White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-01-10
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

A grain cooperative of st. Johns.
Whitman county, with $4,000 CAPT.
tai, has filed articles Of Incorporation.
Washington wool growers will hold
their state convention at Walla Walla
January Is, to consider cooperative
marketing.
Considerable damage was done In
the Hoquiam vicinity to roads by the
heavy rainfall, with one serious wash
out reported on the Riverdale road to
Woodlawn.
Efforts to obtain transfers OF ripard-
an rights along the Columbia river to
permit the early construction OF the
Rock island dam are under way at
Wenatchee.
At meeting Of farmers at Harring-
ton to form an association under the
federal cooperative marketing plan
more than 100000 bushels Of wheat
was pledged.
Corporation Counsel Kennedy has
given an opinion that Seattle,s NUM-
cipal light department has no right
to extend its service farther beyond
the city limits.
There were nearly 100000 more can.
cellations at the Yakima postoffice
for the period from December to ~
inclusive in 1929 than for the CORES
ponding period in 1928.
Receipts of the Kelso postoffice FOX
1929 will be approximately $4,000,
Albert Maurer, postmaster, has an.
nouflced. This is an increase Of more
than $1,000 over the 1928 total.
Two million dollars were spent in
1929 on buildings and public improve.
nents in the IL cities and towns OF
Yakima county, according to figures
gathered recently and published.
The Waukon grange has resolved
against changing from Pacific to
Mountain time. The farmer would be
greatly inconvenienced and there will
be no benefit to the public, it Is held.
In reversing the judgment Of the
Yakima county court the supreme
court has held that a motorist must
obtain full view Of an arterial high.
way before driving completely upon 1t.
Building permits issued at Vancou.
yer in 1929 totaled $487,1S6, about half
of the total for 1928. The decline was
largely in residences, as several sub.
stantial business buildings were
erected.
Grays harbor lumber shipments for
1929 again topped the billion foot
mark, but only by slender margin.
It was the sixth consecutive year
that the port shipped more than 1900,
100000 feet. ~
With the rush on for the new 1880
motor vehicle license plates contracts
have already been made for the 200
tons Of sheet steel to go into the
making Of the 1881 plates at the state
penitentiary.
Joseph G. Knott, superintendent OF
official testing and member of the
state college dairy department, has
been elected chairman of the western
division Of the American Dairy Sci.
ence' association.
Efforts of the Yakima city admins
tration to divert additional water from
the Naches river for domestic use
have received a setback in notice that
objections will be filed by the federal
reclamation service.
The last few days have been so
warm in the vicinity OF Othello that
some farmers have started to seed
winter wheat and rye. Moisture has
penetrated to a depth of about 10
inches on fallow land.
Marriage licenses issued in Van
couver in 1929 fell 1O4 below the total
for 1928. The total In 1929 was $500,
compared with 1888 in 1928. The to-
tai for December, 1929, was 232, COM
pared with 244 In 1928.