White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-05-31

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Coal Carbonizers, Inc, announces
the reopening of the Black Carbon
coal mines east of Buckley for opera
ton. The new corporation has head
quarters at Seattle and will speni
$4,000 in improvements.
The state penitentiary at Walls
Walla is now working on a full time
basis, canning rhubarb for state insti
tutions. Convicts are setting out 80,
900 tomato plants and will put In 81
acres Of garden vegetables.
Kelso will have its first Fourth Of
July celebration in several years this
year, when the Kelso Timber Wolves
will manage the event. Featured IN
the program will be the ball game be
tween the Wolves and visiting team
The second annual Clark county
fair, sponsored by the oranges, will
be held August 1881, R. S. Rurkee
member Of the fair board, and grange
master, said. The fair will be held
at the old fair grounds, now known
as Bagley park.
| Saturday night was gala one in
Hoquiam, the occasion being the open
ing of the new Hoquiam city hall, re.
Gently completed at cost Of $780,.
900. William E. Campbell, superior
Judge, first white boy born in the city,
gave the principal. address.
A misunderstanding over the limit
of trout for days catch in Klickitat
county trout streams has caused L. e.
Mckee, chairman of the Klickitat
county game commission, to make a
ruling that 20 trout over six inches in
length is the maximum amount that
may be taken.
Highways maintained by Grays Har-
Dor county will not be oiled this year,
Commissioner L. G. Hamburger an
nounces. The silver thaw Of last win
ter did SO much damage to the roads
that practically all the available main
tenance funds were exhausted early il
the year, he said.
Leonard Hegnauer, extension spe-
cialist in soils and crops for Washing
ton State college, with County Agent
d. B. Leonard, spent few days re-
Gently inspecting alfalfa tracts in Cow
litz county. which they found in first
| class condition where incubation had
been done properly.
The u. s. S. Kennedy, flagship Of
the 32d destroyer squadron, will ar
rive in Aberdeen June 80 to be station
ed there for week during the indie
pendence day celebration. The Ken
nedy carries six officers and 100 men,
with Lieutenant Commander P. W.
Northcroft in charge
Work of preparing the two packing
plants in Vancouver the Oregon Pack
| ing company and the Washington
Growers Cooperative, for the seasons
work, is nearing completion and both
plants will be ready to open early in
June. Prospects for heavy pack are
good, it was reported.
Consummation of deal was an
nounced last week wherein Fox Wash.
ington Theaters, Inc, purchase Cen
tralia and Chehalis theaters from the
Twin City Theaters. The deal also
includes theaters Of the Hoquiam
Amusement company and the D. & r.
Theaters company of Aberdeen.
Farmers expect to plant about the
usual acreage to potatoes in Clark
county, according to reports, although
prices have ruled low for the last two
years. With only rs per cent Of
normal crop last year, the market will
be bare in Vancouver before new po-
tatoes begin to reach the market.
Senator Jones has taken up the fight
to have the lifesaving equipment of
the Westport coast guard station and
the crew quarters shifted to the small
cove just within the harbor, where
the port of Grays harbor now is con-
structing pier for the fishing fleet,
according to a communication just re-
ceived.
With the contracting work complet
ed, the finishing touches will be put
on the new infirmary at the United
States veterans hospital in Walla
Walla soon and it is expected that the
building will be occupied about June
1. 1t was built at cost of $229,000
and will contain LOS beds for general
cases.
Charles Purkapile, Wishkah valley
rancher, is in hospital at Aberdeen
badly bruised, and his son Clifford,
IL, and neighbor youth, Jack Schrea
der, are nursing superficial burns as
result of the explosion of gasoline
in the burning Purkapile home. The
three were attempting to carry furni-
ture to safety when the gasoline ex-
ploded, enveloping them in flames.
Steve Schmidt, rancher of the Yale
district on the upper Lewis river, was
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