White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-01-17
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Residents of Spokane used 1874,
323,730 gallons of water In 1929. ar
increase of 1905, OS900O over 1928.
The Lewis county game commits
sion has offered to furnish free feed
to any person desiring to feed game
birds.
+. C. Nelson, district state hortt
cultural inspector at Spokane, has
rendered his resignation, to engage in
private business.
Three new hangers were started at
the Vancouver municipal airport and
the IL planned will be completed by
the end Of this month.
A total Of 195 new dwellings were
constructed in Wenatchee in 1929 at
cost OF s46O,045. The cost Of alter
ing 80 old buildings was $43,055.
Hy Williamson. 3O-year-old Claquato
farmer, was burned, probably fatally.
when a gasoline lantern exploded in
the home OF his brother, "By" Will
hanson.
Cowlitz county during 1880 will ex
pend approximately half a million dol
lars in road construction, the largest
years highway program in the his.
tory of the county.
Thirteen condemnation suits to &C.
quire right Of way for the Methow
Valley highway between Twisp and
Pateros have been filed with the clerk
of Okanogan county.
Stockholders Of the Lincoln County
State bank at Davenport have received
checks representing 10 per cent div.
idend for 1929. A similar dividend
was received for 1928.
Twenty-eight marriage licenses and
only two final divorce DEGREES were
issued during 1929 by Wahkiakum
county, according to report from the
county auditors office.
A wheat-growing and marketing
school open to all farmers and grain
men Of eastern Washington will be
conducted at Washington state col
lege, January 13 to II.
Construction may be expected to
start on the port docks at Raymond
as early as February /, as a result OF
action taken by the port commission
ers at special meeting.
A contract has been let at Tacoma
for the construction Of the $2,O00,000
Rhodes Medical Arts building. It will
be 16 stories in height and is to be
completed by November /.
Duck hunting is good on the Lacka-
mas flats. Geese and ducks are plen-
tiful. Heavy rains and the open win
ter are believed to be the reasons for
the unusually large flocks.
Dan Cupid did an increased business
in Lewis county during 1929 compared
with 1928, gain of 81 marriage IL
censes being made. For 1929 there
were 536 issued; in 1928, 1856.
County commissioners of Wahkia-
KUN county have appointed Thomas
Webster county agent to succeed Carl
lett, who is now in charge of the
Clark county office at Vancouver.
The president Of the Vancouver
chamber Of commerce has appointed
a committee Of 20 to work out plans
for new form of city government in
keeping with the size of Vancouver.
The floor beam that links the can
.tilever and suspended spans of the
Columbia river bridge between Long
view and Rainier, Or, now under con.
struction, has been lowered into place.
j. j. Brown, secretary-manager of
the Klickitat county fair, has an
nounced that a modern grandstand
will be built at the track in Golden
dale to take the place Of an antiquated
structure, relic of frontier days. The
course is one Of the oldest in central
Washington or Oregon and was used
for match races before the advent of
county fairs.