White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-11-22
Bullard & MILAN Of Menlo, success


Billiard & MILAN Of Menlo, success
full bidders for the construction Of
hangar at the Willapa Valley airport
at the Wildhaber ranch, started work
Immediately after the letting Of bids
recently by the county commissioners.
An unusual electrical demonstration
was observed in the sky in the vicin-
ity of Montesano. It consisted OF flash
after flash of sheet lightning, showing
up the clouds that were floating in
otherwise clear and moonlit heavens.
Charles Brown Of Tacoma has been
awarded the Acheson trophy by the
Mountaineers club Of Seattle for hero
ism in recovering the bodies Of For
rest Greenhouse and Edwin Wetzel
from a Mount Rainier glacier last
spring.
A report Of Washington State fair
finances, released by Secretary A. q.
Lawson, showed cash receipts for the
fair this year Of $73,S02, about $4,000
more than in 1928. The fair still has
$35, 900 of the $4,000 appropriated by
the legislature for the biennium.
Failing to see second train on an
other track as he halted his automo-
bile and waited for one string Of cars
to go by, G. L. Honeycutt OF Yakima
drove his car into the side Of switch
engine with such force that the car
was wrecked. None Of the occupants
was hurt.
A record run was that Of Clifford
Amsbury, who on his motorcycle ear
ried serum from Seattle to Ellensburg
over the Snoqualmie highway, dis
lance Of 142 miles, in hours and 4b
minutes. The serum saved the life
Of Walter W. Sather, whose leg was
injured in a mine cave-fn.
Heavy loading of Winter Nellis
pears for export features the fruit
movement at Yakima. They are be-
ing shipped to England for the holt
day trade. The total Of the Winter
Nellis crop in the Yakima valley this
season is placed at $50 cars, much
lighter than normal. which is 750 cars.
The steelhead season is open now
in Grays Harbor county and will re-
main open until March 1, the game
commission announces. A change has
been made in the bag limit whereby
anglers will be permitted to take 20
pounds and one fish in any one day.
The limit per week is 40 pounds and
one fish.
Three hundred old-timers were vel
coined to Olympia at the meeting OF
the Pioneers association to commem-
crate the 10th anniversary Of state
hood. Governor Hartley introduced
Mrs. Eliza Ferry Leary, daughter of
the first governor of the state, and
Mrs. Kate Stevens Bates, daughter of
the first territorial governor.
Frank L. Rowland, Northern Pacific
agent in Centralia, announced recent.
ly that his company had discontinued
| passenger train service between Mo
clips and Hoquiam, effective last Sum
day. One passenger train daily has
been operating between the two points
for the last several years. The change
will not affect freight service.
Ivar Krusl1op, dairy rancher living
in the Wynoochee valley, owes his life
to fast and accurate pitchfork WELD
ing by Hans Mems, an employee. KTus-
kop was attacked by an angry bull.
The enraged animal butted him down
three times and stamped on him, and
he was rapidly weakening under the
punishment when Mems, hearing the
commotion, ran to his rescue with q
pitchfork.
The state board Of education has
raised the standard for certification
of teachers. By 1888 1t will require
three years of preparation for teach
ing instead of two, for elementary de
partments, and five years instead OF
four, of college work, for high school,
teachers. The requirements will be
raised owing to the fact that there are
about 1000 unemployed teachers in the
state at present.
The packing Of apples and pears"ir
the White Salmon Underwood districts
is practically completed at the earliest
date in years, due. principally to short
age in the apple crop, which Inspector
Rine reports is about IS per cent t.
40 per cent of last years output. How
ever, pears were unusually plentiful
and of excellent quality, the Noun,
Adams Orchard company alone hav
ing about $4,000 packed boxes, mostly
D'Anjous.