White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-14
WASHINGTON news
" ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

to cost approximately $4,000.
Six hundred boxes of peaches were
delivered at the Yakima postoffice last
week for parcel post shipment.
To date 80 cars of 1928 apples, most
ly winter bananas, have been shipped
from Wenatchee to the eastern mar
kets.
One hundred and forty-five men are
employed at the new Weyerhaeuser
camp G, which opened near Tenino
September 2.
AS part of plan of coast cedar
mills to maintain steady market, the
Whatcom Falls company closed its
plant last week.
The Davenport consolidated schools
opened last week with a registration
Of 40 pupils as compared with 1888
registered last year.
A total Of 400 tons of cold storage
pears were sold by Yakima concern
last week to cannery at an average
price of SAB ton.
The Sunnyside cannery so far this
year has processed 235 tons Of pears
and IL tons of tomatoes. Twenty men
and 325 women are employed.
The Sunnyside Mint company esti-
mates the total product Of the concern
this year at 1900 pounds Of oil, which
is expected to be marketed at SO to
$40 pound.
At the Cowlitz county fair L. H.
Goerig took the first prize in the milk
ing contest and B. w. Brown of Wood
land won IS for the best dozen Of eggs
on display.
BY vote of PA to 6, citizens Of
Okanogan last week passed the pro-
posed bond issue for $4,000 to cover
the cost of improvements to the city
water system.
Crushed under a rolling log at the
Alger logging camp near Skamokawa,
Wednesday,, Norman Rasmussen, 25,
was killed instantly, leaving bride
of two months.
The hay loft of Jim Anest yielded a
$4,000 cache of liquor when the coun-
ty dry squad armed with pitchforks
uncovered liquor storage Of 800 gal
Ions near Spokane.
Fire believed to have started from
q cigarette resulted in considerable
damage to Colman dock and destroyed
an adjoining ferry slip on the Seattle
waterfront last week.
This week will wind up the harvest
west of Coulee. Though the yield has
not been so heavy as last year, the
quality is much better. The wheat is
being stored because Of low prices.
Permits were issued for new build
ings in Seattle during the first eight
months of 1928 totalling S27,690,O5O.
This is an increase of $6,500,000 over
the corresponding eight months Of
1927.
Commander William H. Bradley of
the Puget Sound navy yard has been
decorated with the congressional med.
al of honor by President Coolidge for
bravery during service in the World
War.
With an attendance of~40 firemen
and officials, central Washington
association of firemen was formed al
Wapato to promote proposed legisla
ton for fire protection in rural dis
tricts.
With an estimated unpicked tonnage
of 300 cars of Yakima peaches, matur
ing rapidly, deliveries at Yakima ware
houses are heavy, and it is expected
that the harvest will draw to close
rapidly.
A total of 1917 building permits were
issued in Spokane up to September
this year for new construction, valued
at $4,579,379, breaking all records Of
any previous eight months in the city's
history.
The Longview Community Service
club has started it's sixth year of work
as the oldest organization, with {
membership of about 400, making i
one of the largest women's clubs il
the state.
The prune season in Clark count.
is on in Zelda. Only three dryers viii
open so far as known. o. e. Jones
| Dr. Coffin and Frank Erickson, plal
to operate their plants as soon al
enough prunes are ready. Most o
the small crops will be picked for tn
canncry 1t is hard to get pickers a.
the slim picking keeps them away
High wages will be paid pickers.
Calf thieves are again active il
northern Clark county. A. C. Belyea
whose farm is on the Pacific highway
south of La Center, reported to tn
sheriff that one yearling calf wa
butchered on his place and two NOR
| were missing.
John and George Musgrove, broth
ers, of Kennewick, maintained
steady jog trotting to divide first an
second money in Walla Walla's littl
bunion derby from Milton, Or, t
Walla Walla, as feature of the Labo
day celebration.
A prejudice is what the great or