White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-03-07
Washington News

WnOlly ue1gntIul by way of club
house and home is the "Camaraderie,"
floating headquarters Of the Camp
Fire Girls, which was formally opened
last Saturday Formerly the Fort
Stanwix, one of the shipping boards
vessels that was never called into ser
vice, the "Camaraderie" was present
ed to Seattle Camp Fire Girls by
Captain F. W. Keen, and when all the
future plans of the girls are realized,
will be one of Seattle's show places.
SEATTLE. = District chairman of
Western Washington alumni Of Whit
man College met at the Hotel Cow
man on Monday evening to discuss
plans for raising $1,500,00O for en-
dowment and new buildings for the
institution. A nationwide campaign
probably will be launched N May.
WALLA WALLA. - The Wenaha
Wool Growers Association at its an
nual meeting adopted resolutions
against the payment of bounties for
predatory animals, opposing any in
crease in grazing fees and in favor Of
the McNary.Hauge bill. The associa-
ton voted as unit to stand back of
the Washington State Association
which fixed 1917 cents head as the
price for shearing sheep. The shearer
is also to get his board and strikers
are to be blacklisted by both the
Washington and Oregon associations.
Considerable discussion arose over
the question of bounties which re-
suited in resolution requesting the
Department of Agriculture to refrain
from the payment of bounties (which
have proven a complete failure in
Kidding our ranges of predatory ami
mails which are causing large losses
annually to this important industry"
Strength of the Wash
ington National Guard was fixed by
Adjutant- General Maurice Thompson
at 141 officers and 2,167 enlisted men
in his monthly report to Governor
Louis F. Hart.
The 146th Field Artillery six units
of which are stationed in Seattle, car
ry on their eqritation instruction on
the 100 animals which are loaned by
the federal government and maintain
ed by the state, the report shows.
Sixteen polo ponies and sc mounts
and draft animals are maintained for
the Seattle troopers at Fort Lawton,
and there are 38 active and 20 reserve
guard officers in Seattle and 465 en-
listed men on active duty, General
Thompson stated.
SEATTLE. = Celebrating the 65th
anniversary of the founding of Whit
man College in Walla Walla, rs alum
nj of Whitman met in Seattle Satur-
day.
About $50 former students of the
famous institution founded by Marcus
| Whitman live in Seattle, and a num-
Der of Seattle's representative citi
zens are members of the board OF
overseers of Whitman, among them
Judge Thomas Burke, l.. o. Baird
Thomas Lyons, Rev. Mark A. Mat
thews, Judge Jeremiah Neterer, Regi
nald H. Parsons, w. j. Patterson, O.
B. Rupp, E. A. Stuart, Frank Water
house, David Whitcomb, DR.. Park
Weed Willis and Worrall Wilson.
DR.. Stephen B. l.. Penrose, presi
dent of Whitman for the past rs
years, delivered the principal address,
and reviewed some of the experiences
through which Whitman has passed.
j. Harold Champion, president OF
the Puget Sound Whitman Alumni as
sociation, presided Music and enter.
tainment was furnished by the alumni
organization.
KELSO.-A large chemical plant is
to be constructed on a site on the
Aongview frontage, where w. S. Shultz
chemistry at the University of Wash.
ington for the second time and has en-
gagged In study Of the chemical re-
of Kelso, the inventor of a new gas,
will start soon to manufacture the
gas. Mr.. Shultz has secured 40
acre site from the Longview Company
Mr.. Shultz was formerly chief engi-
neer of the Santa Fe Railway system.
LONGVIEW.-A committee of Is
was elected recently here to manage
the affairs of the Longview Commu-
nifty Y. M. G. A. B. H. Smith, Jr., is
chairman.
SEATTLE.-Melvill T. Perkins OF
Tacoma has been awarded the E. l. du
Pont de Nemours G Co. fellowship in
actions occurring around the electric
car. The du Pont concern has offered
a fellowship in chemistry each year
since 1918 that has enabled the win.
ners to pursue graduate work and
conduct industrial researches along
chemical lines. The University OF
Washington is one of 20 institutions
where the fellowship is awarded
William A. Hardy of Seattle was the
first winner and the following year
William G. McIndoe of Portland, Ore,
obtained the award.
TACOMA.-A Japanese cherry tree
in the yard of James Perfield, 119
Fourth Avenue Northeast, Puyallup,
is mass of pink blossoms.
TACOMA. = National advertising
launched by the Wheeler sgood Co.,
door manufacturers of this city, re-
ceived hearty approval at the meeting
of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club,
which organization has passed vote