White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-01-13

week offering five pounds of candy
for five tons of snow. A transfer com.
pany took him up, delivered the snow,
got the candy, and the proprietor sad
ly shoveled the snow back into the
street.
Yakima begins 1928 with a popula-
ton of 1886, according to report of
survey made by the Newspaper Fea-
ture Bureau for the Yakima chamber
of commerce. This figure represents
a growth Of A per cent since the 1920
census, which put the population at
1853.
Whether Vancouver is losing popu-
larity as Gretna Green or other near
by county seats are bidding for Ore
gon marriage license business, the
fact remains that there has been
steady decline in the last four years
in the number of marriage licenses
issued there.
The Carlisle Lumber company has
a crew of men engaged getting the
bunk houses in shape for the night
shift, which is to be put on at it's saw
mill in Onalaska about February 1.
1t is expected that between $50 and
200 additional men will be added to
the company's payroll at the mill.
More than las delegates attended
the Northwest Gamers association
meeting in Seattle last week. They
represent an investment of close to
$30,0O0,00O in Washington, Oregon and
Idaho, and their talk was of canning
such northwest fruits and vegetables
as Strawberries, prunes and carrots.
The Aberdeen chamber of commerce
has voted unanimous disapproval of
the proposed introduction of tele-
chronometers on Grays harbor. The
vote was taken at the request of the
state department of public works,
which is investigating a petition sign
ed by 100 harbor people asking for
the installation.
The five banks of Walla Walla had
more money on deposit at the close of
business December 81, 1927, than any
time on record at the end of year,
according to a tabulation of the lists
in response to a call from the con-
troller of currency. The total was
$11, 698,636.28. December 81, 1926. the
total was $1O,213,453.34.
The second New Year fatality in
Cowlitz county occurred Sunday when
G. S. Hunt, about 20, was burned to
death in the house he occupied alone,
five miles from Stella, on the Column
bia river. The first fatality reported
occurred in Kelso Saturday night when
w. H. Lawr died from injuries re-
ceived from a falling awning.
The Camas Telephone company,
with the end in view of extending the
service to other districts, has applied
to the county commissioners for So
year franchise to erect and maintain
transmission lines along the roads
and streets outside of the incorporated
towns. The commissioners fixed Feb
ruary as the date of hearing on the
application.
An average Of 81 mills reporting to
the West Coast Lumbermen's associa-
ton for the year 1927 produced 5,243,-
995,O97 feet, sold 5,O99,696,534 and
shipped 5,O32,S72,749 feet. During 1925
an average Of 106 mills produced g.
476,610,276 feet, sold, 5,348,172,137 and
shipped 5,371,S05,3S8. In 1925 an av-
erage of lib mills produced 5148,148-
1873, sold 5,3O6,81S, 1872 and shipped s.
314,323,77S feet.
President Coolidge nominated the
following Washington postmasters last
week: William G.. Powell, at Aber-
deem; Mark Harris, Brush Prairie;
Eliza F. Head, Cathlamet; julius G.
Raaberg, Charleston; Herbert P. Fish
err, Garfield; Ernest r. Anderson, La
Center; Anna M. Robertson, Montesa-
no; George w. Edgerton, Puyallup;
Warren P. Cressy, South Bend; James
H. Adams, Waitsburg.
Seattles plans for municipal air
port, already hampered by lack of
unity in the city council, hit serious
snag last week when the state finance
committee refused to purchase the
100000 issue of airport bonds. The
state committee turned down the bond
issue on the advice of Attorney-Gen.
eral Dunbar, who ruled that it was an
emergency issue and therefore could
not be classed as general obligation
bonds.
Senator Jones has obtained passage
in the senate Of his bill to clear up
the slate of the Okanogan reclamation
project in eastern Washington, where
settlers have been hard pressed be-
cause of water shortage. The bill
provides for payment Of $4,000 year
for 81 years in full discharge Of all
obligations held by the federal govern
ment and project reduced to $500
acres is to be turned over to the water
users for operation. This represents
q charge off Of more than 100000.
The population of Aberdeen at the
start of 1928 is 25,562, according to an
estimate just prepared by Washing