White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-02-03

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dian Irrigation service, announced
total 1927 crop valuation Of S5,470,000,
and an average per acSe production Of
s61.4O. The report covers $1,000 acres
on the Wapato, Status, Ahtanum and
Toppenish-S imcoe units.
The 246 state chartered banks in
Washington held deposits totaling
$1S0,047,796 at the end of 1927, an in
crease Of $4.036,00O during the year.
according to the annual report of
Banking Supervisor Johnson. Loans
and discounts totaled s10S,274,O00,
decrease Of $e7O,515 during 1927.
The first product of Yakima's new
airplane factory will be launched in
about two weeks, announcement by
officials Of Western Airplanes, Inc,
said. Preparations are being made
for formal ceremony in honor of the
machine, two-passenger, ninety
horsepower, eighty-five miles an hour
creation.
Centralia will be host February 1
and 2 for it's third convention of the
winter, when the North Pacific Fair
association meets there. Important
fairs in Washington, Oregon and Brit,
ish Columbia are members of the as.
ISOLATION. Fair dates for 1928 will
be designated, and other business will
be transacted.
Efforts to hold Clark county agri-
cultural fair this year will probably
fail, G. P. Bush, prominent granger,
said recently as no feasible plan has
been evolved. The farmers believe in
the advantages to be derived from
such a fair, but plans offered SO far
involve too great expense without any
certainty Of adequate return.
Walla Walla city officials breathed
freer when the dredging equipment
arrived from Seattle and was set up so
that gravel began coming from the
bed Of Mill creek. About a month will
be spent digging out a channel for
Mill creek, the gravel having SO filled
it that the stream will be a serious
menace in case of another flood.
According to P. S. Guilford, West
port canneryman, the crab fishermen
who have been using razor clans for
bait report the bivalves as plentiful
on the beach this season. This en-
courages Grays harbor packers and
clam workers alike to look for prof
table clam take which commences
March and continues three months.
The Puget Sound Power & Light
company has applied to the Lewis
county commissioners for a franchise
to construct and operate a power
transmission line along the Evaline
road between Napavine and Winlock,
a distance of 51A miles. February 20
has been set by the county board as
the date of hearing on the petition.
County Engineer Deako is preparing
to replace all damaged signs at curves
on county roads of Clark county and
the go Slow" signs on each side of
country school houses. The signs
have been used as targets by boys,
who have knocked them down with
rocks or have shot them full of holes.
New signs will be placed where they
are needed.
A hurried call for specialist was
sent from the Longview hospital last
week. A young mother, carrying a
small boy in her arms, had rushed her
child there after he had swallowed
pin. The boy sobbed and occasionally
coughed. Finally violent spasm
brought up the pin from his throat.
Mother and son departed. The doctor
arrived too late.
Chelan county school directors were
urged to make a study Of the need of
Junior college to be located some
where in north central Washington,
preferably in Wenatchee, to bridge
the jump from the wheat fields
and smaller schools to the large uni
versities," at the annual meeting held
in Wenatchee, Of the directors of Che
Ian county schools.
The state department of public
works has fixed March IL for a public
hearing on the movement to place
meters on telephones used in the cities
of the state, and it is generally assum
ed that the hearing will start lively
fight that will eventually reach the
supreme court of the United States.
So far Everett is the only city in the
world to use the telechronometer,
which measures conversation.
That commission men are besieging
the agricultural department Of the fed
eral government to assist in curbing
further development Of cooperative
marketing organizations on the ground
that the farmers are receiving too
much money, was the statement made
by A. G. Ziebell of Marysville, presi-
dent of the United Dairy associations
of Washington, speaking before the
annual meeting of the Grays Harbor
Dairymens association at Montesano
last week.
Washington counties have been
awarded $152,30O on timber sold from