White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-06-29

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The bid of the state OF Washington,
par and 40 per cent interest for an
issue of $4,000 of Vancouver school
bonds, was accepted by the school
board recently. The money will be
used to build the new junior high
school at Thirty-second and Main
streets.
The Vancouver city council at the
regular meeting last week let con-
tract for improving East Twentieth
street from Broadway to Reserve, to
Gus Kuyach, on bid Of $9390.81, the
improvement to consist of grading,
crawling and laying concrete side
walks and curbs.
The Pasco-Kennewick bridge over
the Columbia river was reopened for
traffic last week after being out of
commission IL days due to washout.
The bridge handled approximately 400
cars a day during May. Increased
tourist traffic is expected to swell
that number this summer.
S. e. Erdman, drilling contractor en-
gagged in sinking a well at Electric
park in Aberdeen for the Grays Har-
Dor Railway & Light company, was
slightly burned when natural gas,
seeping from 3OO-foot casing, ignited
and spurted up the we'll. The flame
shot several hundred feet into the air.
County Treasurer Bender of Clark
county received $43,O27 in 1927 and
1928 for property acquired by tax fore
closure and resold. The net profit to
the county was $175S7. Property sold
in 1927 brought $11,3O850 with a net
profit of s1S6O.5S. Sales for six
months Of 1928 totaled $31,71S.50 with
a net profit of $15,726.75.
Arrangements are being made for
Fourth of July celebration and picnic
at the Central Ferry bridge across
Snake river. The invocation will be
given by the Rev. Mr.. Hicks, Pomer-
oy; the Grafton by County Superin-
tendent L. T. Babcock, Colfax, and the
Declaration of independence will be
read by A. G.. Farley, Pomeroy.
Mrs. Sylvia Jane Wilson, who was
born while John Quincy Adams was
president and who as woman of 35
crossed the plains to old Oregon with
her husband and six children, while
the civil war was at its height, cele-
brated her Tooth birthday at her home
in Puyallup last week. More than
100 descendants gathered at the fam
lily home to celebrate the event.
Aroused by the explosion of fire
crackers, G. Dellinger rushed to his
little store near Fishers to find that
his stock of fireworks was going up
in smoke. Someone had bored a large
auger hole through the wooden shut
ter before the display window and
touched off the fireworks. Prompt
action saved the building, but the
stock was ruined by fire and water.
Ridgefield was visited by heavy
electrical storm with vivid lightning
and a drenching shower early Thurs
day night, the second within week.
The rain caught some hay which is
down in this part of Clark county and
will further damage the cherry crop,
especially the early varieties, which
are cracking badly. In some orchards
about two-thirds of the crop is so
damaged.
The cannery of the Washington
Gamers Cooperative at Vancouver
will probably not start until pears are
ready to pack, as the machinery can
not be installed in time to handle
cherries, and the cane berries will be
packed in sugar and frozen, the same
as strawberries, w. H. Wood, mana
ger, said. AS there will be only few
driers fired this fall the pack of can.
ned prunes will be heavy.
Showing net profit of 1872, 1881
in the six years of it's operation, the
port of Grays harbor has issued a
summary of incomes and disburse-
ments. The report sets forth that OF
s1,05O, 900 in bonds sold since 1921,
when the port development had its
inception, 100000 has been retired
and an additional 100000 in paper
will be redeemed July 1. Thus half
the bonded indebtedness for the port
project will have been retired in six
years.
B. B. Adams, assistant attorney gen
eral, suggests in an opinion to Chas.
w. Greenough, Spokane prosecutor,
that abatement proceedings be insti-
tuted by county horticultural agents
against orchard owners refusing to
comply with the statutes. This course
was recommended in preference to the
proposed action of the Spokane coun-
| ty agent in cutting down the orchard
trees of an owner refusing to comply
with the statute requiring the spray.
ing of infected trees.
A 26-hour journey which included
four-mile trip on the back OF Eel
low workman, horseback ride, and
two runs via logging train was re
quired to bring Joe Henry, United
States forest service employee, to Ho
GUAM for medical attention after he
had been injured while building trail