White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Preliminary work OF laying gas
mains in Longview alleys is well I'M
der way in the downtown section.
Mrs. Ralph Stafford, 81, was serious
" injured at her home in Horse Heav-
en-, near Kennewick, when she started
a fire with kerosene.
The last of the wheat in the Othello
district is being seeded this week.
Conditions are favorable and most OF
the fields are looking well.
"Make Montesano Beautiful" is the
slogan Of the Montesano Woman's
club. which is sponsoring general
cleanup week for the city.
Robert Campbell, inspector at large.
says reports from farmers, especially
in Douglas county, have been coming
in of winter damage to soft fruits.
Nearly 1000 persons attended the
regular quarterly conference of the
western Washington district Of the
Mormon church in Seattle recently.
Demonstrations in killing ground
hogs by the poison method are being
arranged in Whitman county in coop
Grafton with the United States biologi'
cal survey.
The cold experienced in the Pacific
northwest last winter seriously dam
aged a grove Of holly trees owned by
Sherman Vogel, west of Longview.
The farm is known as the Holly Grove
farm.
A choice lilac Of lavender pink hue,
which formerly bore the name "Abun-
dant Boomer" has been named Getty
of Kelso" by Mrs. Hulda Klager of
Woodland, nationally known producer
of lilacs.
Kennewick has shipped its first
crate Of strawberries. The berries
were grown by Ole Brue on his tract
just east of town. They were han
died by the Three Rivers Growers
association and shipment was made
to Seattle.
Aid of South Bend business men in
rebuilding the Grays bay telephone
system was sought at the South Bend
chamber of commerce meeting recent
ly by delegation Of Grays bay resi-
dents, of which r. e. Sorenson was
spokesman.
Andrew Jensen, helpless paraly-
tic "a years old, was burned to death
in his wheel chair at Spokane, unable
even to scream for help as the flames
crawled over his clothing. 1t was be.
lieved that the pipe he was smoking
started the fire.
Twenty days will complete the
planting of 10000 acres of beans In
the Walla Walla valley, H. H. Eickhoff
of the Eickhoff Farm Products com
pany said. Planting will start next
week, several carloads of seed being
en- route from the east.
The Skyline road, which runs from
Goldman Springs to Tollgate in the
Blue mountains, is to be extended by
the forest service 40 miles to the
south and west to meet the Old Ore
gon Trail at Kamela. Work on the
first unit, to cost $4,000, will be start
ed this year.
A 219-pound coilapsible bed has beer
sent from Spokane to Olympia, wher'
it will be introduced in the supreme
court as evidence to decide damag
suit. Mrs. Clara Toole, apartment
house tenant, claims the bed folded u
on her, and she has sued to recove
$25,573 for her injuries.
From dusk, all during night of In
termittent heavy transforms, 7-yeal
old Johnny Macronovic kept vigil 4
the woods over the body of his 69-yea1
old father, Florian Macronovic, pic
neer' Of Gregg hill district, ten mile
southwest of Chehalis. Early the mex
morning the lad found his way to tn
home of neighbor and reported hi
fathers death.
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