White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-07-11

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Carl Jackson discarded coat and vest
and announced his policy would be
ito halt liquor at its source rather
than seek out hip-pocket toters."
+ Owners of the Independent bakery
that recently burned at Yakima have
announced plans for rebuilding at Sec
ond avenue and G street, where they
have leased new site. The new plant
will be larger than the one destroyed
and will have modern equipment.
Harvest workers will receive 20 to
Is per cent less this year for work
than last by agreement Of farmers in
the Walla Walla district, who will fol-
low the schedules announced in other
sections of the northwest, paying from
So up day, according to the class of
labor.
Thrown from the car in which he
was being treated to ride by his
older brother, 7-year-old Deumart Dy-
er, son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. e. Dyer of
Malone, was injured fatally and died
during the night in an Elma hospital
where he was taken following the &C
cident.
Beginning July 1, all timber, brush
and grass areas of the national forests
were closed to smokers, according to
new code adopted this year. Smok-
ing will be allowed on two-way high
ways and in cleared spaces, but smok-
ers are warned to extinguish all fires
and sparks.
Two men from the Portland weather
office are to be added to the force in
the Yakima weather office, according
to Inspector Smith. They will assist
Observer Jones in frost protection
service and gathering data on air cur
rents and other conditions important
to aviators.
The te1echronometer, a measuring
device placing telephone converse
lions on time basis to determine sub
scribers' rates, was ordered removed
from Everett by the department of
public works. The order said the sys-
TEN was inefficient and unsuitable for
use there.
Harold e. Mewhinney, district hor-
ticultural inspector at Walla Walla,
has resigned, leaving at once for We
natchee to take a field position with
the American Fruit Growers and the
Skookum Apple Growers of that dis
trict. Arthur G. Rich from Seattle
succeeds Mewhinney.
Mrs. Albert Thoren went to the hos
pital in Seattle for an appendicitis
operation, but the surgeons removed
a shingle nail she swallowed IL years
ago and pronounced her all right. Mrs.
Thoren had forgotten all about the
shingle nail, which she had swallowed
while helping her hueba repair their
house.
Smashing every window within so
feet and hurting employees to the floor,
a bomb exploded in the terminal post
office at Seattle. It was in parcel
post package being transported in a
revolving belt to sorting tables on the
floor below. Had it exploded three
minutes later at least three men in
the sorting room would have been
killed.
Despite the low price of wheat, bank
deposits on June 80, totalled M0,781,
O21.58 or but S550,000 less than at the
same time last year, according to a
compilation at Walla Walla. Loans
have been reduced by about $215,OO0
over a year ago. Total assets of the
two savings and loans associations
are $1,3O5,S0O.62, it was announced.
This is gain of more than $4,000.
Two years ago Walla Walla dug out
rock from the bed of Mill creek to
prevent flood damage, and now the
city is hauling rock back to prevent
kid damage. Boys have been using
deep place between Marcus and Park
streets as a swimming hole. The city
has no objections to boys swimming,
but the waters of the lower part OF
the crock are polluted and typhoid is
feared.
The almost penniless capitol com
mittee appealed to Governor Hartley
recently to forget that he doesn't like
the way the capitol grounds have been
graded, to take money from his emer.