White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-23

rem at Mrs. Coleman's.
The Spokesman carries full line
of writing paper and envelopes.
Mrs. Elmer Bowers is in Walla
Walla visiting friends and relatives.
Rev. L. C. Krug was in Kenne-
wick for a couple of days the first
of the week.
A number of people in this end
of the county have been going to
the county seat lately-presumably
to pay their taxes.
D. j. Boag took a party of White
Bluffs people to Yakima Tuesday.
The party was made up Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Bickle, Irving Wright
and E. N. Loveland.
Irwin C. Howard, local manager
of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber
company, left Thursday for Tacoma
to attend a managers meeting of
the company.
The post Office box rent is now
due and patrons who wish to retain
their boxes should pay before April
LIST, as the rules will not permit the
postmaster holding the boxes for
anyone beyond the last day in the
quarter.
H. Estrade has been quite ill this
week. His case became so serious
Tuesday that friends telegraphed
to Seattle for Mrs. Estrada and she
arrived on Wednesday nights train.
Mr.. Estrada was reported to. be
considerably improved Thursday.
D. A. Rearick is having quite a
serious time with his teeth. He
went to Yakima couple of weeks
ago to have them attended to. One
had liberated and he had that one
lanced, but he did not get along as
we'll as expected and he remained
in Yakima until Monday.
Roderick Sprague lost a valuable
heifer Thursday. She found a dis
carded arsenate of lead barrel a
few days ago and was helping her.
sells literally when discovered. An
tidotes to counterfeit the poison
were given her, but she died Thurs
day morning, apparently from lead
poisoning.
c. O. Wommack has received his
large ice box and is busy having it
installed in the Patterson building,
Where he will conduct his meat
market. R. w. Gruenhagen made
him meat block and fit is surely
an artistic piece of workmanship.
Mr.. Wommack expects to have his
shop running the first of the week.
DR.. and Mrs. j. Hilton have ar
rived from Seattle and taken u
their residence on the Schell or.
chard tract south of town, for which
they traded last fall. They came
over in a car and reporta,.s travelling
over some pretty rough roads until
they reached Yakima. DR.. Hilton
is veterinarian and may decide to
practice his profession here.
Fred Fehlharver, recent arrival
from Minnesota, and who has been
visiting for some time at the Cords
home. has purchased 30 acres Of
raw land just west of the Herbert
Cords place and started this week
to improve it. He expects to have
his we'll completed in. time to start
irrigating shortly after. the. first Of
April. The sale was made through
F. M. We'll.
While in Yakima this week Irving
Wright signed up for new Dodge
car, the sale being made through
D. j. Boag. E. N. Loveland, who
was. along on the trip, and who has
been curried on all four sides by
every automobile salesman in this
territory, looked like "goner" for
awhile, but he recovered his balance
at the last minute and, automobilely
speaking, is still "heart whole and
fancy free"
A Junk firm in Seattle has bought
the larger gas engine and some
of the other equipment in the old
Todd pumping plant that in early
days furnished. or attempted to
furnish, water to those under the
White Bluffs Irrigation company
project. A couple of men have