White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-07-04
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

OuI UCouCi o.
Centralia's annual rose show was
held recently.
Contract for building the new en-
ployes' cottage at Oakhurst sanator-
ium, Elma, was awarded short time
ago.
A $4,000 apartment house for
bachelors is to be built at Yakima
within two blocks of the business dis
trict.
Consolidation of the Yale and South
Yale school districts on the upper
Lewis river lost when the Yale dis
trict voted against it II to l.
Only 694 persons are out of work
in Yakima and but nine in Benton
county, G. Dove McQuesten, district
supervisor, said after making compil-
atoms.
Holding officers Of the bank away
with pistols, four masked men robbed
the First Security bank of Seattle Of
s4919 in cash shortly after the bank
opened.
Traffic over the Yakima Ellensburg
state highway was blocked for few
hours recently by a cloudburst which
caused heavy rock slide near Wymer
station.
Belief that gold in paying quantities
will be found in the hills around Craw-
ford was indicated at Vancouver by
SO persons who filed mining claims for
record with the county auditor.
From $50 to 700 citizens from all
parts of southwest Washington gather
| ed at Randle, in eastern Lewis county,
to support the White Pass route over
the Cascades into eastern Washing.
ton.
About 80 delegates were in Van
couver recently attending the Both
convention of the American Associa-
ton of Instructors of the Blind, which
was held in the state school for the
| blind.
Three cougars in the Clearwater re
gion will prey no longer on ranchers
sheep flocks. ]. O. Gwinn recently
shot +Lo tbroo animals IN tho INNER
| Queets after they had been freed by
his dogs.
Planters Day, Woodlands annua
celebration, when the holding of the
bikes that protect the great valley sur
rounding Woodland is celebrated, was
held a few days ago with a large at
tendance.
Mayor Dorsey M. Hill told the Walls
Walla chamber of commerce recently
that the city commission expects in
few days to have 100000 available TO,
the purchase and development OF tn
aviation field.
Everett Johnson, four-year-old sol
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Johnson o
Lyle, cut his eyeball SO severely b.
running into barbed wire fence tina
fears were entertained that he ma
lose it entirely.
Yakima county school districts dul
ing the 1929-1930 school year cut thei
daily current expense per pupil al
proximately four cents, according t
figures released by the county supel
intendent's office.
G. L. Snyder of Mohler was pr
claimed champion old-time fiddler
the contest that opened the Lincoll
Adams counties pioneer picnic o
Crab creek. Second place went
Elsie Greenwood Creston.
? Germany creek Cline creek an
Alternately creek, districts in weste1
) Cowlitz county, probably will be give
+ rural mail delivery service by mi
e July, it was announced by Mrs. LIE;
e Linck, Longview postmistress.
Walla Walla district will have
! delegates, Prosser and Wentachee OF
. each, and Yakima II at the prul
+ grade hearing, to be held in Wal
h Walla July II, II. R. Wewhinney, d
Y trict horticultural inspector, has be-
q advised.