White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-01-17

Described as the finest small city
hotel in the northwest, the James J.
Hill $4,000 Community hotel was
opened last week at Omak. It is
Spanish Mission style and contains 75
rooms.
Business conditions in Ritzville the
past year have been good. The wheat
crop was not up to normal but the
price was fair. Farmers are still hold
Ing IS per cent Of their crops for
higher prices.
Closing Of deal by community
hotel holding company at Sunnyside
for desired site and plans for erec-
ton there Of a $4,000 hotel and
apartment house in the spring were
announced last week.
Led by Kitsap county, Washington's
counties and its two first class cities
are preparing to develop lateral high
ways with the $1,O9S,23 collected dur
Ing the past five months through the
extra-cent gasoline tax.
Total fruit storage in Yakima ware
houses January / was 5997 cars, of
which 5806 were cold storage, a report
Issued recently stated. Most of the
fruit consists Of IL varieties of apples.
Some Of it Is winter pears.
Dividends amounting to $3.50 have
been distributed to members Of the
Yakima branch of the Washington Co
operative Egg and Poultry association.
This represents per cent on stock
accumulations since June /, 1929.
The Christian church of Creston
completed the year with all bills paid,
having raised $3.50. OF this sum the
church raised $1,000, the Sunday
school $500, the Ladies' Aid society
$500 and the missionary society $50.
Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Cosmopolis,
whose city limits all merge, have
combined population OF 1885 persons,
according to a census just compiled.
Both Aberdeen and Hoquiam show
substantial increases in population,
and Cosmopolis a loss.
Harbor business leaders went to
Olympia recently and urged members
Of the highway department to start
immediate construction Of new east
ern portal into Aberdeen, for which
the state legislature at the last SEES
sion appropriated 100000.
Shipment of steelhead salmon
caught by the Quinault Indians on
their reservation and sold to licensed
traders is legal, provided they are
consigned to markets outside the state
according to decision of Superior
Judge Phillips at Montesano.
County Auditor Campbell at Monte
sano has sold two tracts of state tim.
Der for total of $41,651.25 The Ma
son County Logging company, Shell
ton, bought the timber on one tract
and the North River Logging COM
pany, Aberdeen, the timber on the
other.
The Saginaw Timber company Of
Aberdeen is concentrating large
force of workmen and equipment on
the construction Of 17-nile common
carrier railroad from Brooklyn. Pa
cific county, to Preachers slough, an
arm of the lower Chehalis river near
Aberdeen.
The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company purchased the northeast cor.
ner Of Eleventh and Washington
streets in Vancouver and will build
two-story telephone exchange there
on at an estimated total cost of $780,
900, including new equipment and
cable connection.
The Winlock schools have been or
dered closed, lodge, church and all
other public gatherings have been for
hidden, and a general warning given
against minglnig of crowds in that
town, due to the appearance of sec
ond case of infantile paralysis in
southern Lewis county.
Betweeo 10000 and $1,000 sacks of
Burbank seed potatoes which were
grown in the Ridgefield section are
stored in Ridgefield in the George w.
Armstrong warehouse adjacent to the
depot of the Northern Pacific Railway
company, awaiting shipment to Cali
fornia points as in former years.
Plans for mobilizing $4,000 business
and professional men Of the state in
a cooperative advertising campaign
for Washington are announced by
President Lamb of the state chamber
of commerce. The program calls for