White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-03
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Three masked robbers held up the
| Mabton bank and escaped with $1,000.
Two bank employees and three custo-
mers were forced to lie face down on
| the floor during the holdup. The men
fled in an automobile.
More than 1000 yards of concrete
are being poured into the "glory hole"
Of the Inland Power & Light company
dam site on the Lewis river at Ariel,
13 miles above Woodland, each day,
and soon the hole will be no more.
A man and woman were killed and
discovery of another woman's hat led
authorities on search for a third
person who may have met the same
fate when an automobile plunged over
75-foot bank at Lake Keechelus on
the Snoqualmie pass highway.
1t is estimated that more than $1,000
day is being paid to employees Of the
various apple packing centers this sea-
son. This does not include work in
orchards or hauling of the fruit. Ken
newick is enjoying period of activi-
ty not seen for several seasons.
Disabled war veterans from Grays
Harbor county met recently at Aber-
deem to organize chapter of Disabled
American Veterans. Twenty ex-sol-
diers signed up for the organization.
There are 200 veterans on Grays har-
Dor eligible to belong, it is estimated.
Celebrating so years of growth from
tiny log school house of pioneer days
into modern educational plant, alum
nj Of the Fern Hill school in Tacoma
celebrated a golden anniversary" re-
Gently. Former students now living in
| Portland, Seattle and other northwest
cities attended this "get-together."
Estimates of the hop production in
the Yakima valley this season places
the crop at $4,000 to 10000 bales, COM
pared with 10000 bales last year and
$4,000 bales in 1928. The quality is
better this year than last, although
some picked early were thin. The
most recent sale was at 1914 cents per
pound.
For the first time in several years
Clark county escaped serious forest
fires this year. All deputy fire war
dens have been discharged in the be-
lief that the danger of fires is over for
this season. Only few fires started
in the county and they were confined
to areas that had been burned over
previously.
Fred F. Hess of Longview, represen-
tative from Cowlitz county, spent ex-
actly two cents, aside from his filing
! fee Of $40, in being renominated for
representative on the republican tick
ct, his expense account filed recently
shows. He was without opposition,
and used one stamp in the course Of
his campaign.
Much enthusiasm has been reused
by local fans because work has started
on course to be known as the White
Salm on-Bingen golf course, which e.
e. Bartholomew is having laid out on
his ranch at the east edge Of Bingen,
on the Evergreen highway. 1t Is ex.
pected to have the course ready for
play about April LIST.
About 900 men and women now are
employed by the two canneries at
Vancouver in caring for the prune and
pear crops. The Oregon Packing com
pany is working 800 in two 12-hou1
shifts and the Washington Growers
Cooperative is working 100. The fruit
is in good condition but it must be
handled at once before it is over-ripe
Seattle, Raymond and Grays Harbol
representatives meeting at Hoquiam
decided upon united effort to extend
the Roosevelt highway along the
Washington coast. The plan calls fol
construction of road north from the
Columbia river through Raymond ant
South Bend, connecting with the new
state highway between Willapa ant
Grays harbors.
With an increase of 206 cars ovel
the previous week, shipment of Yaki
ma valley fruit last week totaled 1884,
carloads, according to report by Sec
rotary I. L. Plette of Yakima Vale.
Traffic and Credit association. Apple
shipments jumped Alb cars. Bartlett
pear movement this season now totals
1925 cars, of which canneries have
taken over half.
Unusually big crops are being har
vested and marketed by Washington
growers, and, in spite of low prices
for wheat and livestock, it is expected
that 1880 will be recorded as a yea