White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-09-06

tural Gas company for pipeline to
serve Sunnyside, Grandyiew and Nab
ton.
Residents of the little town Of
Boyds were preparing to make last
desperate stand against the wind
driven Dollar mountain forest fire,
which had been carried to the edge
of the Kettle river, within striking
distance of the town. The fire had
covered more than 10000 acres.
Continued good weather is the hope
of Clark county prune men, w. H.
Wood, association manager, said re-
Gently. The recent rain did not last
long enough to damage the fruit and
no more is needed, as drying will
start in about two weeks. Dryers are
being repaired and renovated and will
be ready when the harvest starts.
The large warehouse Of Strauss &
Co., built at Tekoa 80 years ago, has
received a record amount of wheat.
According to the manager !. S. Woods,
] 5000 sacks were taken in through one
| door, which is more than has been
handled there on any previous day.
The elevator Is filled and care Of the
abundant crop is strain on ware.
house space.
c. C. Sperry and A. G. Martin, biol
ogists of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, we're in Aberdeen
recently making a survey for a posi-
BILE migratory bird refuge somewhere
| in the Grays Harbor district. They
said they are surveying the entire
| western portion of Washington, and
that such sanctuary would have to
be selected by congress.
| First honors in the canning division
of the Cowlitz county juvenile fair
at Woodland went to the Silver Lake
| Canning club. The Longview Baking
club placed first in that division, with
the Rose Valley club second and the
Woodland Baking club third. Bert
Brown of Woodland was judge in the
| garden division, in which the Castle
Rock Garden club took first honors.
The Long-Bell Lumber company
has abandoned what it is believed was
one of it's most unique operations with
the removal recently of its shingle
manufacture to a permanent single
mill within the plant site. Formerly
the shingles were manufactured at
plant located on huge barge which
floated in the log-pond Of the mill.
and which was the only floating shin
gle mill known.
Major Evan w. Estep, superintend-
ent of the Yakima Indian agency, and
prominent White Swan business men
were the pallbearers at the funeral of
Abraham Lincoln, venerable Indian
interpreter. A congregation Of nearly
a thousand neighbors and other res
ervation friends of the aged man at.
tended the service in the Indian Meth
odist church at White Swan. Lincoln
was born at Vancouver, Wash, in
1847.
Superior Judge j. M. Phillips set
$4,000 as the present fair market
value of the Hoquiam water system
in memorandum decision handed
down few days ago. The decision
closes as far as the local superior
court is concerned the condemnation
suit of the city of Hoquiam against
the Oregon-W Water Service
company, owners of the plant. The
company valued the property at $780,
900.
Yakima fruit growers and shippers
will not be without tests of their spray
residue, though Governor Hartley and
Erie j. Barnes, state director of ag-
riculture, refused to continue the lab.
oratory heretofore conducted under
state auspices. The Yakima Valley
Credit and Traffic associations will
take over the state equipment, hire a
chemist and cut the fee from So to
$1.75. The service will be open to all
fruit men.
The addition of rural districts Locke
Hill and Laws Corners to White Sal
mon schools will increase the enroll
ment in both Columbia union high
and the grades. To care for the new.
fy acquired communities two new
buses will be operated this fall,
making total of six up-toate "kid
wagons" for the various routes.
Among other improvements new
$3.50 fire escape is in course Of con-
struction on the grade building.
Speeding at the rate of IS miles an
hour, an airplane piloted by r. G.
Graham seeded $50 acres of land on
Lummi island in / hour and 40 mill
utes, it was learned in Bellingham.
Graham was assisted by w. A. Gran,
ger, owner Of the land, who fed the
seed to the air from sack in six.
inch stream, using about 800 pounds
Of seed. The plane flew about 500
feet off the ground and seed was fed
through an open door in the cockpit.
The Ellensburg office of the United
States reclamation service has receiv.
ed formal notice of the award Of
schedules one two and three to dfui.