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WASHINGTON NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Figures compiled by the Centralia fire department show a total of 29 fires in 29 days last month. The formal opening dinner and entertainment at the new Marcus Whitman hotel at Walla Walla was set for September 6. Adam Spencer Bremer, who had been a resident of the Tilton river valley the past 45 years, died at his home near Cinebar. Mrs. Sue B. Harris, 72, Washington pioneer, suffered a $3000 loss when her home at Plaza was destroyed by a fire caused by children playing with matches. Four-year-old Arthur Morrin Gustafson of Bellingham is dead at Auburn, a bullet through his head, because he tried to play cowboy with a loaded revolver. The first shipment of canned fruit from the Washington Canners' Cooperative, Inc., was made last week when 1000 cases left Vancouver for England. The annual Grays Harbor county fair was one of the best ever held in that county. Approximately 125 of the fastest horses in the west competed in the racing. While assisting in unloading pears at the Libby, McNeil & Libby plant in Yakima last week, Nicholas Michaelis, 68 years old, dropped dead from a heart attack. Payment of a 20 per cent dividend to depositors of the closed Davenport National bank is announced by J. L. Erickson, receiver. Previous dividends totaled 50 per cent. Sweet potatoes have yielded well this year in the irrigated district of the lower Satus valley on the Yakima Indian reservation. A crop of fine quality has been obtained. Grading and surfacing 13 miles of the North Bank highway between Stevenson and Beacon Rock will be completed this fall, State District Engineer Schwarz said recently. The Spirit Lake Park, Inc., filed articles of incorporation at the Cowlitz county auditor's office recently. The company was formed to develop a hotel and recreational park at Spirit lake. Because of continued heavy losses to his flock of sheep from raids by bears, J. M. Lynch, farmer of the Rose valley district east of Kelso, is planning to retire from the sheep business. The Northwestern Electric company is building two miles of distributing line to serve 12 or more farms near Woodland. The line extends along the Whalen road, southwest of Woodland. More than 100 descendants of Michael Simmons, noted Washington pioneer, met in Olympia August 26, the occasion being the 64th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Simmons. More than 200 members of the Hotel Greeters of America, Pacific northwest chapter, are expected for the annual convention of the organization to be held in Olympia, beginning September 7. Sam Kiefer, widely known poethumorist and managing secretary of the Yakima county farm bureau, has tendered his resignation to President Dwinnell of Outlook, to take effect immediately. Radio communication between the forest supervisor's office in Vancouver and the central dispatch office at Hemlock, in the Wind River valley of the Columbia national forest, was established last week. Breaking all former records for registration, the total number of qualified voters in Yakima county is 23,711, according to figures compiled at the county auditor's office. The city registration is 7554 votes, while the county precincts registered 16,151. An appeal for funds from all of its chapters in the state of Washington was broadcast from the Pacific branch office of the American Red Cross at San Francisco, to aid in rehabilitation work at the town of Ronald, one-third of which was destroyed by fire on August 18. Dispatches from workers on the scene state that 32 houses were destroyed, leaving 170 persons home less, of which 86 are children. Warning against rabies in the dis trict around Orondo, because of dis covery of an infected calf, was mad. recently by Dr. C. P. Fay, veterinary He warned people against bites froi dogs in that district.
