White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-05-04

Mrs. F. M. We'll went over to
Yakima Sunday, to spend the day
with Mr.. We'll, who had stopped off
there on his way from Seattle to
Walla WalIa.
r. w. Gruenhagen has been busy
the last two or three days putting
, in the steps to the cellar at the
Commercial hotel and building q
fence enclosing the back yard. The
lawn on the east side of the hotel
: will be put out next week.
The next regular meeting of the
Woman's club will be at the home
Of Mrs. Sprague on Wednesday
afternoon, May 9th. This week il
baby week, and next Wednesday,
program will comprise Different
features apropos of the subject.
! The White Bluffs Water COM
pany's plant was started up, Tues
day, May LIST, and has been running
in tip-top shape ever since. A cold
backward spring and considerable
rainfall in April made the start
this year a month later than usual.
Mrs. Mary Matthews and Miss
Ethel Matthews of Boise, Idaho,
mother and sister Of Mrs. S. V.
Tanning, arrived in Kennewick
Thursday, where. they were met
by Mr.. and Mrs. Tanning and
, brought to White Bluffs in the
Tanning car. The two ladies viii
spend the summer here.
At the meeting Wednesday in the
, Presbyterian church, the women
, present were addressed by Mrs. A.
p. Hill of Hanford, on the subject
of Red Cross work. Mrs. Hill was
late in arriving and it was decided
to postpone organization of a chap.
ter here until the next meeting,
which will be at the church on the
afternoon of Friday, May 18th.
In recent letter to the Yakima
: Commercial club, according to the
, Republic, Senator Jones, comment
ling on the possibilities of an exam
ination of Priest Rapids as a site
for a government nitrate plant.
said this site was on the list and
the committee would visit Priest
Rapids as soon as time could be
had from the pressing business now
before the nation.
To become a soldier for his Un.
Gle Sammy and to do his part ir
r helping to maintain the honor anc
y dignity of his country, Leo \Cham
< bers left this morning for Yakima
I where he will join the infantry
: He expects to be stationed at For
5 Lawton on Puget Sound. Lee j!
, the first one to go from White
$ Bluffs, but his enlistment will prob
ably be followed by several others
Among receipts today at thu
California Commission company ant
j. B. Powles g. Co. are shipment
sent in by William Lee, who ha
> built up fine reputation for thu
quality of his crops grown in thu
Yakima valley and at White Bluffs
This grass, as shown by the initia
receipts, is juicy and tender; ant
- while it is small as yet, the ship
y ments expected little later OF
will certainly measure up to the
: high standard already set by thi
d grower Produce News.
O Mr.. AMI Mrs. l.. w. Beldin, VIII,
O have been conducting the CONNER
q cial hotel, which was opened by tn
business men in the latter part o
q January, and the committee rep
h resenting the business men, coul,
not agree on some important de
c tails in connection with the man
agement and have decided to seve
business connections. The hote
. will be kept open, and pending tn
change from the old to the new
management some very necessar!
as we'll as identifying improve
ments are being made.
t r. X. Tiffany, head Of the re
Y clamation service in the Yakim;
6 valley, told w. j. Kincaid last Sat
urday that he had SO much work OF
i hand over there that it would b.
S impossible for him to get away TO
| two or three weeks but that jus
as soon as he got the work owe
there cleaned up, he would be glae