White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-07-19
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

The Clark County Floral society
held an all day picnic Sunday at the
G. A. Westgate dahlia farm at Fishers.
A riding academy has been establish
ed at the Bert Bagley park, old county
fair grounds, several miles northeast
Of Vancouver.
The Clark county commissioners
ordered the county auditor to adver.
tise for bids for the building of two
small bridges on the lower river road.
More than a hundred Guernsey
breeders Of eastern Washington met
with R. B. Musser, national secretary
of the Guernsey association at Walla
Walla.
Mrs Catherine Higgins, SO, whose
home was In Steptoe, died at the hos
pital in Colfax as result of having
fallen and broken her hip about three
weeks ago.
Mayor Edwards vetoed bill to pro-
vide three safety tunnels for school
children of Seattle, and the indications
are that the veto will be sustained in
the council.
Camas was visited recently by what
is believed to be its first masked rob
Der. He robbed Nick Morris, dairy
man and world war veteran, in his
garage of $50.
Keith Whiting, young man Of
Kelso, was killed when the motorcycle
he was riding rammed an automobile
ten miles south of Chehalis on the
Pacific highway.
The Weyefhaeuser Timber company
and the Ostrander Lumber company
announced that logging operations
would begin soon. The "call to arms"
affects about $50 men.
H. T. Ames of Kelso has sold his in
terest in the H. T. Ames Lumber COM
pany to his partners, Frank Mallory
and G. d. Dietderich, who organized
the company with him three years ago.
The Ostrander Railway & Timber
company's shop at Ostrander was en-
tered recently and more than $500
worth of tools and property taken, in
GLIDING an acetylene torch and sup
plies.
The first forest fire of the year in
the vicinity OF the Long-Bell Lumber
company holdings was reported recent
ly. 1t was burning about three miles
south of Ryderwood and had done no
damage.
Thelma Dawson, 6, died in Cen
tralia hospital of a fractured skull, the
injury having been received when she
was struck by falling tree while play
Ing in the front yard of her home at
Onalaska.
Automobile licenses Issued at Van
couver up to July S totaled 1880.
compared with 11,188 for the same
period last year, gain of 642. The
-
total this year probably will reach
1900, officials say.
Struck by an automobile driven by
her son, Robert King, Mrs. Mary Dane
died at Seattle. King was arrested by
deputy sheriffs, who said both he and
his mother had been drinking. He
was held on an open charge.
Six horses were burned to death and
farm machinery valued at between
$4,000 and $4,000 destroyed when
fire of unknown Origin razed a barn
on the Archibald Brothers ranch, five
miles southwest of Uniontown.
Grading and surfacing has been
completed by Road District 2 on the
Williams road, northeast of Kelso,
which gives a highway outlet to
number of farms which in the past
had practically no road outlet.
Improvement of the Lewis River
highway from the end of permanent
highway No. Is to the Shirttail-can.
yon dam site, IL miles above Wood
land, where the Northwestern Electric
company will build a huge power plant
is being sought by the Woodland Serv.
ice club.