White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-24
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

"A Boy Scout troop for Skamokawa
is being organized under the auspices
of the Parent-Teacher association.
Farmers throughout the entire Wal
la Walla district are busy at their fall
seeding, the clear weather following
recent rains giving them this oppor.
tunity.
James Dugan, 45, a gardener OF
Aberdeen, was found dead in his apart
ment. He was asphyxiated when a
coffee pot boiled over and extinguish.
ed a gas flame.
The University of Washington reg
istration has closed with the largest
fall enrolment in it's history. The
registration totals 1858, exactly 100
more than last fall.
Shipments and receipts Of general
cargoes at the port dock at Vancouver
for September showed an increase
over September 1929, but there was a
heavy decrease in lumber shipments.
Mrs. Glenn Oliver, College Place, is
mourning the loss Of SO of her choice
Rhode Island Red chickens. Some
canned peas had spoiled and she
threw them out to the chickens as
feed.
More than $50 women from all parts
of King county attended session OF
the county commissioners to protest
the slashing of $4,000 county IL
brary service item from the 1881 estt-
mated budget.
Carl Brecht has been named pres1-
dent Of the Walla Walla Poultry
Breeders association. Plans Of the as
sociation for the ensuing year call for
education for healthier chickens, bet
ter housing and disease control.
Anthony Viavadas, 16, high school
student, was shot and killed at Seat
tie by Patrolman Rollo Wilson. He
said he caught the youth stealing a
musical instrument, and that the boy
failed to heed his command to halt.
Airmail sent out from Spokane In
September exceeded that sent out in
any other month since the establish
ment of the service in September,
1929. The total pieces last month
were 3S,691. In August the total was
$3.50.
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed the Pacific Sea Food company
cannery near Hoquiam, causing dam
age estimated at $4,000. The struc-
ture had been unused for several
months and firemen are puzzled over
the cause of the fire.
Alfalfa seeding and permanent La
dino clover pasture were studied by
Cowlitz county farmers recently when
several farms in the Woodland dis
trict were visited by group under
the leadership of Leonard Hegnauer,
state college agronomist.
The state had total of S29,353,320
in bonds and cash in it's permanent
school fund when the fiscal quarter
ended September 30. The increase
was $1,11S,436 over the same date
last year. Since 1921 the funds have
grown from $1S,637,433 to the present
total.
Living on raw frogs legs and apples
three days was the experience of A.
w. Mckenzie, line forman Of the
Grays Harbor Railway e Light com
pany, who returned to Aberdeen after
having been lost while on hunting
trip in the North river country south
of Aberdeen.
Acting under orders from Chaplin
Mills, state district horticultural in
spector, e. A. Newly, stationed at the
Interstate bridge, is checking all fruit
and vegetable trucks entering Vancou
yer to see that the state law requir
ing marking of containers, showing
the grade of pears, prunes, grapes
cantaloupes, potatoes, onions and to
matoes is complied with.
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