White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-11-21

here to get the last days pheasant
shooting in Benton county.
Sheep men are bringing their
flocks back from the summer range
in the different forest reserves and
J several bands have crossed the Col
| unbia at the various ferries here
during the past two weeks. Seven
or eight bands will winter i'm this
valley from Preist Rapids down.
George Moore, who is recovering
in the Pasco hospital from an oper-
alton he underwent this fall, is ex-
pecting to return to White Bluffs
next week. He will be under the
care of Mrs. GrueEhagen while re-
gaining his strength.
The snow that fell last week was
all gone Monday. The weather the
past week has been cloudy and low
ering, with heavy rains almost
every night. The ground is prob
ably soaked up more thoroughly
right now than it has been for
years.
The more thoroughly your eyes
are examined the more certain you
are of getting satisfactory glasses.
See DR.. Kowalsky at the CONNER
cial hotel, White Bluffs. November
25th and the morning of the 26th.
Afternoon of the 26th and until
noon of the 9th at the Planters
hotel, Hanford. adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. I. Badger moved
back this week from the Van Buren,
place, where they have been this
summer, to their home place north
of town. Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Badger are planning to leave some
time in the-near future for their
former home in Nebraska.
Earl Stanlake moved his family this
week to Kennewick, where he expects
to make his permanent home. Mr..
Stanlake purchased recently ten
acre tract on tho highlands a mile
is set to 15-year- apple trees but
Mr. stanlake intends to pull up the
trees and to set good part of the
his strawberry field here cared for
and will harvest the crop next year.
The cold, dry weather of early win
ter will bring the first of the in
f1uenza cases, according to DR.. Paul
A. Turner, Director of the State De-
partment of Health. Although Sc
we're epidemic is not anticipated, &C
cording to DR.. Turner, there will
undoubtedly be certain number OF
cases, which may be kept at the
lowest possible figure by the precau-
tons taken by those who have the
disease.
A person who "feels cold coming
on, with sneezing, coughing, head
ache and slight fever, should be iso-
lated at once, and the usual remedial
= measures for bad cold applied. II
the fever is much above normal
the patient should go to bed, that
his own recovery may be that much
speedier Sometimes influenza is COM
plicated by pneumonia with fatal re-
suits, when proper care in the early
stages of the disease would have
should be called to make the proper
diagnosis.
Persons sneezing and coughing
linen to use, which may be at once
burned, or handkerchiefs should BE-
carefully boiled. All dishes and eating
utensils used should be placed in boil
ing water, and no one should come
into close proximity with the sicl
person, except those who are do
ing the necessary nursing.
A Thanksgiving proclamation was
issued by Governor Louis F. Hart al
Olympia last Friday. It reads in par
as follows:
"It is now more than three cen
turtles since the Pilgrim Fathers, af
ter gathering bounteous harvest
observed date in late November a:
day of thanksgiving"
"The first president of the United
States on October 8, 1879, saw fit tt
issue what might be termed the frs
national Thanksgiving proclama-
ton, recommending to the people O
Lie OlAlSo OtdtCS d Qdy VI puUllt
thanksgiving and prayer and par
ticularly asked that they thank Goo
for the opportunity afforded them t.
establish a government under which
they might be both safe and happy
"Thcre is particular cause at this
time to believe that the people of the
United States still have faith in the
government established by George
Washington and other patriots oil
that period. So therefore, I, Louis F
Hart, governor of the state of Wash.
ington by virtue of the authority in
me vested, do hereby declare and ap-
point Thursday, November 81, 1924
as day of thanksgiving, sincere in
the belief that the people of this
state have enjoyed the blessings OF
liberty, of plenty, of health and Of
happiness.
"On this day let the people gather
at their churches and at the family
altar to offer humble thanks to
Almighty God for their prosperous
condition and to besecch the bless
ings of peace, and may they direct
the.r prayer toward the preservation
of those great principles which ac-
tuated the PILGRIM fathers and which,