White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-06-07
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Education by radio was Endorsed by
the state Parent-Teacher association
at Wenatches.
The strawberry season is in full
swing at Richland. The fruit is large
and of fine quality.
The high school graduating class OF
Prosser had So members. Commence
ment exercises were held May 20.
The American Legion post at Daven-
port dedicated the Legion's new $500
granite memorial shaft on Memorial
day.
Mrs. B. S. Johnson, 83, was injured
fatally when struck by an automobile
driven by Miss Ruby Ferguson at Gen.
tralia.
A $4,000 addition will be built
this year to the Aberdeen building Of
the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company.
A China pheasant hen guarding her
chicks engaged and killed full-sized
weasel in the Wishkah Valley road
recently.
A merger of the Columbia River and
Puget Sound conferences Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church has been con-
summated.
The annual convention of the Unit
ed National Association of Postoffice
Clerks of Washington was held in Che
halls recently.
Regular daily round trips by air
plane will be started between Wcnat-
chez and Okanogan by the Central
Washington Air Service.
The Port Orchard chamber Of COM
MERGE has been awarded a water right
on Black Jack creek to generate pow
er for a proposed pulp mill.
Struck by a rolling log at the Sagt-
nav Lumber company's North River
camp, Peter View, IS, of Elma, died
recently in an Aberdeen hospital.
Jack Terrier, working at stringing
cable across the Yakima river be-
tween the two Selah bridges, fell into
the river last week and was drowned
The Big Bend Pioneers association
has obtained Clark v. Savidge, state
land commissioner, for an address at
the 18th annual picnic, at Wilbur,
June IL.
Representatives of six automobile
companies seek certificate Of ncces
sity for operating between Yakima and
Seattle over the Snoqualmie Pass
highway.
Five state highway engineers nar-
rowly escaped death recently when a
giant hemlock crashed on their newly
built cabin north of Aberdeen during
the night.
Action has been taken by the Yaki
ma Valley Traffic and Credit associa-
ton to join with Wenatchee IN fight.
ing the sterilization section of the fed.
eral farm aid bill.
Estimates of the apple crop in the
Wenatchee district range from $1,000
to $4,000 cars. The pear tonnage will
be from 1000 to 1900 cars. The cherry
crop will be normal.
Plans for reorganizing the Centralia
chamber of commerce on three-year
basis, with an annual budget of $10,-
900, were completed at meeting of
business men recently.
One hundred state publishers are
expected to attend the 43d annual
meeting of the Washington Press as.
ISOLATION, which will be held in Taco
ma August % and "a.
Reports from the Horse Heaven
hills indicate that the wheat crop will
not be so great as last years. There
has been very little rain, and wire
worms have done much damage.
The Carlisle Lumber company at
Onalaska is installing complete new
power plant at its mill at cost OF
$4,000. Another $4,000 will be spent
for shelter for all its yard stock.
The contract for the second unit of
construction of Centralia's $1,000 900
hydro-electric plant on the Nisqually
river will be let the first week in
July. The dam will be 200 feet long
The Northwest Toll Bridge company
announces that the highway bridge
over the Columbia river between Pas.
co and Kennewick, closed for six
weeks for repairs, has been reopened.
Grain men estimate that there are
more than 100000 bushels Of unsold
wheat stored in the warehouses of
Douglas county. Wheat is quoted at
SO cents, the lowest price since 1924.
Automobiles driven by DR.. M. B.
Timberlake of Castle Rock, president
of the Castle Rock chamber of com.
merce, and R. M. McKibben of Castle
Rock, successfully negotiated the road
to the shore of Spirit lake few days
ago.
State engineers have completed tho
survey Of the new state bridge to be
built across the Queets river at the
junction of the Clearwater and Queets
rivers. Work on the structure Is ex.
pected to be started during the sum.
mer months