White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-06-01
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Radio station KXRO of Aberdeen,
which has been silent for more than
year, will go on the air again May %.
Longviews summer flower show
will be held June 10, with roses.
peonies and sweet peas to predomin-
ate.
Airplanes from various parts of the
northwest were in Walla Walla Satur'
day and Sunday to take part in the
two-day air derby and circus.
G. H. Comprey, IS, of Black Dia-
mond, was seriously injured in cave
in of the roof in the new Great North
ern tunnel at Scenic last week.
James M. Birmingham, 81, pioneer
Aberdeen merchant and G.. A. R. vet
eran, died last week at the Old Sol
diers' Home, Orting, following brief
illness.
The cornerstone of Seatt!e's civic
auditorium was swung into place Sat
urday afternoon in the presence OF
Mayor Bertha X. Landes and Mayor
elect Frank Edwards.
Plans are under way for the estab.
| lishment of a junior college at Yaki-
ma and a campaign will begin at once
to sign up $50 to 200 students to enter
such an institution next fall.
| Samuel H. Miller, we'll known Sunny.
side pioneer celebrated his Goth birth.
day by taking trip to the mountain
district of the upper valley to view
the great government dam at Rimrock.
May Is marked the opening Of the
new 100000 canning plant of the Puy-
allup & Sumner Fruit Growers asso-
citation at Puyallup. The plant is now
busy on rhubarb and strawberries will
follow.
Ralph Reed Jr., son Of City De.
tective Ralph Reed, and Billie Lamer.
eux, IA, son of D. Lamereux of Lyn.
den, were drowned Sunday while
swimming in Squalicum creek near
Bellingham.
Approximately 100 members of the
Pythian Sisters lodge from Olympia,
McCleary, Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Elma
and Montesano met in Montesano last
week for the district convention OF
their order.
Adelaide's Elaine, a Jersey COW
owned by w. F. Nelson of Walla Wal
la, has qualified for her first gold
medal by producing 12,S03 pounds OF
milk and 652.27 pounds of butterfat
in 305 days.
The city Of Hoquiam accepted deliv
cry of a new 1,0OO-gallon triple-com
bination pumper which will be placed
in service Immediately in the fast
growing east side residential and man
ufacturing district.
The Washington state braich OF the
National Association of Postoffice
Clerks is to hold convention in
Olympia Tuesday and Wednesday
Assistant Postmaster F. w. Riesen.
weber announced.
DR.. Edward Hempsted Latham, 81
years, for many years physician to the
Indians on the Okanogan Indinian
reservation and from 1888 until 1892
a practicing physician in Spokane, died
Monday in Chelan.
Earl Norman, 10, Chehalis, grappled
Viking-like with bear, and lived te
tell the tale. He is in a hospital al
Elma, with legs literally torn to pieces
arms, face and scalp torn and bitten
but is expected to live.
Rear Admiral Henry j. Ziegmeie1
has been appointed commandant of the
Puget Sound navy yard to succeed
Rear Admiral Robson, who will be-
come superintendent of the naval
academy at Annapolis June 20.
The 18th annual convention Of the
Washington state branch of the Ma
tional Congress of Parents and Teach
ers concluded it's three-day session in
Longview last Thursday by electing
Mrs. j. N. Irvine of Seattle as the
president for the next two years.
The school board of the Mossyrock
consolidated district recently awarded
a contract to the Lee-Nye CONSTRUCTION
company of Centralia for erection OF
a four-room grade school there. Their
bid was $11,396. Construction of the
school will start Immediately.
Kennewick chapter, P. e. O., is Civ
ing drinking fountain to the city
park. A wading pool also is being put
in and other improvements planned
The park was only started few years
ago and this is the first year that the