White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-03-14


judged in May. The State Bankers
association is sponsoring the contest.
The Rev. Stuart Goude, who served
In the World war and is at present
pastor of the Peshastin Community
church, has accepted a call from the
congregation of the First Congrega-
tional church at Vancouver.
Spokane will have its shortest high
way to Portland by way Of Wallula to
Umatilla when the proposed Wallula
cutoff is constructed. Construction of
a bridge across the Walla Walla river
near Wallula will be undertaken this
fall.
The city commission of Walla Walla
has under consideration an ordinance
requiring property owners to make
two sprayings each season of all elm
trees inside their property lines. The
city will take care of trees on public
ground.
Powerless to help himself, John Ca
paan, 74-year-old invalid Of Sedro
Woolley, was burned to death In q
chair In his bedroom when a stove
fire ignited his bed clothing. None Of
six children who lived with him was
In the house.
Three hundred thousand chicks will
be Matched this year by the Washing.
ton Cooperative Hatcheries at Everett.
About 100000 will go to poultrymen
in the Everett area and the remainder
to California, Idaho, Montana and Brit
ish Columbia.
Half a section of timber in northern
Lewis county, Is miles southwest of
the Weyerhaeuser Timber company's
operations at Vale, was sold by the
state to that concern for $38,461. The
total stumpage on the tract aggregates
13,2SO,OOO feet.
For the first time, Walla Walla
county deputy sheriffs are wearing
uniforms. They are drab and cut like
those worn by the Canadian mounted
police, Sam Browne belts will be worn
and the hats are similar to those worn
by the mounties.
A determined effort to perpetuate
Grays Harbor's timber supply has
been launched at Aberdeen. A recent
survey indicates is to 20 years. gap
between the end of the present timber
and the coming of the second growth
to merchantable size.
Preliminary plans and estimates on
construction Of 10O-ton pulp mill ad-
1acent to the Grays Harbor Lumber
company plant at Hoquiam are being
prepared by the recently organized
pulp company and probably will be
ready in 60 or 80 days.
The Vancouver city council gave
the Vancouver Bus company an exclu-
sive franchise to operate a transpor-
tation system in Vancouver for Is
years. with the usual safeguards. The
company will pay per cent Of the
gross revenues to the city.
Voters Of the Kelso school district
approved special levy of 10 mills,
which will raise approximately s40,-
900, for the operation Of the schools
for the rest of the year. It carried by
q margin of but eight votes, the count
being u for the special levy to "a
against it.
A record attendance of more than
500 at the annual meeting Of the Yaki-
ma County Horticultural union heard
with enthusiasm the prediction that
the fruit crop of 1929 will net the
growers more money than that Of
any previous year In the history of
the organization.
Peter Molaro, 40, police said, cut
mis- throat with a razor set fire to his
house at Marshall, near Spokane, and
Jumped from the second story, frac-
turing his skull. He died three hours
later at hospital. Neighbors said
Molaro lost leg in the World war
and had failed to regain his health.
Six prisoners made their escape
from the Mason county jail at Shelton
recently because one Of them hap
pened to be diminutive. A piece of
iron had been bolted on q patched
place In the Jail. The prisoners man.
aged to remove the bolts and let the
patch drop off. Then Harvey, who is
little and thin, wiggled out into the
sherifrs office. got some keys and
managed to open the cell doors for the
rest Of the gang.
While hundreds sat tensed in their
seats in Spokane theatre recently,
Ed and Jay Highly, Idaho log sawyers,
slashed their way to victory through
two cuts on 19-inch log in A As sec
onds, to win the northwest saving
elimination championship. The three
teams competing In the finals were
selected from more than 20 gangs of
sawyers by the manager of the thea
tire, and hundreds of people from the
outlying country cheered themselves
hoarse as the woodsmen sawed.
The navy's new $10,0OO,00O cruiser
Louisville, under construction at the
Puget sound navy yard at Bremerton,