White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-31

destroyed two reels of film and {
number Of sound records. The fire
was so intense that veneer chair backs
ignited through the metal booth.
Dying in his saddle as he had lived
Henry Oldenstead, 70 years of age
an old-time resident Of Prosser an6
the last man to run horses in the
Horse Heaven hills, succumbed tc
heart disease and slid lifeless from
his horse recently on street oil
Prosser.
Charging that the rafting Of milk
containers is keeping their patrons
awake and causing loss of business
the Bruce hotel management of Wen.
atchee is asking an injunction from
the superior court to bar the Blue
Bell dairy from further conducting its
business.
A. M. Baker, 80 years old, returned
to Vancouver from his annual deer
hunt with the customary buck deer
which he has never failed to bring
in in all the years he has been hunt.
ing in Clark county. He not only
killed the deer, but packed it mile
and half into camp.
Pacific county school children re.
ceived three-day vacation last week,
when all schools of the county closed
| for teachers institute. The first days
session was held at South Bend. The
next two days the instructors spent
in Centralia in joint meeting with
those of the other counties.
Construction of a new 25-story city
light company building to cost $1,750.-
600 will be started within a week, it
was announced at Seattle recently.
Signing of the lease for portions to
be occupied by the city light depart
ment finally closed the deal which
was favorably voted in the last cleo
ton.
Hugh Malcolm Of Charleston saved
his 2-months-old baby from flames
when the house caught fire and was
burned to the ground. While at the
barn with his wife they noted the
roof and front part of the house in
flames. Malcolm raced to the back
window, climbed in and saved the
baby.
Breaking out in Virgil Geertz' the
alter after the final show, fire swept
through two adjoining stores and
threatened the entire town of Moclips,
beach resort north of Hoquiam, before
1t was brought under control by the
Hoquiam fire department. The loss
was estimated at $4,000, partly COW
cred by insurance.
Work on the temporary Skamoka-
wa-Grays river highway is being
rushed in spite Of recent rains. This
road is being built by donated labor,
money, materials and equipment and
when finished will complete tenn
porary route over the last remaining
link of the Ocean Beach highway from
Longview to the sea.
Immediate collection of the $4,000
guarantee offered by Is Aberdeen citi-
zens at the time the Wynooche indus
trial water system was constructed,
has been ordered by the city council.
The guarantors pledged themselves
to pay $1,000 each year until such
time as the industrial water system
was on paying basis.
Receipts Of the state land office for
the biennium ending September 80 set
a new record, according to Land Com
missioner Savidge. Despite the slump
in timber, the receipts were 100000
above those of the previous biennium
The total will approximate s4,00O,00O.
most of which will go into the per
manent education fund.
The state of Washington contribut-
ed 229 automobile deaths to the toll
Of more than $4,000 killed throughout
the country during the first nine
months of this year, according to fig
ures compiled by the Travellers Insur.
ance company from reports of state
motor vehicle commissioners and di
rectors of vital statistics.
A $4,000 cranberry crop was har-
vested the past three weeks from the
boys at Grayland near Aberdeen. The
entire crop, 5000 boxes, brought 81
per box, the same price paid last year.
Although the 1880 harvest was heavy,
the crop was smaller than that of
1929, due to spring frosts, which did
considerable damage to vines.
Roy Sims, 10, was shot in the Shout
der as he stood in front of his dog to
protect him. Sims companion said