White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-06-24
Little News Stories from Hanford

Little News Stor5
Edith Moffatt and Leona Evett re-
turned home Sunday from Pullman,
where they had been attending the
State Boys and Girls Club camp.
Raymond Mcconnachie and Julius
Ross, who have been working in Port
land, visited at home few days last
week.
Mrs. Ray Slavins went to Kenne-
wick Monday on business,
Miss Estella Brown has gone to
Bellngham to attend summer ses-
sion at -he stare normal school.
Joe Picatti visited his home last
week.
Marion Calhoun, of Blaine, WASH
ington. is visiting few days at the
home of his cousin, Mrs. Clarence
Hart.
Mrs. Charles Snyder, who has been
in Wenatchee visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Sommers Smith, returned home
Sunday.
Ernest Primentier, of Naches, has
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a few days.
Dean Hagen spent Friday, Saturday
and Sunday in Naches, visiting
friends.
Rev. j. F. Cheeseman will preach at
the Presbyterian church Sunday, June
rs, at 8 p. m.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. c.
E. Rhinehart Thursday, June %, at
The Hills hospital.
Charles Meeks and Henry Tigner
have gone over to Connell to work in
the wheat harvest.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Zerwekh drove
up to Entiat, in the Wenatchee Val
ley, on Thursday, to spend week
there visiting their son, Vernon Ter
wekh.
Herbert Higley, four year old
grandson of F. A. Higley, former
driver on the Kennewick stage, was
drowned last week in an irrigation
ditch at Kennewick.
The little fellow had been watching
other children diving off board, ac-
cording to another small boy, the only
witness to the accident, and decided
to do the same himself. The water
was quite deep and very muddy, and
the child was carried along for half a
mile before his body was finally re-
covered about three quarters of an
hour after he jumped into the ditch.
Attorney ]. c. Lloyd and Robert
Nitzsche were visitors in Prosser We'd
nesday on legal business.
Dudley Wilkinson, Jack .o'Larey,
John Bonn and Malcolm Melee left
last Sunday morning for Camp Fife
the Boy Scout camp near Dumping
Lake to spend few weeks of their
summer vacation. Other White Bluffs
Boy Scouts are planning to. go to the
camp later in the summer.
Robert Higginbotham, of Spokane,
accompanied by two sisters, Mrs. B.
G. Johnson, of Spokane, and Miss
Dona Higginbotham, of Butte, Mon
tana. drove down from Spokane last
Sunday for few days visit at the
home of another sister, Mrs. Ira
Jones.
r. o. Baldwin, head of the High
way Department of the Chamber of
Commerce at Long Beach, California,
drove through White Bluffs Tuesday
on his way to Colyille and stopped
here for few hours visit with his
brother in-law, W.. H. sKeal, whom he
had not seen for 20 years.
r. E. Gibbins left last week for
Conrad, Montana, to be with his
mother few days before the return
of his father from the Mayo Brothers
hospital at Rochester, Minnesota,
where he has undergone two opera
tions for cancer. The hospital held
out little or no hope for Mr.. Gibb.ns,
Sr.'s recovery.
MIR. and Mrs. Roy Dimond, who
sold their state settlement tract north
of White Bluffs last fall to Fred
Gilhuly and ]. P. Weber, were visit
crs in here this week. They have
travelled around a good deal since
leaving White Bluffs but Mr.. Di-
mond said they were going from here
to Seattle to make their home.
| The Bible class of the Lutheran
church celebrated the birthdays Of two
OF its members, Mrs. George Wagner,
and Carl Heidemann, at its meeting
Thursday evening of last week in the
assembly room of the Church. Ice
cream and cake were served and
pleasant evening was spent, the only
feature that marred the occasion being
the absence of one of the guests Of
honor, Mr.. Heidemann being i'll and
unable to attend.
Miss Verna Betz, of Cheney, for