White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-08-29
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Bret Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Cowlitz county has approximately
10000 voters registered for the pri-
mary election September 81
R. M. Greenwood was hit in the
right arm by stray bullet as he was
walking just south Of Centralia.
Perry Smith of Toutle chopped off
two toes while fighting forest fire
in the Toutle river district recently.
The old Caples residence, one of the
landmarks three miles west of Wood
land, was destroyed by fire a few days
ago.
Blood poisoning caused by a chicken
scratch received several weeks ago
has proved fatal to Mrs. Theba Partch,
60 years old, of Toledo.
Eiline Stirn, IL, suffered a broken
leg, bruises and contusions recently,
when attacked by an Infatuated ram
on a ranch near Rearden.
The date for the opening of the 1880.
81 school term at Ridgefield has been
set for Monday, September 8, accord.
ing to Superintendent Schenck.
Prune picking in the Walla Walla
district began recently. Inspectors
are on duty at the packing houses to
see that no immature prunes are
moved.
Bean-packing operations at the plant
of the Allen Packing corporation at
Longview are in full swing with 200
women and several men and boys en-
ployed.
The oiling of the Stevens Pass high
way from Leavenworth to Merit will
be started soon, according to an.
nouncement Of the state highway de-
partment.
The state library is assembling ma
terial for students to use in debate
work this fall and winter. Data are
also being fathered for the use Of leg
islators this winter.
The fruit of several weeks labor
on the part of d. Moir Of Hoquiam
was removed by thieves when they
raided Moirs woodshed and stole eight
sacks of cascara bark.
A total tax valuation for Cowlitz
county of s21,S21,375 exclusive of pub
lie utilities is announced by the coun.
ty assessor. This valuation is $50,304
less than the 1929 rolls.
A finback whale, 60 feet long, has
been washed ashore between Raft
and Queets river near Hoquiam and
Queets Indians were eating whale
steak soon after it landed.
A threshing machine and 300 sacks
of wheat were destroyed by fire on
the farm of Otto Nowack near Freeze.
The fire was caused by an accumula-
ton of smut, which exploded in the
separator. -" nm 'rts-es sli'H iyes llla,ls.,
Mrs. Nancy Overturff Patterson,
known as Grandma" left Walla Wal
la by train recently for Pueblo, Colo,
to visit relatives. She celebrated her
Tooth birthday last March. She made
the trip s alone: ..e,ysg.gsss lls sia, ss'N~
The Davenport commercial club has
chosen Miss Hilda Oehlwein to be
Princess Davenport at the Spokane
Interstate fair next month. She was
queen of the American Legion rodeo
at Davenport last year.
The Palouse will be one of the last
regions to be squeezed out in the
squeezing process now going on in
wheat production sections, declares
F. G. Forrest, president Of the First
National bank of Pullman.
The apple harvest has started in
the White Salmon valley and Under
wood Heights with the picking Of
Gravensteins. The large packing
plants will be humming in full swing
next week. Despite the long period
of extremely hot weather, apples, one
of the main crops Of this district, seem
to have escaped with very little sun
scald.