White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-09-06
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
8rief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week CoIIectedfor
Our Readers.

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Air mail service will be inaugural
ed September Is from Pasco, Wash,
to Spokane, Portland. Tacoma and
Seattle.
Succumbing to burns received two
weeks ago at Lake Stevens, near Ev-
erett, when gasoline stove exploded
L. R. Bigelow, Woodland, CAL, Y. M.
G. A. worker, died in hospital.
Only about 300 carloads Of prunes
remain to be shipped from the Walla
Walla valley, 1872 having been moved,
with the shipments nearing the end,
the price is expected by shippers to
strengthen.
Buried beneath several tons Of
earth, which fell while he was exca'
batting gravel near Aberdeen, the body
of George Churchill, 33, Aberdeen fire.
man, was recovered half hour after
the accident.
Detective Oscar Haukedahl was
named chief Of police Of Spokane by
Public Safety Commissioner Lambert.
Haukedahl, member of the police
department since 1918, succeeds j..
Wesley Turner.
improvement of about 21a miles Of
new highway along the Willow Grove
dixie bordering the Columbia river,
west Of Longview, was agreed upon
by residents Of the district and the
Cowlitz county commissioners.
Huckleberries are ripening in great
quantities on the slopes Of Mount St.
Helens in the vicinity of Spirit lake,
according to those VINO visited the
lake recently, and many parties have
gathered large quantities of the ber-
ries. So
Blackberries are being received in
large quantities at the plants of the
Oregon Packing company and the
Washington Growers Cooperative at
Vancouver, and hundreds of women
are finding employment at the two
plants.
The Cathlamet Commercial club
will join with similar organizations of
Skamokawa and Grays River in an
effort to secure state help in placing
the Skamokawa-Grays River road in
repair before beginning of the winter
weather.
Emergency appropriations Of $4,000
were provided by the Cowlitz county
commissioners. One was for $500
for operating the sheriff's office for
the rest of the year, and the other
was for $4,000 for jail expenses and
feeding prisoners.
The Coffman-Dobson Investment
company, subsidiary of the Coffman-
Dobson Bank & Trust company, pio-
neer Chehalis bank, has acquired con.
troll of the Toledo State bank from
V. r. Buckmaster, who has headed
the concern several years.
Bids for two rural mail routes were
called for at Hoquiam and the an.
nouncement made of the discontinue
ance of existing routes in the radial
service from Hoquiam to Moclips and
Taholah. The new service, which
goes into effect October 1, will en-
brace new route to Taholoh.
Six square blocks Of blackened
ruins stood as mute evidence of a
spectacular fire that destroyed the
lumber and fuel storage yards of the
McGoldrick Lumber company, a san
itarium, an apartment building and
IA frame houses in Spokane recently,
with a total loss of $350,000.
Clark county spent S632,O67.35 in
the general fund in the 1928 school
year that ended last June, in comparl-
son with $609,16632 for the previous
fiscal year. The bond fund was $780,.
| 1898, in comparison with $74,753.36
the year before, and the building fund
in 1928 Sill ,746.S9, in comparison with
s24S,731.31 in 1927, making total OF
| $S84,633.62 spent in 1928, in comparl-
son with S932,65O99 spent in 1927.