White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-23

on blackberries land pears. Prunes
will be available for canning about
September 10.
The industrial power rate Of the
Puget Sound Power & Light company
in the Kelso territory for small users
will be reduced 20 per cent, effective
| September 1. the company manage
ment announced.
King county's commissioners have
prepared budget totaling $5,SS9,61S
for the coming year, an increase OF
! $1,OSO,994 over the last budget. Most
Of the extra s1,OOo,0oO is due to re-
| quests for higher salaries.
J. D. Oliver has produced what is
regarded as the largest crop OF wheat
per acre ever grown in the Woodland
district. From a small fraction over
| nine measured acres he threshed 6S4
bushels. So far as can be learned the
best previous crop reported on the
diked lands was about IS bushels.
A. c. Shives has begun getting out
timbers in the Ostrander timber east
of Toledo, to be shipped east for use
in one Of Henry Ford's new manu-
featuring plants. o. M. Layton ship.
ped another consignment Of ship
masts. and booms recently. They
went from Olympia by water to New
York city.
Preparations for the Clark county
fair, sponsored by the oranges, are
nearing completion and the grounds
and buildings will be ready when the
gates swing open August %. The fair
will be strictly agricultural and In
dustrial, with harness and running
horse races every day on the half-mile
dirt track.
While a crowd of about 1000 citi.
zens looked on, the 41st tank com
pany, Centralia's national guard unit,
demolished a two-story frame house
on Pearl street. Three tanks forced
their way through the structure and
reduced the building to flattened
mass Of boards and timbers in
short space Of time.
Mayor Anderson of Ellensburg has
proclaimed the western cowboy rega-
liza as the official garb of Ellensburg
business men and citizens until the
rodeo September 5, 6, and 8. The
wearing of the brilliantly colored
shirts and big ten-gallon hats is to
advertise the rodeo in the form of pub
lie spirit and cooperation.
Tentative appropriation of s125,000
was made in the Yakima county com
missioners 1880 budget for a building
at the county poor farm to house 100
men and women dependents. Two
hundred dollars was allowed for
emergency airport expenses, but the
commissioners indicated that there
would be no further allowance.
Clark county prune growers report
heavy droppage of immature fruit,
but this is not likely to affect the
yield, w. H. Wood, manager of the
Washington Growers Packing corpor-
I alton, said. Prunes always shed large
quantities of green fruit before the
final growth starts, and this makes
for better and larger fruit that ma
lures.
Granting Of an automobile freight
line franchise from Seattle to Walla
Walla would greatly aid the develop
ment of Walla -Walla as a marketing
center for southeastern Washington
and northeastern Oregon, it was said
in the hearing on the matter held ut
the chamber of commerce rooms at
Walla Walla recently, by the state
department of public works.
The champion fish story Of the sea.
son is being told at Gig Harbor by
G.. o. Austin, whose dog "treed" a
huge shark in deep water off Point
Richmond and in the battle that fol-
lowed Unanswered the. big fish close
enough to shore that Mr.. Austin and
other campers were able to kill it with
an ak. The fish measured eight and
half feet long when landed.
Cracks in the plastering and mas
onry of the state capitol building,
which have appeared during the last
year and are widening continually
result from the natural settling of the
building and do not indicate any real
weakness in the structure, in the
opinion of Clark V. Savidge, state
land commission, and G. w. Clausen
state auditor, members Of the state
capitol committee.
Olympia's longest married couple
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Simmons
celebrated their 65th anniversary witt
party at Priest Point park recently
They were married in Seattle in 1854
when Seattle included only few 10.
cabins. Mr.. Simmons, IS, was borl
at Washougal, and was said to hav'
been the first white baby seen by TIN
Indians of the Columbia river country
The Indians called him "Eagull."
q The fifth death by drowning in tn
+; Yakima valley in three days occurre,
+ recently when Alta Frick, 16, wa