White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-26
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Harry Hodge backed his truck over
the seawall at Port Orchard recently
and was drowned.
Fire swept about half Of the Consol-
dated Plywood Lumber company plant
near Aberdeen. The loss was put at
$4,000.
Mrs. D. d. Underwood has an orien-
tai poppy blooming in her yard. MARI
colds, petunias and nasturtiums also
are in bloom.
Radio station KUJ Of Longview is to
be moved to Walla Walla in January
and will begin broadcasting there late
In the month.
F. w. Byles, manager Of the Gle
mons Logging company, was chosen
president of the Montesano chamber
of commerce for 1881.
The defunct Colfax State bank will
pay a dividend of z per cent to stock
holders, bringing the total dividends
thus far to 80 per cent.
The total vote cast at the last gem
eral election was 360,OS7, or slightly in
excess of Ga per cent Of the total regis
tration, which was 559,S98.
Ten Chelan county banks have be-
gun action in the superior court to re-
strain the county treasurer from col
lecting $9257, taxes for 1928 and 1927.
Charges of gross Encouragement OF
the affairs Of the Puyallup Indian tribe
are made in a suit for accounting filed
In the superior court at Tacoma by
members Of the tribe.
Seeking to protect George Warning.
marshal of Mabton, who has faced the
guns of providers at night twice in the
past year, the city council has ordered
bullet-proof vest for him.
An assorted carload Of apples has
been forwarded from Yakima to Bonn
bay, India. The apples will go to Lon
don and then be reshipped via the
Suez canal to the port in India.
J.. M. Wroe was elected president,
M. ]. Lowden vice-president, and Chas.
Baker, secretary-treasurer, Of the Wal
la Walla County Farm bureau, at the
annual meeting held there recently.
One Of the largest road building pro-
jects in the Wenatchee district in re-
cent years will be started soon in the
construction OF IL miles between the
Vantage bridge on the Columbia river
and the town Of Burke.
Months of discussion has resulted
In decision by the city of Yakima to
construct sewage disposal plant to
meet the wishes of towns in the lower
Yakima valley. A bond issue of $780,
900 will be submitted to voters.
Legislation to put the states idle
money at work is recommended in the
biennial report of Auditor Clausen. All
state funds are on cash basis and
the cash balance during the biennium
has ranged from $14,000,000 to $780,
100000.
Charles Rehwalt, IS, rancher of near
Garfield, was fatally injured when his
car was struck at crossing near there
by Great Northern electric train.
| The accident occurred in a binding
snowstorm, which is held to have been
/ the cause.
The Western Wahkiakum Telephone
company is planting poles and building
a new metallic circuit between Deep
River and Grays River. The same
poles are also being used for another
metallic circuit, known as the farmers
line. The improved telephone system
will be ready January 1.
Part of the 100000 expansion pro
gram Of the Yakima Dairymen's asso
citation, to be financed by federal
farm loan, will be erection in the
spring of a two-story concrete build
ing 90x100 feet in size. 1t will be
equipped for storage, handling and
manufacture, and will include space
for offices.