White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-05
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Annexation of Wildwood and Carl
yon subdivisions to the city of Olym-
pia was voted recently.
A public reception was held in the
new Presbyterian church at Contra
liza, Just completed at a cost of $4,000.
The Asotin county commissioners
have voted to spend $4,000 this win
ter on the road between Cloverland
and Jerry.
DR.. George H. Black, president of
the Washington State Normal school
at Ellensburg for Ia years, announced
his resignation.
Flaming clothing killed Elnor, 2
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
L. Bozarth Of West Kelso. The child
played with matches.
Temporary employment at the Olym.
pia postoffice during the Christmas
rush season will be limited to local
married men who are out of work.
Davis & Banker, Inc, motor vehicle
freight operators, have been author
lied to extend their service from Pa
teros to Oroville by the department of
public works.
Marland G. Roaney, 81, world war
veteran, was killed when his shotgun
accidentally discharged in a boat at
Skagit flats near Bellingham. Roaney
was hunting ducks.
The present dry law, requiring the
addition of benzoate Of soda to sweet
apple cider, may be revised, as cider
manufacturers claim it has completely
destroyed elders appealing taste.
Vail now has a postoffice, Sam G.
White having begun his duties at the
Weyerhaeuser logging town. The Of
flee is in the store, where the 1900
people of that vicinity will get their
mail.
Plans are being made for the con.
struction of highway up the Touchet
river from Touchet toward the Column
bia county line near Starbuck. Work
will probably begin early in the new
year.
Whatcom county legislators will
consider proposal that the state pur-
chase 131 acres at Gooseberry point,
Lummi Indian reservation, for state
park, on account Of it's historical
value.
Henry ]. Snively, prominent Demo
crat and leading criminal lawyer, died
at his home in Yakima. He had prac-
ticed law for more than so years and
had taken prominent part in 200
murder cases.
Yakima business men have an.
nounced plans for obtaining money
pledges to be used for the purchase
of site for the proposed $2,000,O00
federal veterans home that is to be
built in the northwest.
The United States engineering de.
partment has installed an automatic
tide reading gauge at the foot of Broad
way street in Cathlamet. A small
building has been erected on the Ok
man dock to hold the gauge.
Membership in the Okanogan Valley
Water Power Users association, or
ganized prior to the November cleo
tion, has been increased to almost
200 power users in all parts of the
Okanogan and Methow valleys.
Failing to locate we'll for an auxi-
liary supply by geological research,
Mayor Oppenheimer Of Chewelah has
fallen back on water witches, which
indicate that water will be found in
a certain place at a depth of exactly
81 feet.
For the greater safety of school
children, the city of Kennewick is
building foot bridge across the irri-
cation canal near the highway bridge.
The present highway bridge has no
railing between automobile and pedes-
trian traffic.
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