White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-16

MIS-. VIII christian, 10, residing near
Carlson in northeastern Lewis county.
together with her 3-months-old infant,
had burned to death. Mrs. Christian
was canning fruit when gasoline
stove exploded.
Walla Walla rural schools showed
an increase In attendance and salar-
les to teachers, the annual report.
just completed by Miss Fannie Dun
woodie, county school superintendent.
shows. Total enrolment was $3.50.
compared with 6235 for last year.
Yakima shippers Of export apples
will not, contribute to the pay Of q
man to police export docks. At q
meeting of the Yakima Valley Traffic
& Credit association, at which the
action was taken, it was stated that
Wenatchee shippers had made SINH
lar decision.
| A fire which gained considerable
Roadway within the building before
1t was discovered, and which the fire
department was powerless to control
because of the explosion of a guam
tity of gasoline and oil, RACED the
warehouse of the Chinook packing
house in Cathlamet recently.
Grain harvest in the Ridgfield sec
ton of Clark county, which com.
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swing, with ideal weather prevailing.
Practically all OF the winter wheat
and considerable oats have been cut
and threshing has started In earnest,
with five or six outfits in the field.
Contracts for clearing Of right Of
way have been let, steel has been or.
dered and work has started on the
construction of the new high voltage
electric transmission line between
Aberdeen and Raymond, with its
branch to the new hydro-electric pro-
ject soon to be constructed on North
river.
Depositors in the defunct Ameri-
can Security bank of Vancouver will
receive Is per cent payment soon,
it was announced. The bank was
taken over March Is by the state de-
partment of banking at the request
of the directors and about 100000
In deposits have been tied up since
that date.
Inmates of the Washington state
penitentiary at Walla Walla took
$65.62 from their earnings to buy
flowers for the funeral of Nathan Eg-
gar Hussey, turnkey, who dropped
dead at the prison recently. Hussey,
who had worked in every cell block
of the prison, was greatly liked by
all the prisoners.
Evergreen blackberries, which grow
wild in great profusion around Monte
sano, will be harvested again this
year, according to an announcement
made recently. l.. ]. Esses of Mon
tesano has made contract by which
he agrees to furnish the Washington
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Canning company, Seattle, with $50
tons of the berries.
Longview was the mecca last week
for 5000 to 1000 loggers and lumber
men from camps and mills all over
the northwest and $4,000 interested in
the thrilling sports of the nations
most picturesque workers-the lum-
berjacks gathering for the first an
nual Rolleo, two-day festival of
woodsmen's contests.
Resulting from cranking car in
gear which ran over her, Mrs. L. q.
Lane is in the Ellensburg general hos
pital with broken back and pos
sibility of being paralyzed for life.
Mrs. Lane attempted to crank the
car, which had been left in gear, and
as the car moved forward she tried
to stop it by pushing on the radiator
cap.
Eight suits totaling $S6,750 have
been filed in superior court at Mon
tesano against Grays Harbor county
and the city of Aberdeen in connec-
ton with the accident March 8 this
year when two cars plunged through
the open draw of the Wishkah-street
bridge, in Aberdeen, carrying eight
men into the waters of the Wishkah
river.
w. K. Newcombe of the Federal
Land bank of Spokane, reported that
sales of land in Washington, Oregon,
Idaho and Montana have reached ST.
4 100000 so far this year. Cultivation
Of aforementioned lands in the
four northwestern states has increas-
ed 10 per cent over 1928, he said, at
tributing this, to the policy of plac-
ing tenants on the land.
Schools of Clark county cost $685.
650.23 for the fiscal year, according
to the annual report Of Superintend-
ent Krohn. The largest item, 1885,
COLTS, was for the salaries Of 313
teachers. School building and equip
ment were valued at S1,5O0,4S7, and
the school census showed lib chill
dren of school age in the county. The
average daily attendance was 7400.
Kelso is assured of a new library
building as a result of the action of
the city council authorizing the H.
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