White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-02-03
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Weak
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Vancouver schools last week.
Towns in the northeastern section
Of Whatcom county, including Maple
Falls, Glacier, Deming and Sumas, re-
ported earthquake shocks last week.
Sheepmen around Walla Walla ex-
pect to start lambing about March l.
Contracts for some Of the lambs are
dated from October for 10h to IL
cents.
Out of more than 600 carloads OF
potatoes raised in Clark county in
1927 only 20 carloads have been sold,
G. H. Greedy, potato dealer, announced
recently.
Hoquiam voters will be called upon
in March to decide whether or not
the city shall bond itself to buy the
present water system, or to construct
a new one.
w. s. Tucker, president and man.
ager of the Tenino Single company,
has acquired the old Sather shingle
mill at Carlisle and will start opera.
tions soon.
Several hundred dairymen were in
attendance at the annual meeting of
the Skagit Dairymen's association
held in the Grand theatre at Belling-
ham last week.
A new record was established last
Thursday when all Of the 80 attor-
neys who appeared before the state
board Of bar examiners successfully
passed the examination.
George Jones, chamber of commerce
president, received word that Wenat-
chez had been awarded first prize for
the best National Apple week celebra-
| ton for cities of it's class.
| j. j. Griner of the state department
Of agriculture places valuation Of
$1O0,OO0,OOO on the wheat, apples, po-
tatoes and other crops marketed by
eastern Washington in 1927.
ton State Grange, has been invited to
be the principal speaker at meet
ing of farmers and business men to be
held at Mount Vernon in February.
A bumper Bartlett pear crop in
Clark county this year is predicted by
members of the Bartlett Pear Crow
ers' association, which was organized
last summer with 35 charter members.
DR.. Edwin ]. Brown, colorful ex
mayor of Seattle, who was defeated for
reelection in 1926 by Mrs. Bertha K.
Landes, filed his candidacy for mayor
with the hopes of winning back the
post.
| A 100000 medical arts building"
10 stories high and measuring 100 by
285 feet, will be erected in Spokane
during the coming year by L. N. Ros
enbaum, New York and Seattle CAPT
| talist.
Vancouver was selected for the next
annual convention, and Robert T..
Reid of Bellevue was elected presi-
dent of the Western Washington
Horticultural association at it's recent
meeting.
Governor Hartley changed his mind
about allowing the new capitol to be
occupied Monday, and all plans for
moving last Saturday had to be aban-
doned by state officials, who had char
tered vans.
| Kiutus Tecumseh, who claims direct
descent from the famout Indian chief
Tecumseh, presented President Cool
idge with a box of apples grown on
his fathers farm at Wenatchee. He
was clad in full Indian regalia.
Three members of the mob which
drove Filipino workers from the Yaki-
ma reservation November 8 were
found guilty by jury in the court Of
w. H. White, justice of the peace.
The three were sentenced to ten days
in Jail.
| Seattle's first automobile show since
1924, giving promise of being the most
comprehensive exhibition of modern
transport ever displayed there, will be
held at the new University of Wash
ington athletic pavilion, beginning Fri
day, February 10.
The last steel on the new National
railway Of Schafer Brothers was laid
last week. Crews working both from
west and Cedarville ends met at Cal
low. Part OF the road has been bal
lasted and the remainder will soon be
completed. This line connects the
main Schafer line at Brady with the
companys new holdings in eastern
Grays Harbor county.
| State highway crews have the three.
mile bridge near Wallula in shape
again and it can be used Immediately.
It was damaged by the flood on Janu-
airy 10 and since that time detour
has been used. Part Of the bridge
had to be redecked.
Legal and technical problems were
discussed at a meeting of county
superintendents of Northwestern
Washington in Everett last week. Mrs.
Josephine Corliss Preston stressed the
need of expert clerical and steno
graphic help for superintendents.