White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-06-28

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of Palouse was started last week by
crew of men and resurfacing of the
road from the city limits to the Idaho
line will be started Immediately.
Chief Of Police Evans of Wenatchee
has notified pool hall proprietors and
owners of confectionery stores that
punch board and slot machines must
be eliminated. They were banned one
year ago but gradually reappeared.
While members of the w. G. T. u,
firemen and policemen looked on,
Police Chief Ed Berger officiated at
pouring party" in which 1000 quarts
Of beer and 40 gallons of whisky CUR
gled into Longview's sewer system.
A preliminary survey for construc-
ton of transmission line to connect
Centralia's new hydro-electric plant
on the Nisqually river, near Yelm,
with the local distributing system has
been completed under the direction Of
City Engineer N. W. Avery.
Seventy dollars a ton for pears has
been offered at Wenatchee by an out
side canning company. Last year the
price was $25 to $35 a ton. Some
cherries have been sold for 10 to 101s
cents pound for Royal Annes and
Is cents for Bings and Lamberts.
In response to protest Of the Min
isterial association, the city council
Of Olympia has decided to strictly en-
force an ordinance prohibiting travel.
| ing shows. Statewide criticism was
aroused one year ago when the capitol
grounds were used several days by
| a carnival.
| With week to go, preparations for
the citizens military training camp
| at Vancouver barracks are nearly
completed. All Of the tents to accom-
modate nearly 600 students have been
set up and the mess houses have been
cleaned and made ready for opening
day, July 2.
The official count Of the ballots cast
in the special airport election at Walla
Walla was made and showed 2787 in
favor and SIS against, five. votes being
declared void. The next step will be
to advertise for the sale of the $780,
600 issue of bonds, which are to run
| over 80 years.
Concrete work on the new outdoor
swimming pool for Colfax is complet-
ed, wading pool will be completed
soon and work will be started at once
on concrete walks and floor for the
bath house. 1t is expected that the
new pool will be filled and ready for
| use about July 2.
Declaring that he would lose his job
as a salesman of plumbers supplies if
he was compelled to serve 45 days in
the Clark county Jail, Fred A. Lewis
| Of Seattle will spend his vacations Tor
three years in Jail at Vancouver. The
sentence was imposed by Judge Simp-
son when Lewis pleaded guilty to a
drunk charge.
Uncontested except for the office Of
junior grand warden, which was won
after spirited voting by John M. Rob
erts of Tacoma. the election of next
\ years officers at the I'D annual con-
'vention of the Washington state grand
lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, was
the climax Of the sessions held in
Tacoma recently.
The Washington Gas & Electric
company was granted 50-year fran
chise to lay gas mains and distribute
artificial or natural gas in Monte
sano. The franchise allows the COM
pany one year in which to complete
a transmission line from Aberdeen to
Montesano, and officials of the COM
pany announce that plans for this are
already under way.
Cowlitz county strawberry growers
have suffered comparatively little loss
of berries due to the heavy rains, ex-
cept in few instances where the
plants had heavy foliage, causing
the berries to rot on the ground. The
Puget Packing company plant at
Kalama has been packing about 100
barrels of berries daily since opera
lions started recently.
A large public utility hydro-electric
power projection in the Columbia riv-
er in southeastern Washington is con-
templated by the Washington Electric
company, according to plans outlined
to the federal power commission in
it's application for license to con-
struct two dams across the river at
Rock island, about IL miles down
stream from Wenatchee.
Work was begun recently by con
struction crew of the Pacific Tele-
phone & Telegraph company on an
exchange system from Cathlamet to
the Crown Willamette Paper COM
pany's headquarters camp, which will
afford service to 80 families at the
camp. The same crew just finished
rebuilding two-circuit toll lead from
Cathlamet to Skamokawa.
Oysters that were planted early in
March in Willapa harbor have shown
twice the growth that they undergo
in their native beds in Japan, More