White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-17

rescued her 15-year-old daughter, who
was asleep in one of the rooms, early
| Wednesday morning.
Twenty school districts distributed
| s22,220.89 in Klickitat county last year
for transportation of school children
by bus, according to the annual state
report Of Chester F. Bennett, county
school superintendent.
Harold B. Gilbert of Yakima and l..
L. Thompson of Tacoma have been
named by the supreme court as new
members of the state judicial council.
| They take over the duties of Joseph
Edwards and O. G. Ellis.
Augusta Lee Edwards, Is, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Edwards, of Van
couver, was drowned in the Columbia
river just above the railroad bridge.
He was wading in shallow water when
she slipped into a deep hole.
Delegates of the Pacific States Saw
ings & Loan conference held their an
nual three-day session in Aberdeen
last week. Approximately 100 dele.
gates from 10 western states and
British Columbia were present.
Aberdeen voters who have been lax
in registering are flocking to the city
| hall at the rate of more than 100 per
day, according to nellie Thrift, city
| clerk. A total of 1888 voters has been
| registered, about half Of normal.
Kemp & Hebert, Spokane firm,
announced its purchase of the bust
ness, stock and fixtures of the EN-
| porium department store, which was
established in Yakima by Miles Can.
non and associates % years ago.
Fire sweeping through the timber
| about, three miles south of Spokane
burned several farm houses, large
| amount of timber and about 80 acres
Of standing grain. Several horses
were burned to death on one farm.
Declared to be the largest single
lumber rail shipment ever sent out Of
the Pacific northwest, solid train
load of SO cars left Spokane last week
for North Dakota. 1t will contain
more than one and half million feet
| Of lumber, estimated as enough to
build an entire village of 200 homes of
average size.
The Lewis County Fruit Growers as.
ISOLATION is advertising for 500 tons
of wild Evergreen blackberries, de-
livered at the cannery in Chehalis at
price of cents per pound, delivered.
A station may be established in the
Mossyrock district, which is a center
of hundreds of acres of berries. The
crop is unusually heavy.
Bullets fired by three boy rabbit
hunters on the other side of the Yaki-
ma river made things lively last week
for tourist at the Lone Star camping
grounds near the first Selah bridge.
One bullet splintered table at which
| q IOuAA AoA4l1Ay WCIo CoIAA6 4Io AOO1
meal. Campers rounded up the boys
and turned them over to the police.
Replies to a few of the question
naires sent out by the Yakima cham.
Der of commerce to Yakima apple
growers asking their opinions on the
proposal to eliminate grade apples
| i. ~ ;,,J; l.,
that the growers are divided, and that
majority are against the proposal
OF eight replies, five were opposed tt
the plan.
An explosion that rocked Tacoma
and it's suburbs destroyed the powder
boat La Blanca in the Puget sount
narrows, just west of Tacoma las
week. Windows in all parts Of thu
city were shattered, telephone service
was disrupted and so terrific was thu
blast that it was heard in Seattle, a
miles distant. The crew of two men
Captain Nels Christensen and his sol
Nels, escaped.
Seven COWS of the Cowlitz Count.
Dairy Herd Improvement association
have produced more than 300 pound
Of butterfat for the first six month
of the testing year, the report o
George Hoyer, tester, for July dis
closes. One of the L. H. Goerig COWS
Woodland, grade Jersey, is ahead
having yielded 362.98 pounds of bu1
terfat, and March, a registered Jel
sey owned by Archie Lee Lewis, WOOD
land ranks second, with 349.35 pounds
Solution of water and epson salts
which abounds in great quantities i
North Okanogan county, is the "clea
quill' for killing green aphis, and
routs grasshoppers, it was revealed b
C. F. Dement,, deputy internal revenu
collector, who vouches for the stor
as told him by an Oroville rancho
t The rancher said he tried the solutio
| on plants and flowers, which wer
badly infested with aphis and gras
] hoppers. He sprinkled the plants an
3 flowers with an ordinary hand sprinl
: Ter and investigation later showed til
y aphis' were killed while grasshoppel
failed to return.
Z Grass fires of the last few weel
D have burned over nearly 100000 acre
i of range land between Ethiopia and tt