White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-08-01
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Gently voted in favor of free text.
books for the Longview schools and
will present the matter to the Long
view school board. Plans for the
1924-25 school year were discussed and
committee chairmen appointed.
YAKIMA.-Canon Bliss, Seattle
churchman, is the choice of sheriffs
of the State of Washington as their
representative to attend the Geneva
narcotics conference. The unanimous
choice of Canon Bliss was made in a
resolution indorsing his work which
the convention passed after listening
to an address by the churchman.
YAKIMA.-Plans have been made
to hold community harvest festival
here in lieu of the state fair. More
than thousand dollars has been
pledged so far, and the budget of ex-
penses arranged. Prizes will be Of
fered for the best industrial displays.
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ers from the south half of King Coun-
ty visited the Western Washington
experiment station recently. They
were accompanied by w. w. Henry,
King County agricultural agent. A
lecture by Dr. A. Il. Nader, head Of
the general extension work of the
Washington State College, interested
the party which filled the big tent
erected on the campus. w. A. Link
later, station superintendent, pre-
coded DR.. Nader in short lecture,
giving details of the work at the sta
tion with directions as to the location
Of the different departments of the
work. Farmers from the north half of
King County attended the following
day.
SEATTLE.-C. j. Albrecht, former
curator of the University museum,
who has been member of the staff of
the American Museum Of Natural His
tory in New York City during the last
year, is in Seattle on vacation. Dur
ing his trip, Mr.. Albrecht, who has
charge of North American big game
at the museum, plans to film some
animal pictures in the woods Of the
Northwest. He will return to New
York with his family in the fall.
OLYMPIA.-An attack by cougar,
one of the very few on record, has
been reported from the Olympic Ma
tional Forest, Western Washington,
by Glen Merchant, a former forest
guard. Merchant said that the cougar
sprang from some brush and tore off
a trouser leg and severely scratched
him. He hit the cougar on the nose
with fishing rod and ran. The beast
did not follow him.
CARNATION.-Mata Segis Wal
ker, valued at $125,000, one of the
most famous dairy cattle sires in the
Northwest, owned by the Carnation
spring of Matador have made more
world records in milk production than
those Of any other sire in the North
west, and in the leading shows of the
United tSates last year they won more
prizes. Matador was halfbrother to
the worlds record milk COW, also own
ed by the Carnation Farm. Surviving
him on the farm are more than 200
sons.
WALLA WALLA.-John B. Drake,
Jr., who has taken up his work as
milk inspector under the Department
of Health, announced that he will
make a complete survey Of conditions
surrounding the production and dis
tribution Of milk and will also start
an educational campaign for greater
use of milk. "Too little milk Is used
here for the size of the city," he stat
ed, adding that a preliminary inves-
tigation had shown there was need of
action in cleaning UP things He
states he had received assurances OF
willingness to cooperate on the part
Of distributors, and through them the
producers.
TOLT.-Declared to be the first en-
try into Europe by an American man
ufacturer of condensed or evaporated
milk, the Carnation Milk Products
Company OF the state, has purchased
large butter and cheese factory In
France, with all its equipment and
machinery and the output Of the plant
is now 1000 cases a day. France and
England are to be supplied with the
products of this French plant, located
at Carentan, in the province of Man
che, not far from Cherbourg, one Of
the chief deep sea shipping ports OF
France.
YAKIMA.-Yakima knights Of Co.
lumbus lodge is negotiating for pur-
chase of ten-acre tract adjoining
he old Ahtanum mission, and plans
to establish a memorial park, with an
athletic field, picnic grounds and
other features The proposed pur-
chase includes the ancient mission
cemetery in which the remains OF a
few pioneer white settlers and about
90 Indian converts of the early mis-
! slonaries are buried
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