White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-02-17
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Weak
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of Our Readers.

uaLeQ grace SCnOOl mas Deen formally
opened.
Mrs. Dora Buchanan, "a, said to
have been the first white woman in
Pasco, died there last week.
A hall to cost $4,000 will be built by
Salmon Creek grange, organized less
than one year ago with 237 members.
Chaplain Elmer Huset has organized
kindergarten at Vancouver barracks,
the first to be opened there in sew
eral years.
Applications for loans received by
the Federal Land bank of Spokane for
January numbered $50 and 70 were ap-
proved for s332,5OO.
Work has been started on bridge
over Wind river on the North Bank
highway. The main span of steel will
be 2S0 feet in length.
Peter Vik of Puget Island landed
one of the largest surgeons that has
been seen near there for several years.
It weighed Alb pounds.
Thirteen head Of cattle burned to
death in a fire that destroyed barn
belonging to the Longview Suburban
company on Mount Solo.
There were 81 births in Centralia
and vicinity in January, according to
the monthly reports of DR.. David Liv.
ingtone, city health officer.
The annual convention of the Wash.
ington school directors was held in
Olympia the first of this week. Sew
eral hundred directors were in attend.
ance.
Lieutenant Governor w. Lon John
son has announced at Colville that
he would file for denomination as lieu
tenant governor on the republican
ticket.
The Yakima Traffic and Credit as.
sociation has received the silver tro.
ply cup awarded for the best National
Apple Week display by cities Of 49,
900 to 10000 population.
Petroleum, with what appears to be
a paraffine base, has been struck on
the Vesta school grounds in the North
River valley, ten miles south Of the
Montesano business district.
Announcement is made that the
Columbia Lumber company has pur.
chased six retail lumber yards in the
five principal cities of Chelan county.
The purchase price was S5OO,OOO.
Plans are being made by the Pro-
ducers' Egg & Poultry association Of
Yakima to ship eggs to far eastern
markets. The association is receiving
100 cases week from it's 70 members.
Mrs. Thomas Bump and her two
children saved their lives by fleeing
in their night clothes from their burn
ing home near Pomona last week The
fire destroyed the house and contents.
The Wenatchee-Ya Yakima stage struck
q rock slide about 18 miles north Of
| Yakima last week, but was stopped
by Elmer Rowley, the driver, with the
front wheels on the verge of 3O-foot
drop.
Township assessors and the equali-
Zation board have reached an agree
ment that good wheat land in Spokane
county shall be valued at approximate
ly $65 an acre for. assessment pur-
poses.
The new S650,O00 plant of the Aber.
deem Plywood company started opera,
tions last week. The plan is to en-
ploy crew of IS men and the mill is
being run slowly until the new machin.
cry is broken in.
The Hockinson grange was organ
lied last week with 60 charter mem
bers. Fred Matson was elected mas
ter; ]. e. Petite Jr., lecturer, and Mrs.
Flora Matson, secretary. Clark coun-
ty now has II oranges.
Harry Anderson, 11-year-old son of
Swan Anderson Of Hoquiam, had a
narrow escape from death last week
when he rode his bicycle off the open
eighth street bridge draw and plunged
into the icy Hoquiam river.
A new forest service trail starting
but short distance above Lake Quin-
ault, 40 miles north of Hoquiam, will
be built to Mount Colonel Bob and to
the headwaters of the Wynooche river
and open up a vast mountain area.
The trail will afford new route up
the picturesque Colonel Bob and will
offer Olympic forest rangers greater
possibilities of combating fires. Work
is expected to be started this spring.
Bids were opened recently in the
Ellensburg office of the bureau of
reclamation on the diversion dam Of
the 100000 Kittitas reclamation
project. The dam, the last unit Of
the twenty-six mile canal, will be To-
Gated at Easton.
William Hobart died in hospital
at Reardan Of burns received when he
rushed through his burning farm home
and rescued his wife and four chill
dren. The kitchen range in his home
had been blown up, presumably by gas
from pitch pine.