White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-08-15

Taholah Indian agency and veteran
government employe, took office az
Quinault Indian agent. Mr.. Nicholson
succeeds w. B. Sans, who was retired
and who has headed the agency fol
nine years.
Trustees of the Tacoma chamber OF
commerce have Endorsed a plan fol-
obtaining a state appropriation at the
next session of the legislature for ad.
diticns to the state historical building
at Tacoma, totaling in estimated cost
s157, 999.SO.
A. w. hasten, who resigned his po-
sition at Walla Walla as county agent,
and has been succeeded by H. G. Bur-
CESS, has been transferred to Pullman
by the extension service to assist in
wheat variety work being carried ON
by Washington State college.
Cowlitz county had a larger total
Industrial and construction payroll,
more days worked and higher aver
age wage during the first five months
Of 1880 than in the same period of
1929, official records of the state de-
partment of industries disclose.
Wallula is to be made division point
and all train crews between Portland
and Spokane will change there. 1t is
understood that a roundhouse and ma
chine shops will be installed. A call
board has been established at Wallula
and there is quite demand for hous-
ing to accommodate trainmen.
Charles D. Gaines, state seed in
spector, who was in Clark county
few days ago looking over potato
fields in the first inspection for certi-
fled seed, stated that crops there look
better than in any other county in
he state, although hay and grain crops
are good in all sections Of western
Washington.
Members Of the Washington Coop.
erative Egg and Poultry association
will shortly receive approximately
$40,677 cash for stock holdings issued
prior to 1927, which is now being call
ed in by the organization. The mem.
bers are to receive face value of the
stock, plus per cent interest for the
current year.
Experiments with alfalfa by Clark
county farmers indicate that it will
pay there both as an ensilage crop
and for hay. Samuel Donnell of Lew.
isville reports good returns from
field planted about year ago. Here
tofore alfalfa hay and meal have been
shipped there from eastern Oregon,
and Idaho.
Locking the cashier and a girl en-
ploye in the vault, two men held up
the Oakville State bank at Oakville
and escaped with between $4,000 and
$4,000 in currency. The men disdained
several hundred dollars in silver,
which was lying with the currency in
the vault. A third man waited in
car outside the building.
Three hundred tons of red and black
cap raspberries have been harvested
to date in the Yelm district, where
the saving benefits Of irrigation have
been so fully demonstrated within re.
cent years. Estimate is that there is
another 300 tons of berries yet to
come off. The crop is rated as about
80 to rs per cent of normal.
Streams and lakes Of the Olympic
peninsula are lower now than for any
summer season in recent years, ac-
cording to word brought back from
visitors at Low Divide. Many peaks
usually crowned with snow are bare,
while small streams have dried up
and many of the larger rivers have
only small amount of water in them.
Continued warm dry weather will
please Clark county fruit growers,
Chaplin A. Mills, district state horti-
culturist, stated. Prunes, are increas-
ing in size and sugar content, which
lnsures heavy fruit in drying. Pears
are developing normally and the crop
will be fair though spotted. There
will be large crop in some sections,
but in others the yield will be light
With the completion of the state
highway departments road oiling pro-
gram, on the Ocean Beach highway
between MCGOWAN and Ilwaco, expect
ed soon, number of county roads
will be treated with an oil coating.
Roads in the vicinity of Seaview,
Long Beach and Ocean Park will be
,iled, as well as the present detour
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