White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-16
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Mr.. and Mrs. F. T. McNitt OF Cen.
tralia celebrated their SD wedding
anniversary recently.
Steel has been put in place for the
first Of two 301-spans of the new state
highway bridge over the Queets river
on the Olympic peninsula loop.
Seattle's four largest banks, to-
gether with six subsidiary banks. an.
nounced plans for merger that will
combine capital totaling 100000, 900.
Rooney Helmick, 80, was killed in.
stantly in the Wilcox tie mill camp
near Pc Ell when struck by falling
tree. He suffered a fractured skull.
A hearing on the tentative farm.
to-market road program approved by
the Clark county commissioners, will
be held September at the court
house in Vancouver.
Strict control and limitation Of the
fresh prune crop Of the Walla Walla
valley was urged at a joint meeting
of the prune growers and shippers
Of the district recently.
John Rausch OF Vancouver was Civ.
en- contract by the Clark county
commissioners to build two bridges
on the extension of the lower river
road on bid of $2404.76.
The Saginaw Timber company is
building a new camp in the North
River valley between Brooklyn and
Oakyille, according to word reaching
Montesano from the latter place.
Kelsey Conger was named by Sun
nyside grange of Castle Rock as the
head of committee to work for the
Cowlitz county juvenile fair, to be
held at Woodland August 26, ~ and
%.
Glenn H. Shearer, 80, Tacoma fur.
niture dealer, was drowned in the surf
near Copalis beach recently. He swan
out to meet big roller. The wave
broke over him and he was lost to
sight.
Fines of $40 each were imposed at
Montesano by Justice Furnia on q.
F. Moye and E. L. Carkins, each of
whom had been found guilty of hav.
ing possession of more than SO razor
clans.
Yakima reservation Indians, under
direction of Thomas Yallup, will put
on three horse-racing events at the
state fairgrounds for the crowd at
tending the American Legion state
convention in Yakima.
County Treasurer Charles Hastings
sent notices to owners of 1882 dogs
in Lewis county asking them to pay
their dog license under the provi-
sions of the law enacted by the last
Washington legislature.
Oil drilling operations in the lower
Yakima valley will be extended to
Union gap, near the town of Yakima,
according to Sam Foster, formerly of
Tulsa, Okla.,' and oil operator, who Is
securing leases in the locality.
Max Craft, is, was killed and Art
Brannin was seriously injured when
an airplane piloted by Brannin crash
ed east of Wenatchee. The plane was
built by Brannin and had made about
six flights. 1t was known as the ely
ing Sawmill."
Robert Stole has announced that
he would erect $4,000 two-story
| building in Camas on the corner Of
Fourth and Clara streets. Razing of
| the building on the site has been COM
pleted, and bids will be called for
within week.
The town of Kalama received it's
new 500.gallon capacity Peter Pirsch
pumper fire truck recently. The fire
department will pay for the truck,
which costs $1,000, with the assist
| ance of Kalama business men and
assistants. The old chemical-hose
truck will be retained for auxiliary
use.