White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-31


ing built at Wilbur by the Almira
Farmers Warehouse company has
been completed at cost of S21, 600.
1t takes the place of the one Destroy
ed by fire year ago.
The A. ]. West sawmill at Aber-
deem, idle for nearly 20 months, has
been leased by the Schafer Brothers
Timber company and will be reopen
ed next month. The mill was closed
when the Hayes & Hayes bank failed.
With record yield of peaches in
prospect Yakima valley growers will
open carlot shipments during the COM
ing week and in another 10 days the
peak of the harvest will be on with
an estimate of 1900 to 1000 cars to
be rolled to market.
Sheep valued at $1,000 were killed
by dogs at the ranch home of w. o.
Rogers near Burlington last week.
Thirty blackface Hampshires were
killed and many injured. Rogers
blamed hunting dogs which belonged
to nearby camping party.
The Clark county school census for
1928 shows total Of 1904 boys and
girls between the ages of and 81
years, compared with 1,163 last year.
The value of school sites and build
ings this year total $1,301 ,9O659, COM
pared with s1,O81,O5O in 1927.
The yield this year of second cut
ting alfalfa in the irrigated farming
district of the lower Status Creek val
ley, on the Yakima Indian reservation
adjacent to the eastern Klickitat coun-
ty wheat belt on the north, has been
the largest ever obtained in the local
ity.
During the week Of September 10 to
Is the interest of the entire north
west will be centered at the thirty
second Washington State Fair to be
| held at Yakima. Practically every
city in the state will be represented
| in the livestock and educational ex-
| hibits.
Total primary registration figures
for Seattle are 12S,664, the highest
registration in the city's history, it
was announced. Similar heavy regis
tration was reported throughout the
| state. Tacoma's total is 42,S43 and
Spokane's was reported about the
| same.
An old-fashioned horse-and-buggy
show and parade is planned for the
| Cowlitz county fair at Woodland for
Thursday, September 6, by George E.
| Cochrane, manager of the fair, when
all persons arriving at the fair grounds
in horse-drawn vehicles will be ad.
mitted to the fair free.
Two wild whistling swans that took
up their abode on Wenas lake, near
Yakima have been captured by Game
Warden Drolet and his assistants and
are being cared for at the county game
farm. The species is said to be near
ly extinct Drolet expects to keep
them at the game farm.
Edward Mahar, So, state highway
department employee of Quinault, was
killed instantly last week at a log.
ging road grade crossing in the Olym-
pic national forest eight miles south
of the lake, when truck in which
he was riding crashed with one of a
string Of skeleton log cars.
A big union Sunday school picnic
was held last Sunday at Lewis and
Clark state park IL miles southeast
of Chehalis on the Pacific highway.
1t is sponsored by the American Sun
day School union. E. R. Martin, dis
trict superintendent for Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, was the speak
er.
Bands of Klickitat range sheep win
tering at home ranches along the Co.
lumbia river in central Klickitat coun-
ty will find meager supply of grass
forage in the hills when they are
brought from high mountain pastures
in the Columbia National forest this
fall. Grass fires have swept many
pastures clean.
Grain growers in Clark county are
pleased with the yield this year. Fall.
sown wheat and oats yielded heavily
and spring sown grain-oats, wheat
and barley-were above the average.
AS the weather was good all through
the harvest season, the quality was
unimpaired by rain, which usually
falls during the grain harvest.
With less than 200 feet of tunnel
remaining to be driven, and the Van
Wrinkle creek dam virtually completed,
construction of the new $1,500,000 in
dustrial water system on the lower
Wynooche river is approaching its
final stages, according to Chief Engi-
neer A. M. Torpen. Lining of the tun-
mel with concrete is the principal re.
manning job, he said.
Harvesting is over in the main part
; Of the Klickitat valley wheat belt.
Crops have averaged rs bushels to
the acre, except in the No. 6 neighbor-
hood of the upper Swale section,
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