White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-06-13
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grades for the state. The standards
set by the U. s. department Of agri
culture are favored.
Crash of an airplane and tractor
at the Yakima county airport near
Yakima left the pilot of the plane and
the driver of the tractor unhurt. The
tractor also came off unscathed, but
the plane lost one wing and will be
under repair for month.
Two Whitworth college students
agreed last fall to save their pennies
until they had enough to buy mar
riage license. Recently they emptied
sack of coppers on the county clerks
desk at Spokane and obtained the IL
cense and had 81 pennies to spare.
Marriage licenses isued at Vancou-
yer continued to gain as compared
with 1929. The total for four months
this year was 922, compared with 845
for the same period last year, a gain
of II. The total for May was 219,
compared with 1872 for May last year.
The Washington forest fire fighting
department is constructing a lookout
station on the summit of Elk noun
tain in eastern Cowlitz county, from
which large area of timber land can
be watched for signs Of fires. A ranger
will be stationed at the lookout during
the fire season.
Growers affiliated with the Grand
view cherry crop now estimate that
the crop in the pool will be SO tons of
| Bings, Is tons of Lamberts and three
tons of Black Republicans, total Of
81 tons. In addition, Royal Ann
pool Of rs tons will be handled separ-
ately and sold to canneries.
Grand Army posts have entered a
vigorous protest at Spokane against
allowing Mrs. Chris Steltz, owner of
dog kennels and a dog cemetery in
Country Homes Estates, to have mem
orial exercises for dogs on Memorial
day. The suggestion was termed a
willful Dissertation Of the day.
| All records for receipts and dispatch
! of water cargoes over the municipal
dock at Vancouver were broken in
| May, according to the monthly reports.
Shipments, including pulp, paper, pa
per bags, prunes, canned goods and
scrap tin, total 1887 tons, compared
with 998 tons in May last year.
The strawberry season in Skamania
county will be short this year. There
is but half the usual crop and the cold
rains was hard on what there is. Many
Of the families usually employed dur
ing the picking season have been turn.
ed away, as we'll as hundreds Of itin.
Grant pickers.
Striking with resounding crash, a
bolt Of lightning tore three-foot hole
in the roof Of a concrete building on
upper Second avenue in Seattle re-
Gently. No one was in the upper story
Of the building at the time and aside
from the hole torn in the roof no dam.
age was done.
Harold A. Rathbone, in charge of
frost warning work in Walla Walla
valley, says cherry trees suffered
through winter killing. Prunes sur
vived in good condition, but the crop
will not be up to that of last year.
Apples also came through in good con.
dition and promise large crop.
Forty thousand dollars, or less than
half cent pound, on the Washing
ton Growers Packing corporation
members million-pound 1929 prune
crop is being mailed out to members
from Vancouver. This is the first
payment to growers since delivery,
when they received cents pound.
G. ]. Usher was blown up and killed
when he accidentally exploded cache
! Of dynamite which had been buried
| for several years. Usher was on his
ranch at Marcus Flats, three miles
northwest of Meyers Falls, welding a
| pick on an old building which he was
| razing. The pick struck the cache.
The blast mangled his body and de.
stroyed the building.
| Closely following proof that the au-
| tOmobile license total in five months
| Of 1880 is near the total for 1929,
| state gasoline tax report showed that
residents of this state are buying more
| gasoline than ever before. With
Scent tax, gross Of $2,868, 1899 has
been brought to the state to May 81,
1890, against $1,68S,3eS.64 with 2-cent
| tax for the same period in 1929.
A. warehouse costing $4,000 will be
under construction at Aberdeen with.
in ten days for the .Grays harbor
branch of the Washington Co-opera-
tive Egg and Poultry association. Con.
| tract has been awarded to Elliott Con-
struction company Of Aberdeen by the
| Union Pacific railroad, which is build
! ing the structure for lease to the egg
| firm.
Because of an Objectionable joke.
1900 copies of the June issue of Col
umns, University of Washington maya.
zine, have been ordered excluded from
the mails by graduate overseers OF