White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-30

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| hazard.
Dubois Brothers, dairymen, near
Proebstel, have lost number of head
of young stock from blackleg. DR..
j. o. Anderson, veterinarian, has in
oculated the rest Of the herd and
quarantined the dairy. Anxiety is felt
among dairymen that the disease
might spread.
A juvenile fair sponsored by Po-
mona grange was held at Woodland
in Cowlitz county the first of the
week. Cowlitz Boy Scouts Of Mt. st.
Helens Council, Boy Scouts Of Amer.
lea participated, as well as the Camp
Fire Girls and members of the Al
clubs in the schools.
The Centralia city commission has
awarded contracts for machinery for
Centralia's new million-dollar hydro
electric plant, now under construction
on the NisQually river. The con-
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bines went to the Pelton Water Wheel
company of San Francisco for $685.
| $50.
Construction was started recently
on new 150x160-foot warehouse addi-
ton to the municipal docks in Long
view, made necessary by rapid and
constant increase in business. The
new warehouse will provide large
warehouse room and five modern Of
fees, most of which have already
been leased.
Huckleberries in the hills north Of
Stevenson are ripe and hundreds Of
people are picking them. The crop
this year is good, they report. In some
places the patches are located in ter
ritory closed on account of fire haz-
ard. In all cases permits must be
secured from the Columbia national
forest officers.
Charles Johnson of Battle Ground,
Vial n SOUAIy 4Odo OOSoy W4AA0 Ne&hR-
ing with his family at Gaddis hill, two
miles below Cougar, was drowned re-
Gently. He did not come to camp at
noon and search was instituted. His
pipe was found on the bank of the
Lewis river and his fishing rod and
hat were found in the river.
Miss Thelma Martin, librarian Of
Seattle, and K. Furuya, Japanese ar.
tist Of the North American Times,
Portland, Or, were victims of bliz-
zard on Mount Shuksan, Washington,
near Mount Baker. The two were
frozen to death when storm sur
prised them as they, with another
couple, were scaling Chimney peak.
Flying 500 feet over Lake Washing
ton near Seattle, Elivene E. Dildine,
chief pilot at the San Point naval air
base, saw a girl struggling beside an
overturned sailboat. Diving to the
lake surface, he pulled the girl, Miss
Olivia NoelPaton of Glasgow, Scot
land, into the cockpit and flew her to
Madison park in time to keep lunch
con engagement.
The Skamania county commission
ers have entered into deal with the
commissioners of Klickitat and the
Northwestern Electric company to
build new steel bridge over the Big
White Salmon. river where this pow
er company has its plant. The struc-
ture will be about 300 feet long and
Is feet wide and will be $50 feet
above the river bed.
Joseph A. St. Peter, state senator
from Everett, has been appointed
superintendent of the Washington
state reformatory at Monroe, Olaf L..
Olson, state director of business con-
troll, announced. The appointment
will be effective September /. St.
Peter will succeed James A. Cameron,
who was dismissed as head of the
institution "for the good of the serv
ice" about two weeks ago.
Mastering the art Of flying in a
single day with less than five hours
training, Glenn Rutt, 81, auto me-
chanic, executed solo flight Of Is
minutes at the Yakima airport re-
Gently and made perfect three point
landing. The feat was sponsored by
Western Airlines, Inc, with Russell
Schlosstein as Instructor. Rutt was
taken into the air for 15-minute inter.
walls, then rest of half an hour.
With grade requirements for high
school graduates boosted above those
Of past years. the University of Wash
ington was prepared for the opening
Of its fall quarter, anticipating the
largest enrolment in it's history.
Students must have Recommending
grades" covering nine out of IL units
earned in their high school sopho-
more, junior and senior years, to en-.
ter the university, the credential de.
partment reported.
Louis Proctor's scale model Vought
Corsair navy airplane, which won
first place in the scale model contest
at Detroit in June, Is being shipped
from Vancouver to Cleveland. O.. to