White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-08-18

Cash prices for fruit remain un-
changed from last week, pears sell
ing for $40 per ton and peaches
40 cents per box. A mixed car
billed to Seattle went out Thursday
morning. In it were 200 boxes of
Spitzenbergs which netted the
growers S1.50 per box. These
were for Alaska. Klyce & Co. are
offering 81 90 per box for car of
Fancy and Extra Fancy Jonathans
for delivery Sept. 5th. The same
company this week bought a car of
Winter Bananas for $1.30, orchard
run. This car will go out next
Tuesday.
The pears are about cleaned up.
Peach market is strong with indi-
cations of 45 cents or better before
the last of the week Apple prices
are still uncertain with indications
of a price ranging anywhere from
81 90 to 81 so as the different va
rieties come on.
! Congressman LaFollette has rec
commended that the new post office
in the old townsite be named East
White Bluffs instead of Bluffs, and
the White Bluffs postmaster has re-
ported to department officials that
the proposed name would come
nearer meeting the approval of the
people here than would the name
of Bluffs. When the valley settles
up the town will grow through to
the river, so that the old townsite
will always be a part of the town
and the name East White Bluffs
seems, therefore. more fitting and
appropriate than Bluffs.
R. w. Gruenhagen is setting out
about an acre of strawberries this
week, getting the plants from the
Rev. L. C.. Krug ranch. Mr.. Cru
enhagen says that the small berry
match he has always had on his
ranch has paid him more real mon
ey than anything else he has raised.
Several thousand plants have been
set out in the valley in the past
month, and there are a number of
others who are just getting their
land ready
H. E. Harrison was displaying
an apple on the street this week
that for size had the rest Of the
fail apple family backed up against
the fence sobbing for breath. 1t
weighed an even l6 ounces. 1t has
delicious odor, is yellowish green
in color, and comes on right after
the yellow transparent. 1t is
new variety and the nursery that
! Mr.. Harrison represents has Inn
lited number of the trees for sale.
The rural free delivery petition
will be forwarded to the Depart
ment Sunday or Monday. 1t has
good healthy list Of signatur
several more than the necessary
number. 1t is said that there is
way to get daily service from the
start and if this is true a strong
effort will be made to secure that
kind of service.
R. R. Woods returned Friday
evening from Chicago, where, as
secretary of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers, he has been for the
past six months negotiating with
the railroads for a revision of the
schedule of pay and hours of SER
vice. The trouble was amicably
settled a couple OF weeks ago.
D. S. Wilkinson will leave Sun
day for Helena and Billings, Mont,
where he will have charge of the
installation of important telephone
apparatus for the Mountain States
Telephone company. He expects
to be gone three months.
r. w. MacDonnell returned Fri
day from Seattle, Vancouver, B. c.,
and other Sound points, where he
had gone on a business trip week
previous.
The second evening meeting of
the Sunday school class of VIM.
Gregory met Wednesday evening
at the j. H. Cole home. A pleas
ant time is reported.
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