White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-02-10

treasurer u. w. dlutOu IepoitCu'
Since the tax became effective in 1921
the state has received a net total col
lection of $15,735,6S3.
Incorporation papers were filed at
Olympia for the Cascade Tunnel asso-
citation, which is promoting construc-
ton of a low-level tunnel through the
Cascade mountains, connecting east
ern and western Washington.
Baker, Kelly and Mclaughlin, with
headquarters in Los Angeles and a
northwestern office at Salem, Or,
have leased the warehouse of Henry
r. James in Rochester and will install
strawberry barreling plant.
J.K. Conger, Castle Rock dairyman,
has received certificate of merit
from the National Dairymen's associ-
alton, awarded to dairymen whose
herds averaged more than 300 pounds
of butterfat per COW during 1926.
Edward Pendleton, w. w. Webster
and G. H. White, convicted at Wenat-
chez of stealing a load of groceries
and foodstuffs from the A. Guthrie
lumber camp last September, were
sentenced to three years in the state
penitentiary.
Theodore Deuber was designated as
acting postmaster at Centralia, sue
ceeding Harry L. Bras, whose re-
moval recently was requested in a
petition to the acknowledgement
signed by number Of leading Cen
tralia citizens.
e. ]. Clark, So, construction super
intendent for Alloway 6 George on
the Kelso port dock elevator, whose
back was broken in a fall, died at the
Longview hospital, following an oper-
alton. His wife and several children
live in Spokane.
The city council of Cathlamet is
planning the improvement Of walks
and wooden steps on either side of
the school house hill in that city, and
has compiled an assessment roll to
show the approximate cost per lot in
the district affected.
Good wheat land in the southern
part of Spokane county will be val
ued at approximately $65 an acre for
assessment purposes under agree
ments reached at the conferences Of
the township assessors and county
equalization board.
At a meeting of the Toledo Com
munity Fair association, it was voted
to incorporate with 500 shares at
$12.50 per share. The directors were
authorized to complete purchase Of
the site for the association with a
view to undertaking building pro-
gram.
An option on 50-acre site, half a
mile south of Kelso city limits, which
A. P. Taliaferro, anyways extension
superintendent for the United States
departm ent of commerce, pronounced
splendid one for an airport, has
been taken by the Kelso club aviation
committee at price Of $3.50 an acre.
The w. H. Ingraham store in Cen
tralia was sold to S. A. Bitar of Ray
mond. Mr.. Bitar is the owner of Bi.
tar's department store, one Of the
largest in Raymond. He will continue
to conduct that business, his son
George Bitar being installed as man
ager in Centralia.
Thirty-one members of the Crimson
w club, composed Of men at the FL
lensburg normal school who have won
letters in athletics, went to Wenat-
chez for funeral services for Joe Cote,
well-known athlete at the normal, who
was electrocuted in Ellensburg while
trimming trees near high voltage
line of the Puget Sound Power &
Light company.
AppllSdLlOhS LUZ lOduS I6CGIVtu NY
the Federal Land bank of Spokane
for January while falling below DE.
cember's total compare favorably in
volume with the offerings of former
years at this season. One hundred
and fifty applications were filed for
$560,275; 70 were approved aggregat-
ing S332,5O0, and $50 loans were
closed for $631,9OO.
Contracts for the supplying of state
owned cars with gasoline during this
year have been signed with the Stand
ard, Union, Shell and General oil com
panies, Supervisor of Purchasing H.
d. Van Eaton has announced. The
states gasoline approximates $165, 000
The contract is at present prices,
with the stipulation that the state re-
ceive the benefit from any reductions.
Bookkeeping is becoming valuable
industry in Thurston and Grays Har-
Dor counties, having doubled in value
SLICE lo1o, dCCoiulHS W esIiHdleS
made by F. j. Campbell, president of
the Washington Association Of Bee
keepers. Mr.. Campbell estimates that
Grays Harbor now has 5000 colonies
of bees, chiefly in the Elma district,
and that Thurston has $500 colonies
Seized by nine hooded men, be-
lieved to be students, when he was