White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-30

from MS Hume Week dSO, Was IOuHu
dead by searchers on the railroad
track near Mount Vernon, having been
run over by freight train.
Showing an increase of s8,SS9,727
over last year, deposits in the 243
state banks and trust companies In
Washington have reached a total OF
$780,, 749969, according to H. c. John
son, state supervisor of banking.
Thrown from his fathers automo-
bile, which was travelling IS miles an
hour, when the car door flew open,
Johnny Loomis, 3-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. John LOOMS Of Centralia,
is at hospital with a fractured skull.
After defeating a proposal to con-
solidate with Orchards school district,
residents of the Burton district de-
cided to hold an election December /
to vote on proposal to bond the dis
trict for $500 for the purpose of
building two-room schoolhouse.
The name "Kelso" will be painted
on the roof of the Presbyterian gym
nasium as a guide to airmail flyers.
The Kelso club arranged for the plac-
ing of the sign on the roof when
United States postoffice officials re.
quested that such a sign be placed
there.
DR.. Henry Storgaard, Yakima coun-
ty health officer, reported that he had
quarantined Mrs. l. Mita of Wapato,
Japanese, for hookworm. DR.. Stor-
gard said he thought the case was
the first of the kind in this country.
He believes the present case original
ed in Japan.
In report just made public stu.
dent committee which Investigated un-
dergraduate morals at the University
of Washington declared that there is
some drinking among students, but
the situation "has been exaggerated
and is not as serious as the public has
been led to believe"
About 10000 turkeys were raised in
Clark county this year, according to
William Weller of the Vancouver Pro
duce house. About 5000 will be mar
keted for Thanksgiving and the re-
mainder will be sold at Christmas.
The birds attained good growth and
are in excellent condition.
Washington fruit sent to England is
coming we'll within the spray residue
limit and European officials have sent
congratulations to the Washington
fruit industry on it's success, Manager
Hebert Of the Big organization told
Yakima valley traffic and credit Off
Gals at recent luncheon.
The commercial airport at Van
couver was taken over last week by
the city council on lease for one
year from the Spokane, Portland &
Seattle railroad. The railroad com
pany will not lease land for more than
one year. The airport has been leas-
ed and operated by the Vancouver
chamber Of commerce.
Gables for extension of the orna.
mental light system on Main and
Washington streets in Vancouver, and
the cross streets between have ar
rived and the work of digging trenches
for the cables is under way. The posts
have not been received and the time
of completion of the system depends
on their arrival.
An agreement for taking over the
interstate bridge across the Columbia
river at Vancouver, from Multnomah
and Clark counties, was reached at
Olympia by the Oregon and Washing
ton state highway commissions. The
transfer is to become effective Janu-
airy 1, after which the bridge is to be
operated without toll except to certi-
fled public carriers.
liz uSCI hoOuliu OWCl " Ai6Ht
company has completed construction
of an electric system to serve a large
area of farm land lying between the
Cowlitz and Coweeman rivers, south
of Kelso, and is constructing power
line along the Pacific highway south
of Kelso to serve the cold-storage
room and slaughter house installed by
Frank Wolf of Kelso.
Elmer Astola of Deep River has re-
ceived a patent on device for dig
ging potatoes, which has been tried
out in potato fields in that vicinity
and is claimed to better than the ele.
vator type of digger Manufacture is
cheaper and fewer horses are required,
states .Astola. OF the 463,OO0,O0O
bushels of potatoes produced in the
United States yearly, 60 per cent are
dug by hand.
With last weeks fruit shipment the
total loadings from the Yakima valley
for the present season reached $4,000
cars, making a new high record in the
volume of early marketing, the total
being over 5000 cars greater than at
the corresponding date last eason.
The total of all crop products shipped
from the valley this season is over
10000 cars, and the years total will
be double that amount.
Explosion of an ammonia tank used
in refrigeration is held responsible for
fire that destroyed the warehouse,