White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-09

total lot THIS year up TO November !
was PITT, compared with 2192 for the
same period in 1927, loss of Is.
For the first time in the history of
the Walla Walla postoffice, with ex-
ception Of Christmas months, the
monthly business has exceeded s1O,-
900. The total receipts were s1O.-
5S1.01, or II per cent over the same
month last year. Only a nominal
amount of the mail was political.
While making a rush with other high
school youths at Toppenish to over.
turn a small building in the outskirts
Of that place, Cooney Lale was wound
ed by rifle shot fired by an uni.
Identified person. The Halloween
marauders fled, carrying their cas-
ualty. The wound was reported as not
serious
A church has been organized at
Mossyrock under the name Of the Com
munity Christian. Several denomina-
IlOuS dlC DuA0OO IO6OtACA lA4OOA LILO
leadership of Rev. E. R. Rogers. H.
A. Landes, H. Durham and L. T.
Damron have been elected trustees.
The community has had no church for
two years.
Total receipts from motor vehicle
license fees reached $6,505,619 at the
end of October-a gain Of s422,779 over
the total of last year, according to the
report of Charles Whinton, assistant
state treasurer King county leads
with s1,873,O17; Pierce $644,050; spo-
kane S615,267; Snohomish $30S,097;
Yakima $353,625 and Whatcom $685.
298.
Mrs. Will Smith, wife of news
paper circulation manager at Yakima,
was seriously burned when gaso-
line stove exploded. The blast scorch-
ed her face. Her hands were deeply
burned when she carried the stove to
the door and threw it into the yard.
A neighbor beat out flaming gasoline
that had been thrown about the
kitchen.
To show Seattle friends visiting his
Parker ranch what troubles, farmers
have with pheasant hunters, George
Dunn took a stuffed pheasant from
the mantel, placed it on his lawn so
feet from his front door, and the party
awaited developments. Three hunters
soon drove by, stopped and all alight-'
ed, entered the yard and emptied their
guns into the stuffed fowl.
County Game Warden McCurdy and
his assistants have distributed $40
Chinese pheasants, in lots of IL, to all
sections of Clark county, including the
remote northwestern district. The
birds thrive wherever they are releas-
ed and soon become accustomed to
their new location, McCurdy said. Most
of those released were purchased from
the state game farm at Steilacoom.
The "big three" counties of the state
of Washington-King, Pierce and Spo.
kane-have total registration of votJ.
ers for the presidential election of
more than 100000, according to county
auditors reports. King county has
179,162, of which 143,257 are in Sc
attic. Pierce and Spokane counties,
including Tacoma and Spokane, have
total registration slightly in excess
of 100000. The entire state registra-
ton is about 100000.
The first Of many trees to make
Legion Way tree-lined street will be
dedicated Armistice day to the mem
ory of Alfred William Leach, after
whom the Olympia American Legion
post is named. More than 5000 has
been pledged by local business men
and others toward the identifying of
Legion Way, which the Olympia post
members intend to make perpetually
commemorative of those who lost their
lives during the World war.
Herbert Hoover received one of the
largest postcards of record, panel
eight feet long and four feet wide, cut
from an enormous Washington Dou-
glas fir tree, and bearing greetings
from the Hoover-Curtis club of the
University of Washington at Seattle.
More than 1000 members of the club
c;~ lo ,,,;% fol
proof ink. The board was sent by
first-class mail and was insured for
$4,000, the postage alone totaling $16
Aberdeen's natural rainfall is bad
enough, but when the skies give forth
old vegetables, ancient fruit and rust
ed cans-it is too much. So declared
Canyon Court residents in complaint
to police. A group of youngsters on
West Sixth street recently discovered
the law of gravitation. Practice with
ripe edibles developed their marks
manship and after three stormy"
nights residents of the exclusive dis
trict beneath the Sixth street bridge
reported that the gardens were bloom
ing with decayed vegetables and tin
cans where the flowers were wont to
blossom. Police will restrain the nui.
sance.
Total apple shipments from North
Central Washington this season to
October 20 have reashed 6S12 cars,