White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-11-29
Flocks of range sheep in winter pas.

Flocks of range sheep in winter pas
lures in the hills along the Columbia
river near Roosevelt, In eastern Kick.
itat county, are suffering from dry poi
soning caused by the extremely arid
condition of ranges this year.
Leaving a note saying they did not
approve Of the teachers, burglars
broke into the Robert Gray school in
the Wishkah valley near Aberdeen
and stole the schools Red Cross fund
and a years supply of pencils.
The Kelso Steam laundry, owned by
Ralph Knapp of Kelso, suffered loss
estimated in excess Of $4,000 by q
fire which damaged the two-story
frame building in which the laundry
is situated and caused heavy loss to
the equipment.
Gordon Ellis, 10, of Yakima, saw
the football fly loose and followed
that fundamental rule and fell on 1t.
His teammates piled above him and
when they were untangled, it was seen
he had been injured. He died as re-
suit of injuries.
Indians have the right to hunt and
fish outside the reservations, but if
they do SO they must comply with all
provisions of the game code, q. w.
Anderson, assistant attorney general,
advised S. F. Rathburn, supervisor Of
game and game fish.
Construction of large factory at
| Aberdeen for the manufacture Of
chairs was started recently. A crew
Of 35 men was put to work preparing
for the foundation. The mill will rise
on port property, midway between
| Aberdeen and Hoquiam.
The second large general meeting
of the newly formed West End Road
| Improvement club will be held Fri
day, December 6, John Bloom, presi-
dent, and Charles RICHARD, secretary,
have announced. The meeting will be
held in the Pacific Beach hotel in
Hoquiam.
Legislation requiring the compul-
sorry examination of all applicants for
motor vehicle licenses and also the
further requirement that photo and
the fingerprints Of applicants be at
tached to the application was Endorsed
at recent meeting of state highway
patrolmen at Olympia.
With the arrival in Aberdeen of
1000 cases of Japanese oyster seed,
new departure in oyster culture was
being inaugurated at the Tokeland
beds on Willapa harbor. The Willapa
Oyster Farms, Inc. is planting the
oysters. Each case contains between
10000 and 10000 oysters.
The official celebration marking the
completion of the Longview Columbia
river bridge and it's opening to traffic
has been set for the middle of Janu-
airy, with the exact date yet to be
named. The event will be participated
in by the entire west coast from San
Francisco north to Seattle.
A forced landing on top of Seattle's
largest department store was accom-
plished without injury to the pilot and
/ two passengers of a disabled airplane
recently. Bob Wark, pilot, found his
ship in distress while flying over the
city. He could spot no place to land
except the large flat roof Of the Bon
Marche store.
Indians of the Quinault, Queets and
Quillayute districts have Endorsed a
plan for extending the Roosevelt high.
way along the cost of Washington as
far north at least as LaPush. This
would require new roads between Ia
holah, near Aberdeen, and the mouth
of the Queets, and between the Hob
river and LaPush.
The North Pacific Grain Growers.
Inc, which will function as regional
cooperative for farm relief, was form
ed at Spokane by farmers from Idaho,
Oregon, Montana and Washington.
The organization will be linked with
the Farmers National Grain corpora
ton and will function under the ma
tional farm relief act.
Several hundred people assembled
at Randle recently for the dedication
of $4,000 school building. 1t re-
placed frame structure that was
burned last January. The building Ia
of brick veneer and is expected to
supply the high school needs of the
Big Bottom portion of eastern Lewis
county for many years.
The executive committee of the
Southwest Washington Good Roads
association met in Centralia recently
and completed it's organization with
the adoption Of bylaws. ALI of the
nine counties in the association
Lewis, Clark, Grays Harbor, Klicki
tat, Thurston, Cowlitz, Pacific, Wah
kiakum and Skamania, were repre-
sented. 1t was voted to extend invt
tations to Clallam, Pierce, Kitsap, JET
ferson and Mason counties to affiliate
and adoption of formal program
was deferred pending word from those
; counties.
Accomplishing what paid director
with practically the same crew fail
! ed to do last year, John c. Lampert