White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-11-29
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

tQlS year Ln0 DOnueu ucuI VI IhC OPo
kane Interstate Fair association can
be reduced $4,000.
Those farmers in Clark county
whose farms are not equipped witt
powerful tractors find it difficult te
do their fall blowing.
About 500 men have been thrown
out Of employment with the closing
down of the English Logging company
camps near Mt. Vernon.
Arthur Martin, dairyman and po
tato grower living on diked lands near
Woodland, has harvested 5000 sacks OF
potatoes on his AZ acres.
Florence Massey, IL, was burned to
death at Bremerton when the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James Massey, her par
ents, was destroyed by fire.
The label, "This is stolen car"
found on an abandoned automobile
near Watewille, was correct. The
auto belongs to J. o. Byron, postmas'
ter Of Selah.
Sixty-seven fathers and sons attend
ed the annual Waterville father ansi
son banquet. Three churches, Chris
tian, Baptist and Methodist, united In
joint banquet.
Huge sand bars are appearing above
the surface Of the Columbia near
White Salmon, where none has been
seen for more than 20 years, because
of the low water.
Joseph Bailey, Indian, who killed
three persons in drunken fight, was
sentenced to life imprisonment in the
state penitentiary by Superior Judg.
Bell at Mount Vernon.
Washington's proposed state loop
highway will cost, according to an estt
mate, $40, 0,O0b It would embrace
800 miles Of paved road, of which ESQ
miles is already completed.
Centralia has an estimated popula
ton of 1856, according to the latest
directory of R. L. Polk & Co., just
issued for Lewis county. The county
population is listed as 53,626.
The Centralia chamber Of commerce,
assisted by the extension service OF
the Washington State college, has al
ranged for poultry school in Cen.
tralia on December 5, 6 and z.
Poultry buyers in Spokane are pay
ing 80 cents per pound for young tom
turkeys and 90 to 20 cents for young
hens of No. grade. No. 2 and old
toms are bringing 10 cents a pound
less.
Whether Minnehaha school district
will be combined with Vancouver will
be decided by the voters in each dis
trict at the school election December
z, petitions for the election having
been filed.
The Puget Sound navy yard has ex-
pended for the first four months of
the fiscal year $9s4,544 from the bu.
reau of construction and repair. This
is an expenditure at the rate Of 3d..
100000 per year.
Arthur ]. Croteau, well-known Ia
| coma attorney, was killed almost IN.
| stantly when his automobile and one
driven by E. j. Bresemann, architect
collided. Croteau was taking his three
children to school.
Two men we're killed and thiro
injured when five-ton truck went off
the Naches Pass highway near The
Dalles in the Cascade mountains, Os
car Setegrin, forest ranger, who found
the bodies, reported.
Several early residents of Vancou
yer gathered before the old fire sta
ton to protest against razing 1T, as
they held it was Of great historical
Importance, being the first building
erected for school purposes in Vancou
yer. Glenn Ranck, Vancouver histor
ian, declared the building should bt
moved to Esther Short park and con
verified into historical museum.