White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-06-27
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
The Saith annual convention of the
| Washington State Federation Of Wo
mems clubs was held in Seattle re
Gently.
Mrs. Sylvia Jane Wilson celebrated
in a quiet way the 102d anniversary Of
her birth at her home in the PuyalluI
valley recently.
Plans for construction of new pulp
mill at Longview were announced by
H. G. Horribly; president Of the North
west Paper company.
Wallace A. MACPHERSON Of Tacoma
has been reelected to serve his sixth
consecutive term as president OF the
Washington State Bankers associa.
ton.
The 48th annual commencement of
Whitman college closed June 16 with
the comforting of 81 bachelor degrees,
one masters degree and two honorary
degrees.
After wounding himself with a re-
volver while on camping trip near
Mount Vernon, Harold Mathews, IL,
is in critical condition in hospital
at Mount Vernon.
Robert A. Triple, age rs years, vet
eran legislator and for AZ years resi-
dent of the state, died recently at Sc
attic. He was classmate of Wood.
row Wilson at Princeton.
Natural gas has been obtained on
the Frank Mosher place, near the
Hood River-White Salmon bridge. The
gas burned freely when ignited. It
is probable that we'll will be drilled.
The addition to the Longview Fibre
company, a plant where boxes will be
produced, is practically completed.
Much machinery is already in place
and some has received the trial run.
After an investigation the Pomona
grange of Whatcom county has report
ed that the Whatcom county court
house, a 40-year-old structure, is
menace to the public records stored
in it.
Within a few days every milk COW
in Grays Harbor county will have been
given the tubefculin test, and the milk
supply will be 100 per cent clean, ac-
cording to County Milk Inspector Hen.
derson.
The Wabash shingle mill, owned by
John Gherman and located in the Han
naford valley, 81 miles north of Cen
tralia, was destroyed by fire that is
presumed to have started from saw.
dust pile.
Completion of the census check for
Kittitas county has disclosed a popula-
tion of 1876 persons, 879 farms and
1914 residents out Of work. A gain of
1898 persons has been made since the
1920 census.
The Grand Army of the Republic,
encampment for the department of
Washington and Alaska was held in
Yakima recently. Bellingham was Sc
lected as next years meeting place by
almost unanimous vote.
What is thought to be a large lump
of ambergris has been found on the
ocean beach at La Push by ]. L. Pc
gram of Port Angeles. AS result Of
the find Quillayute Indians are search.
ing the shore for more.
A desire to be known as hero is
said to have caused Glen Taylor, mes
senger for the Grays Harbor National
bank, of Aberdeen, to shoot himself
through the arm and fake a story of
being robbed of $500 by two men.
Burns by an explosion when he
poured coal oil into the fireplace of
Naches outing cabin to hasten the
blaze he had just kindled, ended the
life Of Loren Long, 10, in a hospital.
Burns suffered in August, 1929, also
brought death in the same hospital to
another Yakima boy, Leo Park. He
was burned when his automobile took
fire after upsetting and pinning him
under it.