White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-06

An Industrial census Of Grays Har.
Dor county was started recently by
Walter E. Rumemlin, field agent for
the United States department Of com
merce, who is expected to spend a
week or 10 days on the survey.
The annual reunion of the Bozarth
family occurred at Woodland Sunday
when a monument was dedicated to
Squire and Mile Bozarth and their
RI children who crossed the continent
and settled at Woodland in 1845.
A larger area in Clark county will
be planted to potatoes this year than
was planted last year, due largely to
the fact that rains prevented planting
spring grain and the vacant fields
are being planted to late potatoes.
Establishment Of grades on peaches
was favored in resolution passed in
meeting of the Yakima Peach Grow.
ers' council at Donald last week. The
state department of agriculture will be
asked to call grade conference to
consider the formulation Of grades.
Elma's eighth annual strawberry
festival was attended by crowd es-
timated to be only three-fourths Of
that Of former occasions, due to the
number of counter affairs of like
nature, held last Sunday. Berries and
cream were served to $500 persons.
The state highway between Yakima
and Ellensburg will be closed June
20 for 81 days, E. G. Simpson, state
highway engineer, announced. Oiling
of a 35-mile stretch Of the highway
through rough canyons will necessi.
tate the closing. Traffic is to be rout-
ed over the old highway through We.
mas valley.
Upon receiving formal complaint
from the city Of Everett against in.
creased rates for telechronometer
service of the Puget Sound Telephone
company, the department of public
works last week suspended the new
tariff which was to have become eff
fective July and set hearing for
| September 26 at the Everett chamber
of commerce.
The first carload of fresh packed
frozen strawberries of the 1928 crop,
100 barrels, was shipped from Van.
couver by the Washington Growers
Packing corporation to Kansas City,
Mo. The total of 5000 barrels have
been packed and the strawberry sea-
son is virtually over. Raspberries
will be packed in barrels this year by
| the association.
State contractors engaged in oiling
highways of the Hoquiam district have
completed work on the Hoquiam-Lake
Quinault stretch of the Olympic high
time spent in the operation. 1t is un.
derstood that the crews will start I'M
mediately on the Elma-Grand Mound
stretch and move next week to the
Chehalis-Raymond highway.
Judge G. B. Kincaid, Palouse, resi-
dent of Whitman county since 1877,
was unanimously elected president Of
| the Whitman county pioneers associa-
ton at the annual picnic and business
meeting held in Pullman last week.
| About $50 pioneers attended the pic
mic. The annual report of the secre-
tary showed that 70 pioneers had an.
swered the final call since last year.
picnic.
The United States engineers will
hold hearing at the Kelso city coun-
Gil chambers July 10 regarding the
applications Of the Washington state
highway department for permits to
construct bridges across the Cowee-
man and Kalama rivers in Cowlitz
county to replace the present Pacific
highway spans across those streams,
which have been limited to loads Of
less than ten tons.
j.. M. Baker and nine associates who
are prospecting for oil at the Baker
service station near the Walla Walla
river were heartened recently when
black oil gushed from the bottom Of
the 13-foot hole for five minutes. The
squirt of oil was about as big around
as cigar, Baker stated. Baker and
others began searching for oil several
months ago when the domestic water
supply became so tainted with oil it
could not be used.
Camas Prairie cattlemen have been
rounding up cattle held in spring pas
ture in the foothills of the Mt. Adams
country, getting ready to move them
to permanent summer pastures leased
by the Mt. Adams Cattle association
on the Columbia National forest re-
serve. About one and one-half miles
of pipe line has been laid to carry
water to dry parts Of the range and
drift fence Of about three miles made
TO separate the early range from the
alter.
The Woodland section of the Glover.
lale.Lewis River Cooperative Berry
Growers has delivered at the Wood.
land receiving station over 1850
crates of strawberries for the cannery.
These at the contract price of cents
bring the growers $4,000.