White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-07-13


resolutions to construct a reservoir in
stead of repairing the tank and bids
will be called soon on 300,00O-gallon
reservoir, to cost about $4,000.
There are $4,000 acres of land open
to entry in the Yakima district, &C
cording to Register R. B. Milroy. Most
of this is good for stock raising with
a 64O-acre limit for each entry. There
are some desert. timber and stone en-
tries available.
F. A. Virgins, of Toppenish, was re-
Gently elected member of the execu-
tive committee of the American AS
sociation of Nurserymen, which was
held in Chicago, June 29 Mr.. Wig
gins was the only western man to be
elected to this committee.
Judge Ralph Kaufman OF Ellensburg
was elected president of the newly
organized Yakima Valley Reclamation
league. The league has as it's object
to urge a more aggressive campaign
for reclamation units of the Yakima
valley. About go representatives from
towns in the valley were present
Bearing on one side picture of
Cleopatra and on the other repro
duction of King Tut-Ankh-Amen, &C
cording to experts who have examined
it, Simon De Yak of Vancouver, Wash,
prizes highly a valuable souvenir of
old Egypt and the Nile. .DeYak says
the coin has been in his family for
generations and is at least 5000 years
old.
The Publicity Tourist bureau of the
Spokane Chamber of Commerce has
started plans whereby Spokane and
the Inland Empire will be advertised
this fall in Detroit when the Gonzaga
university football squad plays the De
troit university in that city. 1t is be-
lieved by the committee that this will
be wonderful opportunity to adver-
tise this section in the east.
Roy v. Perringer, of Belmont. was
recently elected president of the Wash
ington Wheat Growers association, at
their annual meeting held recently in
Spokane. j. H. Smith, of Ephrata, was
elected vice-president, and c. A.
Adams, Of Spokane, secretary treas
urer Walter j. Robinson, of Spokane
and Pomeroy, was elected general
manager of the organization.
More than 1900 persons were pres
ent at the Pioneer picnic held recently
in Wilbur. The morning program was
held in a theater building through the
courtesy of P. Falberg. Hundreds
spread their dinners in the grove adj
Joining the city The main address of
the day was given by the Rev. John
Groschupf, who combined humor with
pathos in brilliant tribute to North
west pioneers
The Earl Fruit company, of Spokane,
was the first firm in the state of Wash
ingtOn to be licensed under the new
Commission Merchants law, it was an
nounced recently in Olympia The law
requires that firms receiving agricul-
tural products to sell them on COM
mission basis must secure license
from the state and deposit a bond of
$4,000 with the state treasurer to Sc
cure shippers against losses due to
the improper handling of produce.
-Four pretty school teachers from
North Dakota have been camped at
Prosser for the last week and are
working in the cherry orchards. They
are on their way to California with
Ford touring car and state they are en-
joy1ng every minute of the trip. When
they left home their first objective was
Prosser, where they expected to work
in the orchards for time. They were
not disappointed, for they have found
all the work they want, and, Incl
dentally, have met many former ,Da-
kotans during the evenings while at
their camp. The young women are
Miss Helen Peterson of Bisbee, N. D.;
Miss Bess Day, of Bates City, Mo-;
Miss Viola Craig of Bottineau, NJ D.,
and Miss Anna Johnson, of Upham,
N. D.