White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-05-10
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Alfred Lind Rounds, "a, died at his
home near Pioneer, where he had lived
81 years.
Vader business men have reorgan-
lied their chamber Of commerce and
a program has been outlined for i'm
mediate action.
The Union Oil company is erecting
a distributing station on the state road
east of Creston. A 20,0O0-gallon tank
is being installed.
Six firemen and woman were in
jured at Seattle when a streetcar col
lided with fire engine. Gasoline ig-
nited and fired the wreckage.
Sufficient cucumber acreage has
been secured by Libby, McNeill & Lib
by in that district to insure the cree
ton of a sailing plant at Prosser.
The sum Of $3,377,523 has been ap-
portioned among the 80 counties of
the state for school purposes. King
county, with $910,007, received the
greatest amount.
Yakima was visited recently by a
dust storm which hid the hills from
view and filled the air with extremely
fine dust. In three hours the humidity
fell from go to IA.
George Meglico of Tacoma, dia-
mond drill operator, was killed re.
Gently in an accident that occurred
during construction work at Diablo
dam on the Skagit river.
The new barreling plant at Roches-
ter Of Baker, Kelly & Mclaughlin was
dedicated recently with a strawberry
festival. There was dancing and straw
berry shortcake served free.
The annual report of the Battle
Ground Cooperative Dairymen's asso-
citation shows that the institution in
1928 did a business totaling $685.
288.72. 1t is the largest cooperative
in Clark county.
G. B. Fitzgerald, former republican
state chairman, and president Of the
city council, has announced his resig-
nation as manager of the Federated
Industries of Washington. He held the
position for four years.
Marriage licenses issued at Van
couver in April totaled 159, compared
with 181 in April, 1928. The total for
four months this year was 663, COM
pared with $40 for the same period
last year. loss of seven.
F. B. Costigan of Centralia was ia
tally injured and his wife and daughter
were seriously hurt when a car driven
by Edna Costigan, the daughter, col
lided head-on with one operated by
Herman Murray Of South Bend, on the
Pacific highway south of Centralia.
The Washington state penitentiary
has adopted the plan followed in all
large penal institutions, that Of hav.
ing a supervisor of industries, Clar-
ence e. Long, superintendent, stated.
John B. Majerus Of Seattle has been
appointed to this position and has
started his work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Raglan, pioneer
residents of Onalaska, celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary at the
home Of their daughter, Mrs. A. w.
Johnson, at Onalaska. Mr.. and Mrs.
Raglan were wed at Guereneville, CAL,
but have spent nearly all of their mar
ried life in and near Onalaska.
The Klickitat county game commits
sion has purchased 100000 rainbow
trout fry from hatchery in Montana.
The consignment has been placed In
rearing ponds of a government hatch
cry near Underwood, to be liberated
in Klickitat county trout streams when
they have attained the lingering
stage.
Mayor Edwards of Seattle has an
nounced that reduced street-car fare
was contemplated, the plan being to
issue four tokens instead of three for
Is cents. The mayor said lower fares
were contingent on program Of re-
financing, which would require an out
lay of $2,577,OO for lighter, faster new
street cars.
A Hoquiam fire truck racing to a
two-alarm fire caromed into three au-
tomobiles and concrete mixer. All
Of the cars were badly damaged or
wrecked, but no one suffered anything
worse than cuts and bruises. The
fire did little damage to the Monkey
apartment house, where 1t started, but
it burned through telephone cables
cutting Hoquiam and neighboring
beach towns off from telephone com
munication with the outside world for
hours.
A dairy COW barn costing $4,000
large enough to house 100 cattle and
400 tons of feed, will be constructed
at Pullman this spring and summer
it was announced by Professor E. v
Ellington, head of the department Of
animal husbandry.
Mayor John H. Douge has been re
elected president of the Toledo com
munity fair for the coming year. A
meeting of trustees and directorss will