matched
in the state during the coming brood.
ing season. Pierce county alone will
produce three million.
Authority to allow first class school
districts of the state ts.levy a tax up
to is mills without a vote of the peo
pie will be sought at the coming SEES
sion of the legislature.
One hundred and eighty-two gradu.
ate nurses were licensed to practice In
the state OF Washington as the result
of examinations held in Seattle and
Spokane December and 4.
Apple shipments from north central
Washington this season reached 1902
cars. of which 500 went out during the
first 10 days of December. Pear ship
ments amounted to 1897 cars.
Grain growers and shippers from all
sections of the northwest attended a
meeting at Pullman recently to review
the wheat situation and recommend
legislation for its Improvement
DR.. Paul West, city health officer at
Wenatchee. says that although there
Is much influenza there is little like
lihood Of closing schools. churches and
theatres. as has been done in other
places.
Longview high school debaters. talk.
ing the affirmative of the question,
"Resolved. that installment buying as
a means of exchange is economically
desirable" won over a Kalama high
school team.
A silver loving cup. donated by bus.
mess men of Ridgefield for the high
school team of hoys capable of cap
turing first place in potato Judging
contest. was won by the Woodland
high school team, composed of Clifford
Murk. Robert Brown and Armas Saas.
tamo. The school team registered
1895 points. Ridgefield scored 1775
Battle Ground 1860 and Longview 1882
Water rights to the flow of the
klickitat river, tributary Of the Co
lumbia. were sought recently by John
w. Langdon of Walla Walla In an ap
plication filed with Supervisor OF Hy
draulics r. K. Tiffany. Langdon plans
development of $4,000 power plant
to be located in. Klickitat county
The logging camps Of the Grays har
Dor district will this year have one
Of the shortest Christmas shutdownt
in many seasons. Most of the camps
are closing Friday and will reopen De
cSmber 81, giving the loggers weel
off
Yakima police have rounded up Chi
nese lottery Joints again and confis
Gated all the, tickets they could find
Claiming that they were not playing
now. the Chinese explained tickets
dated December 10 by saying they hat
been left over since a year ago.
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