White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-08-09


Potlatch Lumber company property at
Palouse. There has been enough stock
sold to warrant erecting the mill and
plans are being perfected to that end.
The late blooming season. for most
varieties of flowers will ASSURE mass
of bloom about the grounds Of the
Grays Harbor county Playground at
Elma at the time of the opening Of
the fair August 80, 1t was noted recent
ly by J.tR. Mcdowell, landscape artist.
Margaret Elaine Wood, 7-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A.. G. Wood
of Spokane, died after eating raw
corn, it became known recently. The
child ate the corn, the parents said,
and Immediately went into convul-
sions. A surgeon said that the child's
intestinal tract was obstructed by the
corn.
Trapped on the tracks by her shoe,
the heel of which had caught under
a rail, Mrs. lola Hook, 26, of Moscow,
Idaho, was killed by a freight train
at crossing in Pullman. No one saw
the accident, but Investigators found
her shoe at the crossing and piece
of the heel was wedged under the
tracks.
Aberdeen's special election on the
adoption Of new first class city
charter will be held some time late in
August, it was announced by City At
torney e. e. Boner. The date Of the
in an ordinance to be adopted soon.
August rs has been selected as ten.
tative date.
The Cowlitz county commissioners
and County Engineer Cramer probably
will complete the mapping Of the pro.
jected ten-year farm-to-market road
system, provided for by the act of the
recent legislature setting gasoline
tax of 1 cent gallon to provide for
the construction of such highways at
their meeting soon.
The Long-Bell Lumber company has
completed plans and received bids for
the construction Of canal approx
mately 1000 feet long from the com
pany's outside log pond in the Column
bia river at the mouth of the Cowlitz
to the Long-Bell log pond. The canal
will be 1000 feet in width and the pro-
ject will cost approximately 100000.
Contracts for nine highway improve
ments, seven in Western Washington,
were awarded by Samuel j. Humes,
state highway director, recently. The
contract on Ocean Beach highway for
surfacing with crushed stone five
miles from Stella to Long-Bell dyke,
in Cowlitz county, was awarded to
Meyers & Co. of Portland for $780,
$3.50.
Vancouver has had about % fires
during May, June and July Of this year
in comparison with 81 during the same
months last year and the losses are
slightly less. So far this July the city
has had no fire loss. The fire de-
partment always looks askance at the
month of August, however. Last
August there were 26 fires, with a
total loss of $3210.
The Kelso port commission, at a
meeting recently, decided to construct
additional dock and warehouse facili-
ties, made necessary by the rapid In
crease of business at the port dock
on the Columbia river. The project
will involve an expenditure of from
100000 to $4,000, and 1t is planned
to approximately double the dock
space and the warehouse space.
Mrs. j. o. Vanwinckle, of Oakyille
returning home a few days ago from
ten months visit in the east, was
surprised when snake about IL
inches in length emerged from the
water faucet in her kitchen. The rep.
tile was very much excited, and con
siderable excitement reigned in the
neighborhood as the intruder was
hauled into the street and killed.
Tentative plans for the improve
ment of 200 miles Of Clark county
roads under the farm o-market road
bill approved by the last legislature
have been prepared and will be con
sidered at public hearing at some
future date. The system calls for the
expenditure of about $1,250,00O in the
next ten years. Only a few new roads
will be opened and the work will b
confined largely to the improvement
Of existing roads.
Eighteen buildings, all frame struc
lures and comprising most Of the bus
mess section of Cosmopolis, were dc
stroyed by fire with a loss estimates
at more than 100000. Virtually al
of two city blocks were burned to tn
ground. Firemen said the blaze start
ed from an explosion in pool hal
about 1880 A. M. 1t was brought ur
der control with the aid of all avail
able fire-fighting equipment fror
Aberdeen and Hoquiam.
Part of the first pool of sodiur
j, chlorate is being distributed throug
i. the county agents office at Cathlame
to aho,1t IL farmers This .is IN h