White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-12
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

The date for the second annual
Clark county potato show at Ridge
field has been set for November 6, Z
and inclusive.
Lighting a cigarette after she had
washed her hair with an inflammable
benzine lotion, Miss Elsie Smith OF
Seattle was seriously burned.
The eastbound Great Northern mail
train, No. %, was wrecked at Index.
so miles east of Seattle, killing the
engineer and injuring the fireman.
Crushed by tree he had fallen,
Charles A. Hanes, as, timber faller for
the Donovan-C Cookery company in the
Wishkah valley, was fatally injured.
Standing on table while kalsomin-
ing a west side building in Yakima,
James r. Turner, ", made misstep,
fell to the floor and broke his neck.
The federal government will spend
$40O a month helping Yakima county
solve health problems. A sanitary in
spector is to be provided under CO
operative plan.
The new county jail at Seattle was
opened with wedding. Ralph r.
Wright was married to Mary Webb by
a justice of the peace two hours after
his incarceration.
More than 500 persons will be en-
ployed in Puyallup valley canneries
during the pear season. Eastern Wash.
ing and local pears will be canned.
The total output will be $500 tons.
The College Place school board has
awarded to ]. R. Atkinson of Clarks-
ton the contract to erect an auditori-
um-gymnasium costing $4,000. The
building is to be completed January 1.
The Wenatchee Valley Traffic asso-
citation has adopted resolution urg-
ing carriers handling fruit out Of that
district to adopt an emergency reduc-
ton of freight rates on apples destined
for export.
Trustees of the Washington boxed
apple bureau have voted to go forward
with the seasons advertising fund of
S125,00O. Tonnage composing 70 per
cent of the 1923 crop has been signed
to support the move.
Washington Growers Packing cor
poration at Vancouver, announced
that an advance price of &c pound
will be paid for prunes. This applies
to prunes testing up to 80 to the
pound when dried and sacked.
The Tacoma light and power depart
ment began using water power from
Lake Cushman for the first time in
many months, the lake storage having
been maintained until this time as q
precaution against another dry fall.
The horse population of Spokane
county continues to decline while the
AuulDCl VI 1lllh COWS Is uCledSluSs
The county has 1O,O3S horses this year
as compared with 11,269 last year.
Milk COWS have increased from $3.50
last year to 9721. r,.,.rsass ii.l,sl-,.,-
Fifteen Washington counties showed
payroll gains in the first six months
of this year over the same period Of
1929, Claire Bowman, director of the
department of labor and industries,
said. Decrease in payroll of "a coun-
ties were reported. as'sil;4.,
Business in soft fruit was given a
severe setback when Yakima shippers
were informed that Canada's import
duties on fruits and vegetables had
been raised approximately 100 per
cent, making shipments into that coun-
try almost prohibitive.
The month of August was the poor
est in four years as far as the number
of marriage licenses issued at Van.
couver Is concerned. Two hundred
and thirty-four licenses were issued.
the auditors abstract shows, com.
pared to 265 last August, 27O in Aug.
ust, 1928, and 258 in August, 1927.
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