White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-12-14
Washington News

The Kelse Lumber Company saw
mill In West Kelso has resumed OPP
erations, after shutdown Of several
months.
Thomas Sanatarium at Soap Lake,
near Ephrata, was burned recently.
Fire started from the kitchen flue
and was discovered by the janitor.
The place was insured for $4,000.
The Highland Dairy has awarded
contract for the erection of a
creamery and dairy goods handling
plant at Longview. The building will
be 60x70 feet. 1t will be built Of
tile.
The cut stone on the ground site
of the new Legislative building Of
the new Capitol group, at Olympia
Is estimated to be worth $27O,000.
Work will begin very soon on the
building.
A glass factory is urgently needed
in Seattle, according to Clancy M.
Lewis, secretary of the Manufactur
ers Association OF Washington. There
is no glass factory here. consequent
for bottles.
The first annual sale of purebred
Holsteins, under the auspices of the
Washington State Holstein Associa-
ton, was held at Puyallup Fair
Grounds last week. Buyers from Cali
fornia and Northwest states attend
ed the sale. Two hundred head of
stock changed owners.
The new stamping powder. Soda
tol." Is giving rs good results as the
ordinary stumping powder. and at
only about two-fifths of the cost
County agents are taking In numbers
Of orders and are well on their way
for the first carload order.
The first of the wooden hulls that
lave been moored on Lake Union,
vas burned at Richmond Beach,
where 1t had been towed to its fun
,ral pyre. 1t is the first of Is bulls
which will meet the same fate In the
lear future.
Thirty-six fatalities from automo
biles were reported during the month
Of October In the state. For the first
10 months of this year fatalities
reached 1872 as against 1z2 for 1922.
Eleven Of the fatal accident occurred
in Seattle, two In Spokane and three
In Stevens County. Bellingham and
Everett
Robert Zindel, living near Kenne,
wick, has been awarded the Armour
md Company prize of free trip to
the International Livestock Exposi-
ton, in Chicago, on his pig club
work. Robert, who Is only IS years
Of age, owns Miss Long Chief. a reg
stored Poland China SOW, and from
his animal he won the prize.
Knights Templar of Commandery
No. l. OF Pittsburg, Pa, plan their
our through the Northwest to the
1925 triennial meeting at Seattle to
mathematical perfection. according
to members Of their pathfnding COM
mission who we're In the state re-
,ently. Nearly two years before the
convention these knights, known as
he advance guard, are preparing a
schedule and tabulating every stop
on the long journey. Over 100000
Visitors are expected to tour the
Northwest In 1925 for the event.
To foster development Of the Ocean
Beach Highway project, M. Hafen-
orack secretary OF the Longview
Chamber OF Commerce, Is planning to
visit Wahkiakum County points this
week, IN the interest OF closer union
between Longview and that county.
rhe road right of way has been
slashed and 1t will be passable for
.ravel early in the spring.
Mr. and Mrs. Clark, OF Longview,
.ost their two little girls In a fire
that burned their tent house. Mrs.
Clark had gone to some neighbors
FOR visit leaving the two babies In
bed. The little girl, Pauline, was
two years old and her baby brother
two months old The childrens IA
Their is employed by the Long Bell
Lumber Co. as blacksmith.
George Gibson, bell boy at the
Hotel New Arctic, found two bright
nuggets Of virgin gold in the gizzard
of duck, which he had bought for
Thanksgiving dinner. The nuggets
were worth about $40 Gibson found
out that the duck was bought from
a farmer living near Oak Harbor on
the north end of WILDLY Island Per
haps this discovery will start u sec
ond Klondike rush.
A gift Of $3.50, 900 to the Universit