White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-11-07
WASHINGTON I news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Our Readers.
Bids have been called for by the
city council for lighting the streets OF
Stevenson.
Stepping upon fallen Pacific Pow
or & Light company wire carrying
$500 volts, Darwin Hansell of Yakima
was instantly killed.
The Finnish settlement at Hockin'
son in central Clark county is com.
pleting large, substantially built
Congregational church.
Eddie Powell, 26, of Steilacoom was
electrocuted while trying to put up a
radio aerial. He came in contact with
q high tension power line.
The new Finnish Evangelical Luth.
eran church was dedicated recently
at Naselle, and was the occasion OF
the largest religious assemblage eyer
gathered there.
William Foss, IS, is in a critical
condition at a Chehalis hospital with
a bullet wound in his right shoulder
William Taylor, IL, mistook him fol
q bear while hunting.
Ehrhardt Knautz of Sprague died as
30 IN or n
from a block Of wood thrown from
a woodsaw. Paralysis Of the bowels
was the cause Of death.
O. l.. Hansen, veteran lighthouse
keeper, who for the past ten years
has kept the light at North Cove. near
Deep River, retired on pension No
vember /, after 40 years in active
service.
Terror Of a mouse caused Mrs. Fred
Schell, wife Of Wapato farmer, to
leap to kitchen table and then to
plunge through a window. A surgeon
sewed up the cuts and the mouse was
trapped later.
A remarkable production of apples
was made this year on an Arkansas
Black tree in the orchard Of r. L
Nebeker In the Lower Naches. From
the tree were picked 100 boxes. The
tree is 20 years old.
Substantial increases in deposits and
resources are shown by Washington
state banks and trust companies. Com.
parison with last year shows that de-
posits have increased s8,0730O0 to
total of s204,909,,0O0.
I Aroused by narrow escapes on the
Yakima county airport when planes
were forced to land after dark, the
chamber of commerce aviation com.
mittee has started action to install
flood lights on the field.
The Mason County Creamery com.
pany of Shelton, with score of 95.5
per cent, won the gold medal award
Of the ice cream division Of the Pa,
cific International Dairy Products
show held in Portland recently.
About 100 persons from every part
of the county have organized the Lin.
coin County Taxpayers association.
The association will work with Whit.
man and Spokane county associations
in devising means to reduce taxation.
The city council has directed Bud.
well Bantz, Chehalis engineer, to pre-.
pare plans for large septic tank for
disposal of sewage at Winlock. 1t will
be built in the south end of the city
after the first of the year, when funds
will be available for the purpose.
Shipment Of apples this season from
the Spokane valley will reach 525 cars.
or about SO more cars than were ship.
ped last year. The average net re-
turn to the shipper is estimated at
$1,000. Picking and packing are in
full swing with 1000 people employed.
Revision of apple production esti.
mates at Yakima places the seasons
crop at $500 to 10000 cars, instead
Of $4,000 predicted early in the sea-
son. Later growth resulted in larg.
er crop. Production for the WeHat.
chez district is estimated at $4,000
cars.
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