White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-09-19

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day at the L. A. Codding home.
Barlow Montgomery and Henry
Allard attended the Rodeo at Ellens-
burg last week and while there Bar
tow had his tonsils taken out.
LOST-Small boys brown sweat
err out Of scho i bus this, Friday,
evening. Finder please return to
White Bluffs Motor Co.
Mrs. G. L. Sutherland, Robert
Nsnd Martha Sutherland and Miss
Florence Montgomery were week
end visitors in Pasco last week,
driving down Saturday and return
ing Sunday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Robinson and
children drove down to Walla Walla
in their car last Sunday. One of the
objects of the trip was to have the
children's tonsils removed.
Warren Gossam, 18 year old Seattle
hoy, who was member of house
party at the de Veuve ranch recently,
died last week as result of injuries
received while diving from spring
board near the White Bluffs ferry
landing.
| Little Miss Lenore McMurry who
visited her grandparents in Billings,
Montana this summer, returned home
in time to enter school last week.
The little girl is quite an experienced
traveller now, having made the round
trip alone.
William A. Barnes of Seattle is the
new man behind the counter at the
Leggett Mercantile company store,
taking the place of Miss Erna Krug,
who recently resigned to take part in
the apple packout.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Robinson re-
turned Wednesday from Seattle where
they had gone last week in their car
to attend the funeral of former
friend.
TO The Public
Our store will be closed on Yaki-
ma Harvest Festival Day, Sept.
goth. at IL a. m. Those desiring
bread may procure same Sunday a,
m. THE VALLEY GROCERY
Mrs. Mary Blaskowsky returned
to her home in Selah on Friday af-
ternoon after a short visit here
with her daughter, Mrs. Thomas
Goodwin.
While in Pasco Wednesday, j. c.
Scott heard the great and only
William Jennings Bryan make one
of his characteristic political
speeches.
CLYDE Wilson expects to leave
Sunday, September 28th, for Gran
ger. Wash, where on the following
Monday he will enter the Granger
| Academy for the school year.
THE OLYMPIA NEWS last week
printed the following EDITORIAL
BUT ASOTIN MUST PAY
I. D. Ross, superintendent of Sc
attle's city light plant, has just issued
a report showing that this tax-free
public utility had gross earnings o.
S2,6e2,ooo and a net profit of S766, oo(
last year. The total investment, IN
Guiding the incomplete Skagit project
is 1923, 100000.
Mr.. Ross managed the initiative
for the bone bill to be placed on THU
years ballot. Under the terms o
the Bone bill Seattle's tax-frec plan
would be invited to compete on lt'
own terms for business in any ter
ritory it could reach.
Were Seattle's light plant placed or
the tax rolls at as per cent OF its rea
value as other Seattle property is LISTED
it would pay this year state tax o
$146,038.
Under the Reed bill, to be voted
upon next November, if the plan
competed for outside business it woult
pay per cent of its gross earnings
or $133,1OO if they equalled the 1872
record-$12,e38 less than tax or
assessed valuation.
When Seattle's light plant with it
annual profit OF $786,000 escaped it
share of state taxes the state tool
all that Asotin, Ferry and ISLAM
counties could pay to make up the de
ficit
News dispatches from Asotin count.
say the wheat farmers taxed to pa
Seattle's deficit will have no crop thi
year because of the lack of rain. We
though Seattle goes free, Asotin mus
payl