White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-31
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

A night shift was put at work In
Montesano by Schafer Bros mill No
/. This will make total Of about
200 men at work at this mill.
The Interstate Fruit Growers 'asso-
citation has sent out of Coulee Al car.
loads of D'Anjou and Bartlett pears.
About 80 carloads of apples are yet to
be shipped.
The Community club of Prosser has
voted to assist in urging use of Wash
ington stone and lumber in construc-
ton of federal buildings to be erect
ed in the state.
Suffering stroke as he played golf
with three friends, Rear Admiral H.
j. Ziegemeier, commandant Of the 18th
naval district and the Puget Sound
navy yard, dropped dead.
A collection of apples for shipment
to the Veterans hospital at Walla
Walla is being made by the Okanogan
American Legion auxiliary. Apples
of all grades are solicited.
The Washington Growers Packing
corporation was given a contract to
supply six state institutions with dried
prunes for the fiscal year, officials Of
With large crowd in attendance
the cornerstone of the new temple be-
ing erected at Centralia by Adath Is
rael, Jewish congregation of Centralia
and Chehalis, was laid recently.
Logs approximating 100000 feet,
cut by the Barr Logging company, are
lying along the banks of the upper
Coweeman river awaiting high water
to bring them down to the Cowlitz
river.
Endorsement of plans to secure
government fruit expert to work with
Yakima growers in developing i'm
proved varieties for the Yakima val
ley was given by the Yakima chamber
of commerce.
1t cost $1234.94 to spray elm trees
in Walla Walla this year against the
elm leaf beetle, according to the city
engineers office. OF this amount the
city will pay 1852 and property own.
ers the remainder.
City officials of Yakima completed
plans for chain gang stockade so
feet square surrounded by six-foot
board fence topped with barbed wire.
City prisoners will there work up into
firewood a lot Of trees.
All Vancouver city offices having
been moved from Memorial hall to
the new city hall at Eighth and Wash
ington streets, future management of
Memorial hall has been instructed to
committee of seven citizens.
A contract for the clearing and
grading of three miles Of the Cascade
wagon road forest line east in Skagit
county has been awarded to the Ro-
mano Engineering company of Seattle
by Director of Highways Humes.
Samuel ]. McEldowney, an orchard
list of Wenatchee, died at the age Of
6S years. In 1902 McEldowney was
forced to steal two horses for Harry
Tracy, the Oregon bandit, to aid in
Tracy's escape from the officers.
A happy hunting party ended in a
tragedy when Hugh P. Wood, of Seat
tie, accidentally shot and killed his
wife when he picked up shotgun as
fast-winged duck sped past their
boat near Mount Vernon. The full
charge of shot hit Mrs. Wood in the
back.
What to do with the Yale bridge
over Lewis river is a puzzle to the
commissioners and engineers of Clark
and Cowlitz counties. The bridge is
1875 feet high above low water, but
when the Ariel dam is completed the
water will rise to the floor of the
bridge and it will need to be raised
about 20 feet to make it safe in peri.
DDS of flood from heavy rain.
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