White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-17
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Farmers at Husum have finished
cutting the first crop Of hay. A very
good yield is reported.
Postoffice receipts for the Longview
postoffice for the month of July total
ed $3704.30, $55S.SS more than in July,
1927.
A total of 240 cars of mixed fruits
and vegetables were shipped from
Yakima during the week ending Aug
ust 4.
Fall wheat testing over 60 pounds
and running more than 40 bushels to
the acre is being warehoused at Wi
| mona this season.
A Smith-Hughes agricultural confer
| ence embracing the schools Of south.
| western Washington was held in Van.
| couver last week.
At q cost Of about $4,000 a new
fruit warehouse will be built at Hume
and l. streets in Aberdeen for the
Ryan Fruit company.
A fire of undetermined origin de.
stroyed the barn and contents on the
farm of Grant Clarence, county COM
missioner of Klickitat county.
| The Vancouver city council acted
favorably on proposal to take over
the commercial airport there and
operate it as city property.
Fire starting from hot box gener-
ated by mustard in the grain destroy
ed the combine harvester Monday on
the farm of Glen Kiner, near Wilbur.
The Tacoma municipal belt line in
creased it's net earnings in June by
$95S.74. bringing it's surplus for the
first six months of the year to $4756.
In sales to be conducted in court
houses through the state September
4 the state will offer land and timber
properties of an appraised valuation
Of s522. e0s.
Approximately 100000 feet of tim
Der on 240 acres of state land in Ma
son and Kitsap counties was sold re-
Gently by the state capitol committee
for $l7S33.
Struck on the jaw by an autoist
who was angered, apparently because
she bumped her machine into his, Mrs.
ID. II. Brown Of Tukwila, died at Sc
atlle last week.
Distiliation of the new crop Of pep
permint in the Woodland district is
under way this week. The peppermint
crop Is unusually good this year, &C.
cording to growers.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
at Vail have announced that regular
logging operations will be resumed
Monday. The camps have all been
closed since before July 4.
Because she didn't want her little
boy to grow up, Mrs. Augusta Fischer
Of Seattle, killed her 4-year-old son
Robert with q razor and then stepped
to the telephone and called the police.
Spontaneous combustion, caused by
under-cured oat hay, started fire
in barn on the Sisters of Charity s
farm below Vancouver, which destroy
} ed the barn aud more than 100 tons Of
hay.
John Ewing Price, chairman Of the
board of Marine Incorporation, one
, OF the most powerful Of western Wash
ington's banking interests, died Wed
nesday at his home in Seattle, aged q
years.
Mayor D. O. Nugent issued a proc
lamation declaring a half holiday IL
i Centralia last Thursday, the opening
: day of the annual department conven
= lions of the American Legion and it,
: auxiliary.
;, Fire which broke out when case
d line pipe line broke destroyed tn
a cleaning plant Of the Blue Bell Par
q toriuln. owned by r. L. Bodgess, Kels
tailor and the frame building in whicl
- it wac housed.
d Postmaster j. r. linus Of Chehalis
J. secretary-traasurer of the Presidentia
v Postmasters' association Of Washing
ton, announced the annual meeting c
q the organization, will be held at Abel
/ deem next Saturday.
. Farmers OF Klickitat county al
v warned against possible invasion I
the Douglas ground squirrel in the al
nual report of Leo K. Couch, roden
4: control leader Of the U. S. biologics
* research bureau, just made public
II Many OF the pests have been see
4 crossing the two new interstat
J. bridges at Cascade Locks and Whit
Salmon, the report states, and ever
precaution is urged.
q Mrs. Melvin Track, %, wife of tn
commander of the American Legio
post at Ferndale was killed near BE
= bingham recently when her car wei
over a 2O-foot embankment on the p
g cific highway.
4 Daily lumber shipments from BIZ
gen have been cut down on accom-
n OF destruction Of the plant and luz
'e Der yards of the Maple Creek Lumbt
company which involved loss Of $5(
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