White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-11-21
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Bret Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

OuI nCQuOiO Is
Evaline postoffice, midway between
Winlock and Napavine, will be discon-
tinued soon.
The war department has announced
It had allocated $1,000 for construc-
ton of four sets of officers quarters
at Fort Lewis.
The Wenatchee-O kanogan district
will market 24O69,OOO boxes of apples
this year, receiving total Of $685.
600 in return, or about s1.4O per box.
George Ingalls,, 60, a nurseryman,
was killed when chasing some horses
along the road at Wapato. He darted
In front of an automobile driven by
T. Haka.
The Southwest Washington Certi-
fled Seed Potato Growers association
was perfected at Ridgefielld at the
close of the second annual Clark coun-
ty potato show.
The apple orchards were boon to
men of Creston. Twelve men living on
small canyon farms have returned
home with earnings of $1,000, an aver
age Of $225 each.
The buffalo herd of Tacoma, four in
number, has been killed and sold to
local packing plant. 1t cost the city SO
day to keep the animals and it would
have been necessary to build new
Enclosure.
Byron r. Lewis, Seattle, was ap-
pointed supervisor of transportation
In the department of public works. He
succeeds the late Enoch w. Bagshaw,
former coach of the University of
Washington.
More automobile accidents in this
state result from skidding than from
any other direct cause, according to
survey of 1867 motoring mishaps,
Just received by the Automobile club
of Washington.
Sixteen thousand sacks of wheat
and $4,000 sacks of peas, new ware
house valued at $4,000 and machinery
valued at $500 were destroyed by fire
of unknown origin at Tate, eight miles
west of Pullman.
]. O. Killian, a Manson orchardist,
has challenged all apple growers for
production. His record for Rome Beau
ties this year shows that $50 trees on
four acres yielded $685. boxes, or 1900
boxes to the acre.
Seattle city officials have decided
on immediate outlay of 100000 for
public improvements to help relieve
unemployment. It is planned to award
contracts in time to provide winter
work for several hundred men.
Several farmers Of the Lewis River
district have successfully grown to-
bacco in small experimental patches
this year. The harvest will soon be
completed and the tobacco submitted
for the approval Of local experts.
The new $4,000 Shrine hospital al
Spokane has been put under construc
ton. The first spade was put into
the ground by Esten A. Fletcher, i'm
perial potentate, while flags flew and
the band of Ell Katif temple played.
After long wait, during which the
price of bread loaves weighing a pound
and one-half have been sold at II
cents loaf, the price has at las
sagged to 10c in the Chehalis market
Competition of outside bakers hal
broken the price that has been main
tanned for many years.
More than 500 residents of the lowel
Columbia river district attended tn
formal opening of the new milk-dry
ing plant Of the Lower Columbia ca
operative Dairy association, built a
Grays River, about eight miles south
east of Deep River. During the after
noon they were shown through tn
plant and saw how dry milk is pre-
cessed. Construction Of the plant wa
financed through a loan from the farm
board.
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