White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-10-25


ing the big flume In the Manson IT.
rigation district destroyed by forest
fires this summer.
In an address before Walla Walla
poultrymen and business men F. D.
Sanders, president of the Washington
Cooperative Egg and Poultry associa-
ton, said that while cooperative
marketing will help the farmers it is
not complete cure-all.
The $50 members of the Grand
Mound Fruit Growers association, a
cooperative group, gained a net In.
come Of 100000 this year, it was re.
ported at the annual membership
meeting. The chief product of the
members is Strawberries.
A half-million-dollar increase in
King county's road budget adopted by
the county commissioners will fix the
1880 levy at nearly Is mills, as com.
pared with 1920 last year. The total
levy in the old city limits of Seattle
next year will be 76.4O mills.
A deer hunter, John Fisher, II, was
instantly killed in the Woodland vicin
ity while hunting about seven miles
from the home of his parents. He was
drawing his rifle to him by the muz.
zle when the hammer caught on a
twig and the gun was discharged.
One Of the tallest smokestacks in
the northwest will be built in Aber.
deem by the Aberdeen Plywood com.
pany. The stack will be 240 feet high.
Piling for the structure is now being
driven. A $4,000 boiler house will
be built in connection with the stack.
The Grayland cranberry harvest has
started, but the berries are not as
plentiful as last year. The crop, how
ever, is of excellent grade and is COM
handing top price. Some 40 acres
are planted to cranberries in the Gray.
land district, along the beach between
Grays harbor and Willapa harbor.
Telephone connections in Longview
and Kelso made a net gain Of 60 for
the month ending September 20, &C
cording to E. F. Pavey, manager of the
new exchange located in Longview.
The net gain for the year totals 273,
each month showing steady gain.
The total connections now are 1850.
A shift in the wind, followed by rain,
checked the forest fire which for a
time threatened the town of Index,
situated in the foothills of the Cas-
cade mountains. The fire, which was
burning in slashings of the Wallace
Falls Timber company, caused a loss
of $4,000 before it was controlled.
Joint luncheon was held recently by
Pasco chamber Of commerce and the
Kennewick commercial club. A dele
cation Of Wenatchee business men
were present and presented the plan
for the Loop highway as advocated by
Wenatchee. The two commercial
bodies indorsed the Loop highway
plan.
Representatives of seven Yakima
valley towns met at Buena and laid
final plans for formation of the Cen
trail Valley district council of Boy
Scouts. The district will be composed
Of Scout groups in Toppenish, Grang-
er, Zillah, Buena, Wapato, White Swan
and Harrah.
DR.. H. S. Foskett received the sur
prise of his life when he developed
X-ray plates taken of the neck Of j..
M. Roberts of Pasco and found three
vertebrae badly fractured. Roberts,
who had been going about his work
as usual, was Immediately put into a
cast which prevents any movement of
his head except the lower jaw.
Illustrating the truth of some old
adage or other, tiny mouse, after
eating to capacity of popcorn In a
Kennewick display window, ran
around the display platform for an
hour in an agony of fright. The mouse
had eaten SO much popcorn that it was
unable to make it's exit through the
tiny hole by which it had entered.
Pasco head lettuce harvest has be-
gun. Recently enough lettuce was
brought in so that one carload was
sent to Butte. The weather has been
warmer than desired and the heads
are not as firm as they will be when
| cooler weather comes, but they are
large and have excellent flavor. About
$50 cars of lettuce are growing in
the Pasco district.
The Cowlitz County Dairy Herd I'm.
| provement association has ten COWS
which have produced over $50 pounds
of butterfat in the first eight months
of the testing year. The leader is a
grade Holstein, Flora, owned by Dur
rer & Kyne, Castle Rock, which has
made 414.21 pounds of butterfat. Two
Of the Charles Wagner grade Guern-
seys, Woodland, were second and
third, producing 3S4.99 and 3S2.19
pounds respectively.
Mrs. Mary Dean, about 81, postmis'
tress of Glenwood, died in hospital
at Hood River, Or, as the result Of an
| accident at Glenwood RECENTLY. Mrs