White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-10-28
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VI UuF nedueIS.
Thirty merchants had space at thu
first annual Montesano merchants ex
position held last week.
Kelso's city budget, as finally equal
lied and approved by the city council
now totals $60.558 for 1928.
Five hundred Chinese pheasants are
being distributed to IS sections Of
Clark county by County Game Warder
McCurdy.
| Two and half to three weeks work
will clean up the apples in the Walla
Walla valley, John W. Langdon, or
chardist, states.
John A. Carpenter, 70, died at his
home in Yakima last week. He had
lived in Yakima Al years, and was
widely known.
Thomas Bates, 10 miles west OF
Yakima, reported the theft of 55 sacks
of wheat from his granary by thieves
with a truck.
A boxcar bandit claimed the second
life in two weeks when two Spokane
boys were shot, one Of them fatally,
near Bluestem.
The main excavation for the Marcus
Whitman hotel in Walla Walla was
completed last week and the steam
shovel moved out.
Formal dedication of the recently
completed 100000 unit of the st. Hell
ems hospital in Chehalis will be held
Sunday October 80.
The Washington Manufacturers as
sociation will hold it's spring meeting
in Yakima late in April, according to
a recent announcement.
A score of men and 90 teams were
at work on the Weyerhaeuser Timber
company's mill site in Longview last
week, grading for railway spurs.
Bids will be opened November %
on a City of Walla Walla bond issue,
to refund the outstanding City Hall
bonds, 100000 of which fall due early
in 1928.
Three or four trucks were used by
thieves who over Sunday stole 100
sacks of wheat from the ranch of
Blanchard Bros. in the Horse Heaven
district.
r. J. Evans was critically injured
during an electrical and wind storm
near Northport Sunday, when a tree
fell across his automobile, pinning him
to the wheel.
Between $50 and 200 delegates and
visitors attended the convention of
District No. of the encampment
branch of the Odd Fellows, held in
Elma last Saturday.
With the levy for state. purposes
fixed at 11.79 mills, the consolidated
levy for the city of Spokane for 1928
is SIS mills, three-fifths of mill low
er than the 1927 levy.
Kicked on the side of the head by
a horse while she was playing near
the animal, Laura Anderson, 4, was
brought to Yakima hospital criti-
cally injured last week.
Warrants have been drawn by the
state auditor for the purchase of $4,000
of per cent 10-year bonds issued by
the town of Yelm for the construction
of municipal waterworks.
The clover-seed harvest in the vicin.
ity of Woodland has been interrupted
by early rains and farmers who were
growing their clover for seed will suf-
fer nearly so per cent loss.
Walnuts are being harvested in
Clark county and the yield is light.
There are about so acres of bearing
walnut trees in Clark county, counting
scattering trees and estimating Is
trees to the acre.
Louis Alvin Sizemore, Stevens coun.
ty warden, shot last, Sunday, presum-
ably by hunters, who had been appre-
hended after they had killed a female
deer, died in Colville without regain
ing consciousness.
Dorothy May Oakley, 5, was killed
and her mother, the wife of e. A. Oak
ley, principal of the Auburn high
school. critically injured when pas
senger train struck the Oakley car at
a blind crossing in Auburn.
The late potato crop in Clark county
will fall below early estimates, accord
ing to Charles H. Greeley. The tubers
are large and smooth, but there are
few to the hill. A heavy frost is need 4
ed to kill the tops and set the skins
Of the potatoes before digging can be
started. High land potatoes are fully
matured but those planted on over
flowed land are still growing.
Request has been made by the
Walla Walla city commission that the
portion of the city's watershed lying
in Walla Walla and Columbia counties
be made permanent game preserve
by the game commissioners Of these
counties.
In order to save dirt and graveled
roads in Clark county, the commits
sioners last week signed an order clos
Ing "a for the winter to all trucks