White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-05-28

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for tying up heavily loaded limbs on
Work on Benton county's new
week ty Contractor Ernest White.
Mr.. White says he expects to have
the structure completed by Novem-
Der l and county officials will move
into their new quarters shortly there
after.
Mrs. Bert Shanahan returned Mon
day evening from Seattle, where she
has been for the last few weeks con-
valescing from major operation
undergone in Columbus hospital. Mrs.
Shanahn is feeling fine and has nearly
recovered her former health and
strength.
The Ladies Aid will meet at the
home of Mrs. c. L. Sutherland on
Thursday afternoon, June 3.
Mrs. ]. A. Johnson, Sec'y.
Mrs. F. M. Wheeler expects to
leave next week for Portland, to at
! tend the commencement exercises at
Reed College, where her daughter, Miss
/ Margaret lean Wheeler, is one of the
graduates this year. Mrs. Wheeler
Vii be accompanied on the trip by her
i mother, Mrs. Jane Shaw.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. a. Whitney and
G. A. Hannold were business visitors
in Yakima on Tuesday. They report
temperature of % in Yakima Monday
night and that garden vegetables and
grapes were damaged in some local
tiles. 1t has not been determined
whether the tree fruit had been injur-
! ed.
T. A. Eilertson, a brother of
Charles and Hagebert E'lertson,
was over from Yakima today look
ing at the state settlement tracts
that are to be sold in Prosser next
Tuesday.
A meeting of the Benton County
Republican central committee will be
held some time during the first part
of June, according to an announce
J ment made last week by E. Q. Keene,
chairman Of the organization. The
exact date of the meeting has not yet
been decided but it is probable that
it will be held in Prosser.
w. S. Angle returned Monday from
Naches, where with Mrs. Angle he
spent the week end at the home OF his
brother, George. He says that Mrs
Ferd Luhmann, formerly of White
Bluffs, has purchased a place ir
Naches and has opened beauty par
lor there.
To control cut worms distribute a
poison bran mash about the garden
late at night. Combine four pounds
Of course bran, one ounce of calcium
arsenate, one ounce of salt and one.
fourth pint Of syrup. Use enough
water to make coarse, crumb!y mix
ture. Mix the dry ingredients first
then add the syrup and the water
says bulletin from the State Col
lege.
w. L. Beaughan, former principal Of
the White Bluffs grade school, accom-,
panied by his wife, visited wirh Mrs.
, G. w. Shaw from Saturday sf ernt or
until Sunday forenoon. They were or
their way to their home near Spokane
from Lyle, WASH, where they taught
this winter. Mr.. Beaughan said that
the orchards here looked the heathies1
and best kept of any he had seen or
the trip here from Lyle. Both Mr..
and Mrs. Beaughan will teach Wis
coming year at Usk, near Spokane.
Mrs. John A. Brown, aged 81, Of
Seattle, died here last Saturday morn
ing at the home of her daughter, Mrs
w. I. Kincaid, the immediate cause Of
her death being heart failure. Mrs
Brown had suffered an attack OF thu
flu followed by pneumonia early II
the spring and came over here witt
: Mrs. Kincaid FIVE or six weeks age
in the hope that the change would be
beneficial She was bedridden pTac
tically all Of the time she was here
Mrs Kincaid accompanied the body
to Seattle on Saturday and the funera
was held in that city on Tuesday.
The Irrigation Branch Experiment
Station was established TO serve al tHt
irrigated sections of Washington as
: efficiently as possible. A large percent
age of the problems which this station
is called upon to help solve can bs
/ studied under field conditions at the
station. However, the solution o.
some problems require conditions othe'
than those available at the Experiment
Station. A problem of this nature
is that of the decreasing fertility o.