White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-17
Approximately $500 damage was /


The locks for the new log canal to
connect the Long-Bell Lumber COM
pany log pond with the Cowlitz river
are completed, and only the dredging
of the 1200-foot channel remains.
Millions of sockeye salmon, one Of
the heaviest runs in years, remain in
the waters of Boundary bay and Geor-
gia strait waiting for favorable wealth
er to start up Fraser river to spawn;
hence the director of fisheries has ex.
tended the closed season.
The Washington Growers Packing
corporation prune packing plant at
Vancouver is in operation, packing
new crop dried prunes mostly for the
European trade. The shipments are
nearly all in small lots and are taken
to Portland for water shipment.
The new 100000 Washington motor
coach central stage terminal and re.
pair shops, latest addition to Ellens.
burg's $11,OO0,000 building program
for the present year, has been Off
cially opened. 1t occupies space
12O by $50 feet in the heart of the bus
mess district.
Signing of a petition for the incor-
poration of the town of Rock Island
by 60 qualified electors, as required
by law, has been completed and coun-
ty commissioners of Douglas county
will call a special session to set a date
around November for an incorpcra-
ton election.
Grays barber shingle mills, idle for
months, started operating again as
the result of wage agreement reach
ed with the city arbitration commit
tee. Single weavers accepted wage
cut which was declared to bring the
scale down to the level paid in other
northwest producing centers.
Concentrated effort to prevent the
bootlegging of Gull apples is being
sought by w. P. Brown, district horti-
cultural inspector. A circular letter
was sent from his office in Yakima
recently, requesting all growers to CO.
operate in preventing the shipment of
plants.
A yield of &C bushels of Jenkins
club wheat to the acre, on his farm
in Fruit valley, was reported by B. o.
Case. The soil is bottom land and
very productive. Walter Mattson of
Brush Prairie reported yields per acre
Of A bushels of Pride of Washington,
Al bushels of bluestem and 40 bushels
Of Russian red.
The dangerous corner at Pho
neer, four miles east Of Ridgefield on
the Pacific highway, known as death
knoll for a number of years because
Of several fatal accidents which oc-
cured there, has been graded to the
level of the highways and now pre-
sents an unobstructed view Of traffic
in all directions.
The right to be different as ex-
pressed in ones clothing won vic
tory when standard dress received a
setback at North Central school, Spo.
kane, an overwhelming majority Of
the girls voting against wearing dark
blue dresses this year. Dark dresses
have been part of the dress regula.
lions for two years.
A street parade three miles long
featured the closing day of the sec
ond annual Asotin county harvest fes.
tival at Charleston. The parade was
led by the silver-helmeted Chief Jo-
seph band of Enterprise, Or, followed
by 25 carloads of Enterprise citizens,
all displaying banners boosting the
Blue Mountain highway.
Caught in the rifle fire of three deer
hunters, one of whom was his father,
Roy Golden Barnett, 16, was shot in
the head and killed instantly in the
hills near Bordeaux. The youth be-
came separated from other members
of the party shortly after they had
killed deer and came within the line
of fire as another deer was sighted.
The 3zS cows on test during Septem-
Der in the Lewis County Dairy Herd
Improvement association under the
testersampler plan averaged 53S
pounds Of milk and 22.9 pounds of
butterfat, according to A. R. Reber,
tester. Thirty-six cows produced