White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-01-25
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.


November Z and were agreed on
as the date for the 1929 convention
of the Washington Irrigation Institute.
The death of Henry Stephens, rs,
a resident of Centralia most Of his
life, occurred at a Tacoma hospital
last week.
Mrs. Mary E. Lemaster, Skagit coun-
ty pioneer who died recently at Mount
Vernon, left her estate of $12,O31 to
the Methodist church Of Sedro Wool
ley.
Work is being rushed on the Clark
county general hospital at Vancouver
and the contractors announce that the
building will be ready for occupancy
by March 1.
Walla Walla city commissioners are
planning to spend $1,000 for a spray
outfit to save the many beautiful elm
trees in that city from the ravages OF
the elm tree beetle.
Bellingham lumber mills in 1928 cut
and shipped 1872 cars of lumber and
shingles. The city's total lumber cut
was 371 100000 feet, 247,OO0,OOO shin
giles and 42,OOO,000 lath.
The Whitman county farm bureau
has adopted resolution asking for
an additional gasoline tax of cent a
gallon, the proceeds to be used to i'm
prove post roads Of the state.
State traffic officers have started
war on motorists who fail to display
the stickers showing that they have
obtained 1929 licenses and on those
who have not obtained licenses.
| The Centralia branch of the Wash
ington Egg and Poultry association
shipped eggs during the past year val
ued at $35752124. The total received
the previous year was $256,755.31.
Purchase of liquor would be a mis-
demeanor under bill drafted for
presentation to the Washington legis-
lature by William LaFollette Jr., prose.
cutting attorney Of Whitman county.
Control of the Statesman-Index at
Colville, pioneer newspaper of Stevens
county, has been purchased from H.
E. Vilwock by p. A. Sperry, who for
the past two years has been its editor.
Sale of 3S,OOO,OOO feet Of govern.
ment timber on Hood canal to the
Hama Hama Logging company of Sc
attic is announced by H. L. Plumb,
supervisor of the Olympic national
forest.
Mrs. Nathan Nixon, IS, was shot and
killed on the street in Raymond by j.
e. Ellsworth, her ex-husband and as
sailant, who then turned the gun on
himself, inflicting wound from which
he died.
Romeo Lauzon, former University
of Washington football star, was con-
victed of manslaughter by superior
court jury at Everett for the death of
James Cochran, his companion in an
automobile accident.
r. H. Stock of Aberdeen has applied
for permission to divert 100 second
feet of water from the Humptulips
river in Grays Harbor county for the
purpose of developing 1000 horse.
power hydroelectric plant.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Dickerson, resi-
dents of Centralia for 40 years. cele-
bated their golden wedding anniver-
sary recently. At the present time
Mr.. Dickerson is serving his fourth
term as city commissioner.
That the irrigation experiment sta
ton at Prosser is the biggest asset
to irrigated agriculture in the state is
the conclusion of the committee OF
Washington Irrigation Institute, which
visited the station recently.
Report of a census taken at Yakima
by mail carriers shows that they
served 1926 persons in 1928, com
pared with $4,000 in 1927, and that the
number of vacant apartments and
dwellings has decreased since 1927.
For the first time in the history OF
Mount Vernon, the city fire chief will
be paid salary. Joe Schlanser, who
has been at the head of the fire de-
partment for the last seventeen years
has been voted salary of 5000 yearly
4 Only six carloads of potatoes have
been shipped this year by rail from
Clark county out of about $50 car
loads, C. H. Greedy potato buyer an
nouncsd. The normal yearly output
from Clark county is ABOUT coo car.
loads, but Dry weather and early frost
reduced the crop Upper cent.
Enoch Bagshaw was ousted as head
football coach of the University OF
Washington. The student beard OF
control voted, II to 3, after an all
night session, to remove Bagshaw o.
his duties and assign him such others
as it saw fit.
The complete registration Of the
state at the last general election
totaled 596,9S8 voters, F. H. Gloyd
superintendent of elections, reported
OF this number, 518,731, or approxi
mately 81.9 per cent, participated "
che general election.
A way to make lumber out Of corn