White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-06-29
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
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80 less than in 1927.
Twelve carloads of berries have
been shipped from the Sunnyside dis
trict, bringing the growers returns to-
falling 100000.
Between 1000 to 5000 carloads Of
fruit were destroyed by hail last Fri
day in the lower Naches district of
Yakima county.
Seattle was chosen as the 1929 con-
vention city of the Washington State
Music Teachers association, which
held it's annual convention in Yakima
last week.
A single mill on the Chehalis river
at the west end of Alder street was
destroyed by fire recently that is pre-
sumed to have been started by chill
dren playing in the plant.
Said to be the Oldest living man
who was born in Seattle, Elwood
Plummer, 70 years old, is visiting that
city this week from Vancouver, Wash,
where he now makes his home.
Work was begun Monday on the
construction of the huge new Olympic
highway span across the Queets river
in the peninsula wilderness. The
work will require several months.
Green grapes eaten by the 3-year-old
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Reida Blomseth
of Yakima are believed to have caused
intestinal poisoning and commissions,
which resulted in the child's death.
Found guilty Of driving while
drunk, the Rev. Charles Preston, head
of the Spiritualist Christian church
in Seattle and Tacoma, was fined $3.50
and sentenced to spend six months in
Jail.
The toll record for 1928 was broken
last Sunday on the interstate bridge
with total Of $1,000 received from
2S,141 persons, SO motorcycles, 24S7
two-passenger automobiles and TITS
large cars.
A flyless summer is claimed by the
Sunnyside chamber of commerce,
which has special committee in
charge of a fly determination cam.
paign. Roy Fits is chairman of the
committee.
Three hundred delegates represent
ing nearly every station on the North
ern Pacific railway met at Tacoma
last week in the fourth annual con-
vention Of the Northern Pacific Vet
erans' association.
Work of oiling roads in Walla Walla
county began recently when 3. R.
Hessel, Washtucna contractor, put a
crew of men on the Bryant Avenue
road. A total Of 16 miles will be
oiled this summer.
A wild pea vine, the only one Of
Its kind ever found on the continent
of North America, has been discover
ed on the state college campus at Pull
man by DR.. Harold st. John, associate
professor of botany.
Two hundred acres of mint are I'M
der cultivation in the Sunnyside dis
trict. The outlook for marketing the
crop of mint oil is said to be unusually
favorable. Indications point to con-
siderably larger acreage another sea-
son.
A meteor, which fell from the sky
the other night, is being exhibited at
the Hotel Kennewick in Kennewick.
Curtiss Hanson saw it fall as he was
going home and says it lit up the sky
as it came down and was warm when
he reached it.
The Hoquiam city council has ac-
cepted the bid of the state of Wash
ington on 100000 in general obliga-
ton bonds for acquisition of the exist
ing water system here and for $4,000
in similar bonds for construction of
q new city hall.
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
department Of Washington held a
three day session in Yakima last week
with 100 delegates present. G. R.
Christie of Seattle, department com
mander, responded to the welcome
speech by Mayor w. B. Dudley.
With the completion of modern
sawmill plant, with daily capacity Of
100000 feet, at Klickitat, the j. Neils
Lumber company has announced in
tentions Of carrying on extensive op
erations in the timber belt of western
Klickitat county. A new planning mil
plant, to be operated in connection
with the mill, is nearing completion
and additional yardage has been prov
vided for lumber piling.
The first summer apples Of the sea
son appeared at the produce houses
in Walla Walla when a few boxes o.
Bentonheimers were brought in. They
are early cooking apples. Early Trans
parents will be on the market in {
couple of days. The strawberry sea
son is about ended, though mountain
berries are coming in. The cherr.
movement is nearing it's height. Re
ceipts from cherries so far in the val
ley are about $150,OOO, and grower
are distributing between $4,000 ant
$4,000 a day to pickers and packers.
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