White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-10-18
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Colfax teachers were the guests re-
Gently of the Colfax chamber Of COM
MERGE and the Kiwanis club.
L. e. Hathaway of Seattle has been
appointed secretary of the Yakima
Valley Farm Bureau, to succeed VIII
liam Verran.
Validity of the bond issue for con.
struction of the Centralia hydroelectric
project on the Nisqually river is to be
contested in the courts.
Okanogan county's assessed valua'
ton is $1O,899,34O. an increase of al.
most S350,000 over last year. OF the
total, $6,516.940 is in real property.
Hoquiam's second annual Wood
Week, with a much larger exhibit OF
lumber and wood products than last
years, will be held October % to 81.
Fire Of unknown origin has destroy
ed the Therriault store and damaged
other buildings at the head Of the
Methow valley, causing loss Of $780,
900.
Wenatchees building total for the
year lacks but S155,585 of $2,00O,000.
New dwellings are expected to boost
the total to 100000 by the end Of
the year.
In the death Of Mrs. Philena w.
Thorp the Yakima valley has lost its
Oldest pioneer and the woman who
saw the planting Of the first fruit tree
In the valley.
The road to the Dole district. re-
Gently swept by fire, is again open,
two bridges over Big Tree creek hav-
Ing been replaced, one by temporary
structure.
Owing to the showing made by All
club boys and girls at the Chelan
county fair, the county commissioners
will appropriate $500 for premiums at
next years fair.
Records for big deer in the HoQuiam
section this year were broken recent
ly when Otis Fairchild of Hoquiam
bagged a three-point buck, tipping
the scales at 200 pounds.
Federal aid project highways in east.
ern Washington will all be marked be
fore winter. In the western part of
the state the highways will be marked
this winter or next spring.
Despite large increase in assessed
valuation of both Hoquiam and Aber.
deem compared to last years, Grays
Harbor county shows small decline
in valuation as a whole-about $780,.
900 less.
The Walla Walla county commission.
ers were advised by the county taxpay.
ers' committee to declare vacant the
office of the county agriculturist, but
to retain the amount set aside for 1t
in the budget.
Fruit pickers can drive automobiles
with California licenses in Central
Washington during the season. so long
as they do not stay longer than 80
days, according to an opinion of the
attorney general.
The Union Oil company's test we'll
at MCGOWAN, near Ilwaco, now down
$500 feet, has run into basalt rock. In
case the basalt continues the drillers
may go only 1000 feet instead of the
5000 originally planned.
The average Washington state col.
lege football player is 21.7 years old,
feet 11.2 inches tall, and weighs
1913 pounds according to averages
figured from Coach Babe Holling
berys roster Of A men.
Lewis county Pomona grange was
entertained recently at the Toledo
community fair building by Lone Yew
grange. The hunting situation was
discussed, the consensus of opinion
being that hunters should be required
by law to secure personal permit
from the owner of occupied fenced
land before going onto tract OF
land. One Claquato farmer lost q
purebred COW, shot by hunter.
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