White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-06-10
Diplomas were given to ia students

Walla Walla college. an Adventist In
stitution.
Fire destroyed the Allen building,
two-story brick office and store
building in the business section Of
Sunnyside. The fire started from a
bakers oven. The loss to the build
ing is $4,000 and to contents $4,000.
Dates of the national air races
awarded to Spokane by the National
Aeronautic association, have been
fixed as September % and "a, it was
announced by Major Jack T. Fancher,
commander of the national guard avia-
ton unit there.
Excitement not on the program was
afforded at Camp Lewis when fire de-
stroyed the 10th field artillery officers
club building just as Major
William J. Snow, chief of field artil-
lery of the United States army, was
about to review troops Of the camp.
A sizzling hulk and charred timbers
were all that remained Of the 1886
ton motorship City of Nome, at Aber-
deem. Ship and cargo were all but
completely destroyed by fire which
broke out in the engine room and
raced through the freighter despite all
efforts to check it.
Cowlitz county has total area of
1920 acres, according to the Heald-
Menery company survey, which shows
approximately 100000 acres privately
owned, $4,000 in the Columbia nation
al forest, 72,4S1 acres state, school
and granted lands and 4470 acres I'M
reserved government land.
Bert L. Baker, secretary Of the Traf-
fic association, reports that there were
only fifty-six cars of apples left in the
Wenatchee district June /. There
were sixty-three cars one year ago.
Shipments during May were 359 cars,
compared with 278 one year ago. Total
shipments to date are 17,427.
Senator Barclay, chairman of the
joint legislative committee appointed
to purchase additional land for the
penitentiary, after consultation with
Representative Davis, the only other
member of the committee residing
east of the mountains, has called a
meeting of the committee for Friday,
June IL.
The Clark county commissioners
have adopted the plans prepared by
County Engineer Deako for the i'm
provement, with hard surface pave
ment, of seven miles of road from the
end of the pavement on the st. Johns
road to point north of Manor, and
approved resolution to make the i'm.
prOvement.
The first raw material to be used
by the Longview Fiber company in
the production of paper at it's plant
now under construction on the Colum-
bia river front in Longview was taken
to the plant site last week, and two
one-cord trucks will continue to haul
material from the Long-Ben plants
night and day.
Like a bombshell out of clear sky,
the resignation of the state fisheries
board was announced recently by Gov.
ernor Hartley. Due to controversy
that came before the board on an i'm
portant phase of it's work and inability
to agree, members of the board asked
that their designations be accepted,
effective June is.
With an attendance of several
thousand people from all parts of the
Yakima Valley, Sunnyside celebrated
its annual "Ford Day" Miss Lucille
Banning was queen of the occasion.
Edna Wallace of Outlook was awarded
the major prize Of $50, given to the
owner of the most tumbledown flivver
to reach the grounds under it's own
power.
"Jo-Jo," snake charmer for two
years Will Ill0 ZJlCSlCI SdIIlf COlA-
pany now playing at Sunnyside, died
of suffocation due to the bite of a rat
tlesnake that he had placed to his
mouth in the course of performance.
He was bitten squarely through the
middle to the tongue, which began to
swell instantly, and soon closed his
throat.
An educational program among
school children on the dangers of
blasting caps was launched by the de-
partment of labor and industries. Di-
rector Clair Bowman said that bulle-
tins secured through the institute of
makers of explosives in New York
were being mailed to every school
principal, county and city superintend-
emit in the state.
Tragedy followed the graduation en-.
tertainment of the grade school at Ho-
bart, rs miles from Seattle, when two
schoolboy actors died after being over
come by carbon monoxide gas while
changing clothes in a small closet.
Fumes from a gasoline engine used to
operate the school power plant, d.
rectly beneath the closet used by the
boys, caused their death.
The proposal to issue bonds for
$4,000 and build new trunk sewer
line for Montesano was voted upon