White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-12-23
Milo Collins, well-known sedro-


A beefsteak party held by five con-
vivial friends ended abruptly in Seat
tie last week when one of their num-
Der choked to death on mouthful of
meat. The feast had scarcely started
when Patrick Clements, 47-year-old
Alaskan, suddenly burst into fit OF
coughing and dropped dead.
The quota for the Citizens Military
Training Camp to be held at Vancou-
yer barracks next June has been
raised to 700 students, an increase OF
200 over the quota for the camp held
last June. The tentative date for
opening the camp was fixed for June
Is and the closing date for July IA.
Mrs. Tirzah Bigelow Royal, II, ma.
tive daughter of Olympia, died there
last week. Mrs. Royal was born Sep
TENDER 81, 1855. Her father, D. R.
Bigelow, took an active part in the
separation of Washington from the
Oregon territory, having come across
Nellie June, 2-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Nuneker of Long
view, died at the local hospital, the
result of falling backward into a tub
of boiling water. Mrs. Nuneker was
completing the family washing when
the accident occurred. The girl was
burned from the arm pits to the knees.
Lucille Chamberlain, 18-year-old
Longview high school girl and aquatic
star, who suffered broken neck while
making dive on last August 1, died
at the Longview Memorial hospital
last Friday. Lucille struck her head
on some submerged object in the
Coweeman river while making a 25-
| foot dive.
At meeting held Hast week by the
building committee Of the Centralia
| Presbyterian church arrangements
were made for winding up the build
ing campaign of the church immedi-
ately after the first Of the year. May
1 was set as the date for letting
contract for the new church, to cost
about $4,000.
The state fisheries department ex-
perimental hatchery on the upper
Lewis river Matched 100000 spring
chinook salmon this season before
closing for the winter. The new site
on the Lewis river, about 10 miles
above Cougar, proved more satisfac-
tory than that on the Muddy branch,
used last year.
H. E. Bailey, mayor-elect Of Aber-
deem, and the newly-elected council
men, will take office January 4 at
the first council meeting of the new
/ year. The new councilmen are V. G.
Skinner, S. S. Smith and r. I. Wise.
All other city officials up for election
were returned to their jobs by the
voters for another two years.
Almost six miles Of new pavement
west of Walla Walla were opened to
traffic last week. The stretch of con-
crete is from Whitman station to Low.
den. There is a three-mile gap from
the Whitman station end of pavement
to the pavement leading from Walla
Walla but it is hard surfaced. West
of Lowden it is planned to oil the
highway in the spring.
Walter Clark, 81, clerk and water
superintendent of the town of Kala-
ma, was arrested last Monday on a
charge of transportation of $780,
1882 from the water funds of the
town and in the afternoon pleaded
guilty to the charge in superior court
and was sentenced by Judge Homer
Kirby to from three to ten years in
the penitentiary at Walla Walla.
Bremerton and Charleston became
one city last Monday. after many
years Of separation by an imaginary
line. Two first class corporations have
been operating independently with the
usual Independent overhead. There
has been the customary family diff
ferences, but on the whole, they have
worked together in harmony. Now
they become united into a greater
Bremerton.
A further increase in orders and
slight gain in production, with a sharp
decline in shipments are the outstand-
ing points in the latest report of the
West Coast Lumbermen's association
for the week ending December 10,
when 116 mills produced 118,O86,997
feet, sold 99,320,737 and shipped 49,
300,298. Production Of ia mills the
preceding week totaled 117,8G6,559
feet, new business amounted to 95,.
9S4,S68 feet and shipments were 1885,
095,389.
The First National and Grays Har-
Dor National banks of Aberdeen will
soon move into new and enlarged
quarters. The Grays Harbor National
will occupy the building at Wishkah
and streets, recently vacated by the
Aberdeen World. 1t has been remod-
eled and improved at cost Of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. The First
National will occupy corner at
Broadway and Heron street, remodel.
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