White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-05-04
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Thirty-five members Of the Grand
view high school senior class will be
graduated May II, in the annual COM
mencement.
Fire chiefs of the Yakima valley,
from Roslyn to Kennewick, met in
Yakima May for a conference on
fire prevention.
The South Side garage Of Oroville
was destroyed by fire recently. Spon-
taneous combustion is said to have
been the cause.
With indications that all attendance
records would be smashed, the ninth
annual Apple Blossom festival opened
in Wenatchee Friday.
With a committee of White Salmon
business men favoring the project,
plans are to be made for establish
ment of an airport there.
In full view of crowd Of $50, help.
less because no boat was near, two
boys drowned in Green Lake, in Sc
attic, when their canoe capsized.
Funeral services were held in Win
lock last week for John B. Lee, IL.
Lee was one of Winlock's earliest pio-
neers, locating there nearly fifty years
ago.
Lewis Neumeier, aged 3S, employed
as brakeman at the Turvey logging
camp near Tenino, was killed when
he slipped and fell between two log
ging cars.
May "a and rs have been announced
as the dates for the annual Yakima
music festival. 1t will be held this
year under the auspices Of the Yakima
National Guard.
Goldie Burns, 20, confessed to police
in Spokane that she was the "brains"
of more than score Of drug store
and taxicab robberies in Seattle, Ia
coma and Spokane.
Sixty-five thousand dollars worth of
new buildings, comprising a two-stOry
rectory and one-story parish hall,
are to be built by st. James Catholic
Church of Vancouver.
Total 1927 receipts of the Olequa
toll bridge, spanning the Cowlitz river
at Olequa, were $12,962.5O, according
to a report Of Charles E. Huber of
Portland, Or, secretary.
William Crimmins, 70, died in Sc.
attic Saturday from injuries received
when struck by Shell company gas
truck, making the 32d traffic death in
that city since January 1.
The season in the national forest
area of the Blue mountains around
Walla Walla is about normal now, AL
bert Baker, forest ranger, said on his
return from the hills last week.
L. N. Plamondon, E. G. Blue and G..
r. Plamondon Of Woodland sold to
New York buyers $500 pounds of pep
permint oil. This leaves only 400
pounds of the 1927 crop to be sold.
Yakima valley "Old Boys" of the
civil war were entertained by the boys
OF the American Legion at banquet
in Yakima last week. The event will
mark the birthday of General U. S.
Grant.
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to one for the five-day week in their
craft. This was learned last week in
the final count of the vote on the is.
sue, cast by 1000 carpenters in refer
endum.
Seattle's population, including some
adjacent communities which are con-
sidering being annexed by the city,
was estimated at more than 512,428 by
r. l.. Polk company, directory census
takers.
Crippled with rheumatism, George
Anderson, GO, lost his life Monday at
mud Of a waterway near his home
at low tide and was unable to extricate
himself.
More than 43 per cent of the steel
to be used in the construction of the
ten million dollar cruiser at the Bre-
merton navy yard has been discharged
by freight ships in the past several
months.
Two hundred and fifty new resi-.
dences must be constructed in Port
Townsend within the next eighteen
months, to take care of the additional
industrial population assured by the
increased paper manufacturing plans
Of the National Paper Products COM
pany, Zellerbach corporation subsidi-
airy, according to recent estimate.
Approximately 500 Baptists of west
ern Washington will assemble in Aber-
deem May for the annual three-day
convention of the west state associa-
ton. DR.. c. o. Johnson, pastor of
the First Baptist church at Tacoma,
will preside.
A second grain elevator, even larger
than the 375,O00-bushel elevator being
completed now on the public port
property on the Columbia river, is in
prospect for Longview, according to
a statement by T. P. Fisk, attorney
Tor the port.
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