White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-30

ton OF Centralia's hydrO-electric plan
. on the Nisqually river near Yelm, wal
injured when boulder fell on him.
The Cowlitz county board of educa
ton will receive bids June IL for text
books for use by the grade schools Of
Cowlitz county for five-year period
Steps have been taken by feed deal
ers of Yakima, Benton and Kittitas
counties to establish a weighing sta.
ton for hay in the Yakima valley to
make adjustments where commercial
and railroad scales disagree.
Increasing demand for space in the
municipal warehouse at Vancouver
will necessitate extending the ware
house 30 feet on the west end. Plans
are being formulated for the extern
sion, which will cost about $4,000.
More than $4,000 magpies have been
killed in Yakima county since the first
of the year, according to the records
Of the county auditor, which show pay
ments OF bounty amounting to $1147
for destruction Of birds and eggs.
G. G. Carman and A. D. Fish, state
dairy inspectors, paid an unexpected
visit to Clark county and obtained 40
samples of milk from different diaries
for testing. The score for SO diaries
ranged from 1910 to 96.7 out of DOS.
sible 100 points.
Aberdeen's new industrial water
system functioned perfectly in it's first
trial, just completed. With the flood.
gates at the intake on the Wynooche
river one-tenth open, the Van Wrinkle
creek reservoir was filled with 200,
100000 gallons in two days.
Two contracts for bridge and road
work in Pacific, Grays Harbor and
Benton counties were awarded a short
time ago by Samuel Humes, highway
director. Another bridge job in Yak.
ina county he said was as good as
awarded. The three jobs will cost
the state s2O7,537.
Actual construction Of the new
school building for the Seventh Day
Adventist church at Longview has
been started, and COMMUNICATING
ceremony was held recently. The first
spade of sod was turned by Rev. l. j.
Woodman, Portland, president of the
territorial conference.
Where trees and underbrush stood
uncleared two weeks ago now at Pa
cific beach, near Hoquiam, miniature
village Of rs cottages and Is garages
Is rapidly rising and crew of work
men is busy putting finishing touches
On the project in order to have it ready
for opening the First Of June.
The new Hicks Lumber company
sawmill at Northwestern lake, about
four miles from White Salmon, is now
in operation, cutting $4,000 feet Of
lumber daily. Logs are supplied to
the mill in boom on the lake from
otherwise inaccessible timber lands
west OF the White Salmon river.
City commissioners of Walla Walla
voted to start condemnation proceed
tngs Immediately on triangular piece
Of land at Wellington and Isaacs to
replace the present right-angle turn
into Walla Walla on the Inland Empire
highway, with a curve. The corner
has been the scene of numerous acct
dents.
The telephone line built a few years
ago from Chehalis to Salkum by the
Chehalis chamber of commerce in CO.
operation with sawmill and other in
terests along the route of the Pacific
and National Park highways for dis
lance Of approximately 20 miles was
sold recently to the Pacific Telephone
& Telegraph company.
The ferry Washington started re-
Gently on its trip to Port Townsend,
and the Puget Sound Navigation com.
pany will put it on run between Mu-
kilteo and WILDLY island. The Wash
ington and it's sister ship, the Oregon,
were used on the Longview-Rainer
run from 1923 until the present bridge
across the Columbia river was opened
for traffic.
A battle between a pet wire-haired
fox-terrier and three-foot diamond
backed rattlesnake at Yakima resulted
in the death of both combatants. The
dog seized the snake back Of the head
and the snake was able to turn and
strike the dog. The terrier shook the
snake until most of it's rattles were
beaten off, left it mangled and lifeless
on the walk, and then staggered home
to die.
Longview's second annual women's
and girls walking race was staged
over three-mile course last Saturday
and was augmented by bicycle races
for boys, one race for boys under IL
year of age and the other for boys
over IL years of age and up to 16.
The walking race was open to all wo-
men and girls in the Longview trad
ing area, which includes Cowlitz, Wah.
kiakum and Lewis counties.
Leonard Hegnauer, extension spe-
cialist in crops and soils for Wash
ington State college, will visit Cowlitz
county cSnn ond will r,olYa a tou,. ~