White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week CoIIectedfor
Our Readers.

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Plans are rapidly shaping for the
Whitman-Latah county fair to be held
August % to 81 at Garfield.
The state land department turned
over to the state treasurer during the
month of July total of $13S,949.80.
Strawberries were a profitable crop
In the Mid-C Columbia district this year,
according to growers in the western
Klickitat county fruit belt.
The Haltby-T hurston company, Sc
attic, has offered to build $150,O00
hotel at Colfax If local men will do
their part Of the financing.
Tom Murphy, So, was killed recently
at the Weyerhaeuser Timber company
logging operations near Hemlock pass,
rs miles east of Kelso His back was
broken.
Russell Smith, 5, is the freckle
champion Of Grays. harbor. He won
the title recently at a playground con.
test, barely nosing out May Poison,
also 5.
A water carnival was given as part
of the summer playfield program at
the Kennewick pool. Events included
fancy diving, swimming and diving
races and life saving work.
While other bathers and spectators
thought he was diving, John w. Croft
ton, 10, Gonzaga university football
player, was drowned in Moses lake
without giving cry or signal for help.
Fire of undetermined origin destroy
ed lumber estimated at between 8,000,-
600 and 100000 feet, loading dock
and three large drying sheds of the
Pacific States Lumber company plant
at Selleck.
Fire Of undetermined origin destroy
ed the Larson tie mill on the old
Smith creek road about four miles
from Raymond, at loss estimated at
about $4,000, none of which was COW
cred by insurance.
Adna consolidated school district
226, near Chehalis, still has three of
it's five vacated schoolhouses for sale.
The board recently sold the main
building and shop at Littell to Charles
Metzenberg for SIT.
A team of horses burned to death
recently when a, barn on the k1mbaH
farm near Woodland was destroyed
by fire. The team and IS tons of hay
which were also destroyed belonged
| to Albert Johnson, tenant on the farm.
Sponsored by the Cowlitz Pomona
Grange and the subordinate oranges,
to be assisted by the service clubs OF
the county, a Cowlitz county juvenile
fair will be held at the county fair
grounds at Woodland, probably Aug
ust 26, 81 and %.
The slump in marriage licenses is
sued in Vancouver continues, and the
total for July was 252. compared with
267 for July last year. The total for
seven months this year was 1856, com.
pared with 144S for the same period
last year, a loss of 90.
The annual Clark county swimming
marathon will be held some time this
month on the Columbia river, from
the cannery at Ellsworth to the Inter.
state bridge at Vancouver. The event
will be open to all swimmers of the
county regardless Of age or sex.
With the weather becoming warm
er, Seattle's drinking water has taken
on an unsavory1 taste, and city Off
Gals have "a problem on their hands
to remove the undesirable taste. Il
is claimed that the water is not i'm
pure or unhealthy, just not tasty.
Introduction Of Kenneth Jones, new
county agent for Whitman county, ant
an address on Association Bulls ant
Dairying" by F. w. Atkeson, of the
animal husbandry department at thu
University of Idaho featured on thu
lecturers hour at the Palouse Grang'
hall recently.