White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-08-15
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

The Cowlitz county juvenile fail
will be held at the Vasa hall, West
Kelso, August %, 20 and 30.
The eighth annual convention o.
the Washington State Firemen's as
ISOLATION was held in Kelso recently
Ardith Campbell, IL, was crushed
to death under her fathers truck al
it overturned ten miles south of Che
welah.
Moxie valley hop growers have cut
the rate for picking to IN cents g
pound because Of low prices for the
product. Last year they paid 2A
cents.
Schofield & Wilder Of Montesano
have been awarded the contract fol
rebuilding the pipe line of the Monte
sano city water system by the city
council.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
logging operations, closed since June
%, have resumed, with five sides now
at work, employing some 200 men, it
was announced.
Clark county is now in the third
class, the county commissioners hav-
ing made the change from the fourth
class which was made possible by in.
crease in the population to 10000.
Members of savings and loan asso-
Citations in the state cannot be taxed
for cash on hand in the vaults of the
associations, according to an opinion
from the attorney generals office.
The stork won race for the Long.
view Memorial hospital recently, when
a son was born to Mrs. Carl Hagunst
Of Castle Rock in an ambulance en-
route from Castle Rock to the hospi.
tai.
England's hotel at Mossyrock, 30
miles east of Chehalis, burned, due to
defective flue. 1t was valued at sew
eral thousand dollars. Citizens of the
village saved several adjoining build
ings.
Venus Moon, 16, and her brother-in-
law, James Palmattier, "a, drowned,
and Mrs. Palmattier narrowly escaped
the same fate during a swimming par
ty at Ruth in the Chehalis river re-
Gently.
The Northern Pacific ferry Pioneer,
brought to Kalama about month ago
from Puget sound, will start opera
lions between Kalama and Goble, Or,
transporting automobiles across the
Columbia river.
Prunes from the Walla Walla valley
will begin moving soon, first ship
ments being from the Milton-F reewa-
ter district, it was stated. About 1900
carloads, or 20 per cent less than last
year, will move.
= The purchase by Claude L. Buchet,
manager of the Pomeroy Grain Grow
ers, Inc, of 5000 bushels Of 1929 red
wheat at about 65 cents a bushel
marks the entrance of this co-opera-
tive into the market.
The Eastern Railway & Lumber
company resumed operations at it's
mill in Centralia following a shut
down of five weeks duration. During
the period of idlsness needed repairs
were made to the plant.
Members of the Centralia-Chehalis
branch of the Washington Co-opera-
tive Egg and Poultry association held
their annual picnic at Riverside park
in Centralia. Members of the Win
lock branch were guests.
Unexpected strike of artesian water
on the ]. w. Brokaw farm near Selah
has started several neighboring ranch
ers to drill. The gusher was struck
at 100 feet and it is said to be suffi-
Gent to irrigate 100 acres.
The associated seed growers at Fair
field have found that their four large
warehouses will not hold all the peas
they have this year, as $4,000 to 15,-
900 bushels are being delivered daily.
They have already shipped six cars.