White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-02-24
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lived alone for ten years. Death was
caused by heart disease.
Union carpenters working on the
new Evergreen hotel at Vancouver
walked out Saturday after dispute
over non-union help employed on the
building.
Huge catches Of Columbia river
Bmelt have been made In the Lewis
river and heavy shipments of the fish
were sent from Woodland and Kelso
last week.
Mrs. Myrtia Bright, Lewis county
school superintendent, has announced
an examination for teachers certifi.
Gates, to be held in Chehalis, March
/, 2 and 8.
J. H. Bodkin and his crew have
started grading and graveling six
miles Of highway south Of Lind. They
have gasoline gravel loader to assist
In the work.
Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, state
superintendent Of public instruction,
formally announced her candidacy for
reelection. Mrs. Preston was first
elected in 1912.
Funds for two new federal buildings
In Seattle to cost $2,ss0,000 are pro.
vided in a deficiency appropriation
bill to be introduced In congress In
about six weeks.
Centralia was host to more than 900
students from IA high schools last
Friday and Saturday, when the third
annual southwest Washington inter.
scholastic music meet was held there.
The Fashion stable, one Of Garfield's
largest buildings Of pioneer days, built
in the early sos, has been sold to
John Berner, who is taking 1t down
and moving the lumber to his farm.
spokane's next big poultry show is
to be held the second week in Janu-
airy, 1929. The date was decided upon
at the annual business meeting Of the
Spokane Poultry Breeders association.
Being caught with one beaver in his
possession cost G. L. Pollock Of Pho
neer 500. He was charged by County
Game Warden McCurdy with trapping
beaver and having one in his posses.
sion.
c}n
chaser, sustained fatal injuries at the
Winlock and Toledo Lumber COM
panys camp, three miles from Toledo,
last week when crushed between two
logs.
| The Junior Amusement company Of
Yakima has taken over all four the
aters in Walla Walla, which gives
that organization ownership or con-
troll Of IL theaters between Yakima
and Walla Walla.
Charges of embezzlement Of $3349
| of the Bellingham city water depart
ment's funds were filed in superior
court last week against Ralph M.
Ward, first assistant city treasurer for
the last 10 years.
A lone bandit held up the Harper
Vashon ferry Sunday at midnight as
1t approached dock in Seattle, forced
the clerk to deliver the contents of
the ferry safe and escaped with be-
tween $3.50 and $500.
Mrs. G.. Kebster, who lives near
Pioneer, reported to the sheriff that
two valuable Jersey calves were stolen
from her barn last week. This is the
second pair Of calves stolen in that
locality within a week.
State land and timber valued at
$2S2,261 will be sold March 1, Land
Commissioner Clark v. Savidge said.
is: Land. $10,s15; timber, 1891 ,47S;
tide and shore lands, $9987.
The music department of the
Women's Civic club of Centralia has
donated a silver cup to the Centralia
high school, which will be awarded
to the student who has been the
greatest inspiration in music this year.
The Manor road from the end of the
pavement on the st. Johns road, which
has been impossible during the winter
months, will be smoothed over with a
large tractor and grader and made fit
for travel according to the contractor.
Preliminary plans for the reorgan-
ization Of the Centralia Chamber Of
Commerce were discussed recently by
the Active, Rotary and Kiwanis clubs,
American Legion and Spanish War
Veterans. Sentiment was unanimous
In favor of reorganization.
Mildred Harvey, II, and Danalda
Pearl, 16, living in Lynden, we're
killed and Knut Peterson suffered q
fractured skull Sunday when their
automobile swerved from the high.
way near Bellingham and struck a
tree.
The gold medal of the national Boy
Scout organization, the highest
bravery award in Scoutdom, was con.
ferred at Aberdeen Saturday night
upon Elton Holmes of Vesta for res.
cuing a drowning girl last summer
from the North river.