The school house narrowly escaped destruction by fire last evening, September 29th, when the Jebe house in which the primary teacher, Miss Sloanaker, is living, burned. Multitudes of people gathered from the neighborhood and with their buckets-ful of water attempted to save the surrounding buildings. Some men climbed upon the roof of the school house with the aid of buckets and hose managed to keep the shingles wet so the sparks did not catch. Whole sheets of sparks were driven over by the wind, and once some fell upon the end of the roof, but were whipped off again by the wind. The home where the fire originated was completely destroyed before the flames were controlled but most of the furniture was saved. No one was harmed and we are glad to say that the fire did not further damage.
— White Salmon Enterprise, Oct. 3, 1924
Growth in food illnesses appears to have hit peak
Health authorities here today said it still appeared that the case load of foodborne illness was not growing and that the most of the cases reported involved people who were contaminated on or before Sept. 26. Work to match up the reports continued in an effort to locate how the illnesses were started.
Here is how the health department reported the situation today.
Since Sept. 12, a total of 423 people have reported themselves as becoming ill.
Of these, 140 have been confirmed salmonella. Out of this, a total of 71 were determined to be salmonella typhimurium, one of the more common types.
The health unit reported today that it did receive some reports of illness Sunday, but in these cases the victims said they had eaten not later than Sept. 26.
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