White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-06-06
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are maturing about three weeks ahead
of the usual time and harvesting Of
grain will begin by the first of July.
Miss Dorothy Leighton of Seattle,
a Psychology teacher, is recovering in
the city hospital from injuries re-
ceived when she was beaten by four
thugs who broke into her apartment
The strawberry harvest on Grand
Mound and Rochester prairies started
this week. The barreling plant at
Grand Mound has opened and packing
operations have started. A barreling
| plant is also maintained at Rochester
| A we'll preserved cedar log, which
forestry professors at the University
of Washington believe to be from 49,,
900 to $4,000 years old, has been un.
earthed at Seattle in regarding Denny
hill. The log was SO feet below the
| surface.
Damage estimated at $150,000 was
incurred in fire that swept through
| the warehouses and yards of the Fidai
| go Lumber & Box company at Anacor
| ties. Six million feet of lumber and
100000 feet of manufactured box
shocks were destroyed.
Reports on the recent census show
that Wenatchee, noted for it's apple.
producing valley, has made popula
ton gain of 1896 persons or 1871 per
cent in the last ten years, giving a
total Of 11,62O and for greater 1--WE
| natchee" a total of 21,917.
Installation Of the border lights at
the Chehalis airport at Donahoe field
is expected to begin soon. Seabrooks
B. Rem, inspector of airways con
struction, spent several days at Che
| halit, recently looking over the field,
which he pronounced first class in ev
cry particular.
June Is has been set for. the annual
Mount Adams highway picnic to be
held at Signal peak, in the upper Big
| Klickitat river basin. The president
of the White Swan-Bench commercial
club reports driving over the entire
route recently and found the road in
good condition.
Reversing the usual order of things
an automobile driver picked up John
Beall, Kennewick youth who was hitch
hiking on a short camping trip, took
him into an isolated district and rob
bed him of his money and all his equip.
ment. Beall was forced to walk IL
miles to Ethiopia.
High praise for the farming lands
of Graye Harbor county was voiced
by Vincent Harold of the Washington
State Canneries, who has been going
over the county for the past ten days
with L. j. Esses of Montesano arrang-
ing for handling the 1880 crop Of ever.
green blackberries.
Adopting a different policy from
that employed in recent years, the
committee in charge of the Grandview
cherry pool this year will not ask for
bids and make an outright sale of the
fruit but will place the packing and
sale of the cherries in the hands Of
the c. F. Schaefer company.
The Moffets Hot Springs hotel, a
health resort near Stevenson, burned
to the ground with loss estimated
at from $4,000 to $4,000. Fourteen
patients were removed from the build
ing safely, and most of their personal
effects were saved. The fire is thought
to have started from a spark on the
roof.
A new addition to Hotel Morck,
Aberdeens leading hostelry, has been
opened, doubling the capacity Of the
hotel. The construction Of the addi.
ton has taken almost six months, the
work having been delayed early this
year by frost and snow. The addition
represents an investment of about
100000.
Receipt of copies of federal fresh
plum and prune grades reached Walla
Walla and cheered prune growers Of
; the Walla Walls valley. Placing more
strict requirements in the No. 2 grade
! requiring that fruit shipped under this
! be mature, will strike out the chance
of immature and green fruit spelling
the market
Members of the Washington Grow
ers' Packing corporation received {
total of $4,000 as second paymen
on the 1929 crop. The first payment
cents pound on ass and larger ant
4 cents a pound on smaller grades, wal
paid on delivery at the packing plant
This last payment was less than hal
a cent pound.
, Concrete pipe for state road crew.
, working on the Status road between
I Goldendale and Toppenish have beel
arriving for a week and trucks ar
hauling them to the road. Seventeen
carloads Of sand are also required b.
one of the contractors on the Satu
!; road. A fleet of four large trucks ha
arrived to haul it.
Cool weather has resulted in ma
!, terial increase in the strawberry CROP
q according to Lee M. Lampson, manag