White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-05-18

Paul flakOy, By, wealthy buckley
rancher, committed suicide Friday
night at the home of an old friend,
in Aberdeen, by hanging himself with
his necktie. The two were to have
started on a fishing trip Saturday.
Thirty-one wild turkey chicks have
been Matched this year by two hens
purchased last year by the Clark coun-
ty game commission from the state
game farm at Steilacoom, and third
mother bird will hatch brood soon,
County Game Warden McCurdy said.
The grand chapter of Royal Arch
Masons in session in Tacoma last week
elected DR.. James Hofer Johnson of
Chehalis grand high priest to succeed
James Mccormack of Tacoma. Robert
e. Sullivan of Seattle, former grand
king, was elected deputy grand high
priest.
August has been set by the board
of education as the date for the dedi.
cation at Longview of the Robert A.
Long high school, 100000 building
and 36-acre site donated to the school
district by the city's founder, for
whom the school has been named. Mr..
Long will attend the ceremonies.
A new industry was inaugurated in
western Washington with the arrival
last Monday of a carload Of sheep,
the first shipment of an order for 1000
head, placed by farmers of the Che
halls community as the result of a
movement started last fall by ]. T.
Alexander, vice president of the Sc
t;urity State bank of Chehalis.
A new high record for all time in
new business orders received during
the week ending May 5 by 113 mills
of the West Coast Lumbermen's asso-
citation is reported. Orders totaled
1854 ,646,757 feet. The figure compares
with that of 129,366,344 feet received
during the previous week. Shipment
and production figures were also well
above normal.
Searchers patrolled the Yakima
river in search of the body of Hulda
Boston, g. who was drowned at UNI
tanum when boat on cable used to
ferry children to school at Ellensburg
capsized. Laura Roberts, II, and Mrs.
A. H. Shook of Ellensburg, who operat-
ed the ferry, were rescued. Mrs. Shook
grasped Hulda, but the current tore
the child away.
Miss Mary Trask, junior in the
commercial department of the Monte
sano high school, was announced as
the winner Of the state tipping contest,
which was held last Saturday at the
University of Washington, Seattle.
This victory will entitle her to go with
expenses paid to compete in the in
ternational contest to be held in Los
Angeles in October.
| Grays harbor water shipments of
lumber for April exceeded the figure
for April, 1927, by more than 23,000,-
900 feet. Sixty-seven ships called
last month to lift 117,842,0S6 feet Of
lumber, as against 94,46O,O13 feet dur
ing the corresponding month of last
year. Ship tonnage visiting port last
month was 136,185 as compared to 49,
1896 the previous April.
Religion by mail will be tried out
at Aberdeen by Rev. Henry S. Halter,
| pastor of the First Congregational
church. The pastor is planning a
greater parish" in the rural sections
which are without pastoral care, and
will carry on the instruction in spirit
ual affairs by correspondence. Regu.
lar letters will be sent out to people
in the outlying districts, and the chill
dren will have church literature sent
| to them.
| Plans for "dust relief on the roads
of Washington were curtailed when
the state highway committee author.
ized diversion of $94,600 to spread
oil on more than 28O miles of dirt
roads on the west side. The original
program called for an expenditure of
100000 for dust relief in eastern
Washington. Because of the lack of
funds, as we'll as the lack of time, the
oil treatment on the west side will be
extremely light, little more than
sprinkling to settle the dust.
The city of Centralia December /
will begin to enlarge it's water system
and supply at cost of 100000. This
was outlined recently when Mayor
Nugent applied to the state for per-
mission to appropriate $50 second feet
from the Skookumchuck river, trib-
utary Of the Chehalis river Mayor
Nugent pointed out that Centralia's
present water supply was ample for
10000 people, but it was deemed nee
essary to enlarge the supply to meet
the requirements of population of
$4,000. The Skookum chuck will be
carried by 24-mile pipe line.
AS a memorial to the late Judge
Alexander G. Cochran, first grand mas
ter-councillor of the Order of De Mo-
lay, $500 Douglas fir trees were plant
| ed last week in the Columbia National
| forest in southwestern Washington
under auspices of the organization.
Trees planted last week comprise the