White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-02
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ITEMS OF INTEREST

OtlCi uCouiuO VI iioppO"i"SS "
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
A May Day festival was observed al
White Salmon May l, and included the
winding of three May poles.
ordinance passed for widening por
ton Of Jewett avenue an additional
ten feet and raising the south side OF
the street one to two feet.
Candidates for degrees next June al
Washington State college number AL
In addition, about 40 students will be
candidates for advanced degrees.
Grant A. Gribble, brakeman Of q
| Donovan-C Cookery logging train In the
Wishkah valley, was killed instantly
when he fell between two empty cars.
A $1,50O,0OO civic auditorium Is pro
posed for Spokane, and organizations
are at work formulating plans to pre-.
sent the project to the voters next
November.
The bore of the Selah- Morse tunnel,
begun 20 months ago, has been COM
pleted. The tunnel, 1920 feet in length,
will replace four miles Of flume. It
cost s175,OO0.
Piping the lethal gases from the ex.
haust of his auto into his car, H. G
Abel committed suicide some time dur.
ing the night on a country road near
College Place.
Roy Lindman Of West Seattle has
been elected president Of the Whit
man College Associated Students at
ter an exciting election. His majority
was 10 votes.
An ordinance providing that all pas
teurized milk sold in Vancouver must
be pasteurized there was approved by
the city council and will become eff.
fective July 1.
Lewis county commissioners retain.
ed Fred G. Rounds, Chehalis architect,
to study the county's needs for new
main home at the poor farm, three
miles south Of Chehalis.
An unusual specimen of the tulip
family is blooming in the yard Of DR..
Clearwater at Washougal. 1t is a
common tulip, bearing five full-blowD
blossoms on one stem.
Bids were opened May for con-
struction of new Presbyterian church
in Centralia. The new building will
replace a frame structure that has
seen service for 40 years.
The Wahkiakum county fair, to be
held in September, will be managed
this year by Herman Gleason. Mr..
Gleason Is farmer residing in the
east valley near Skamokawa.
Lieutenant Governor Gellatly Of We
| natchee has been elected director of
the Washington Children's Home So
ciety. The society cared for 1889 chill.
dren during its last fiscal year.
Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties
will share one state senator and two
representatives if the proposed legis-
lative reapportionment bill is favor.
ably acted upon by the Legislature.
Prospects for bumper cherry crop
In the Walla Walla and Kennewick
districts are fading daily as evidence
of winter killing appears, says Har-
old McWhinney, district horticulturist.
Without exception, precincts in the
Ninth census district, which includes
eight southeast counties, are showing
losses in population Of Is to 20 per
cent, according to Supervisor Whit,
aker. T..
Negotiations for the construction of
22-story hotel at cost of $2,000,000,
are in progress at Seattle. The site
under consideration is bounded by
Olive way and Westlake and Sixth
avenues.
Heavy damage to the Yakima valley
fruit crop is predicted on account of
new insect pest known as the "Tran-
ish" bug, which heretofore has con-
fined its attacks to garden truck and
| strawberries.