White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-19
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

approximately $4,000 paid admis-
sion to performances at the Walla
Walla county fair.
Vancouver city schools opened with
a total enrolment of 1922 or 1913 more
pupils than the enrolment of last year
on the first day.
Seattle authorities are favoring the
purchase of the construction camp at
the Diablo dam, to be opened by the
city as tourist resort.
South Bends first annual flower
show drew record number OF entries
from all over Pacific county, and near
" 500 visited the show.
Yakima growers and shippers are
now operating in the peak OF the soft
fruit deal with shipments approximate
ing 1000 cars week.
The first apple washing machine for
the Omak district will be installed this
fall in the Petersen-Keller and Shum-
way warehouse at Omak.
In addition to the native supply of
grouse, native and China pheasants,
Pacific county's game fields recently
have been stocked with 400 young
China pheasants.
On the Johnson Angstrom farm near
Wilbur 2-year-old Seeding apple tree
is blooming with apples on some OF
its branches. 1t has bloomed three
times this season.
An eight-hour day and 44-hour
week, enabling postal employees to
have half Saturday off, are sought in
resolutions passed by the state organi-
cation of postal organizations.
The Longview fire department was
called out last week to GUST family
of yellow jackets from garage on
22d avenue. They did the job with a
gallon of chemical firefighting fluid.
Construction of gas plant and dis
tribution system in Camas, which will
represent an expenditure Of more than
100000, was started Tuesday by the
Natural Gas Corporation of Washing
ton.
The site for the proposed fish hatch
cry on Alternately creek, near the
Ocean Beach highway in Cowlitz coun'
ty, has been cleared of trees and un.
derbrush by county prisoners from
kelso.
Two contracts, one for the construc-
tion of bridge over the Hob river
in Jefferson county, the other for sur
facing a part of the North Bank high
way, have been let by the state high
way department.
All phases of Seattle's municipal
street railroad problem are to be stud
led by Mayor Edwards new railway
committee of citizens headed by Carl
Williams, before a definite plan will
be recommended.
Kennewick's annual fair opened Fri
day with a record attendance. A big
parade was featured in the downtown
district. School children were dis
missed for the parade and later taken
to the fair grounds.
After AZ years of service, the mar
row gauge railroad at Ilwaco ceased
operating September 10, when the lit
tie locomotive and it's train of two
cars made their last run between
Megler and Nahcotta.
Electrocutors with which to fight
the codling moth have proved more
effective in the orchard of j. H. Seibly
of Selah than sprays with arsenate Of
lead and oil. Examination of $50
pounds of pears shows only Leg per
cent infected
The new generating plant and dis
tributing system of the Western Gas
& Utilities company. which will serve
Kelso and Longview, possibly will be
placed in service within month. The
plant has capacity to serve a city
of 10000 population.