White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-01-20


association were elected by acclama-
ton just before closing the annual
convention in yakima last week.
Two building permits aggregatins
$4,000 in major Hoquiam structures
were granted by the city engineer.
one to the United Building company
for the construction of $4,000 thea
ter building and the other to Elmer
Anderson for the construction Of a
5000 bath and apartment house.
Centralia's postal receipts in 1927
totaled $42,586.43, a gain of more than
$4,000 over 1926, it was announced at
'he postoffice. The 1926 total, which
advanced the Centralia office to the
first class, was $40,586.43. Every quar-
ter of 1927 showed an increase over
the corresponding period Of the pre-
ceding year.
Congressman Summers has given
notice to onion growers of Yakima and
Walla Walla valleys of hearing on
the onion tariff by the tariff commits.
sion February 9. About 3O,O00,00O
pounds of onions are produced in
these districts and the growers seek
an increase in the present duty of 81
cents bushel.
New business offered the Federal
Land bank of Spokane for December
amounted to $S74,525, making $780,
17S for 1927. This represents gain
over 1926 Of nearly $1.25O,0O0. The
peak was reached in October with a
total of $1,7OO,000 in loans applied for,
since when there has been a normal
seasonal decline.
Members of the Washington Grow
ers' Packing corporation have been
mailed the first payment since the
initial payment on delivery of their
1927 strawberry crop, w. H. Wood,
manager, said. The 1927 pack, 5000
5O-gallon barrels, was double that of
the year preceding. Another bumper
crop is expected in 1928.
The registration at the Ellensburg
normal school of $50 students, is with
in one of the record enrolment for
that school, 567, made two years ago,
it was stated by Miss Sophia Fowler,
registrar. Additional registrations are
expected, thus setting new attend
ance mark. OF the 568 now in school
157 are men students, new high
record.
To punish herself for some sin, Mrs.
Envy Tochi, rs. Japanese maid at Sc
attic, cut about an inch off her tongue
last week. She was in a hospital and
physicians expressed doubt whether
she would ever be able to speak again.
The offense the woman believed she
had committed was not known, but
Japanese there said their countrymen
frequently punish themselves In sim
liar manner.
The 9TH infantry celebrated the
both anniversary Of the organization
of the regiment last week, with an
appropriate program given in the Vic
tory theater, Vancouver barracks. The
7th infantry was organized under the
act of congress approved in July, 1898.
The battle of Tippecanoe was the first
in which the regiment was engaged
and the Aisne-Marne and Meuse-Ar-
come offensives were the last.
The net income from the interstate
bridge in 1927 exceeded the net in
come in 1928 by $27,e34.74 and dis
bursements in 1927 were $3506.02 less
than in 1926, according to the report
of Auditor Rae, made at the monthly
meeting of the commission held in
Vancouver last week. Gross receipts
in 1927 from all sources totaled $780,
229.14; disbursements totaled $48,-
9S1.59; net for distribution, $751;
247.55.
Whether or not leap year has had
an adverse effect on marriage or there
is general tendency to avoid matri-
mony, the fact remains that only IS
licenses had been issued in
Vancouver up to January IA, compared
with 80 for the same period last year,
a loss of 81. That the women fear
they may be charged with taking ad-
vantage of leap year If they rush into
early in the month was one
explanation offered to account for the
slump.
Production of West Coast Lumber
mems association mills was on high
er scale during the first week of 1928
than in the preceding week, but the
volume of sales was smaller and ship
ments showed but a negligible gain.
The output Of the 113 mills reporting
for the week ending January z was
63,876,727 feet, orders accepted were
for 64,6S1,074 feet and shipments to-
tailed e8,365,560 feet. Production the
preceding week, when 100 mills re-
ported, was 49,238,474 feet, new bust
ness was 67,317,914 feet and ship
ments 66,522,971 feet.
Washington ranks first in the Unit
ed States and Whitman county first
In the state in the holding power over