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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
PLANT IDENTIFICATION
Identification sof the fruits and

Identification of the fruits and all
lied plant materials constitutes a part
of the service which the department
OF horticulture of the State College
does for TIE neople of the state.
Some of the specimens sent in for
ldeEt flcation, according to professor
F. L. Overly of the department., are
not representative enough Of the VAR
iety to 81 ow accurate naming. "The
depar .r1ent is glad to be of such SER
vice to the farmers, and if those who
send in samples to be named follow
few suggestions the cooperation Of
the members of the horticulture de-
par;1ne.lt may be greatly aided" Mr..
Overly said.
In attempting to identity fruit
or vegetable, two or three represent
alive sPec;mans are much better than
bit one. The following points shaou.d
besmsnt:oned in the letter accompany
ing tie s5rSit. If apples, the number of
trees of the variety in the orchard, the
Eur.ery from which the trees were
purchased, age and appearance of tree,
name Under which fruit has been pas
sing, and probability Of it's being seed
ling. If potatoes are sent, the seed
company seed was purchased from
should be mentioned, name. under
which potatoes are passing, color of
blossoms and, whether the rotate is
car y or late. aa 81
The letter should net be enclosed
with the fruit. Both letter and package
should give name and address of send
er and be addressed to the Horticul-
tuse Department, Pullman, Washing
ton" lseA sS 80 ..5..
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
SOMETIMES LOSE

There's more t,.an the auto owners
money, tie skill of the engineers and
carefully placed materials in the high
way system of this state. Though the
traveller cannot see them, the con-
tractors money has gone into the
roads and the blasted hopes of ma
jority OF the builders who bid on state
Jobs are buried beneath the hard sur
face.
More than so per cent-sone high
way department. officials estimate as
high as rs per cent-of the road con-
tractors lose money on their jobs.
Not all Of them are, wrecked by their
highway building ventures but some
of them are. When the experts whit
tie down the number of highway con-
tracing firms that are making fair
profit out of their seasons work to
as low as rs per cent the fact looms
large that the bodybuilding fraternity
is making substantial donation to
the highway system that never has
been credited to them.
Early in che year it was foretold
that bitter competition would hold
down the prices for state highway
work, but not even the state engineers
anticipated the cuts that have been
made. How dangerously low the con-
tractors were bidding is indicated by
a flood Of laborers and material mems
liens. The bond houses and the engin-
GERS are unanimous in their belief that
rr'nous competition does not produce
good lasting results despite a tempo
rary profit to the state.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
WHY NOT SAFETY, AS WELL
AS CONVENIENCE?

Has your home every modern con-
venience? The average home owner
would say, Eyes, we have running
water, electric lights, modern plurning,
furnace heat, gas or electric stove,
a washing machine, telephone, radio"
and SO on, through the list of articles
which make the American home the
most pleasant, comfortable and sani-
tary in the world.
There is one big thing, however,
which the average home owner over
looks. After providing for all the
comforts Of his family and himself, he
fails to provide safeguards against
fire which is an ever-present menace
to life and property.
The average home is not built with
any thought of fire protection. There
will be openings in the walls and be-
tween the floors, which offer perfect
draft for fire when it is started.
,Chimneys will be constructed in the
cheapest and most flimsy manner and
after once built, will nevr be inspected
or cleaned. Furnace and hot water
pipes will be set close to inflammable
wooden partitions. RUBBISH of all
kinds will be allowed to accumulate
in Easements and attics, and thereby
form veritabe fire trap. Fuel will
be piled against a furnace or hot steam
pipe in such way that the marvel is
that there are not more fires than
there are.
On top of all this care!essness, very
few persons will ever have faucet or
a hose so arranged that it can be used
for fire protection if occasion demands.
TIE comnionest kind Of fire fighting
appliances and fire prevention prac-
tees are coESpicious by their alb
sence, in the model American home
which has "every modern conven-
ierice."
With winter coming on, many lives
and much property would be saved if
simple fire prevention measures would
be adopted by American home owners.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
SPRAY RESIDUE THE ISSUE,

Expert testimony was offered by til;
government recently in its effort tc
coafiscate 1924 boxes of apples it al
leges were sprayed with dangerous
solution before they were shipped by
the Sancrest Orchard Co. of Worries
Ore. says a press dispatch.
q. A. ]. Carlson, professor of physi-
clogy at the University of Chicago
testified that if each apple or pear
sprayed with the 3olution retained one
or two one-hundredths of it. the eat
er's system would be subjected to cum
mu'a i've poisoning"
He admitted upon cross-examina-
ton, however, that it would require
tive years to determine the toxicity,
or roisonousness of the solution in
question.
Col. E. E. Kelly of Medford, Oregon,
defense attorney, made it known that
the resistance against the government
is in the manner of test by Pacific
Northwest growers, who, he said, have
lost millions ,of dollars thru govern
ment seizures of shipments.
The solution is not sprayed in such
cuant ties as to threaten public health,
he said.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
Ieloos a MYTH

Declaring Eskimo snow houses
north Of TIE arctic circle were about al
frequent as adobe houaes on Cape Cod. [
Vilhjamur Stefansson, champion Of the
northland, said in his lecture in the
state college auditorium recently that
SO to 70 per cent Of the present ideas
of the arctic were entirely wrong.
"Of the 1890 Eskinos in Green,
land, 1888 have never seen an "igloo"'
and at least half that number would be
surprised if told such icebound struc-
lures exiaeed," the explorer asserted.
Contrary to the general belief that
the arctic is always cold, Stefansson
said that during the sumner months,
which are practically as long as ours
in the temperate climate, government
weather bureau $500 miles north of the
arctic circle recorded a temperature of
IS degrees in the shade much of the
time. AT one time the temperature
passed the hundred mark, he declared.
South, Dakota, where the noted
traveller lived as "A boy, had colder
weather than he ever experienced in
the northern re,:esses, he found. AT
the north pole it has probably never
oeaa colder than SIS degrees below
zero while at Havre, Montana, the
weather bureau has recorded a temp.
erature OF 60 degrees below in recent
years, he declared.
Tie arctic is rich in minerals and
oil and favorable to dairy production,
according to Stefansson. Probably
one of the most interesting things he
discovered was that the explorer could
live on the natural products of the
country with ease. \. He said that for
nine months he had lived on strictly
meat diet and had thrived. There are
enough caribou and seals in the polar
regions to keep an expedition well
fed permanently, he added.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
"suN.up". COMING
"A BIG PICTURE

The proof that natures handiwork
is sometimes repeated was ccmon-
strated in filming sSun-U Up, the screen
vers.on OF Lulu voilmer famous,
stage play which will be shown Sat
urday night of this week at Liberty
hall.
The locale of the story is the noun
tains Of forth Carolina and it was nee
essary to and duplicate OF Inns
beautiful mountain country or to take
the entire company to, North Carolina
A desirable location was found in the
Tehachapi mountains in California
where the rugged grandeur OF the
country was replica of the North
Carolina mountains.
The cast Of the picture includes Lu-
ellie La Verne, Pauline Stark, Conrad
Nagel, Sam De Grasse, George x
Arthur, Arthur Rankin, Edward Con-
nelly, and Barnard Beckwith.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
SCHOOL NOTES

The boys and girls basketball teams
of the White Bluffs. high school will
play the Othello high school teams at
White Bluffs this Friday evening at 8
o'clock. An admission of 15c will be
charged for grade school children who
are accompanied by Their parents; Csc
for all others.
The tentative schedule for the Low
er Yakima Valley Basketball League
of which the White Bluffs high school
is a member, IS as ilollows:
December 10: Hanford VS.. White
Bluffs at White Bluffs.
December II: Hover VS.. WEfis
Bluffs at Whit Bluffs.
DECEMBER ~: FINLEY VS.. W.uts
Bluffs at White Bluffs.
January 7: Hanford VS.. White Bluffs
at Hartford.
January IA: Hover VS.. White Bluff
at White Bluffs
January 81: Finley VS.. White Bluffs
at Finley.
TIE teachers of the White Bluffs
schools attended the Benton County
institute held at Prosser, November r.
1874. General lectures by leading edu-
Gators OF the state were given each
morning in the auditorium of the Pros
scr senior high school. In the after
noon special sessions were held which
enabled each teacher to attend the lee
ture or discussion group in which he or
she was most interested.
On Friday, December 10, O'clock
at Liberty hall, the pupils of the grade
school will present the operetta, "Cin-
derella, or the Golden Slipper" Ths
large cast of forty-five was chosen by
try-out from the entire sci lool. Some
of the special features will be n1:nuej
by the lords and ladies of the q urt
and dance by fairies and butterflies
The operetta is one Of the most color
full productions ever attempted by loca
schools. Entre-acts will be put on by
the fifth and sixth grades. The cast
is as FLAWS:
Cinderella ................ Nellie Hammer
Prince A............D Douglas Horn,ar
Step s,Gters
Katheryn Kirby and Ethel Smith
Godmother ....-...--..-.--.-..... Alice Bonr
Stepmother Vera Stone
Cupid. Harold Myers
Lords and ladies' ..............--.....
Girls and boys from fifth and sixth
grades.
Fairies and butterflies. Observation-Disclosures.
Girls from primary rooms
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
cooPERATIvEs GROW

The number OF farmers cooperatives
has increased from less than 5000 in
1915 to approximately 1880 in 1926.
Turing this same decade the volume
of business done by farmers cooper
etivcs has crown from S635,e38, 600 to
sbout S2,40o,O0ooco, and the number Of
farmers who are members of cooper
alive associations has increased iron,
e5l 900 to nearly 100000. The ag-
su'tiral coo2srativcs to-day are mar
ketine c-e--fietii az tie sartn products
g: re rc;n.ry.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
BETTER FARMERS, NOT MORE

The future need of our country is
going to be not for an increased pro-
portion of farmers to the rest of the
population. says Secretary Ja-dinr.
hut for farmers with greater ability to
anp.y the results of research in the
natural sciences, Of invention. and OF
c onomie and sociological Analysis to
agriSulturc ami rt.sal i.fa.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

The reports current in the valley
last week as to the serious injuries
received by Mrs. S. F. Murray
from the explosion of a gas stove
we're dissipated upon her return
Tuesday evening to Hanford from
California with husband and child
rem. She said she was thrown
across the room and temporarily
blinded by the explosion but suf-
fered no permanent injury.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

scale than was possible on Mr..
Mason's Property. This was advis-
abel to test out the commercial
possibilities of the drier.
LARGE PLANT TRIED OUT
Here begins the third chapter Of
the story. Looking about for a
large- workshop, it was determined
to tuld similar drying plant on a
large dairy farm in Plainsboro, N.
j., where $500 acres Of land were
unde-' cultivation, mostly in hay.
A new drier, costing about $22, 600.
was installed under Mr.. Mason's di-
rec.ion, with improvements based on
the Illinois machine. The New Ter
sey drying plant has recently been
inspected by William j. Spillman,
agricultural economist of the depart
ment of agriculture in Washington,
who has given many years of study
to the dying problem.
MIR. Spirman pointed out these
advantages of artificial drying:
1t makes haying independent Of the
weather. 1t may go ION even when
it is raining.
1t saves all the leaves, about one
t ;ird Of which are lost by ordinary
methods, and the leaves are the most
muir Gus Fart OF the hay.
1t makes hay more palatableN than
any now on the market.
1T saves all the protein and miner
ais Of the hay, about fourth OF
which are ordinarily lost.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR DEC.

The date of the Chr stmas Bazaar
to be given by the Ladies Aid las been
set forward to Tuesday, Decemer 7.
A sale Of home baked goods and candy
will take place in connection with the
bazaar, which will be held in the He:de-
mann Building, formerly the Coleman
store building Tea will be served
during the afternoon.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

C. E. Hawthorne is preparing to
leave for B 'enos Ayres, South America
abort Christmas time and will hold a
TEblic auction sale of his household
rcods stock and farm implements or
Saturday, December 10.
NJ. and Mrs. c. e. Simson left Wed
-esdav morning for Corfu for a week.
visit before Joing Oh to Soap Lake
where Mr.. monson will take a course
Of treatment at the baths. They were
undecided when they left whether they
would return here in the spring or &C
to Seattle to live.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse M. Miller and
Mrs. B. H. Richardson of Saco, Mon.
tana, arrived in their car at the Henry
Allard home on Thanksgiving Dav ane
Pan to rperd the winter in the "Ban.
IA belt" Mr.. Miller is brother of
Mrs. Allard and Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ardson are Mrs. Miller's parents.
G. I. Morrison of Colyille and An.
drew Scmplc of Srokane, two mem
hers Of the committee that effected the
settlement between the state and the
ccttlers on the state land settlement
project here, were in the valley few
fays this week for the purpose of APP
rraising the rurrrs and motors. etc.
that were taken from the unsolicited
tracts v : IN the state decided to aban
con the rroject last snring. Mr.. Nor
r:aon said it was his Understanding
that it was the states intention to sci
this property as soon az the appraisal
was made.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

will always be glad to send in
new or renewal subscriptions to the
Seattle Times or any other daily,
weekly or monthly newspaper. per-
10 lical or magazine. Just pay me
the regular subscription price and l
will do the rest. Will save YOU
time. postage and stationery. E.
j. O'Larey.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Ferguson and
ds,gh.ers, Irma and Madeline, re-
tened Sunday evening from Spokane
where they spent Thanksgiving.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

MIR. ard NJ E. G. N.emeyer left
We lnesday for heir Tome in Walla
Walla n tie few days vi it vi h
their son, H. b. Niemeyer, and fami y.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

MIR. and Mrs. ]. F. Coleman left on
Wednesday mornings train for Seat
tie, where they will spend a few
months with their daughter, Mrs.
OPAL Gregory.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

Miss Cassie MCGEE came over
Thursday from Seattle to attend the
Henry Kirby funeral.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

The three story hotel at Benton
City constructed in 1909 at cost
of over $50 600 was destroyed by
fire early Tuesday morning. The
damage is estimated at $4,000,
partially covered by insurance.
Defective wiring is thought to
have caused the Are
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

NOIlCE IOh l-OblJlNAIl(N
DEPARTMENT. OF THE INTERIOR
Y. S. Land Office at Spokane. Wash
ington November 10, 1926.
Notice is hereby given that William
Eadie, of Colorado Springs, Colo, who.
on February 10, 1908. m a Desert
Land Entry 014725, Yakima 1477, Ser
ial No. 01308, for the South East Quar-
ter, Section 90. Township II N Range
20. II. Willamette Meridian. has filed
notice of intention to make Final
Proof, under paragraph 3. Sec. 8, act
of March 4, 1915. to establish claim
to the land above. described. before
Wendell B. Price U. s. Commissioner.
at Colorado Springs. Colo. on the 31st
day OF DeccmbeN 1926. a n d N h e
same date. by two of the following
witnesses. before w. ]. Kincaid, U. s.
Commissioner at White Bluffs. Wash.
william A. Joyce. of Hanfcrd Wash,
Harriet I. joyce. of Hanford. Wash. !;
II ,iry Gtanzman, Of Wehluke. Wash;
Juiia Glarzsnan. OF Wahluks. Wash
a. W. DUL-lNL,.
Register.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
CARD OF THANKS

CARD OF THANKS
We thank the many friends and the
American Legion for the beautiful flo
lal fferings and the heartfelt sympa-
thy given us in our hour of sorrow at
the death of our beloved husband, ia
ther, son and brother
Ruth B. Kirby
Eleanor Kirby
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fl. Kirby
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kirby
Mr. and Mrs. Eirl McManus
Burton Kirby
Kathryn Kirby
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

Levi Austin from Vernonia, Oregon
md Jay and Paul Anrtin Of St. Helens,
Oregon, were in White Bluffs Tues
Gay to attend the Henry Kirby funeral.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
SAVE THEM!

We will SOW your soles
On welt that holds =
II the welt is gone
We will tack them on;
Auto curtains we'll fix
With great hig stitch;
And heels vel nail,
To stay without fail;
Patches we'll put on,
Where The leather is gone;
Mail orders we will share,
With half of the fare
H ARMENIAN, the Shoe Doctor.
White Bluffs
CLOSED Saturday,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

Miss Frances Allen was passenger
on Wednesday mornings tram tc-
Cheney, where she Will take course
of study at the state normal.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
FROZEN PIPES

The middle Of frozen pipe should
never be thawed first. Work toward
the water supply. To thaw waste
ar sewer pipe work upward from the
lower end to permit the water to drain
away.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

G. W. Bradshaw returned Wednes-
day from few days visit to Seattle.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
1N !

Herb Cords made a business trip
to Yakima Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs, A. w. Metcalf
spent last week at Entiat, return
ing home Sunday.
Mrs. M. E. Robbins of Seattle
arrived in the valley the first Of
last week to spend Thanksgiving
with her sister, Mrs. Albert Grell.
and family.
Joe Grel has purchased the
school bus from Herb Cords and
is now hauling the school children.
Edward and Otto Lehman, former
residents of White Bluffs but now liv-
ing at Baker, California, arrived in the
valley last Friday evening for short
visit. They started ON the trip in
their car from California at o'clocl.
on November and at 4 o'clock the
came afternoon, through the explosion
Of gas tank, their sister, Mrs. Clara
Sralley, was burned to death but the
Boys did not learn of the accident I'M
til they reached Kennewick.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

WANTED-A Red Duroc Jersey sire.
will trade or buy. Sam Allard, ALL
ard, Wash. Phone l52. tfc.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
Want Ads

FOR SALE-Weaned pigs. ]. H. Da /.
ley, just east Of the de Veuve or
ohard. ltp.
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M. F. O'Brien left Tuesday morn
ing for Wilbur. being called there by
tie death of his mother.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03


r. D. Chestnut, owner Of transfer
line at Hanford, was badly injured last
Saturday when the rim flew off /! a
tire he was filling with air. He was
knocked unconscious, deep cash was
cut cut on the side Of his face and his
arm broken. He was taken to the
hospital at Pasco Saturday morning by
Fred Gilhuly of the White Bluffs
Motor Company, and at last reports he
was getting along nicely.
On the eve of his departure for
Washington last week, Congressman
John w. Summers said that he was
going to fight during the coming ses-
sion of Congress for farm relief,
freight reduct 'ons, equality of agricul-
ture, tax reduction, and for the general
development of the state of Washing
ton.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

FOR sALF-Four cows. Robert
Barrett. u 2tn.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

Gummed labels, in three sizes, suit
able and very convenient for the mail
ing of packages of all sizes, for sale
at the Spokesman Office for 10 cents
per package of Is.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Tanning drove
over to Yakima Monday and stayed
over Tuesday TO hear Billy Sunday
at both the aftt rnoon and evening
meetings. They say the singing itself
At the services was worth the trip to
Yakima.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03
COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH

Sunday School at 10 am.
Christian Endeavor at pm
The elements were against large
gathering OF people, but good con-
gregation was on hand to worship last
Sunday. Mr.. Dykstra played very
pretty coronet solo.
You are invited to come next Sunday
morning at eleven, There may be
special music.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-12-03

H. L. Niemeyer drove over to Walla
Walll Walla Thursday and brought
home Mrs. Niemeyer's mother, Ms.
Helen Stone, who had been in the hos
ital there for a major operation.
Mrs. Stone is making satisfactory pro-
gress along the road to recovery.