White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-04-19
WASHINGTON NEWS
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Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
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lighting system that will cost $18,500
Rev. Father Ignatius Vasta, S. j., g.
chaplain at Sacred Heart hospital in
Spokane, died after two days illness
with heart trouble.
One thousand delegates are expected
to attend the annual Washington en-
campment Of American war veterans
at Centralia, July IS.
H. G. Johnson. liquidator Of the Bank
Of Colville, is preparing to pay rs
per cent dividend to depositors. Total
deposits are $419,453.
First contracts for the 1929 state
road oiling program will be awarded
April 30. About SO miles Of oiling will
be provided for on that date.
Gasoline tax collections for March
totaled net of $259,O53. Net receipts
for the first three months of the year
were sS57,076.
The sale Of tax title property, April
8, by Douglas county will include the
old Porter book store. one of the land
marks of Waterville.
While the inmates were eating their
lunch, the roof of the house on the
Thurston county poor farm caught
fire. The building was destroyed, with
a loss Of $4,000.
Indications are that Bellingham will
do at least $2,5OO,0O0 worth of new
building in 1929. Most Of that sum
will be spent on two hotels and an
apartment house.
Alfalfa hay growers Of the Touchet
Garden-Lowden district in the Walla
Walla valley have voted to tax them
selves cents a ton to oppose an in
crease in hay freight rates.
The elimination of $4,000 from the
predatory animal control budget by
Governor Hartley will cause a reduc-
ton Of the force Of hunters to about
is men for the ensuing two years.
Farmers Of Walla Walla county car
ried over four times as much wheat
as is normal last season, according to
the figures of the county assessor.
On March /, 100000 bushels were I'M
sold.
New paintings that will bring his
orchard holdings to rs acres are being
made by Charles Rumholz Of Okano-
gan. Winesaps and Delicious, with
Bartlett pear filters, are the varieties
adopted.
North Central Washington's 1928
fruit crop is said to have returned
$23,000,000 to the growers and ship
pers Of that district, which comprises
Chelan, Okanogan, Grant and Douglas
counties.
Five legislators who voted against
the Showalter bill have written to
State School Superintendent Showal-
ter that they now wish they had voted
for it. 1t was defeated in the house
by one vote.
Although certified motor coaches in
Washington carried approximately g.
100000 fewer passengers during 1928
than in 1927, the income from such
transportation was $4,314,424, about
100000 greater.
Jackrabbits are reported so thick
along the railroad tracks between
White Bluffs and Priest Rapids that
section crews are compelled to shoe
them from the track for fear of being
derailed If they run over them.
Fall grain in the Klickitat valley is
presenting satisfactory appearance to
wheat growers. considering poor
start last fall. Heavy snowfall last
winter left the ground mellow and in
good condition for spring blowing.
Announcement was made recently
| Va CAO 1V0A6Adt1OA VI y 1ASAo IL \ VNn
as cashier of the county treasurer's
office in Yakima following confirma
tion by check by state examiners
of an $500 shortage in his accounts.
| The Columbia river presbytery has
closed two-day session at Ilwaco, al
which Rev. Robert M. Broadbrooks.
pastor of the church at Ilwaco, was
| elected moderator for the next six
months. He succeeds Rev. j. C. Merg.
Ter of Centralia.
The new plywood plant and sawnill
being built in Aberdeen by the Con
| solidated Plywood & Lumber company
Of Portland is expected to be ready
for first operations about May l. All
of the machinery is on the ground and
about half of it has been installed.
Fire, which smothered half of the
Port Angeles business district with
smoke and threatened to destroy a
business block, was controlled by fire
men and coast guardsmen after two
men had been injured. The blaze
started in the egg-candling room Of
the Clallam County Egg association
and rapidly spread through the build
ing and licked at adjoining structures
Several persons were momentarily
trapped in their offices but were res
cued. Damage was estimated at $50,
900.
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