White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-09-30


can war veterans of the department of
Washington and Alaska will be held
in Kelso October %. About 600 vet
Grams will be in Kelso for the gather
ing.
Several threshing crews have begun
work, for the first time since the re-
cent rains, in the vicinity of Daven-
port. An unusually large acreage of
winter wheat has been sown since
the rain.
A resolution urging the United
States shipping board to route vessels
to Grays Harbor was forwarded by
the Aberdeen chamber of commerce
to jefferson Myers, shipping board
commissioner.
Residents Of Chinook have protest
ed to the department of public works
against charge of s36 year made
by the local water company for n.y.
drant service. The town has not had
a fire in 20 years.
When hurled into the Columbia riv-
er from the face of a 70-foot cliff by
the explosion of an old charge of pow
der, Alvin Young, about 40, was killed
instantly at Bunker cliff, near Stella,
IL miles west of Longview.
Contracts on three highway jobs to-
falling $131,039, were awarded by the
state highway committee, including
construction of the Touchet bridge at
Dayton on the Inland Empire highway
to Sam Boudrye of Charleston for $685.
III.
A proposal to unite all Methodist
churches in western Washington into
conference with approximately So
OGO lay members has been referred to
special committee that will report
to the Puget Sound conference next
year.
Fire of uncertain origin last Tues
day destroyed the kiln and nearly all
of the 1927 crop Of hops on the Henry
Fortier ranch in the Mckee district.
Fortier had finished picking his hops
and was drying the last kiln when the
blaze started.
From the east and from the south
special trains are converging on Seat
tie bearing approximately 700 dele
gates to the sixteenth annual conven-
ton of the Investment Bankers asso-
citation of America, to be held in Seat
tie this week.
Seattle bowed to it's old and friendly
rival, Tacoma, when w. A. Linklater,
president and manager of the Western
Washington fair in Puyallup, reported
that Tacoma's delegation to the exhi-
bition outnumbered that from Seattle
by at least 200.
The apple harvest has begun in Co
lumbia county. 1t is estimated that
about $50 carloads will be shipped
from the Touchet valley this season
| Owing to indications of an early win
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ter, large crews are being employed
by orchardists.
Immediate purchase Of the Chehalis
aviation field of 40 acres, with an op-
ton on an additional adjoining 40
acres, was unanimously agreed upon
last week by the Chehalis city commits
sion and Citizens club delegation
that attended the meeting.
The first aid and mine rescue team
of the Washington Union Coal com
pany, Tono, mining town a few
miles northeast of Centralia, won hon
ors at an inter-company contest held
at Rock Springs, Wyo., tying for first
place with team from Cumberland
Wyo., Of the Union Pacific Coal com
pany.
M. A. Peacock was chosen by the
Yakima Valley Traffic and Credit as
ISOLATION to be chairman of the Apple
Week celebration in the Yakima dis
trict. He was an active worker or
the committee in charge of the cele
bration last year, when Yakima won
the national trophy for cities of its
size.
A black bear weighing 400 pounds
and measuring eight feet in length
was trapped by ]. ]. Mahoney, farmer
| of the Saginaw district, last week, af
ter it had repeatedly robbed the bee
hives on the Mahoney place and com
mitted other depredations in the set
Element. The bear had been the ter
ror of the community of farmers fol
years.
| With the value of it's agricultural
products for 1925 aggregating $8,875,
900, an increase of $4,000 over that
for 1925, and the figure for 1927 indi
Gated at $9,325,000, Snohomish county
stands first in Washington in gain Of
number of farms from 1920 to 1925
and first in poultry development over
the same period. These are high
| lights contained in comparative re
port completed by Arnold q. Smith
county agent.
G. H. Whiteman, Wenatchee Goa
dealer, and former president of the
Rotary club, will roll peanut around
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