White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-02-01

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amounting to IS per cent.
The roar'of artillery awakened resi-
dents in the vicinity of Fort Lawtor
recently when three-round alarm was
fired following the escape of Private
Clifton c. Schott, a youthful prisoner
awaiting trial for desertion.
Frank w. Hull of Seattle is presi
dent of a new organization which
plans to operate chain of first class
1 hotels in all the principal cities of the
Pacific northwest The first will be
opened in Bellingham next summer
Joseph Plastino, So, royal consular
agent for Italy in Washington and Ida.
no and prominent in railroad construc.
ton circles at Spokane, succumbed to
stroke Of apoplexy. He was named
| consular agent in 1922 and for five
| years before that time was consular
| delegate.
An 10 months old baby, lying help
less in his crib while his mother Wis
| tied next door, lost his life in fire
| that destroyed one of the small com.
| pany cottages of the mining village
| at Black Diamond. Little Billy Down
ey, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Downey,
was the victim.
Nearly two hundred sawmill design
ers, builders and operators, represent
ing five Pacific slope states and Brit
ish Columbia, and the Douglas fir,
pine and redwood districts, held a
two-day sawmill engineering confer
ence at Longview, with banquet and
trip through the Long-Bell mills.
Plans for the funeral of Mrs. w. P.
Sawyer at Yakima awaited word from
relatives in Idaho. Mrs. Sawyer was
fatally burned when her clothing ig-
nited as she stood in front of fire
place at her home in the town of
Sawyer, 10 miles south of Yakima,
and she tainted and fell into the fire.
The annual horde of smelt Is COM
ing up the Columbia river. The run
is at present in the vicinity of Cathla,
met. There is considerable conjecture
as to whether the fish will journey up
the Cowlitz or the Lewis rivers. The
Cowlitz was the usual habitat until
two years ago, when they selected the
Lewis.
Organization of cooperative dairy
ing organization, or utilization with
the Lower Columbia Dairymen's asso-
citation, were recommended by the re-
port of the dairy project committee of
the Cowlitz County Agricultural coun-
Gil at it's meeting in Kelso recently,
when a lengthy report Of it's studies
was submitted by the committee.
Gored by a vicious bull, Carl Lund-
berg, "a, barn man employed by the
Carnation stock farms at Carnation
near Seattle, was killed recently
Lundberg was leading the animal by
staff attached to ring in its nose
when the bull broke away and charged
his keeper. Percy King, Lundberg's as
sistant, finally quieted the beast after
it had gored Lundberg' through the
neck.
The Centralia city commission has
passed an ordinance providing for the
construction of hydro-electric plant
on the Nisqually river, to cost $685.,
900, and setting February rs as the
date of a special election to sanction
the issuance of $65O,O00 worth of util
ity bonds. The balance of the cost Of
the project will be paid with accrued
profits of the municipal distributing
system.
R. G. Hill, specialist with the fruit
and vegetable department of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture
bureau of economics, left Walla Walls
recently for Yakima to continue his
work of surveying the prune situation
He will go from Yakima to Boise. HI
is covering in broad way all market
ing angles. He will study the situa
ton in the eastern markets before
making his report.
At the annual meeting Of more thar
HOO stockholders of the Lewis-Pacifi,
Dairymen's association, which wal
held at Chehalis Monday, dividends
totaling more than $4,000 for 1922
were allotted to the members, accord
ing to e. M. Sorenson, superintendent
and manager. During the year thu
associations total sales of dairy prod
ucts aggregated s993,695.43, a gain o
$65,05O3S over 1927.
Leap year had little effect on tn.
marriage license business at Vancou
yer, a check of the license returns IL
the auditors office reveals. Out o
more than $500 licenses issued, abou
the same proportion Of divorced mel
and women Divorces predominating
There was slight falling off in thu
number of very young brides ant
bridegrooms, and an increase in tn,
number of those who had passed mid
die age.
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