White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-03-02

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The state highway committee has
called for bids for clearing, draining
and grading of 81 miles on the North
Bank highway between Woodward
creek and Greenleaf, in Skamania
county The contract, for which there
is 100000 available, will be awarded
March 20.
Wire worm study in the Yakima
and Walla Walla districts will be al
lowed $500 year, according to
letter from Representative Summers
to the Yakima chamber of commerce
Estimates put the wire worm damage
in the Yakima valley last year at
100000.
Ten acres of land on Puget island
will be seeded to lettuce during the
coming season by w. G. Coates OF
Cathlamet. Should the market war.
rant and the undertaking prove sue
cessful, Mr.. Coates plans to go into
the business on larger scale next
year, he advised.
The executive committee of the
Klickitat Wool Growers association,
is working on plans for the delivery
of mutton this year +. o. b. nearest
shipping station instead Of driving the
flocks overland to main line shipping
points or loading at interior points
for shipment to main line.
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company will spend about s8,OO0,000
in Washington, most Of it in the south.
west section of the state, in telephone
extension work, it was stated in Long
view recently by George A. Walker,
Seattle, division commercial superin.
tendent of the company.
With a crew Of 113 men employed,
actual construction on the Longview
port district grain elevator was com.
menced last week, and will be contin.
ued day and night until the s370,000
structure is completed. The building
will be 100 feet high, with a steel
superstructure 80 feet high rising
above it.
The city council of Vancouver has
approved resolutions of intention to
| improve Twenty-sixth street, from
Kaufman avenue to X street, 18
blocks, by laying hard surface pave
ment, and Twentieth street from
Broadway to Reserve by grading, gray.
cling and laying concrete curbs and
sidewalks.
John Johnson, 50, one Of the first
sailors ever to enter Aberdeen, and a
pioneer harbor shipbuilder, died last
week, following brief illness. John.
son came to Grays Harbor first 46
years ago, when he came as mate of
one of the first commercial wind
TANNERS ever bringing cargo to
Aberdeen.
Walter Herman, IL, was shot, prob.
ably fatally, and his brother Owen, Is,
suffered a laceration of the hand when
a Spanish-American war rifle with
which the boys were playing at their
home, ~ miles north of Vancouver,
exploded last week. The boys were
| trying to fire a modern cartridge in
the rifle.
Work was resumed on the $4,000
Skagit river span at Mount Vernon,
when Skagit county officials, who had
ordered work halted, reached an
agreement with contractors. The span
already erected will not be tore down,
as was ordered, but defects will be
corrected while the remainder Of the
bridge is being put in place.
1t takes something more than mere
financial support to put an education
al system in first rank, study of
school statistics for the United States
proves. Washington ranks first in
holding power, or keeping children in
school, and heads the list of states in
the United States bureau of educa
tion's survey based on general excel.
lence.
More certified seed potatoes are
raised in Clark county than in any
other county in Washington, Chaplin
Mills, state district horticultural in
spector, said. Potatoes for certified
seed are inspected three times, twice
during the growing period and once
at harvest time, and the seed is safe.
guard against disease. About 10 car
loads were raised in Clark county last
year.
The Mutual Association of Rural
Letter Carriers of Lewis, Thurston,
Mason and Grays Harbor counties
held it's semi-annual meeting in Oak
vile last week. The towns of Elma,
Rochester, Centralia, Chehalis, Yelm,
Winlock, Ceres, Olympia, New Kamil-
chic, Shelton, Little Rock and Oakville
were represented. The next meeting
will be held in Priest Point Park,
Olympia, June II, it was announced.
Seinwat Owhi, daughter of Kitti
tas valley Indian chieftain, died at
Ellensburg at the reputed age of 103
years. Seinwat was born in the Kitti-
tas valley, and had been living for
years with her sister, Cecilia, in FL
lensburg.
Two youthful rohhers obtained