White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-11-22
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS Of INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Yakima community chest workers
reported subscriptions amounting to
s47,945. The goal of the appeal was
$4,000.
Columbia Union high school staged
a carnival with all the usual ballahoo
plus recently in the White Salmon
gymnasium.
The schools Of Selah boast Of six
pairs of twins. The high school has
four sets enrolled and the primary
grades two sets.
Twenty years ago Clark county's
prune crop brought about $27O,000.
This year the crop will sell for $780,
200, according to a conservative esti-
mate.
Arthur W. Burch, city auditor of
Spokane, has been appointed by the
city council to fill the unexpired term
IF City Commissioner Fleming, de-
ceased.
The Columbia river has reached its
lowest level at Wenatchee In the IS
years that records have been kept.
It is now one tenth of foot below
the mark of 1919.
The state treasurer has purchased
The $4,000 bond issue Of the Port Of
tlwaco, bearing s per cent interest.
The money will be used largely for
iredging the harbor.
The first carlot shipment Of valley
turkeys were shipped from Kennewick
recently. The loading was made up
II 239 boxes of dressed birds Of a total
weight of 29,206 pounds.
Neither the contractor nor the archi-
.ect can be required to remedy num-
srous defects showing up in the state
capitol buildings, according to an
opinion by the attorney general.
Ground was broken at Longview for
l parish hall of masonry construction,
30 by 70 feet, for the Grace Episcopal
church on the site purchased some
months ago facing Lake Sacajawea.
A building permit has been issued
Tor five-story addition to the Morck
notel at Aberdeen, the building alone
70 cost 100000. The entire cost Of
The project is estimated at 100000.
Eighteen salaried hunters working
total of SIG days in October killed
s74 predatory animals. Five stock
Killing bears were among the num-
Der. The bag also included 256 coyotes.
Cold storage Of apples at Wenatchee
November /, was greater than year
lgo. This year there were 1866 cars
On hand, as compared with 2400 cars
,ne year ago. Pears In storage amount
ed to 1O5 cars.
There will be no definite reduction
N the number Of sheep permitted to
craze on government reserves, e. N,
Kavanaugh, assistant district forester
said, at a meeting Of sheep growers
In the Yakima region.
Plans for the third annual Monte
yano Merchants exposition are rap
dly approaching completion. Ever!
AVAILABLE booth has been taken, ant
committees are hard at work prcpar
Ing entertainment features.
G. Ghosn, Salkum and Mossyrocl
merchant, packed four carloads o
wild evergreen blackberries at hi
Mayfield cannery this year. The pacl
has been sold to the eastern trade
Part of it has been shipped.
John s. Stanloch, sheriff of Kitsa
county. has been acquitted by jur
Of charges filed against him by PREF
ecutor Bryan, who accused the sheriff
Of using federal prisoners to work o
his private residence at Seabeck.
The Yakima valley apple harves
was profitable to school students. Th
young people Of the Selah high schoo
dismissed for time during the pea
of the harvest, earned s2103.S4 in on
week, picking. hauling and sorting til
crop.