White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-12-02

j. H. HaSSelmenS large dairy Darn,
three miles northeast of Granite Falls,
was destroyed by fire recently. All
the cattle were saved except $3.50
COW, the most valuable In the herd.
Farmers in the Camas Prairie valley
section, who have been feeding much
of their agricultural products to hogs,
will have a market outlet when exten.
sion of the Gilmer cutoff road to the
valley section Is completed. Work
was begun last week.
Southbound air mail from the state
Of Washington, which converges at
the Vancouver airport to take the sky
route to California, has more than
doubled in volume since the first of
the year, according to postoB!ce au-
thorities at Vancouver.
After surviving four major battles
in the world war, in which he had nu-
merous narrow escapes, Edward ].
Friend, 80, Of Ellensburg, was killed
last week by the falling of a section
Of brick wall at the municipal light
plant where he was an employee.
Petitions asking the railroads Of the
state to give rate Of one cent a mile
from all state points to the Washing
ton State fair next fall will be sent
out In accordance with resolutions
cd h1y ho Volt Chov n
commerce at their recent meeting.
A Cotton blast Of dynamite fired by
highway contractor on the North
Bank highway, about rs miles east
of Vancouver, pushed 700 feet Of the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway
into the Columbia river and buried
the roadbed Under 5000 cubic yards
Of rock.
With the signing of the contract OF
the Carlisle Lumber company of Ona
laska to cut the logging output Of the
camps of the Andron Logging COM
pany from the Winston creek district,
which was announced recently, output
of the sawmill in Onalaska will be ap-
proximately doubled.
The barriers were removed last
week from both ends Of the Vancou-
ver-Salmon creek cutoff and one of
the most important improvements to
the Pacific highway in Washington
was thrown open to travel. Work on
the cutoff was started In 1924 and the
grade was completed in 1925.
Extensive improvements are being
made in the milk plant of the Borden
company at Chehalis. Approximately
two months will be required to com.
plete the work, which includes repair
Of the vacuum pans, installation of
new AUTOMATIC packers and rearrange-
ment of the labelling department.
The lifesaving crew of Willapa har
Dor, for whom grave fears were felt
last week when they were helplessly
drifting in a terrific gale off the Co
lumbia, are safe at Tokeland. Captain
Windbeck and his men had been miss
ing at sea since they left North Cove
Tuesday evening in search Of a lost
trolling boat.
Walla Walla last week was in the
throes of its first flood since 1921.
After thirty-six hours of incessant rain
and with chinook winds In the noun.
tains removing snow piled high since
early In September, Mill Creek and
other streams in that territory have
torn from their banks. Flooded base
ments and homes will bring loss OF
thousands Of dollars.
The merchants committee OF the
Wenatchee chamber of commerce has
announced that plans for the holiday
season program have been completed
A contract has been entered into with
the Puget Sound Power & Light com
pany and Manager Coffin has promised
that the street decorations will be in
stalled next week, to produce the best
possible results for the holiday season
The county commissioners of Klicki
tat county formally accepted about IL
miles of standard highway between
Roosevelt and Bickleton, upon which
construction work was recently com
pleted by the Triangle Construction
company of Spokane. The road com.
pletes standard highway for all year
travel from Roosevelt to the Inland
Empire highway, near Mabton, in Yaki-
ma county.
Historic days Of rs years ago, when
congress caused the name of the pro.
posed territory of Columbia to be
changed to Washington in honor Of the
first president, was recalled in Long
view when the 18th anniversary OF
the Monticello convention was OBJ
served. The convention was held in
the farm home Of Darby Huntington
November rs, 1852, on the present site
Of the city Of Longview, and almost on
the spot where the Hotel Monticello
now stands. The community was then
known as Monticello.
A slight decline in orders and pro
duction and a heavy decline in ship