White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-02-07
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

In mid-year commencement exer
cises recently, 81 students of the Yaki.
ma high school senior class received
diplomas and formally completed their
course of study.
Northern Pacific construction crews
will be directed to salvage all timber
cut on the right Of way between Mo.
clips and the Hob river when the new
line is built northward.
A report reached Vancouver recent
ly Of the destruction by fire of the
B. ]. Bell mercantile store at Yacolt
with loss of $4,000. Volunteer fire
men saved adjoining buildings.
Northern Pacific railroad officials
and engineers are considering the es-
tablishment of train yard and repair
shop to be located either at Aberdeen
or Hoquiam within the next year.
The Longview ferry resumed opera
ton Saturday after being tied up for
some time because of the ice blockade.
The ice was broken sufficiently to
permit the boat to cross the river.
Art Ray of the Randle district has
bagged eight wildcats in the last three
weeks. One of these, which was be.
lieved to be cougar, was trailed for
an unusual distance before being shot.
A meeting of cherry growers Of the
White Salmon district was held re-
Gently to ascertain sentiment in form
ing cooperative association for mar
keting the. cherry crop of the valley.
Prompt use of a lungmotor by the
Kelso fire department saved the new
born son Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Han
son of Kelso at the Kelso general
hospital when the baby failed to start
breathing.
The new high school building at
Umapine is completed and will be oc-
cupied soon. 1t has four large class.
rooms, home economics room, science
laboratory, offices and a standard
gymnasium.
Hens seem to have gone on strike
in the Deep River section lately, and
even some Of the poultrymen are buy
ing eggs at the stores. With general
scarcity. however, the price remains
around 81 cents.
A wildcat measuring 46 inches from
tip to tip was trapped near Skamo-
kawa recently by Robert Benson. The
cat is the largest ever bagged here,
and at present its pelt is at the Cath
lamet courthouse.
Members Of the Washington Grow
ers' Packing corporation of Vancouver
dried a pack of 9,211,262 pounds of
prunes in 1929, the largest crop ever
handled during the 10 years existence
of the corporation.
Taking a short cut along the rail-
road tracks to her home in Walla
Walla from the Baker school, Mrs.
Della e. Church, IS, was killed in
stantly by the Northern Pacific motor
bound for Dayton.
The department Of public works has
granted the Yakima Coach company
authority to extend it's motor vehicle
service between Yakima and Hood
River. The company has been operat.
ing between Yakima and Arlington.
C. F. Myers, Henry Rick, Carl Mier
John Fair and R. Section were all
reelected director of the Battle
Ground Cooperative Dairymen's as
sociation for another year at the an
nual meeting held at the grange hall
recently.
An intensive campaign to secure
legislation at the 1881 session to pro
tect the dairy industry of Washing
ton was urged by Harry Swenson Of
Malone, Grays Harbor dairyman, in a
spirited talk before the annual meet
ing of the Grays Harbor Dairymen's
association, held in Montesano.