White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-05-17
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.


The 28th annual convention Of the
Washington State Manufacturers as.
sociation was held In Longview re.
Gently.
During 1928 1876 new homes were
built in Aberdeen costing $296,770,
and so far this year 80 have been built
at cost Of $4,000.
The organization of the East Oak
vile farm grange, the 18th subordi.
nate grange in Grays Harbor county,
was completed last week.
A. J. Abel, Columbia county's Oldest
resident, died at his home near Day.
ton. He was SO years old and had
made Dayton his home for IS years.
A 40-ton carload of crude copper ore
from the Snow Drift Mining company
in western Stevens county is on the
way to the smelter and another car Is
being loaded.
A dairy barn costing 100000, large
enough to house 100 cattle and 400
tons Of feed, will be constructed at
Washington State college his spring
and summer.
Withdrawal from the market Of a
great state timber stand Of 200 square
miles, containing 5,OOO,OO0,OO0 feet, is
announced by Clark Savidge, state land
commissioner.
Construction of a new bridge across
Spelei creek on the upper Lewis River
highway has been completed by road
district No. 1. It is 100 feet long and
has concrete foundations.
A total of $e,OsS.O26 has been col.
lected during the first five months OF
the 1929 license year for motor We
hicle licenses, an increase of $465,656
over the same period in 1928.
The Bremerton bridge campaign
closed April 30 when the workers went
over the top with $4,000 more than
the quota Of $175,0OO necessary to in.
sure construction of the span.
Nightingale students from all sec
lions of Clark county participated in
a spelling bee in Vancouver recently
to select representative to attend the
state contest at Olympia June 1.
Mrs. William Adams, a member OF
the Lummi tribe of Indians, died at
her home near Bellingham, aged LOG
years. She Had spent her entire life
in Whatcom land Skagit counties.
According ito figures compiled il
Colfax, Whitman county's wheat crol
in 1928 amounted to more than 1000,
900 bushels, nearly one-fourth of thu
wheat raised in the entire state.
BY averaging 976 pounds Of mill
and 1919 pounds of butterfat during
March, the blk Ayrshires owned by
Washington State college ranked firs1
among all hetds in the United States
More than 10 years after the close
Of the World war, Deming Bronson
of Seattle has been awarded the con
gressional medal Of honor for Drawer.
in raiding a German machine gun nest
Work is starting on the installation
Of 100000 candle power air beacon
on the summit of Rocky Point, mil
north of Kelso, which rises almost vel
tically from the Cowlitz river at tina
point.
Accepting the offer of the state Fl
nance committee, Thurston count,
commissioners have sold the S274,-00
bond issue for new courthouse to tn
state on a bid Of par at Az per cen
interest.
Poultry now ranks fifth in import
ance Of agricultural products in WASH
ington, according to Eric j. Barnes
director of agriculture. A survey TO
1928 shows poultry products valued q
s2S,3SO,OOO.
A movement for construction of
road across Ahtanum ridge, from nea
Wiley City in the Ahtanum valley,
White Swan in the Yakima reservatio
has been started by members Of
party of 80 Yakima and White Swa
people who met at the summit of til
ridge recently.
The proposed 25 per cent shingl
tariff will add from 100000 to $7OC
900 annually to the payroll of Gray
harbor, operators estimated at Abe
deem recently. Mills now down or o.
Grating only seven or eight months
the year will be able to run contin,
ously, they stated, more workers wi
find jobs and those engaged in til
industry will be steadily employed.
The White Temple Baptist churc
recently began its golden jubilee eel
bration, observing the beginning I
the Baptist church in Walla Wall
! The congregation of the first churc
was organized May II, 1879.
Reports from strawberry grower
near Vancouver indicate that the Gre
will be about two weeks later tha
normal, but the outlook for hea,
yield is good. The plans are in fu
bloom and the season is so far a
vanced that there is little danger fro
frost.
Intelligent interest" is certainly
nice thing to have although som