White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-09-13
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Lewis county commissioners have
granted the one-mile road petitloned
for by Thomas Kennedy and others
of Salkum district.
A proposed special tax of S4530 for
the current school fund carried in a
special election at Ridgefield, accord
ing to Mayor Hubert Clyde Cornell,
clerk of the board.
Johnnie Reed, Vancouver merchant.
whose hobby 1t is to grow cabbage
roses, presented the chamber Of com.
merce with pink cabbage rose with
a stalk six feet high.
H. H. Harris, a rancher living near
Richland, was shot in the side of the
head at Yakima by his 13-year-old
stepson during family quarrel ac-
cording to a Richland dispatch.
Mayor West and City Commission.
ers Young and Steelman have adopted
the Chehalis budget for the coming
years taxes. It calls for total OF
$58,741 to be raised by taxation.
At special election held in the
Grand Mound school district an extra
10-mill tax levy to help maintain the
schools during the coming year was
authorized. The vote was IL to 2.
Although attendance at the second
annual Clark fair sponsored by the
oranges was twice as large as last
year, the board is facing possible
deficit Of $1,000, due to extra heavy
expense.
According to the announcement OF
Clarence H. Lille, superintendent Of
the Kelso schools, there are now 1761
students enrolled. Glasses in all the
buildings are reported to be over
crowded.
A. e. STUNT, state public health di.
rector, appeared before the Yakima
city commission and urged immediate
construction of a sewage-disposal
plant that would enable the city to
stop dumping its sewage into the Yak
lima river. The cost would be about
$65,O0O.
It was officially announced recently
No tinn n
Seattle had acquired the Montesano
State bank and the Bank of Elma,
which are located in Grays Harbor
county. The Montesano and Elma
banks had combined resources Of ST.
100000.
Late potatoes are problem at pres
ent in Clark county, District Horticul.
tural Inspector Mills said. If it does
not rain soon the tubers will mature
and will be small in size, and there
will be short crop. A soaking rain
would insure good crop as the vines
are looking good.
F. w. Schroeder, Cowlitz county com.
missioner, announced that improve.
ments on the new Lewis river road
which leads to the Northwestern Elec-
trio company power project on that
river will be completed by October l.,
to a point 13 miles above Woodland
In Cowlitz county.
Proposing to stimulate the entry
and landing in Aberdeen Of Oregon
timber, the port OF Grays Harbor has
lowered the wharfage on saw logs
from Is to Is cents thousand. The
new price permits the breaking UP
and rehandling of Oregon log RATS
with port equipment.
An enormous increase IN travel Ovel
the interstate bridge between Vancou
yer and Portland since the removal u
tolls was shown by a traffic cnecl
made by state employees in August
A total of $4,000 cars crossed the
bridge during the month, compared
with 239,795 cars during August, 1928
when tolls were collected. More thar
$4,000 crossed the bridge every Sun
day in August. Local cars, Oregon
and Washington, totaled 347,241 ant
foreign cars totaled 35,698.
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