White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-07-05
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collectedfor
Our Readers.

Our Readers.
Grant county will have normal
wheat crop this year despite the lack
Of rainfall.
The annual convention Of the North
west Association of Dairy Inspectors
was held in Vancouver recently.
Registration figures show that 461
persons have registered for the sum-
mer term Of the Ellensburg normal
school.
A band Of elks, abandoning the low
or Olympian meadows, are invading
the hay fields Of ranchers on the low
er Queets river.
The pea crop In the Palouse country
will bring millions of dollars into the
Inland Empire this fall, in the opinion
of s. s. McClintock.
The new Columbia river gorge air
port was officially opened Saturday.
The new airport Is located at Grand
Dalles, and covers 900 acres.
The greatest shipment of lumber to
leave Vancouver was sent out. on the
freighter Jefferson Myers recently.
The vessel carried 2,373,OO0 feet.
The city commission of Olympia will
make study Of methods to eliminate
the pail of smoke that drifts from the
industrial district over West Olympia.
Chester r. Hovey, ex-justice Of the
state supreme court, has been elected
president Of the Seattle Bar associa-
ton, at it's recent meeting in Seattle.
Two hundred caterpillar-killing beet
les from government laboratories in
Massachusetts have been released in
Seattle in a caterpillarinfested sec.
ton.
The board of overseers of Whitman
college have refused to accept the
resignation of President Penrose, who
has been at the head Of the institution
for IS years.
The Aberdeen chamber Of commerce
officials and many civic leaders are
jubilant over the action of the Indian
department iii Withholding awards on
bids for some 2,OOO,OOOOOO feet of In
dian timber.
Dave Jensen, head mixer Of the
Anderson Bros. dairy farm at Burling-
ton, won the milking contest by mar
row margin. His record was eight
pounds of milk in go seconds.
!. Mabel Buland Campbell of Kalama,
widely known for her activities in
state club work, has been elected
president of the Washington State
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Resolutions protesting the veto Of
Governor Hartley of the bill appropri-
ating money for state parks was in
troduced at the session of the Wash
ington State Federation of Women's
Clubs at Yakima.
Exports of merchandise from Wash.
ington were valued at $121 $685. 1872 in
1928, according to figures of the Unit
ed States department of commerce.
This is an increase of $4,000, 692 over
the year preceding.
Representatives Of chambers of COM
merce and good road enthusiasts from
both sides of the Cascades have form.
ulated plans for the construction Of
state highway through White Pass,
for action by the next legislature.
Purchase of gas plants and distribu-
tion systems from the Mountain
States Power company in Eugene,
Springfield, Marshfield and North
Bend, Or, was announced at Walia
Walla by the Northwest Cities Gas
| company.
| With the exception Of new potatoes
| at Vancouver, local garden truck is
plentiful and cheap, but homegrown
new potatoes will not be in the mar
ket until July, truck gardeners say.
This is about three weeks later than
usual and is due to the fact that heavy
rain prevented planting and cold, wet
weather retarded growth.