White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-02
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

The apricot harvest in the Goodnoe
Hills fruit belt along the Columbia
river in central Klickitat county has
reached it's peak.
Washington motorists are warned
that all drivers licenses expired July
81, and highway patrolmen are watch
ing for those who have not taken out
new licenses.
The Spirit Lake post office has
been established, according to word
received at Kelso, to serve the Spirit
Lake resort district at the base of
Mt. st. Helens.
Approximately $50 people have
taken advantage of free swimming les
sons given at the open air swimming
pool in Colfax under auspices Of the
city park board.
Losing his footing on slippery
ledge Of rock while fishing from the
bank of the Spokane river, James
Thomas, So, plunged to his death in
the swirling current.
Stuart Kearney Henry, 9, son of
William Henry Of Aberdeen, was killed
instantly while stealing a ride on a
motor-driyen road grader operated for
the city by H. G. Peabody.
The village of Echo, eight miles
north Of Colville, was virtually wiped
out by fire recently, three building
and two homes going up in flames.
Total loss was about $4,000.
Raymond Olson, 10, Vancouver, was
killed instantly when his motorcycle
struck an auto driven by Carl Giles
pie of Kelso and swerved into the path
Of car driven by Guy Huber of Gas.
tie Rock.
Construction. will start at Longview
In 30 days on a veneer and plywood
factory capitalized at 100000 and to
be known as the M. & M. Plywood cor
poration of Longview, according to a
recent OunComont.
Struck in the forehead by flying
piece of iron following an explosion
of the rapidly moving parts of an en-
silage cutter, Henry Tippler was SER
iously injured recently at his farm,
four miles east Of Garfield.
Crushed beneath a park truck while
being returned from work at Roose-
welt park, John Hoffman, As, was
killed and three other city prisoners
were severely injured at Aberdeen
when the truck overturned after run
ming wild down the street.
Sheep are beginning to be shipped
from the Kittitas valley to the eastern
markets. Last week a special sheep
train started with 13 double-deck loads
from Gle Elum and ten more cars
were picked up at Yakima and were
off on their way to Chicago.
An explosive golf ball is something
now to the school of mashie wielders,
but several Camas citizens whose in
tegrity is above question swear to this
story. Claude Knapp was whiting
an old golf ball. AS his knife neared
the center the core exploded.
At a mass meeting called by the
Stevenson chamber of commerce
committee was appointed to investi
gate the possibilities of municipality
owned and operated light and power
plant and water works. The proposed
projects would cost about $4,000.
The Ellensburg city council adopted
an ordinance in a special session re-
Gently, calling for $4,000 bond issue
for constructing a new fire depart
ment building and city jail and for the
purchase of the site. The ordinance
will be brought to vote August %.
Joseph E. Clark of Tacoma was
elected commander of the United
Spanish War Veterans, department of
Washington and Alaska, for the COM
ing year, at the annual convention
held in Centralia recently. He will
succeed Jackson Silbaugh of Seattle.