White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-05-17


censes were issued in Vancouver dur
ing April, compared with ISL year
ago. Licenses for the year to date
total 663, drop Of seven under last
year.
Despite adverse weather conditions,
strawberries in the Cloverdale district,
south of Kalama, and in the Lewis riv-
or valley, will yield heavily. barring
severe late frosts, according to Ed
Pisila, president of the Cloverdale and
Lewis River Cooperative Berry Grow
ers' association.
The 1929 picnic of the Southwest
Washington Old Settlers association
will be held in the Lieuwellyn grove
near Rochester Saturday, August IT.,
according to decision of the directors.
T. I. Dodge Of Nina is president Of
the association and Charles L. Stick
lin of Cntralia secretary.
Clam digging results this season
have been way below the average
around Long Beach. Seven canneries
are in operation on the peninsula and
the competition to obtain the clans
has been keen. The price has risen
from cents a pound to 10 cents, with
talk of still larger offers.
The Puget. Sound Power & Light
company was granted 25-year fran.
chises by the Lewis county commits
sioners to use large number of the
streets in the original townsite of
Doty; also in Taepelt's first and sec.
ond additions to the town Of Doy for
it's power transmission lines.
The Long Beach chamber Of COM
merce is busy with the details for it's
eighth annual tourist ball Saturday,
June J., and will mark the opening of
the summer season. In cooperation
with Astoria chamber of commerce
free ferries will be run that night car
rying all persons with their autos to
the ball.
Lack of Industrial water is begin
ming to worry Seattle, causing Mayor
Edwards to instruct city engineers to
make survey of the possible sources
Of supply. Much of the uneasiness is
due to the fact that prevailing high
rates on commercial water discouraged
some seekers of locations for indus
trial plants.
Three hundred boats operating drift
Columbia river near Wishram in cen
trail Klickitat county this year in ad-
dition to fish wheels and seines. The
Chinook run is reported to be excep-
tionally good and commercial fisher
men are receiving 20 cents a pound
for their catch.
The Fidelity Construction company
of Vancouver has been awarded the
contract to erect a new school house
in the Burton district on bid of $5379
: for which bond issue was recently
authorized. A feature Of awarding the
contract was difference of only 81
cents which was the deciding factor
and the difference between the lowest
bids considered.
Grays harbor recently observed the
18th anniversary Of it's discovery. 1t
was May z, 1892, that Captain Robert
Gray in his three-masted ship Column
bia sailed over the bar to discover the
big harbor fringed by forests. He
named it Bullfinch harbor in honor Of
one of the hackers of his expedition
l but less than a year later the name
, was changed to honor him.
: Centralia members Of the Washing
ton Cooperative Egg and Poultry as
ISOLATION have just received their
share, $70S3, of $1S7,S49 in preferred
7 stock issued by the organization tc
the membership as a refund on feed
; purchases during 1928. The feed re
fund is made once year, the pre-
ferred stock drawing eight per cent in
!. terest and being retired after two OF
/. three years.
y Several changes in the Washington
r motor vehicle laws, approved by The
t last legislature, will become effective
June 10. Half-rate licenses will be OF
a sale July 1, instead of August l, al
r was the case under the old law. Thu
o new law provides for transfer of plates
n to the new owner when car is solt
a instead of requiring new license. AL
n nonresident motorists will be required
e to register after June 10.
Many Of the rural schools Of Cow
G litz county closed their years worl
J. last week. One school, the Keatle
8 school, north of Castle Rock, close
r. April 20. The Woodland, Castle ROCK
}. Toutle and CAROLS schools will clos
n about May II. The Kalama schoo
J. which is having 91z months of wor
II this year, will not close until late thi
e month, and the Kelso and Longvie,
schools will end their work June z.
b Mrs. Hulda Klager, whose annua
g. lilac Sunday had come to be an even
" in Woodland, says that instead of dei
H. ignating one certain day as lilac da
b that the week beginning May IL wi
I be lilac week at her garden in WOOD
8 land
p The Weyerhaeuser Timber compan
n has ordered three locomotives G