White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-08-22
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

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Mr.. and Mrs. S. N. Martin OF. Tenino
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary. with IS relatives and friends
In attendance.
A fiye-car garage, suitable for hous-
ing the large buses owned by the Elma
school district, is under construction
on the school property.
For stealing "a chickens James King
of Medical Lake has been sentenced
to serve from six months to two years
in the Walla Walla penitentiary.
Laying gravel on IA miles OF the
5.6-mile stretch of McDougan toll gate
road in Blue mountains has been COM
pleted. The work is to be finished
this fall.
A representative gathering of oyster
growers at South Bend organized the
Northwest Oyster Growers assocla'
ton with Myron T. Houston Of Seat
tie as chairman.
The grade school at Sara, seven
miles southeast of Ridgefield, opened
the 193O-31 term recently. The school
opens early each year and closes dur
ing prune picking season.
Vandals for the third time in recent
weeks have visited the farm home OF
E. Van Fossen northwest of Central1a
and have stolen two dynamos, water
power pump and motorcycle engine.
Machinery for the new milk drier
at Grays river has arrived and me-
chanics are installing it. Carpenters
have completed their work and the
pouring of concrete is progressing
rapidly.
While working near her ranch home
near Cashmere Mrs. G. w. Rocken-
field was bitten by a rattlesnake. Anti
venom serum was administered by
Cashmere doctor, who announced that
she will recover.
Tacoma school district No. 10 is
starting the coming school year with
$46,O85.46 in cash and net debt OF
$1,618,12O.7O, according to figures tab
ulated by G. H. Rens schiller, chief depu-
ty county auditor.
Per capita consumption of water
in Walla Walla has been more than
doubled during the past five weeks,
R. f. Mclean, city water superintend-
ent, said. 1t now is about 500 gallons
a day for each person.
Trout lake, rs miles north Of White
Salmon, is soon to have it's own water
system, advises Mr.. Ralph Woodruff,
secretary of the new company. The
installation is in charge of the Glacier
Springs Water company
No appeal will be taken to the
United States supreme court from the
decision of the state supreme court
invalidating the 1929 excise tax on
financial corporations. 1t is thought
an appeal would be futile.
Births in Clark county in July near
ly doubled the deaths, according to
the report of Health Officer Sparkling.
The total was 81 compared with ~
deaths. Births in Vancouver totaled
"a, compared with II deaths.
According to an opinion by the at
torney general the way is legally open
for the state highway department to
acquire and operate a toll-free ferry
at Keller, Ferry county, as a part Of
the Tonasket-San Poll highway.
The alberta peach season was Of
ficially started last week when the
first 10 crates were shipped to Seat
tie from Trinidad, near Wenatchee.
Trinidad produces the first peaches
and apricots almost every year.
The recent order of the interstate
commerce commission lowering the
freight rates on wheat, flour and
grains in the Pacific Northwest may
help restore the plant of the North
west FIGURING mill company at Walla
Walla, which was burned month
ago. Clearing the debris is proceed.
ing.