White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-02-24

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was subscribed in one days less time
than any other drive.
The Ryan & Allen lumber mill ut
Stevenson, which has been closed for
about two months, reopened last week.
The management said enough logs
were available to run the plant three
weeks. At the expiration Of that
time it is expected the logging crews
will be able to enter the timber.
Interior decorators are putting the
finishing touches on the Cordova, Pull
mans elegant new motion picture
house, being constructed by p. w.
Struppler. 1t will probably be opened
within the next two weeks. The Cor
doa will class with the best show
houses, outside the large cities, in the
northwest.
Chehalis Chamber Of Commerce d.
rectors recently Endorsed resolutions
from the Hoquiam Chamber urging
congress to pass law fixing duty
on cedar lumber and shingles. w. e.
Richardson, secretary, was directed
to send copies Of the Endorsement to
members Of the states congressional
delegation in Washington.
Progress is being made by the
Brookfield Quarry & Towage COM
pany on raising the dixie Of diking
district No. 2 along the Coweeman
river east and south of Kelso. The
dredge started work near the mouth
of the Coweeman and is working up
the river. When completed the dixie
will protect against a 30-foot water.
Monroe Benjamin, New York city
manager of the Pacific Producers AS.
ISOLATION, was In Centralia last week
inspecting the local receiving station
of the Washington Egg and Poultry
Association. Mr.. Benjamin expressed
himself as pleased with the Centralia
plant and the quality of eggs produced
there and expressed the belief that
1923 will set record.
One hundred and fifty men, mem
bers Of Northern Pacific construc-
ton crew, jumped to safety last We'd
nesday morning when gasoline cars
and trailers on which they were rid.
ing were struck by a freight train be-
mil
north Of Centralia. A dense fog pre-.
vented the engineer from seeing the
cars, which were reduced to kindling
wood.
The Puget Sound Packing company
of Seattle, through B. F. Emery, has
contracted for the output Of straw.
berries Of the Cloverdale Lewis River
Growers association for 1928. The
price per pound was not disclosed.
Two barreling stations will be main
tanned by the packing company, one
at Woodland and the other at Kalama
The association includes some seventy
growers, and total of 1876 acres.
Frank M. Dallam, ST., rs, editor of
the Kelsonian-T Tribune, who died sud-
denly at his home in Kelso last week,
was one Of Washington's pioneer ed
itors. He was the founder Of the
Spokane Spokesman-Review. Forty
five years ago, in 1888, Mr.. Dallam
went to Spokane from Oakland, Cali
fornia, and established the Spokane
Falls Review. From that newspaper
grew the present spokesman-Review.
r. E. Taggart, police Judge, set
record at Aberdeen last week when
he tried 81 cases in 81 minutes. He
found 30 persons guilty Of drunken
ness, filming them all SIS each; tried
26 men for vagrancy, finding all but
six guilty; fined II men $50 each for
pocket possession, two $25 each for
gambling, five $40 each for posses
sion with intent of sale, and one $25
for drunkenness when officers failed
to prove he was driving while drunk.
The West Coast Lumber Trade Ex-
tension Bureau unanimously voted at
Seattle last week to merge with the
West Coast Lumbermen's Association
in the interest of economy and effi-
cheney. More than 100 lumbermen
Of Washington, Oregon and British
Columbia are not affiliated with either
unit. They will be urged to become
members and join in nationwide
plan of trade extension in which
100000 is to be spent during this
year.
Grays harbor citizens joined in
Aberdeen last week in voicing plea
to the state highway committee to let
the contract this spring for the Queets
river bridge on the Olympic highway.
The last legislature having appro-
priated $1s0,OO0 for the span, the
citizens feel that If construction is not
undertaken this year, the peninsula
loop road will not be completed before
1880, while if the Queets bridge is
built this season, the highway could
be completed in 1929.
Sweeping aside salient features of
the present pay system for Seattle
school teachers, the school board by
unanimous vote adopted single sal
ary schedule granting, conditionally,
equal pay to elementary and high
school teachers alike.