White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-11-11

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Forty-five permits for buildings and
repairs, totaling S7O,6O9 in value, were
issued at Vancouver in October. The
list included five store buildings and
IL dwelling houses, ranging in cost
from $4,000 to $4,000. The total value
of permits issued in October, 1926,
was $36,7SS.
Postal receipts at Walla Walla in
October totaled $9245.53, the greatest
October business ever handled, Post
master o. F. Morrow stated recently.
Only one month this year, January,
showed higher total. The months
business was lax per cent better than
October last year.
The government dredge Wahkiakum
started work last week dredging
channel above the interstate bridge,
as protection to the ship channel in
front of Vancouver docks. The chan
mel will be dredged several hundred
feet upstream and will serve to pre-
vent silt from filling the lower chan
mel.
The fourth district of the auxiliary
to the Spanish-American War yeter-
ans was organized in Vancouver last
week by Mrs. Julia Miller of Yakima,
state department president. The dis
trict, which is the last to be organized
in the state, is comprised of auxiliar-
les at Centralia, Kelso, Vancouver and
Camas.
Postal receipts in Vancouver in Oc-
tober totaled $51O7.95, compared with
s4594.66 in October, 1926, gain Of
$513.29. Receipts this year up to Oc-
tober 1 totaled $41,07049, compared
with $36608 for the same period in
1926, gain Of $4462.49, according to
the report of R. e. Gutenberg, assist
ant postmaster.
A. H. Sylvester, supervisor of the
Wenatchee National forest, announces
that bids for approximately three-quar-
tiers of million feet of timber on a
tract SO miles north of Wenatchee will
close on November rs, 1927. The sale
will include about 100000 board feet
Of western yellow pine and about 25,-
900 board feet of Douglas fir.
lightweight hunters have reported
to the office of the Yakima county
commissioners that they succeeded in
killing elk, while eighty-five have re-
ported failure. Though about 400 elk
hunting licenses were issued in this
county, only 173 hunters had reported
so far. The law requires returns by
hunters to the county commissioners.
Construction of the first unit of a
new greenhouse at the State College
in Pullman will start soon, according
to word given out by Dean e. G. John
son, college Of agriculture. Leveling
and excavation for the structure is
now under way and materials are be-
ing assembled The first unit of the
building will be 100 feet long and %
feet wide.
r. E. Watzig of Camas was given a
contract by the directors of the Clark
County Country club to clear 80 acres
of land on his bid of $9S.5O an acre.
The contract calls for clearing, grub
bling, blowing and narrowing the
ground, preparatory to seeding for the
fairways and green's of an addition Of
nine holes to the golf course on Sal
mon creek.
Eight auto passenger and express
operators were cited by order Of Judge
John M. Wilson, Thurston county, in
injunction proceedings brought by At
torney General John H. Dunbar to ap-
pear in court November Is to show
cause why they should not be per-
manently restrained from operating
over the new Seattle Everett highway
without certificates.
Clark county owes $155,000 on the
bonds issued to build the county's
share of the interstate bridge and this
will be reduced about $4,000 by a
payment early in January, according
to County Treasurer Fender. Another
payment of an equal amount or larger
will be made in July, 1928, which will
leave about $4,000 unpaid when the
bridge is made free July 1, if the plans
Of free bridge proponents are carried
out.
The Barred Rock hen came into it's
own last week with the closing Of the
eighth annual national egg-laying con-
test under the auspices of the expert
ment station of Washington State COL
lege, at Puyallup. In the contest were
100 pens of 10 hens each, sent from
leading poultry fanciers from the At
lantic to the Pacific. A pen Of Barred
Rocks from the Cedarbrook farm, Sc
attic, won first with lay of 2S06 eggs
for the year, an average of more than
$50 eggs a hen. This pen thus becomes
the champion pen of the United
States.
Poultry buyers in Yakima expressed
the opinion recently that there we're
80 per cent more turkeys in the Yaki-
ma valley than last year. Demand
for turkeys for Alaska shipments has
raised the price to Al cents a pound,
delivered in Seattle.