White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-05-25


planted this year, Mr.. Mills said.
Quotas for the citizens military
training camp, to be held in Vancouver
next month, are rapidly being over
subscribed, with the exception of the
Vancouver and Clark county quota.
With the maximum originally set at
500, about 800 have already applied.
A strange malady affecting cattle
and horses in the Maiden region is
causing considerable alarm among
ranchers. The disease, symptoms of
which are much like rabies, causes
the stock to become vicious, attacking
other animals and sometimes human
beings.
Four conventions will be held in
Longview within the next 80 days, as
follows: Parent-Teacher association
state convention, joint meeting of
Washington and Oregon oranges,
Washington State Bankers association
and the Graduate Nurses association
Of the state.
The city Of Longview is installing a
pump at the embarrassing of the
Longview cutoff highway beneath the
Longview, Portland 6 Northern
tracks. So much water, seeping from
the flooded Columbia river, entered
the Embarrassing that it was neces-
sary to detour traffic.
Believed to be the first lumber con-
s1gnment ever to travel by airplane,
small special order left Aberdeen
by air mail last week for Philadelphia
The lumber, consisting of fir, cedar,
spruce and hemlock, was shipped by
the Twin Harbors Lumber company
to the Intercoastal Lumber corpora
ton.
The county commissioners of Klicki-
tat county are asking the taxpayers to
approve the issuance of emergency
warrants for $4,000 to construct three
new bridges across the White Salmon
river in western Klickitat county and
the crawling of TX miles of the new
Scenic highway, now under construc-
ton.
Fire destroyed the Neff Lumber
company's mill at Hoquiam with loss
estimated at more than $25O,OOO. The
flames, starting in the southwest corn.
er of the building and famed by a
strong westerly breeze, leveled the
structure despite valiant efforts of
Hoquiam and Aberdeen fire depart
ments.
The Indians have arrived for their
annual fishing at the Prosser dam,
having established five teepees or as
near ones as could be expected out Of
flour sacks, canvas, brush, etc. The
number represents three different
tribes of three states, the Nez Perces
of Idaho, the Yakimas Of Washington,
the Umatillas of Oregon.
Mrs. Jane Wilson, residing at Kla-
Der, will celebrate her Tooth birthday
on June 49,. Born in Tennessee, she
has resided in the Boistfort valley for
so years. Another Lewis county resi-
dent, James Dandy, who makes his
home with his daughter at Adna, will
also celebrate his Tooth birthday this
year, the date being September Is.
Information received by the Yakima
county farm bureau stated that two
motor caravans will bring delegates
from six states to the northwest re-
gional gathering of the farm bureau,
to be held there June 1929. One will
include delegates from California, New
Mexico and Nevada, and the other will
be made up from Wyoming, Montana
and Utah.
A total of 1922 ground squirrels
were killed in the Pullman olfax in
ter-community squirrel contest which
closed last week, with Pullman the
winner by substantial margin. The
final count gave Pullman 1868, and
Colfax 1924. The Pullman chamber
Of commerce will be presented with a
silver cup by the Colfax chamber of
commerce.
Damage caused by fire that broke
out in bakery shop at Long Beach
and for time threatened ia sweep
that beach resort was estimated at
approximately $4,000. The bakery, a
confectionery store and barber shop
were destroyed and gift shop badly
damaged before the volunteer fire de-
partment assisted by a crew from H.
waco were able to smother the flames.
New business booked by the ia
mills of the West Coast Lumbermen's
association for the week ending May
IL totaled 134,214,S45 feet. Produc-
ton was purposely kept down as low
as possible according to plans of the
industry and aggregated some 116, 492,-
900 feet for the week. Shipments
were 132,917,00O feet, which is slight
ly less than figures recorded for the
previous week.
Egg receipts at the Central branch
Of the Washington Cooperative Egg
and Poultry association totaled 953
cases during the week ending May II,
the largest in the history of the plant.
The growth of the plant has been