White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-14
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Ezra Meeker, 81, one of the last OF
the survivors of the era of the covered
wagon, died at Seattle after several
months illness.
George Secord was elected mayor OF
Kelso without opposition at the recent
municipal election when five council
men were chosen.
High school girls of Spokane have
adopted standard dress recommend,
ed by the school authorities. Silks,
velvets and satins are barred.
George Winkleman Of Wilbur has
been awarded the contract for carry
ing the mail from Gerome to Creston.
The service began December l.
The state penitentiary at Walla Wal
la now has a full-time chaplain, the
Rev. ]. Morgan Lewis of Monroe hav-
ing been appointed to the position.
Lincoln county has decided to have
county farm agent in 1929 and the
commissioners have placed in the bud
get sum of $500 for expenses of the
office.
Blinded by the snow, Albert ]. Hos
kins Of Spokane, As, was crushed to
death under his automobile Saturday,
when it left the highway and Owed
over an embankment.
With the hope that jail will reform
his only son, Thomas w. Wade, Seat
tie manufacturer, has sworn to a war
rant charging George c. Wade, 20,
with first degree forgery.
Immediate survey of a forestry trail
which later will be road through the
Olympic peninsula up the east fork Of
the Quinault river is announced by
Portland forestry officials.
The bond measure of $4,000 to
build police and fire station in Van
couver, failed to receive the necessary
OU pei CcuL VI VOICS SloI Ill elAO Aooe
general election and was lost.
Deer in the vicinity of White Sal
mon are unusually tame this year.
Orchardists report that they are dam
aging their trees and several have
been seen within the city limits.
Hurled into the chilly waters of
Willapa bar last week, Gus Enspey,
a crab fisherman, chung for 20 hours
to the wreckage of his boat and was
finally washed ashore by the tide.
Dorothy Packard, 16, sophomore in
the Shelton high school, is dead at
her home in Shelton from burns sus.
tanned when she threw gasoline into
a stove to make the fire burn faster.
An early special session Of congress,
not later than April l, to take up farm
relief and tariff revision, is being adj
7V0ijtaled " Senator Wesley L. Jones,
recently reelected to the upper house.
M. D. Smith of Brewster claims the
record in apple raising in Washington,
having harvested 500 packed boxes
this season from his four acres of De-
licious, Winesap and Spitzenberg
trees.
= Destruction of a one-room school
building at Outlook, accommodating
about 30 pupils, has compelled the
school board to arrange for temporary
use of rooms in the Evangelical
church.
Official figures for the general cleo
ton show that Herbert Hoover car
ried Washington by more than two
to-one vote over Alfred E. Smith.
Hoover received 335,S44 and Smith
156,772.
The Tacoma Electro Chemical COM
pany plant, being constructed on Hy-
belos waterway, will be ready for op-
GRAFTON by January l, H. L. Bloom
shield, chief engineer, told the Tacoma
city council.
Stanley Hanson, 14-year-old school
boy who suffered concussion of the
brain some time ago when he was
struck by city bus, is suing the city
of Seattle for $4,000 as the result Of
the accident.
Oliver e. Jones, plant manager Of
the egon-Washington Growers Pack
ing corporation at Vancouver, has re-
signed and Walter Horton, assistant
manager for nine years, has been ap
pointed in his stead.
Centralia's postal receipts for 1928
will show marked increase over last
year, William Scales, postmaster, stat
ed. October receipts were $3,985.21,
compared with $3,024.20 in 1927, and
November receipts were $3,S99.81, as
against $3,66673 last year, a gain of
$1,194.09 for the two months of 1928
over the corresponding period year
ago.
Indians of the Colville reservation
are in dire distress, their crops for
several years having proved failures,
and the government will be asked to
appropriate 500 to each Of the 5000
Colyilles to relieve their immediate
wants.
A bond issue of $500 for the pur
pose OF building new school house
in the Burton district of Clark county
was approved by vote of 46 to 90
The new school house Of two rooms