White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-06-17

ger were over, but the rest OF the
people who were expected failed to
get here, which was a disappointment
,, to all. A talk by Mr.. Gillespie, rela-
tive to the state convention at Yak
ina; special numbers by Mrs. Bryan
and 'Sister Sue" Anglin, along with
lots of sPep' songs by everyone made
the Rally very interesting. After the
program was over, refreshments were
served to everyone on the church
lawn.
Purdy Grewell and Philip Heath
left last week for Conrad. Mon.
tana. where they will work this
summer.
Mrs. j. A. Bradley reports that
she cut the first cabbage of the
season from her garden on Monday
of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Niemeyer
drove to Kennewick Wednesday
evening to put aboard an S. P. &
S. train the Misses Cordelia and
Mary Stone. who were on their
way to Seaside, Oregon, near where
their mother. Mrs. Helen Stone,
has leased a rooming house.
j. H. Cole has moved the six
tent frames from where they have
been located just east of the Com
mercial hotel to the back of the
lot where his vacant building
stands, just south of the City Gar
age. The ground on which the
tents stood will be leveled up and
seeded to lawn grass and other
wise beautifed, Mr.. Cole said.
Mrs. M. S Meeks returned We'd
nesday evening from Seattle. where
she had gone last Sunday with the
F. D. Clemmer family of Yakima.
While in Seattle the party attend
ed the commandments exercises OF
the University Of Washington at
the Stadium on Monday, Miss Ruth
CIemmer, q niece Of Mrs. Meeks'.
being one of the graduates. Miss
Clemmer majored in home econ
omics.
Half of the earth witnessed the
moon being absorbed in darkness
TUESDAY night and due to the miracle
of radio. people in several nations
heard an astronomer describe this
phenomenon as it took place from
point thousands of miles away !.
Henry M. Hyde, astronomer OF
note. seated before a rnicrophone on
the outside of the KGO studio,
peered through his telescope and dis
cussed this eclipse with the first cnp
of the moon into the eartll's shadow
at 10:43 P. M.
| Those tuned to KGO in Australia,
North and South America and other
countries along the Atlantic and Pa
cific ocean where the eclipse was vi
sible, heard Hyde, altho thousanes
of miles away, describe the moons
face as it was being yelled in Oak
land.
| This is believed to be the first time
anything like this has been attempted.
/ Hyde discussed other happenings
in the celestial world as they occur
during June. These included a comet
On the Goth and "a total eclipse OF
the sun on the goth.
On Monday. June 18th, 10 members
of the Boys and Girls 4 H Clubs OF
| Benton County started for Pullman
to attend the Sixth Annual Club
Camp. This delegation is made up
cf boys and girls from Prosser, Ben
ton City, Hanford, Finlay, Hover,
and Kennewick, who have been PLAN
ming and working for many weeks in
order to take this trip.
They will arrive at Pullman at 700
P. M. and will be home late Saturday
night or Sunday morning. While at
Pullman these young folk will be
housed in the College Dormitories
and treated as full fledged college
students. 1t will prove a stimulation
which will draw many of them back
to college at the end, of high school
They are the leaders Of tomorrow
in the making.
The party consisted of Doris
Taylor and Jennie Wolford of Pros
ser; Esther Hartman and Audrey
Sweeney of Benton City; Eclth
Moffatt and Leona Evett of Hanford;
Lulu Hughes of Hover; lmogene
Rorick, Marie Gerards, and Guy
Lyons of Finley; Arthur Glasow and
Richard Mann of the Highlands;
Marjorie Johnston of the Valley;
Marjorie MeGahey, Emily Gascoigne.
Elsa Brogunier, Lois Brue and
Geneva Broughton of Kennewick.
They will be accompanied by Mrs.
Leslie White, local leader and
Gertrude Gage, County Club Agent.
The brown rat, probably brought
to the United States from England
about ITS, has spread until it now
infests every State in the Union, says
the United States Department Of Ag-
rieulture. The last State to become
afflicted with this pest is Montana.
Walla WaAa-Recent building inn
! provements at the state prison have
cost 100000.
Brewster-First $4,000 hip. unit of
Chelan power plant will be completed
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