White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-03-29

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John Letter, 80 years of age, who
Is ill with pneumonia at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. o. ]. Daugherty, in
Castle Rock, was greatly surprised
recently when DR.. c. w. Lane removed
sewing needle from his back He did
not know how the needle came there.
Fifty boy students in the Yakima
public schools were sworn in last week
at police headquarters as traffic pa
trolmen for service on the streets in
the vicinity of their respective schools.
It was a first step in preparation for
q drive to make the streets safer for
school children.
Garlic will be planted by several
Yakima valley farmers this year in
stead Of hops. A. Roy and e. Allward
Of the Moxes district each will plant
three acres and others in the Outlook
and Ahtanum districts will try the
crop. Onions have been grown in the
valley for years.
A class of IS was graduated from
the Ellensburg normal school at the
end of the winter quarter. Five spe-
cial diplomas were awarded, the re-
mainder being elementary diplomas.
This class did not have formal gradu.
alton exercises, but will join the larg-
er group which finishes in the spring
for ceremonies.
The Schaefer Brothers Lumber and
Door company's new illuminated sign,
by far the largest in Washington and
the second largest on the Pacific coast,
flashed on for the first time at Aber-
deem last week. The huge sign, 100
feet long and so feet high, is mount
ed high over the mill and is visible
from most portions of the city.
Due to the closing down of the big
sawmill at Doty, this once bustling
western Lewis county community cen
ter is now facing critical time in it's
history. It is possible its once we'll
attended and at all times splendid
high school at the end Of the present
school year will soon be thing of
the past. The district has fine
school plant, splendidly equipped.
There has been some winter killing
Of peach blossoms in the Walla Walla
valley, according to orchardists, and
some Of the cherry trees show effects
of cold weather. Apricots also will be
light crop. In the wheat land Sec
tons farmers state there has been no
damage to speak Of. Spring work
which has started in few places will
be under way generally this week.
Centralia's two hatcheries are pro-
ducing to capacity, in order to fill the
long list of accumulated orders. The
Southwest Washington Cooperative
Hatchery, with capacity of $4,000
eggs, is completing two matches week
Of 1000 chicks each. Shipments are
being sent to members in the local
vicinity and to poultrymen on Grays
Harbor and as far south as Vancou-
yer.
Weather conditions continue to be
favorable for bumper fruit crop,
Clark county experts say Cold nights
tend to retard development of the
fruit buds, preventing early blooming,
which is an insurance against damage
by frost and cold rains. Orchard work
Is being rushed, pruning and blowing
are we'll advanced and orchards are
being given the first application of
lime and sulphur spray.
Organization of the board of direc-
tors and election of officers of the
$12,00O,00O Puget Sound Pulp and
Timber company which plans erection
Of 150-ton pulp mill in Everett at an
expenditure of $4,5OO,O00, was com
pleted in Seattle recently. The pulp
mill will employ 600 men and con-
struction will start as soon as the bond
issue necessary to new industrial
water supply system is voted upon.
Last Tuesday marked the 1O4th an
niversary of the Founding of Fort Van
couver, the occasion being observed
jointly at the home of G. D. Tooley,
No. 712 West IL street, by members
Of the Vancouver Historical society
and the Pioneers of Oregon. Original
ly selected as trading post for the
Hudsons Bay company, a portion OF
the original Fort Vancouver is still
retained as military post in Vancou
yer barracks.
Cowlitz county tax receipts set a
new record for the first Is days of
March this year, when $725, 1O6.71 was
received by Treasurer Eden Durham,
compared with s67S,335 last year in
the same period. OF the total this
year $45S,197 was for real estate tax
payments and $25O,077 for personal
property taxes. Real estate tax pay
ments to March Is amounted to ap-
proximately 80 per cent of the total
1923 Cowlitz county realty tax.
Final investigation at the Upper
Wynooche canyon to ascertain the
best site for a dam for Aberdeens
proposed hydro-electric plant will be