White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-03-30

after comparison of gas tax receipts
and the number of motor vehicle
licenses issued.
The old brewery building in Vancou-
yer extending from Sixth to Seventh
streets on Columbia street has been
leased by the Washington Gamers
Cooperative and will be remodeled
for combined cold storage plant and
cannery, w. H. Wood, association man.
ager, has announced.
Descom Snodgrass, farmer Of the
Mount Pleasant district, southeast Of
Kelso, has served for 311A years as
school director in Nebraska, at Ethel,
Lewis county, and on Mount Pleasant.
He was not candidate for reelection
this year. He has been director Of
the Mount Pleasant district for %
years,
County Auditor w. D. Campbell was
directed by the county commissioners
meeting in Montesano last week to
issue calls for bids for the construc-
ton Of permanent highways No. 81
and 80, which are parts of the pro-
posed Pacific-Beach-C opalis road along
the coast. The bids will be opened
April 16.
"The Boast of the Coast-the Olym-
pics has been adopted as a central
slogan about which a coast advertising
program will be launched for the ex-
ploitation of the Olympic peninsula to
tourists. The slogan was conceived
by Mrs. Rose Holloway of Aberdeen
in contest conducted by the Olympic
Chalet company.
Aphis in the Walla Walla valley are
happy today. There are no ladybugs
to combat them. Usually ladybugs are
brought to the valley by the automo-
bile load and turned loose on the
aphis. The roads to the mountains
are so bad that they cannot be secured
and by the time the bugs get ready to
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Members of the strawberry branch
of the Washington Growers Packing
corporation voted at the annual meet
ing in Vancouver last Saturday, to sew
err connections with the packing cor
poration and affiliate with the Wash
ington Gamers Cooperative, branch
of the growers corporation, which was
Incorporated recently to build a can
merry.
Poultry schools will be held at
Woodland March 81 and at Castle
Rock March % by the poultry exports
of the Washington State college ex-
tension service. w. D. Buchanan,
poultry specialist, and DR.. G. e. Saw
yer, poultry veterinarian for the west
ern Washington experiment station at
Puyallup, will be the principal instruc-
tors.
The government forest service will
plant another 200 acres of trees on
the CispHs river burn this spring, ac-
cording to District Forester Fenby OF
Tacoma, who visited the Cispus river
section last week. Seven years ago
the government began the work of re-
foresting this tract some 5000 acres
of which have been successfully
planted.
George Northrup, state representa-
tive of Jefferson county, saved five
persons from disaster last week when
the cable of Queets river ferry snap
ped under the strain of a freshet and
swept down the river toward Fisher
rapids Northrup leaped into the wa
ter with rope, swan ashore and Sc
cured the rope to tree, bringing the
ferry to the bank.
Heavy rainfall in March has caused
much washout damage to roads ada
cent to streams draining the water
shed of Mt. Adams in Klickitat coun
ty. In the canyon of the Big Klickitat
between Wahkiakus and Lyle, flood
waters covered the highway for q
depth of two feet near the town OF
Klickitat and some flood damage was
caused to railroad property.
The first big shipment of eggs from
the Pacific northwest to the east coast
of South America will be made this
month on the Blue Star line refriger
ator ship Gothicstar, which will take
part of her cargo from Tacoma. The
shipment will amount to $4,000 cases
in all, of which large proportion will
be furnished by the Washington Co
operative Egg and Poultry association
The Chelan County Pioneers asso
citation in annual session at Wenat
chez last week, stood in silence fol
one minute in honor of those who had
died since the last meeting, voted tc
hold their annual picnic at Entiat next
summer and adopted resolution
recommending that the first log cabir
erected in Wenatchee in 1884, which
has been torn down and preserved
be erected in the city park, permission
having been already granted.
Orders for lumber continue to show