White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-30
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Cur Readers.

Cur Readers.
The White Temple Baptist churcl
at Walla Walla observed its 51st ann
versary recently with a special pre-
gram.
The Farmers Cooperative Cream
cry association plans the expenditure
Of $4,000 to install milk dryer a
Skamokawa.
Declaring that coyotes are ravagint
their flocks, sheepmen of Thurston
Klickitat and Skamania counties have
requested the aid of government hunt
ers.
The first car load of Strawberries
for the season from the Kennewicl
district was shipped by the Three Riv
ers Growers association a few days
ago.
Fifty members of the old Palouse
Farmers Union company have voted
to reincorporate under a cooperative
plan, retaining present officers until
July 1.
The cherry crop in the Walla Walla
fruit raising district was estimated to
be so to go per cent Of normal by Har.
old Mewhinney district horticultural
inspector.
| Several hundred Grays harbor Nor.
wegians, gathered in the Vasa hall
In Hoquiam recently in celebration OF
the 10th anniversary of Norwegian
independence.
A. e. Glader, rancher about four
miles north of White Salmon, reports
the loss of several lambs, due evident
ly to large bobcat whose tracks are
plainly discernible.
Rev. L. Ludwig of Portland was Civ
en- his fourth term as president of the
northwest district of the American
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held in Spokane recently.
The letters "W S" in white, in a
60-foot block, on the south slope Of a
hillside just east of the landing field,
apprise filters of their location when
they are over White Salmon.
A special service was held on the
site Of the new Presbyterian church
at Centralia recently, when ground
was broken for the $4,000 building
that the congregation is to erect.
The caterpillars are coming, and Sc
attic, remembering unhappy expert
ences with caterpillars in 1912 and
1921, is alarmed by the threatening
visit from swarms of the fuzzy pests.
Eleven Yakima valley eighth-grade
students who tied with perfect scores
in spelling in the state examination
will meet in Yakima and spell down
to settle the question of county cham.
pion.
The Oroville-T onasket irrigation dis.
trict has applied to the division Of n.y.
draulics for authority to appropriate
30 second feet of water from the Okan-
ogan river for $4,000 irrigation pro.
ject.
Preliminary plans are being formu-
lated for the Labor-day regatta and
road opening celebration at Cathla.
met, marking the completion of the
Ocean Beach highway from Longview
to that point.
County school superintendent of
Washington will gather at Vancouver
June to II for the annual conven-
tion. The convention will be attended
by 80 superintendent and many other
prominent educators.
Charles Henry, Is, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Henry of Vader, was kill
ed instantly when his car went over
an eight-foot embankment near the
Vader Catholic cemetery and collided
with telephone pole.
A canine census by field men of the
county assessors office shows that
the dog population of Yakima county
quadrupled since 1921. In that year
the count was 1000 dogs. This year
the figure stands at 1000.