White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-04-27

|. C. Howard accompanied Mr..
and Mrs. U. S. Agnew to Prosser
last Saturday in the Agnew car.
Mrs. H. E. Robinson was visiting
friends in Yakima the first Of the
! week and also having some dental
work done.
j. M. Rearick was a passenger
down the river Thursday on the
Hanford Flyer to consult doctors
about badly liberated tooth.
Everyone who has any library
books belonging to the school will
please return them on or before
May 4th, requests Principal Perry.
l.. e. Henry of the contracting
firm of Henry & McFee of Seattle
was in the valley a few days this
week, looking over his property in
terests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Armin from Yak
ina and Mr.. King of Seattle were
guests Sunday at the H. f. Robin
son home. The party drove over
from Yakima in car and returned
the same day.
County Commissioner F. L. Bash
went to Olympia this week, where
in company with Commissioner
Pratt an attempt was made to Sc
cure sufficient funds to complete
the state highway between Kiona
and Richland.
Malcolm McFee is here again
this week, a guest at Colors"y
ranch. Mr.. McFee says he likes
the valley so we'll and spends so
much of his spare time over here
that his friends are wondering
whether he lives here or in Seattle.
Leo Chambers left today for Yak
ina, where he goes to enlist in the
army. Werner Blair expects to go
about the middle of next month,
and there are said to be several
more of the young blood of the val
ley who are planning on joining
the great army of defence now be-
ing raised in the country.
Rev. W. J. Sharp, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Ellensburg,
also chairman Of the Vacancy and
Supply committee of the Horne
Missionary board, will be in White
Bluffs and Hanford next Sunday
and will discuss the future work OF
these fields. He will preach at
White Bluffs at II a. m. All are
invited to attend this service.
One morning about three weeks
ago, G. G. Moore left his ranch tc
90 to Allard for his mail. He was
gone only about an hour, but dur
ing that time some one had visited
his cabin and carried away his new
500 shotgun. probably as a sou.
venir of the visit. Mr.. Moore re-
fused to see the joke and immedi.
ately asked the authorities to assist
him in running down the culprit
He was traced to different places
and finally apprehended at Ephrata
He turned out to be a young man
about II years old who had been
in the vicinity of Allard a shor t
time just prior to the disappear
ance of the gun. The gun was re.
covered although it is reported to
have been somewhat damaged.
With population of only about
$50 persons, counting men, women
and children, White Bluffs Wash,
boasts of cement sidewalks, street
lights and a commercial club, said
Fred M. We'll, a real estate dealer
there, according to the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. white Bluffs, 4"
he said, els the trading center of
the Hanford irrigation project on
a branch line from Beverly of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad. There are about 1000
residents in the immediate valley.
In the comparatively near future
we expect to have city as large as
North Yakima. In the past the
principal industry has been the
growing of fruit, principally APP
pies, peaches and berries, but this
season extensive acreage is going
into alfalfa and into potatoes and
other vegetables. Dairying is also
attracting considerable attention.