White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-09-20
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week CoIIectedfor
Our Readers.

Uur nGdu6TS.
Officers of the Clark County w. G.
T. u. were elected at Vancouver at
the annual meeting last week.
The Castle Rock Women's club held
its first meeting of the year last week
ut the home OF the club president.
Six violators of the state game and
fishing laws were hailed before Judge
Kerr and assessed fines totaling $3.50.
The three-day annual Skamania
county fair opened at Skamokawa last
week. Friday was Longview day and
school day.
Bids have been asked by the Fire
stone Tire & Rubber company for the
construction of concrete building at
Longview.
]. e. Leonard, 65, superintendent of
the state training school at Chehalis,
died there last week following two
paralytic strokes.
A five-acre site in the Spirit lake
district, located on Margaret creek,
has been secured by the Longview
2. M. g. A. for a permanent camp site
for It's members.
The University of Washington has
been invited to send it's football team
to Honolulu at the close of the 1880
season, for two games.
The accounts of heavy sales of wine
tonics by Kelso and Longview drug
stores published recently, were dis.
credited by local druggists.
Mayor Frank Edwards of Seattle
has been the center of city and county
warfare involving liquor and labor and
wages for street car employees.
Mayor Higgins, who for several
years owned and operated several
Vancouver theatres, and had no com.
petition, has leased his holdings.
The asparagus buds below the town
of White Salmon are being threatened
by the asparagus beetle. Growers Of
the section are organizing to fight the
pest.
A series of Hoquiam burglaries
which netted the robber over $1,000
was traced to Harmon Valley, Is, of
Hoquiam, a United States army de-
serter.
Ed Roy of Centralia sustained q
fractured skull when he was struck
on the head by limb while at work
at Schafer Bros. logging camp near
Oakville.
Willis Barry Frank of Sacramento,
CAL, has been awarded the $4,000 cash
estate of the late Jane Annette Frank,
who died in Chehalis in squalor Of her
own choosing, aged SO years.
Gunner Schefstrom entered plea
Of not guilty when arraigned on q
first degree assault charge for the
shooting Of G. ]. Alexander, Longview
merchant, in hold-up attempt.
Harvey Eyer, a logger living at HUI
sum, was fined $40 Monday when he
pleaded guilty to a charge Of throw.
ing lighted cigarette from his auto.
mobile while driving along the Colum.
bia highway.
Tenino's airport was put in shape
for a series Of airplane exhibitions
during the three days Of the annual
Thurston county fair. A runway 1900
feet long and 200 feet wide was in
cluded in the improvements.
John A. Nelson, Kent farmer, was
convicted of manslaughter by the jury
In superior court for the Staying OF
Frank S. McKeen. Nelson and Nc
Keen fought over the right to the use
OF private road on the night of June
1.
A youth, 10, who was arrested IL
Pasco with an autom obile in his DOS
session which was stolen from the
Sparks garage in Vancouver, was
brought back by the sheriff and has
been turned over to the juvenile au
thorities.