White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-30
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week CoIIectedfor
Our Readers.

Superintendent B. P. Wilcox OF Cas-
tie, Rock has announced that the Cas-.
tie Rock schools will open September
for their years work.
Billie McVee of Hoquiam, prize
fighter known in ring circles as kid
Richie" was burned to death at To
ledo in fire which partially destroy.
ed the town jail.
Fifty bales of paper bags were ship
ped recently to Shanghai, China, from
the Union Bag company Of Vancouver.
This is the first Oriental shipment
made by the company.
Sheriff Ravens was searching
Thurston county for Frank Oliverio,
a farmer near Olympia, charged IN
superior court with biting his wife's
nose off during family quarrel.
Wesley H. Turner was removed as
chief of police Of Spokane by Leroy
Lambert, commissioner OF public
safety. Personal differences between
the two were given as the reason.
Funeral services were held at To
ledo Presbyterian church for Adner
Mcintosh, 75, Cowlitz valley pioneer,
who died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Matte Wagner. near Winlock.
Merger of the Puget Sound Savings
& Loan association with the Mutual
Savings & Loan association, both Sc
attic institutions, with combined as
sets Of s17,OoO,O00,. was announced re-
Gently.
Mrs. Della Thornton, Olympia, was
fatally injured near Vancouver when
the car in which she was riding turn
ed over twice after leaving the high
way as the result Of collision with
another auto.
Walker Schreck, 10, was smothered
to death near Ocean City recently
when sand caved into hole the boy
had dug and crawled into. The boy
was the son Of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Schreck Of Seattle.
One of the mongrel pups due to
enter the mutt dog show at the Clark
county fair August 80 in Bagley park
is said by his owner to be descend
ant Of one Of the pedigreed dogs own
ed by George Washington.
One passenger was killed, and the
pilot and another passenger critically
hurt when biplaQe operated by the
Rainier Aeronautical corporation went
into nose spin and landed in mud
flat on the edge of Puget Sound.
Fire caused by explosion of a trans
former In the substation of the North
western Electric company at Camas
did $4,000 damage to the equipment
of the company and left Camas with
out electric current for about two
hours.
The Evergreen highway along the
Washington shore of the Columbia
river will be oiled next year between
Washougal and the Khckitat county
line at Bingen, according to advices
received at Stevenson from the state
highway department.
Skamania county fire wardens have
been kept busy during the recent heat
wave extinguishing fire started along
the Evergreen highway in Skamania
county by careless smokers tossing
burning cigarette and cigar stubs from
passing automobiles.
The fall rush on cabbage crates
has just started at the Beamer Box
& Crate Manufacturing company at
Vancouver and will extend until the
end Of November. Prune crates, field
Tugs and prune suitcases are being
manufactured in large quantities.
Carbon monoxide gas poisoning was
fixed as the cause of the death of Neil
Nielsen, AZ, Panther Lake farmer, who
was found dead under his car on u
highway near Kent. Nielsen appar-
emily had been fixing flat tire and
one wheel of the car had been lacked
UD.