White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-07-11
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Warren E. Morarity, Is, contracting
logger working in the Cedarville dis
trict near Elma, was injured fatally
when he was struck by tree felled
in the workings.
Building permits for June in Che
halls totaled $28,500. OF this $4,000
was for new business block and ware
house construction. There was one
$500 permit for repairs.
Farmers at Kennewick are busy
with their second cutting Of alfalfa,
which, according to reports, is an ex-
cellent stand. Weather conditions
have been ideal for growing crops.
Savings and loan associations Of Ho-
GUAM will pay out dividends amount
ing to $46,S79.10 to savers, an increase
of $317O10 over those paid out at the
last semi-annual payment in January.
Monday and Tuesday, August Is and
10, have been chosen as the dates for
the annual meeting of the Washing
ton Presidential Postmasters associa-
ton, which will be held at Chehalis.
Divorced Is years ago, Robert A..
Rankin, TO- and Julia Rankin, GA, were
married at Walla Walla by the Rev.
Leonard Brough, Baptist minister, in
the presence of three grown children
of the couple.
Plans have already been made for
the second annual Clark county potato
show which will be held at Ridgefield
again next fall on larger scale than
last years tuber exhibition, which en-
braced three days.
Twenty-Five rural telephone lines
serving the territory between Ritzville
and Odessa have been turned back to
individual subscribers as the result
of the dissolution of the InterurbaD
Telephone company.
The best potato crop reported at
Pasco this year is that of Nagel Bros.
of Ringgold. They are harvesting be-
tween seven and eight tons to the
acre in 4O-acre field. The potatoes
are bringing $53 ton.
Michael Hennesy, 60-year-old pro-
prietor of the Fairhaven gas station
on the mountain highway out of Taco
ma, is dead and his wife in serious
condition at the county hospital as the
result of a holdup recently.
Ferry service between Kalamas
Wash, and Goble, Or, will be reestab-
lished early this month when Captain
Jack Reid of Kalama will place the
ferry Pioneer in operation. The boat
has capacity of IL automobiles.
Washington Elks ended their con-
vention at Ballard with the election
of Emmett T. Anderson, Tacoma. as
president. The cornerstone for the
convalescent home for crippled chill
dren was laid near Fort Lawton.
The annual picnic and meeting of
the Cowlitz County Pioneer and His.
torical society will be held at the
Pleasant Hill park between Kelso and
Castle Rock Saturday, August 2, in.
stead of July 26, as at first planned.
June brides were much in evidence
in Vancouver one day last month, and
rs marriage licenses were issued, a
record for several months. Marriage
licenses have shown an increase this
year as compared with the same peri
cd last year.
Because someone stole his wooden
leg, Lloyd Burns had to postpone his
honeymoon, he told police at Seattle
recently. When he and his bride en-
tered their automobile, he found some
| one had stolen a small trunk. His leg
was in the trunk.
| The largest state highway contract
ever let in Washington was awarded
by Highway Director Humes when he
contracted with the United States
Steel Products company of Seattle
to build the superstructure of the Lake
Union bridge in Seattle for $1,247,
1888.