White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-07

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Telephone & Telegraph company.
An X-ray examination failed to dis
close the whereabouts of can opener
key, swallowed by a little.son of Wal
ter Kaufman, residing at Laurel, in
western Klickitat county. The child
has suffered no apparent i'll effects.
The Washington Gamers Co-opera-
tive plant at Vancouver will close
this week after successful run of
several months. The canned fruit
pack, prunes, pears and apples, will
total 10000 cases, and the cold pack
of Strawberries totaled 1000 barrels.
Stockmen in the Camas Prairie
mountain farming region of western
Klickitat county have made second
search of summer range, leased by the
Mount Adams Cattle association, for
stray cattle, not gathered during the
annual fall roundup early in Novem-
Der.
According to figures compiled from
the number of automobile licenses is
sued this year, the cost of owning and
operating automobiles in Clark coun-
ty totals about $8,3S6,240, nearly half
the assessed valuation of all property
in the county. The number of licenses
totaled 12,068.
Plans are being formulated jointly
by the county and port for the con-
struction Of a floating dock at West
port for the use of fishermen operat-
ing off the Grays harbor bar. The
site chosen is in cove half mile
north of the old Westport steamer
dock, abandoned many years ago.
The people of Vancouver are de-
lighted with the pioneer mother"
central figure in the group sculptured
by Arvid Fairbanks for the Crawford
memorial fountain in Esther Short
park, and those who viewed the work
Of art after it was set in place recent
ly were loud in praise of the statue.
Representative Albert Johnson has
just received notice of pension
award dating back more than So years.
The claimant, Robert Kelly of Gig
Harbor Pierce county, will receive ap-
proximately $4,000 as his initial pen.
sion payment. Kelly served in the
regular army in Alaska in the '70s.
The application of Chehalis and
Centralia petitioners asking that the
telephone toll between the twin cities
be eliminated, which was heard by the
Washington department of public
works, has been compromised, accord.
ing to report. The toll will not be
eliminated, but will be cut more than
in half as the result of the hearing.
A committee composed of the heads
Of the Woman's club, Legion auxiliary,
and the various churches, evolved
program for community Christmas
tree to be held in White Salmon, Fri
day, December 81. Ideas for such a
tree have been discussed for the last
three years, but this is the first time
| that all these organizations have en-
.ered into the plan.
Washington state was host to 1877
prisoners in the Washington peniten.
tiary who were given turkey dinner
wit oil 0f e. %,;, ,;,,rr
Of the big days for the prisoners each
year, found the institution with its
population larger than at any other
| previous Thanksgiving. Only one
prisoner was able to find himself
thankful for release and he had finish
ed his sentence
A Thanksgiving turkey that escap.
ed from James Morrow, led the own
er strenuous chase in the vicinity
of the high school in Yakima, and
was gobbling defiance from the roof
of nearby parsonage occupied by
Rev. ]. H. Soltmann and family, when
Earl Ward, living near, brought his
rifle and shipped the birds head Off
with bullet. Several hundred stu
dents watched the performance.
The Washington Beekeepers' asso
citation in closing it's session in va
kima recently passed resolutions ask
ing an increased appropriation of So,
900 from the coming state legislature.
The increase would be used to supple.
ment the fund OF $4,000 for inspection
of colonies in an attempt to keep down
foul brood losses. Cooperation was
asked from fruit growers in handling
of arsenate spray which causes heavy
losses in orchard districts.
School children have nominated the
meadowlark to be the state bird OF
Washington, and it is planned to ask
the next legislature to respect the
choice of the children and give the
meadowlark place alongside of the
state flower, the rhododendron. The
contest was conducted by the state of
flee for common schools and the re
turns showed the meadowlark to be
the favorite in all parts of the state
with the robin second and the bluebird
third.
Abandoned logging roads, originally