White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-04
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.


Edna Marley Cole, 81, dropped dead
In Aberdeen while entering down.
town store on a shopping tour.
The dates for the annual apple BIOS
som festival at Wenatchee as fixed by
the festival committee are May .. y
and 10.
The Rev. R. W. Fletcher. pioneer
Seattle clergyman and Olympic PEN
insula missionary, is dead at the age
of IS years.
Plans are being made for the con-
struction of new hotel at Colfax to
cost $165,OOO. It will be a five-story
building of reinforced concrete.
A 7O-mile-an-hour gale blew automo-
biles off the highway, unroofed barns
and caused considerable damage IN
the region around Wapato recently.
Thirty-one men are to be added to
the United States customs force in the
Seattle district, making total force
of 800 with an annual payroll OF $685.
900.
Frank Waterhouse, shipping man
and civic leader Of Seattle, who died
q short time ago, left an estate OF
100000 in real and personal prop
erty.
A modern one-story tile and stucco
school of eight rooms to cost approx
mately $4,000 is to replace the grade
school destroyed by fire recently at
Otis Orchards.
Riverside Pomona grange of Naches
has indorsed resolution disapprov'
ing billboard advertising along high
ways and pledging patronage to firms
that do not so advertise.
Miss Shirley Foster, II years old,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Foster
Of Wenatchee, has been chosen queen
of the annual blossom festival to be
held at Wenatchee, May 8.
Several Chelan county officers and
departments are severely criticized
following an examination Of their
books by State Examiner L. D. Brown,
In his report to the state auditor.
Nearly $75O,OOO has been apportion-
ed among counties for school purposes
by the department of education, max
ing total for the year Of $3,433,528.
Another s3,OoO,OO0 will be apportioned
soon.
H. w. Raught, sawyer at the Lin.
coin Creek Lumber companys mill at
Calvin, has badly injured eye, the
result Of being hit by knot that flew
out of piece of lumber as it was
going through the saw.
Organization of Yakima Valley
| Clearing House association which will
include banks from four counties was
planned at Yakima recently. Banks
| in Kittitas, Benton, Klick1tat and YAK
ina would be represented.
Declaring that the enforcement OF
the state law for tuberculin testing Of
range cattle would mean the destruc
ton of a $1,0OO,OO0 industry, the Val
ley Cattlemen's association will fight
the law through the courts.
Farmers in the Bickleton section
of the Klickitat valley wheat belt are
preparing to reseed to spring grain
Fall wheat did not make good stand
Farmers in the Centeryille section
will also reseed part of their acreage
The latest and largest type of pas
senger engines ever seen in the north
west have arrived at the Great North
ern yards at Wenatchee. The appear
ance of the engines follows reports o
speed war between transcontinenta
lines.
The chamber of commerce board o
governors has approved the new Yaki
ma Hotel company's proposition tt
erect $750,O0O hotel and has agree'
not to assist in the promotion of an.
other community hotel project for fiy'
years.