White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-03
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Dolfine Edith Williams, 26-months-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. w.
Williams, drowned in the Wishkah
river at Aberdeen.
An automobile plunging $50 feet off
the bluff on the San Juan island coast
carried Joe Lawson, pioneer Of Fri
day Harbor, to his death.
The new city hall at Vancouver has
been completed for several days, but
can not be occupied because of the
non-arrival of furniture.
A campaign to bring the 100000
federal soldiers home to Thurston
county is to be carried on by the Olym-
pia chamber of commerce.
Delegates from 10 chapters of the
Red Cross organization of eastern
Washington and Oregon and central
Idaho met in Walla Walla for con-
ference.
According to an opinion by the at
torney general the voters of Washing
ton must elect a successor to Supreme
Justice French, deceased, at the COM
ing state election.
With all its tropic beauty, night
blooming cereus is in blossom at Aber-
deem in the home of Mrs. G. ]. w. So
derberg. The plant has been in bloom
six times this year. 80 s8-+ils f.
!" Nearly 100000 feet of cut fir logs,
the property of the Crown Willamette
Paper company, were destroyed by
fire near Cathlamet recently. A brush
fire got out of control.
While Mrs. Peter Wheeler, wife of
the sheriff of Chelan county, was in
her bath burglar entered the house
and took SIS from her purse. Sheriff
Wheeler was not at home.
A petition asking that Whatcom
county taxpayers vote in November
on a 1-mill levy to raise S105,000 for
oil development work has been sub
With a view of developing young
orators, John Brining of Dayton has
announced a gift Of 100000 to Whit
man college for the establishment of
the John Brining professorship in ora
tory.
Frank e. Balmer, county agent lead
er at the University of Minnesota,
will be nominated director of the ex-
tension service at Washington State
college. He will assume his duties
October Is.
Nineteen hundred men are working
at the Rock Island dam near Wenat-
chez. OF the 1900 men, IT'S are living
at the camp, where 1900 meals are be-
ing served daily. The weekly payroll
is 100000.
Prospects for bumper late potato
crop in Clark county were advanced
materially by the recent heavy rain,
growers report, and unless the frost
strikes early the yield will be more
than 600 carloads.
Diversion of part of the water Of the
Klickitat river for use on the Yakima
Indian reservation appears to be feas'
ible, according to L. M. Holt, super
vising engineer Of the United States
Indian irrigation service.
A total of about 15,12O,OOO boxes oil
apples will be harvested this season
in north central Washington. Approx
imately $4,000 persons will be en-
ployed in the harvest and the payroll
will run close to $4,000,000.
The city of Raymond and the Grays
Harbor region are making plans fol
opening the new inter-harbor highway
between Willapa and Grays Harbol
and the dedication Of the new Willaps
harbor port dock October 8.
Claiming that there is need for {
cannery in the Prosser district, the
Prosser Community club has voted tt
unite with the Benton City proponents
of cannery to induce some company
to establish plant at Benton City.