White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-02-15
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

The Dubois Lumber company plant
at Vancouver, which was closed down
because of ice and snow. resumed
work last week.
Sam Bargreen, 53. long prominent
In Everett business circles. died at
Lake Stevens last week. He is sur
vived by his widow and son.
The first logging train to reach
Longview from Ryderwood since the
shutdown of logging operations week
ago, arrived the first of the week.
Tacoma's municipal power system
sold to Seattle $4,000 worth Of cleo.
triGal power during January, there be.
ing plenty Of water for both plants.
About 10 Skagit county berry grow.
ers. representing 40 acres, have per.
fected an organization and will pool
their 1929 crop for marketing pur.
poses.
Postal receipts at Vancouver during
January totaled $6O02.6S, which was a
gain of $1O8749 over January, 1928.
Postal savings accounts have reached
s134,255.
While thawing frozen water pipes
in the basement of his home at Yaki.
ma recently, Mayor w. B. Dudley fell
from ladder and suffered broken
shoulder.
In his annual report, just issued,
| Fire Chief Bert Sybrant reported for
1928 fire loss at Bellingham Of
$254, 940.34. as compared with $780,
1876 in 1927.
The battle-ground Dairymen's Co.
operative association made 1,195,640
pounds of cheese during 1928, which
sold for $691,564.29, more than twice
as much as in 1927.
Schools in all parts of Spokane coun-
ty were closed last week when it was
found that school busses could not
operate and a below-zero wind had
filled the roads with snow.
More than SO purchasing agents
from Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma and
Bellingham met in Everett last week
for the convention Of the Purchasing
Agents association of Washington.
About 100000 worth of wheat was
sold by growers at Odessa during the
last few days when the cereal reached
$138 a bushel for Bart and Bluestem,
cents more than former best prices.
Motor vehicle license fees in Wash.
ington for January were $3,276,363,
making the total receipts for the Ii
cense year so far $5,O26,266, according
to report of State Treasurer Hinton.
Henry Dalton, 81, sentenced to 10
years in the state reformatory at Mon
roe and who twice escaped from that
institution, was found recently hiding
under sink in house at Cosmopolis.
Damage estimated at 5000 was done
in Pc Ell last week when the old shin
gle mill plant of the Pc Ell Lumber
company was destroyed by fire. The
plant had not been operated recently.
Purchase of the assets of the failed
Exchange National bank of Spokane
by the Old National bank and Union
Trust company makes it possible to
pay 60 per cent dividend to the cred.
itors.
During the month of January about
Is per cent of the ,O00,O00-bushel
wheat crop Of the Inland Empire was
sold at an average of $1.15 bushel,
bringing to the farmers about $780,
in cash.
Tie mill operators of Thurston, Ma
son and Lewis counties will hold a
meeting at Olympia February Is, when
it is hoped to form permanent or
ganization for handling and marketing
purposes.
For the first time this winter the
Columbia river, mile wide at that
point, is frozen over from the Oregon
to the Washington shore, just east of
the Hood River-White Salmon inter-
state bridge.
Two to three carloads of hay daily
are being shipped from Touchet by
growers to fill orders rushed because
of the heavy snowfall. The growers
are receiving $40 for No. hay, the
best price in years.
Mayor H. E. Bailey of Aberdeen ap
pointed special council committee
comprising Councilmen Boyle, Light.
foot and Wise, to plan council action
looking toward merging Aberdeen and
Cosmopolis into a first-class city. The
mayor expressed the opinion that the
consolidated area is we'll above the
population requirement of $4,000 for
the advance in class status.
Olympia mills are facing a general
shutdown within week unless the
weather moderates. sawmill officials
announced. Cold weather has inter.
fered with logging operations and the
mills are now running on the supply
of logs on hand.
Spokane will be the western operat-
ing headquarters of the Great North.
ern Pacific railway should the unfit.
cation of the Great Northern and the