White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-02-28

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The Spokesman will pay % cents
each for the first two copies brought
to the office, of the issue of February
Z, 1880.
T. j. Clark and sons have moved
their baling outfit home again, hav
ing finished their work at Priest
Rapids.
While working with heavy barrel
] tuesday, D. S. Wilkinson wrenched
his back badly and it was necessary
for him to seek medical relief in Yak
ina Wednesday. He was accompanied
on the trip by Mrs. Wilkinson and
Dudley.
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid will
meet with Mrs M. E. Houk on
Thursday, March 6. Mrs. Jones and
Mrs. Soden will demonstrate bound
button holes and set-in pockets.
Mrs. O. ]. Longnecker, Sec'y..
Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Dewey are
preparing to leave next Monday for
Deer Park, Washington, and will visit
for a time with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Tomson and family while Mr.. Dewey
is looking up a location of his own
near there.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. White, who
have been caring for the C. l.. Suth-
erland orchard for the last year, NOV
ed this week to the Codding ranch
in the Eldorado Orchard Tracts. the
E. f. Meeker family, who have been
occupying the house, having moved
back to their old home at Cold Creek.
Everett Upton of Hunters, Wash
ington, is in White Bluffs this week
visiting his father and sisters. Everett
comes with quite reputation as. a
first baseman and outfielder of the
Hunters team and says if he can get
work here he would like to stay and
play on the White Bluffs club this
summer.
Last Saturday being Washington
Birthday and a legal holiday tor
postoffice. employees, Rural Carrier
and Mrs. James M. Pipkin and son
Joe drove over to Yakima that day
to attend a district meeting Of the
Rural Letter Carriers association.
Sunday they visited friends at Sun
nyside, returning home that evening
T. L. Holecek made a trip to
Pasco last Monday to take his daugh-
ter Miss Margaret Holecek, and put
her aboard an N. P. train for Min
neapolis, where she will enter the
Federal School of Commercial Arts
for years study. Miss Holecek will
make her home in Minneapolis with
with an aunt Of her mothers.
T. H. Stephen is congratulatine
himself on the fact that he had just
finished seeding his state settlement
tract, south Of the Kelly place, to. rye
Just before the heavy rain storms o.
last week. The rye should be tai
enough by the time usual spring
winds arrive, to keep the top soil from
blowing, always a difficulty experienc.
ed in developing new land in this
country.
The A. T. Hostetter auction sale
which was cried by M. E. Houk, last
Saturday, was we'll advertised and at.
tracted large crowd from all over
the valley. The stuff offered brought
very satisfactory prices. Mrs. Hostel
ter and little Jimmie left on the trair
1 Wednesday for Tacoma, where tn
family will make its home. Mr.
Hostetter drove. over in his truck
going around by way of Portland
]. C. Roush expects to move hi
family about March 10, to Vancouver
Islard where he has a 100 acre home
stead. He had the homestead fo1
some time but has been unable t.
farm it because of lack of any trans
portation. The Canadian government
however, is now building highwa.
from Victoria that goes right by hi
farm. Mr.. Roush says that there ar
about 1e acres on his farm that ar
ideal for raising cranberries and hi
expects to-plant to that crop at once
The land there, he says, produce
from 1OC to 1870 barrels of cranberrie
to the acre after the second year
J The average price is $18 per barrel