White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-12-05
Washington News

VERADALE.-John Van Hees, q
poultry farmer and gardener Of Vera
dale. has just placed an order for
10000 day-old chicks with the Hen
acres hatchery at Prosser, Wash.
Mr.. Van Hees will receive the chicks
in two shipments, wee kapart, early
In March. He is paying 10 cents
each for them.
DILLINGHAM; are trying
to save the right leg of Everett
Thompson, fifteen, which was shat
tered by shotgun discharge fired
accidentally as he and another boy
were duck hunting at Squalicum
Beach recently.
SEATTLE. = Eighty-two schools
have been maintained in Alaska this
year by the Alaska Bureau Of the
United States Department of Educa-
ton, an increase of eight over 1928.
according to a report submitted by
j. H. Wagner, chief of the bureau, to
John j. Tigert, commissioner of edu-
cation, Washington. A total of 4,132
pupils were enrolled in the schools.
Forty-three physicians, nurses and
minor medical employees treated 4,944
patients in eight hospitals maintained
by the bureau. The report is to be
used as the basis for congressional
appropriations for the bureaus work
next year.
MOSSYROCK. = Operators are &C
lively engaged in the oil interests
here. A crew Of some ten or twelve
men is busy at construction work, and
test hole will be drilled soon. The
scene Of the present activities is on
the Wilson farm about one mile from
Mossyrock. Most people here are con-
vinced that the probability of striking
oil is well worth the cost and effort
of drilling, despite failures of COM
panies in the past. According to ge-
ologists who have worked this section
there is petroleum in various places
throughout this section and it is
thought that it will pay to CONNER
cialize it. A great many leases have
been obtained and it is understood
that the proposition is well financed.
| ALMIRA. = The big Bend Pag-
can't was presented by the grade
children recently to a crowded house.
There were five scenes, the days of
the Indians, early settlers, Bald
Ridge School, the first big crop and
the modern home, depicted in cos
tune and pantomime with songs and
dances. The proceeds will be used
to purchase books for the school Ii
brary.
WALLA WALLA. = Stanley G.
Moore, commander of the American
Legion, recently announced that a
special school would be started here
to be conducted for aliens who desire
to prepare themselves for naturaliza.
ton. 1t will be held at the Jefferson
school building two nights each
week, from January until March
Instructors will be chosen from
Whitman College and the high school
SPOKANE. = X-ray examination
made recently verified the fear that
the back Of Ernest Wright, eighteen,
who fell in trying to board a freight
train, was broken. The youth lies in
the Sacred Heart Hospital, facing the
possibility of never being able to
walk again, and yet he is cheerful
County Physician Wisner, who is car
ing for him, is hopeful of saving his
life and has some hope of completely
uring him.
EPHRATA.-The Grant County cor
oper was notified recently that Fred
Melander, aged forty rancher, near
Adrian, had drowned in Long Lake
while hunting. He went to the scene
and brought the body here. Fred
Molander, Frank Molander and j
Metcalf were hunting ducks and Fred
went out in a boat, while the others
hunted along the shore. Fred was
out about 200 yards when his boat
capsized as he shot a bird. None of
the men could swim, but Molander
slowly padded the upturned boat
for half the distance, when his heavy
clothing, the intense cold and IA
tigue overcame him. Boys, l can't
make it," he called, and sank. The
body was recovered with graphing
hooks.
BREMERTON. - Word has Just
been received by Mrs. John A. Rick
etts, 1853 Pleasant Avenue, that her
son, Edward s. Dolan, has taken the
examination successfully for entrance
to the academy at West Point. He is
a graduate of Union High School and
enlisted in the signal corps in Feb
ruary of this year and at present is
stationed in Alaska. He will enter
West Point in March.
SPOKANE.-R. H. LIE La Cheur,
transfer man, is looking for a pros
Ipective wife without bobbed hair, "who
does not seek his money, and who has
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