White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-06-03

| last week.
H. e. Rogers has been retained by
the Stevenson school board as super
intendent for another two-year term
Repairs totaling $4,000 will be made
under his supervision to the schools
this summer.
Archibald G. Luster, 81, farmer
died in Vancouver as the result of in.
juries suffered when a stage struck
the automobile in which he was driv.
ing, Is miles north of Vancouver on
the Pacific highway.
Arrangements have just been com
pleted for securing tents for large
number of Grange members who ex.
pect to attend the state convention to
be held in Auburn June ITO, and
who desire to camp in the Auburn
modern auto park.
The state may recover against a
landowner for not putting out forest
fire on his property in case of the land
owners failure to try to quench the
blaze after being notified, Assistant
Attorney General B. B. Adams held
in an opinion to George G: Joy, super
visor of forestry.
The cooperative marketing of eggs
began in Walla Walla last week with
the receipt by the Walla Walla Dairy
mems association of eggs from the
members. These eggs are to be can
died, graded and packed in sealed car
tons. This is the first attempt to mar
ket eggs in this manner in Walla
Walla.
When insurance companies doing
business in Washington bet on hon
esty, they win heavily, State Insurance
Commissioner H. o. Fishbacks analy-
sis of last years business shows. The
Insurance companies collected -S301,-
70S in premiums for insurance against
burglary and theft and only paid out
$1,000 in losses.
For the first time since a small
herd Of elk from Montana was "plant-
ed" fifteen years ago by Frank Bry-
ant, then Yakima county game war
den, on Mount Coleman, between the
valleys Of the Naches and Yakima
rivers, an open season Of eleven days
for the hunting of these animals will
be given from October 81 to 81, in
elusive, this year.
To meet the emergency presented
by the impending collapse of the big
Swantown box sewer, to reconstruct
which an $4,000 bond issue question
has twice failed within two months
for lack of sufficient turnout of
voters to validate the election, an ordi-
nance was adopted by the Olympia
city commissioners for holding of a
third election, June Z.
Although minimum temperature
Of 30 above zero was recorded at the
United States weather station in the
Burdoin heights district near White
Salmon May 18, no damage to apple
trees in full bloom has been reported.
The strawberry harvest is expected
to start in the Husum district some
time this week. Indications point to
a bumper crop throughout this dis.
trict.
King county's 2O0,0O0th civil action
was filed in superior court by County
Clerk Abe NJ Olson last week. Court
house statisticians, curious to know
something Of early court days in Sc
attic, started an investigation which
revealed, among other things, that the
county's first civil action of which
there is record in the clerks office
was filed on August 8, 1874, while the
state Of. Washington was still terri
tory.
Location work on the eleven miles
Of permanent Ocean Beach highway
route between Oak Point, fifteen miles
west of Longview, and Cathlamet, will
be completed June Is by the state
highway department, and will be
ready for letting of contracts about
July 1, w. A. Schwarz, division engi
neer, has announced. This is the last
link between Longview and the Wah-
kiakum county seat The state engi-
neering department is also preparing
for awarding contracts for bridges on
the entire route between Longview
and Cathlamet.
The benefit to be derived from a
cow-testing association was shown in
the yearly report of j. e. Carter, sec
rotary of the Clark county association.
Cows Of several different breeds are
among 625 owned by members Of the
association. Considerable culling was
done the last year and more will be
culled this year, as more than one
year is required to determine the val
ne of COW. Cows. tested last year
averaged 1927 pounds of milk which
contained 300.5 pounds of butter fat.
Out Of the number 116 produced 1855
pounds of butterfat each, an average
Of one pound per day.
Seattle's municipal street railway
showed a net operating increase of
S141,30O.74 for the first four months