White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-06-20
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

The convention of county school
superintendents of Washington was
held in Vancouver recently.
After six months in local hospital
suffering from blood poison, Robert
H. Haney a member of the city coun-
Gil of Colville, has died at the age OF
81 years.
William Davis, 55, was injured fatal
~ at the gravel pit near the Ariel
dam, when section Of bank cayed In,
pinning him against the side of a
steam shovel.
Eight Centralia business men whose
names are withheld, lost 5000 when
they were held up by two masked men
while playing poker in a room in an
office building.
Nisqually highway into Paradise val
ley, Rainier National park was opened
recently. The opening was two weeks
earlier than scheduled. Paradise Inn
will open June %.
Petitions asking for Improvement OF
several Hoquiam streets are in circula
ton following a mass meeting, when
property owners unanimously backed
an improvement campaign.
A shotgun in the hands of Chester
Bohart, the 8-year-old son of r. H
Bohart Of Wenatchee, brought instant
death to Muriel Ray, the 9-year-old
daughter of G. A. Ray of Malaga.
Between 1000 and 5000 members OF
Moose lodges from Washington, Brit
1sh Columbia, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tant were in Hoquiam recently for the
annual northwest Moose convention.
Permission to attach Grays harbol
forestry board forest fire warming
signs to the standards of the automo
bile club was received at Hoquiam by
forest board men from the state auto.
mobile club.
Wenatchee streets will be rid of the
dust nuisance this summer If plans OF
the city commissioners materialize
1t is proposed to tax property owners
for oiling on a basis of $40 for each
5O-foot front.
King county's new scenic drive, the
Lake Sammamish highway, was open
ed recently by Governor Roland H
Hartley, with ceremonies at Gatewood
and lakewood parks, near the north
end Of the lake.
Meyers and Telander, Spokane con
tractors, have been awarded the con
tract for construction of new two
unit machine shop for the state col
lege at Pullman by the board Of re-
gents at $39,7S6.
In the state eighth grade examfna.
lions in Whitman county Gordon Todd
of Pullman took highest rank with
S65 points out of possible 900. Mary
Miller, Guardian Angel school, was
second with 852.
Three carloads of cherries have been
sold on contract by the Grandview
cherry pool for II cents pound net
to the grower. Growers in the pool
received Is cents per pound last year
for their entire crop.
Albert M. Thomas, 20 years old and
a sophomore at Whitman college, is
the third victim in week at Walla
Walla. He was taken i'll with "black
measles" and complications develop
ed resulting in his death.
Determined to Dust impecunious
transients from the Grandview dis
trict, Marshal La Rue of Yakima has
launched a drive on "hobo jungle"
camps in the section. The hoboes are
raiding orchards and chicken yards.
Cats, dogs, mice, rats, goats and
chickens were in the children's pets
parade held in Vancouver. The chill
dren were in costume and the pets
we're dressed in every conceivable rig
and looking thoroughly miserable as a
result. Prizes were given in the diff
ferent classes.