White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

| Twisp.
Adna, six miles west of Chehalis,
narrowly escaped being burned to the
ground when a $4,000 fire started. The
swift response of the Chehalis fire de-
partment saved the town from de-
| struction.
The annual farmers and merchants
picnic at Alexander park in Chehalis,
attracted crowd estimated at 5000.
President Spencer of the University
of Washington was the principal
speaker.
John B. Van Dyke of Seattle was
appointed a member Of the board Of
commissioners for the promotion Of
uniformity of legislation in the United
States, Gov. Roland H. Hartley an
nounced.
Three Dayton boys narrowly escap-
ed death on the Dixie hill while re-
turning home from Walla Walla when
their car swerved at turn in the
road, jumped into the ditch and turn
ed over twice.
Ten banks in Okanogan county
have total resources in excess of 49,
100000 according to a tabulation Of
federal reports of June 80. Deposits,
with figures missing from one bank,
total $2,6O9,408.
Frank Humphrey, 86-year-old civil
war veteran and one of the few re.
manning members Of Phil Kearney
Grand Army Relief post at Toledo,
was found dead in bed at his farm
home near Vader.
Five towns of Southwest Washing
ton are planning a joint Labor Day
celebration in Olympia, according to
Jack Moore, secretary Of the Olympia
Building Trades and chairman of the
committee in charge.
August Prushmeyer Of Hayes, small
Lewis river community, sustained a
broken leg when he was struck by
double-tree which was thrown more
than so feet when line on which
horses were pulling broke.
Registration for the fall elections
in Kelso has been exceptionally light,
City Clerk Lucien B. Crawford reports,
only 1,345 having registered at late
hour. The possible registration for
Kelso is approximately 5000.
Considerable interest was manifest
ed by citizens Of Garfield at the city
council meeting, when the proposed
amendment changing the city ordi-
nance so as to permit moving pic
lures in the theater on Sundays came
up for first reading.
P. F. Sndyer, secretary to Represen-
tative Johnson, and an ex-Kelso news
paperman, has been appointed assist
ant director of the national repub-
lican speakers bureau, with head
quarters in Chicago. He will enter
upon his duties in August.
One thousand delegates of the Uni
ted Spanish War Veterans and its
auxiliary, department of Washington
and Alaska, marched the streets of
downtown Tacoma in colorful parade
as one of the features Of the annual
conventions of the two bodies.
The Ritzville board of education of
district 1876 purchased a ton truck for
school purposes. This gives the dis
trict eight large trucks and one small
one. 1t was thought when the routes
for the new drivers were laid out that
one or two more trucks will be need
ed.
A reduction of almost 100000 in
the total assessments of Skagit coun
ty was shown this year in figures
p given out by County Assessor Arthur
Fisher The smaller total is due tc
reduction of values of logged-off lands
of the county, it was said. Total as
sessments approximate S24,100,000.
The II banks of Chelan county had
$7,92O,079 on deposit June 80, or ST.,
429,071 more than year ago at the
same time, the largest amount ever
held in the banks of the county al
this time of year. Bankers say it re
fleets the increasing prosperity of the
county.
With more than 100 men working
two shifts, construction is going ahead
rapidly on the second largest building
project ever undertaken in north cen
trail Washington-the 1000-car colo
storage and packing plant of the West
ern Storage company opposite the
Great Northern depot in Wenatchee
1t will cost 100000.
Claiming that he was forced to hero
a band of sheep through blizzart
last December in the Horse HEAVIER
district and that both his feet were
badly frozen, John Constantine filet
suit in the Yakima superior court To-
$4,000 damages, naming members o
the firm of Coffin & Son, owners O
the band, as defendants.
Shipment Of 400 Chinese pheasant:
from the Walla Walla game farm tt
the Kittitas game commission, to BIZ