White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-19

months at cost. The food is of the
best and a generous plate is served
for cents.
Work has been begun on the Chris
tian church building at Lo.gview. F.
Richmond Smith is the contractor.
The building will cost $4,000 and will
be of brick and tile. Fifteen men are
now employed on 1t.
A vigilante society has been organ
lied at Colville to cooperate with the
sheriffs office for home protection.
Eleven picked men fully armed are
under command Of City Marshal STEM
ger and ready to be called.
Growers record in the Wenatchee-
Okanogan district show that the APP
pie orchards yielded this year 24,615
carloads, or 5000 more than was esti-
mated in July. On December l there
were 9O15 carloads in storage.
Thousands of small fir trees have
been shipped this year by water to
southern California to be used as
Christmas decorations. The ship
ments were gathered on private land,
mostly in the Mill Plain district near
Vancouver.
The Three Rivers Growers associ-
alton has finished the years packing
with record of 100000 boxes of ap-
pies. Lee M, Lampson, manager, re-
ports export size selling readily with
shipments mostly being made via
Portland and Seattle.
An ambulance hurrying across the
Interstate bridge between Idaho and
Washington was the birthplace of the
four-pound daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Justice. Officials are now puz-
zled about which state and city will
be recorded as the legal place Of birth.
Mayor West has announced that the
Chehalis commission will add another
10000 feet of cast iron water mains
to the distributing system. Bids for
pipe will be called soon and the work
will be put under way as soon as it
reasonably can be done to hcsp re-
lieve the unemployment situation.
With log production speeded slight
ly the last two weeks, Grays Harbor
camps and mills now are varying be-
tween 40 and so per cent of normal
production, according to operators.
Production at the present is slightly
heavier than for any time since the
drastic curtailment of the early sum-
mer.
Despite recent unfavorable cnndi-
lions in the poultry and egg business,
there is apparently no cessation Of
interest in the game on the part of
those engaged in it. Hatcheries at
Winlock, Chehalis and other Lewis
county scenters already report big
demand for old chicks for early deliv-
cry and later in 1881.
Two carloads of tourists who had
been misdirected to the Yakima val
ley, were found stalled in the snow
by Oscar Geschwint, on the Cedar val
ley road. The two families were hud-
died together trying to keep warm.
Geschwint took them to his home for
the night and helped them on their
way the next morning.
1t ought to be sweet smoke, this
pipe. A. r. Sullivan of Tacoma found
it in fir log he was splitting for
kindling. Historians deduced that
an employe of the Hudson's Bay COM
! pany 81 years ago laid the pipe in the
crotch Of a tree and forgot 1t and the
tree grew around it. Sap rings around
the pipe were evidence of the age.
The bones and tusks Of prehistoric
monsters, declared to have been carly
Inhabitants of the state, are now on
display at the Washington State col
lege in Pullman. The original animal
is said to be much larger than the
elephant. The mastodon bones were
found in. an old sand bank deposited
by the Snake river near Pasco.. The
tusk was found near Sequim.
Charles Painter Schnebly, 76, Kit
titas valley horsemasl and cattle man
and son of David j. Schnebly, pioneer
Oregon and Washington newspaper
man, died suddenly from heart dis
ease at Ellensburg. His father wrote
editorials for the first newspaper pub
lished in Oregon, the Spectator, at
Oregon City, before the civil war, and
later founded the Ellensburg Localt-
ger, the pioneer paper Of that city.
Although removed from Grays har.
Dor by more than 60 miles of wilder.
ness, ranchers in the Queets river