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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
JURY AcouITs TRAINMEN

a Jury in the Superior Court at
against A. R. Peight and Earl Coop
er, charged wiNh manslaughter.
Brought in a verdict of "Not Guilty.
last Saturday. Mr.. Peight was engi
neer and Mr.. Cooper, conductor, Of
Northern Pacific passenger train No.
~ that on February /. 1925, struck
an automobile at crossing just in
side Of the corporate limits of Pross-
er, killing three Of the four Prosser
high school students who were in
the car. The accident happened about
Q o'clock in the morning. The young
folks were returning from Mabton.
where they had been attending a
dance. A strong wind was blowing
from the north and the young folks
did not see or hear the train, accord
ing to the testimony of George Viii
son. the sole survivor of the tragedy
The train was travelling without
lights. the lighting system having
gone out of commission just before
the train reached Yakima. The train
was proceeding to Pasco. the next
division point, where it was expected
the lighting system would be repair.
ed. County Attorney, George O..
Beards!ey. assisted by Oscar R.
Schuman of Yakima, handled the
prosecution. while the defendants
were represented by ]. w. Quick.
railroad attorney from Tacoma and
/. ]. Bounds Of Yakima.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
DECIDE TO INCORPORATE

After passing several resolutions
anu motions, tine meeting OF t1antord
water right owners in tlantord Mon
day night finally decided to form q
corporation to bring a suit to deter
mine the nlanteI.ance Charge
Twelve water right owners signed the
resolution for the forming of such !
corporation. in ADDITION to the eight
cen who signed at the previous meet
ing last week, making a total of
thirty who have now signed. The
principal purpose Of forming the cor
porat-on, however, was eliminated
when the signcrs were relieved Of
any financial obligations. LAS the
real reason for forming corpora
ton at this time was for the provid-
ing of funds for the intended litiga-
ton the organization is one in name
only. Some of those at the meeting
who were loudest in urging further
litigation and who stated that they
would personally contribute as much
as $50 for such purpose, did not even
sign the resolution and their promise
to contribute $50 remained just a pro-
mise. There was a division of senti-
merit over further LITIGATION until 1t
could be found out whether the conf
rany was willing to make satisfact-
ory settlement, but majority Of
those present voted for the motion to
start suit The meeting was not
neariv as well attended as was the
one last week, only two from White
Bluffs being present.
The water right owners are still
indebted to their attorney, Carol B.
Graves, for the major part OF his fee
in the last suit and they are not in
very enviable position to start further
litigation until the costs at least Of
the last suit are paid.
Some of those at the meeting also
rrgod thar the Webster DECREE be re-
ferred back to the Circuit. Court of
Appeals, claiming that the decree
does not conform with the opinion
rendered by the Circuit.
Court upon which the decree was
70 be based. From the ouiricr ex-
prossed, however, it appeared that a
majority Of the water right owners
dl SctIsilCQ ~ WEI! tI'cfF WCDSCeT Qe.
cree. II is doubtful if an appeal to
the Circuit Court could be taken
now as it is possible that the time
limit for such action has passed.
After the resolution for the cor
poration was signed. all others ex-
cept the signers Withdrew from the
r,eeting and those remaining elected
by acclaration the old committee
that has been carving on the liti-
~,+ion so far. as board of trustees.
These arc Law Smith. Robert Mich
OILS. Alex McConrachie. F. n. Ed.
wards. F. 7. Bonn andE. ]. O'Larey
Mr.. Bonn Immediately announced his
withdrawal on the ground that he did
rot have the time to give to the work
of secretary and if the corporation is
act',7)lv formed and functions, it &C.
probable that paid secretary will
be employed.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
LAST OF THE BlHes


The bulk If the Bing cherries
from this valley rolled to market
this week. Another big shipment
or two will be made the first Of
next week and the rest will prob
ably be canned. Three hundred
and sixty.five crates we're shipped
on Friday morning and few more
than that went out Thursday. The
Pacific Fruit & Produce company
paid cash at the depot up until
Friday morning. paying 22c per
pound on Monday. zoe on Tuesday
and 18c on Wednesday and Thurs
day. The yield was good and the
quality above average and at the
price the crop WAS moved the
growers made good money.
Ye low Transparent apples will
start moving ncxt week.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
THREE FIRES IN ONE WEEK

This district was visited by three
fires this week. Monday morning the
dwelling house of Archie Brown at
Cold Creek burned with all the con-
tents. Mr.. Brown arose shortly after
S o'clock in the morning and start
ed the fire in the kitchen range and
had gone to the barn to milk. Short
ly- afterwards Mrs. Brown heard a
cracking sound and going to the
kitchen found it full of smoke. Size
rushed back to the bedroom and
grabbed handful of clothes and
rushed out but even then her hair
and face were painfully burned. It is
thought the fire started from de-
fcctive flue as the fire when discov-
cred was burning at the ceiling. Not
thing was saved except the bunk
house short distance away and the
family is living in that temporarily.
There was no insurance. Mr.. Brown
says that he intends to rebuild.
On Tuesday afternoon there were
two fires north of White Bluffs.
The house on the E. Howerton place
burned with all the contents. 1t is
thought that the fire was started by
children playing with matches. MI.
Howerton is absent on business trip
oyer In Idaho. There was 81, 500 in
surance.
At almost the same hour of the
Howerton fire the barn Of William
Coulsen on his place on this side of
the Columbia river from Wahluke
was discovered to be ablaze. Mr..
cculson had returned from town
short time before and after turning
his horses into the pasture had gone
down to his boom on the river to
catch drift wood. He saw the smoke
and blaze and rushed to the barn
but was too late to save anything
BESIDES the barn he lost loads of
new hay that he had put in the barn
two days previous, some old hay, a
hog, harness and farm tools. The
cause of the fire is unknown unless
it was caused by the heating Of the
rev hay. Mr.. Coulson carried $3.50
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
A COMING CROP

The growing Of sweet potatoes is
to be given real try out at White
Bluffs this year. While the total
acreage set to this crop has not been
computed it is safe to say it is suf-
fcent to return a nice income if the
spuds produce and the marketing
end is worked cut. Growers say they
look fine at this time and give
promise of a good yield. That the
growing of this crop in the Column
sbia river district is not confined to
Just this valley, witness the follow
ing taken from last weeks Courier
Reporter of Kennewick:
1t begins to look as if sweet spuds
were due to become Kennewick's
big crop, in the near future. Prac-
tically every farmer in the valley has
been experimenting with small pat
ches and there will be fair acreage
III production this year. Nearly every
farmer who planted sweet potatoes
last year has increased the size Of
his patch this year, and nearly every
man had fine success with his crop.
Now that it is fairly demonstrated
that this crop can be grown success
FULLY, remains tie big end market
to be attended to-. Many OF
the growers have asked that the
Three Rivers association add sweet
potatoes to their activities and sell
them thru their distributing agencies.
A meeting of the sweet potato
growers will be held in the Com
nercial cub rooms Friday night of
next week to see il the growers
want to set up plan for united
selling. Unless a sufficient tonnage
is obtained to have some effect upon
the markets, the association will not
add this crop to those already being
handled.
II is thot that $50 to 500 tons will
be raised III this Locality this year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
IN B. TWEEN
Oh Mrs. Albert Grelll

William Kerr and Joe Grell went
to Prosser on business Thur ,day.
Louis Krug left on Friday for
Cashmere where he will work in
the fruit this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. David King and
Floyd King Of Wenatchee were
Sunday visitors at the E j. King
home.
Mrs. O. P. Anderson left on Sat-
urday for Everett. where she will
be with Mr.. Anderson, who is
working at the carpenter trade.
P. O. Madison of Spokane was a
guest at the home of G. Simonson
from Sunday until Tuesday. Mr..
Simonson accompanied him to Spo.
kane.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Moore and
baby, the Misses Irma and Zelma
Moore and Ernest Moore Of Wenat.
chez were visitors at the home Of
their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. M. D.
Moore, over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Martin and
j. Martin drove to Yakima the first
of the week. The elder Mr.. Mar.
tin has been ailIng for some time
and they went over to consult a
doctor, returning on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winefred Staples
and family left on Sunday morning
accompanied by Miss Estclla
Brown, Mr.. Staples and family 60
ing to their home in Post Falls and
Estella returning to Cheney, where
she will attend summer school.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
N. P. ENGINEERS ARE
WORKING ACROSS RIVER

The Northern Pacific engineers
who are surveying the route for a
branch from the main line near
Cornell to Priest Rapids, reached
Wahluke on Thursday and expect
to reach Priest Rapids the last of
this week or the first of next, as
the country over which they are
now trsing is comparatively
leve'. The route follows line
about midway between the Column
bia river and the foot of Saddle
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
LOSE ANOTHER GAME

White Bluffs dropped another ball
game at Richland last Sunday by a
score of to /. Fans who saw the
game say that Swanson pitched well
enough to win but his support was
ragged, the infielders being the
worst offenders. And in addition to
the poor defensive work the club
was still in batting slump and could
not hit when hits meant runs.
In the other games in the league
last Sunday Kennewick beat Connell
by score Of 4 to and Hanford
beat Pasco by the same score.
Pasco plays at White Bluffs next
Sunday.
The ball game played at White
Bluffs on Memorial Day between
the local club and Hanford, was not
much as a ball game. Both clubs
were saving their regular pitchers
for the league games the following
day and the substitute pitchers were
wild and when they did get them
over the batters slammed them out.
Hanford won 81 to IA but the details
Of the game are too horrible to re-
cite here. 1t was just an exhibition
game and does not count in the
league standing.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
YOUNG PEOPLE WED

Two of White Bluffs young folks,
Miss Rose Wheeler and Wilbur Nor
ford, stole march on their friends
last Saturday when they were quietly
married at the Methodist parsonage
in Prosser. The bride is daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. F M. Wheeler and grad
.t.ated few weeks ago from the
White Bluffs high school. Mr.. Nor
ford came here few years ago from
Olympia and took up tract north Of
town in the soldier settlement project.
The young couple will make their
home on Mr.. Morford's tract and
have the best wishes CT a host Of
friends. 1.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05
WHITE BLUFFS TO
CELEBRATE THE FOURTH

White Bluffs is to celebrate the
Fourth of July this year. This was
decided at meeting of the Com.
n,unity Club Tuesday evening.
While a complete program has not
yet been worked out, a tentative one
has been adopted which includes all
of the Fourth of July features,
starting with boat races on the river
at II o'clock in the morning, a pic
mic lunch under the trees at the
ferry landing at noon, races and con-
tests of various kinds from i o'clock
until 3, followed by base ball game
and dance in the evening. Further
announcements will be published
later.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-05

DR.. w. C. Hills is on a deal for
the purchase of the building used I'M
til recently as an Office by the state
for land settlement purposes and
moved his Office fixtures into it this
week. Mrs. Hills is trained nurse
and DIR. Hills says If the deal goes
though it is his intention to remodel
the place into a small hospital TO
care for his patients.
Evening star., 1925-05-24

There's no longer the slightest need OF
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little of it night and morning and you
should soon see that even the worst
freckles have begun to disappear. while
the lighter ones have vanished entirely.
1t is seldom that more than an ounce IS
needed to completely clear the skin and
gain beautiful clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double-strength
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We recommend Othine Complexion Soap
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Evening star., 1925-05-24
Truly beautiful women
are aware of these things .

often traceable to
infected gums and
absceSsed teeth.
If you would pre-
serve be auty-
pr es erVe your
teeth and gums.
When this tiny
" shaped crevice
at The Dang er
Line is kept clean
and free from in
jury and acids, it
protects the teeth
from that type Of
decav which is
Evening star., 1925-05-24

b E A u T | F u L
women never neg
lect their teeth or
gums. For they
know full we'll
that beauty
and health, which
is the foundation
of beauty can
not long survive if
tn cir teeth and
gums receive i'm
proper care.
Where care is
vital
IT, oro r1,co
Evening star., 1925-05-24

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between the teeth. 1t will also
prevent Pyorrhea, for Pyorrhea
cannot occur as long as those tiny
V-shaped crevices remain clean,
intact and free from infection!
Proper care
Squibb's Dental Cream, made
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Evening star., 1925-05-24

on your teeth where proper
care can do more to prevent un-
slightly decay, inhamed gums,
and to reduce the peril of Pyor-
rhea and loss of teeth, than any
other. 1t is The Danger Line.
Look into your mirror and you
will see that the gums thin out
to very fine, delicate edges where
they join the teeth. Right at this
union of the gums and teeth
there are tiny V-shaped crevices,
barely discernible to the eye.
Yet these minute crevices, which
extend all the way around each
tooth at the gum margin, form
The Danger Line.
Real danger is there
Food collects in these tiny crew
ices whenever you eat. There
it ferments and forms acids
which gradually destroy the
enamel of the teeth, and decay
begins. These acids also irritate
the gums, causing them to recede
from the teeth. Thus, as the
gums break down, they expose
more and more of the softer
tooth structure to decay. The
normal V-shaped crevices then
become open pockets in which
food and germs collect, and after
these things have happened you
can hardly escape Pyorrhea.
Many men and women who
lack vitality, whose eyes have
lost the fash and eagerness of
health, who are forever pale and
tired, should look to their teeth
and gums. For broken health is
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Milford chronicle., 1925-08-07
%2eG
PARTY GOVERNMENT

Party government is necessary in
a free state. The organization Oi
political parties is the only means
by which the sense of the people
upon questions Of public policy can
be got at elections, and by party
government only can responsibility
be fixed upon political leaders, so
that these may receive approval or
condemnation. A non-partisan gov
ernment is the dream of weak and
amiable men; it belongs to an ideal
condition, in which all men shall be
unselfsh and sincerely desirous of
the public good. In the present
condition of mankind, a non-parti-
san government-one in which the
leaders of both or all political par
ties share-is only an admirable or
effective device to conceal malad-
and corruption, because
it becomes then the interest Of the
leaders of both parties to cover up
wrong. Non-partisan boards are a
favorite device Of political jobbers
Charles Nordhoff.
Milford chronicle., 1925-08-07
R2o9
CODE OF ETHICS ADOPTED BY
EDITORS

The Southern Newspaper Publish
ers association at a meeting held re-
Gently, in AsheVille, N. c., adopted a
code of ethics based on the assump-
ton that newspapers first duty is
to print the news, honestly and fair
ly, unbiased by any other considera-
ton.
Among the points made in the
code were these:
Recognizing honest differences of
opinion exist, we may vigorously
maintain our own position without
denouncing others as dishonest and
unfair"
"Decency should be the guiding
star in the printing of news, edi-
torials, advertising and all feature
articles or illustrations.
"Is it fit to print and to be read
by my own mother?" should be the
test rather than "Will it sell more
papers?"
Consideration for the unfortun-
ate and for guiltless victims Of the
faults of Others" |
Milford chronicle., 1925-08-07
TIME TO PUT SCHOOLHOCSES In
SHAPE

August. This is the month when
rural school trustees are reminded
that it is time to get the school
houses in readiness for the open
ing of another school year.
To many trustees the school plant
is in readiness when the grass and
weeds are cut and the floors are
scrubbed. In many instances, not
even this much is done and teachers
and pupils have to use the first few
days of the term to clean up the
premises. When cool weather comes
it is not unusual to find fuel bins
empty or CRATES broken or the stove
pipes clogged with SCOT, and then
again the school routine is inter-
rupted. Rural school teachers often
wait a month or six weeks for books,
chalk, lead pencils, paper, and other
supplies that are necessary for eff
fective teaching.
Preparing the school plant ade-
quateIy for the school year should
include, besides cleaning it, repair
ing unsound foundations, leaky
roofs and broken windows; renoVa-
ting toilets, oVerhauling heating
plants, filling coal bins and doing
other similar jobs. 1t should mean
a conference Of trustees with the
teacher so that necessary books and
supplies may be ordered in time to
be on hand the first day of school.
School officials in cities and
towns have been making prepara-
tions all during the summer for the
opening Of the fall term. They do
not consider it good business to op-
en- the schools until the machinery
for operating them is in order.
School officials in rural communities
may well follow their example.
To break up several weeks Of the
school term in getting things ready
amounts to depriving the pupils of
their right to a full school course.
It means also waste of the peoples
money.
Milford chronicle., 1925-08-07

world will be in attendance. It will
mark the return of the social sea-
son for the city as diplomatic din
ners and receptions will be quite the
thing. The Belgian Debt Commits
sion came to town this week for the
purpose Of arranging a settlement.
Though little is said about the
subject in official notices, it is
known that the Federal government
is giving serious consideration to the
plans of various responsible groups
to stamp out crime. Despite all Op-
timism, the feeling exists that a de-
plorable situation has arisen which
knows no sectional or class bound
aries. There are certain groups
which attribute the increase to pro-
hfbition but as a matter Of fact, the
"dry" question is only one of a null
titude Of causes. While it is pri-
marily question for the states,
there are certain phases Of this
movement which claim the attention
Of the national government. The
Federal prisons, it is said, are over
crowded with convicted law-break-
ers. If all the cases now pending
before the judiciary were settled,
they would be obliged to embark on
a large building program.
Milford chronicle., 1925-08-07

lists, who seize upon any subject that
is before the public, have indicated
that Congress, in it's wisdom, will
handle numerous matters. It now
appears that we will have the pigeon
holes of committee desks cluttered
up with proposed laws on the
sciences Of heredity, biology, ethno-
logy, sociology and economics. With
men of common sense as chairmen
of committees, these freak proposals
will be side tracked for more impor-
tant matters. The appropriation
measures always have the right of
way during the first few weeks of
the winter season; other measures
except those Of vital importance
must take their chances in the legis-
lative grist-mill.
If Secretary Of the Navy Wilbur
persists in his plan to remove dirig-
ibles to the Pacific coast and aband-
on Atlantic stations, he will prob
ably plunge Congress into a turmoil
with bitter debates on the relative
merits of the East and the West. A
controversy Of this sort will not pro-
duce any good results for it will af-
feet international affairs to some ex-
tent. When Congress starts to talk
about potential enemies while the
country is at peace with the world,
the task of our diplomatic corps be-
comes very difficult. The "JingO"
press in foreign countries play up
statements from men in American
public life which are regarded as
empty mouthings by the average
American citizen.
By the way, this country will par
ticipate informally in international
discussion in October when the In
terparliamentary Union will con-
vene in Washington. Some Of the
leaders of world thought as well as
the prominent statesmen of the