White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-17
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

A three-day poultry school was held
in Winlock recently.
Twelve girls at Whitman college
were ill at Walla Walla after eating
apples treated with an arsenic spry.
Postal receipts in Walla Walla for
September show per cent gain, &C.
cording to G. F. Morrow, postmaster.
Yakima reports that when outstand-
ing bills for the 1880 state fair are
paid, there will be surplus OF more
than $4,000 for use in preparing the
1881 show.
An "unloaded" gun claimed the life
of Hazel Webster, IL, of Sedro Wool
ley, when her brother, Llowelyn, 10,
accidentally discharged shotgun he
was cleaning.
A bond issue providing $4,000 was
voted in the Cathlamet school district
recently to build new gymnasium
near the high school building. The
vote was unanimous, IS to o.
Tie between two bidders with equal
proposals for sidewalk contract was
settled at Yakima recently by Tipping
a coin. The Midstate Construction
COMPANY won and R. A. Geary lost.
Beginning October 1 and continuing
until next June, all potatoes sold in
the state must be marked according
to approved Washington grades. The
marking must be done by the grower,
shipper or retailer.
Shot near the heart by his own gun,
Mel Elder, 81, Port Orchard, was Kit
sap county's first hunting accident
victim of the season. Neal was sit
ting on log and the weapon slipped
and was discharged.
Organization of local of the. Wash
ington Cooperative Egg & Poultry as
sociation of poultry farmers of the
Kelso district was perfected at
meeting at Vasa hall, West Kelso, at
tended by $50 farmers.
Tourist travel through Longview's
auto park showed a Is per cent de-
cline for 1880 season over that of 1929
season, according to a report just
made public. The period considered
is January Ito September 1.
Clear, cool weather following hard
rains are making fall wheat seeding
conditions ideal for ranchers of Pa
cific and Wahkiakum counties. There
is some grain moving, but not in any
volume, due to the low price.
Despite delays on account of show.
ers the apple harvest in the Charleston
district is moving rapidly. The Deli
cious apples are attracting much at
tention, as the quality is said to be by
far the best ever produced there.
Walla Walla county property, in
Guiding real, personal and that owned
by corporations, is valued at $77,1O2,'
598. These figures are based upon q
total assessed valuation of $38,551,
299, and are somewhat lower than last
years figures.
Samuel A. Fratwell, operator of the
idgefield-Vancouver stage line, has
changed the routing of the line to 8
section which previously had no stage
service. The new route is via Sara
Zelda and Fruit Valley, and traverses
a rich agricultural area.
All records for the early shipment
of apples are being broken at Wenat
chez daily. One day last week 32S
cars, four train loads, were sent out
A total of 4256 carloads of the 1896
crop have been moved. The season
is the earliest on record.
Asotin county soon will have game
farm, several pairs of birds, includ
ir- wild turkeys, golden, silver ant
Chinese pheasants and Hungarian par
tridges, having been procured for pro
pagation. The county game commits
sion hopes within the next few years
to provide all the birds necessary fol
restocking the county.