White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-16

slight gain for April as compared
with year ago.
All hope of Grays Harbor obtaining
a lightship for station off the port bar
this year was blasted when the Aber.
deem chamber of commerce received q
telegram from Congressman johnson
stating that the secretary of commerce
and the director of the budget were
opposed to the necessary appropria.
ton.
Much damage is reported as the re-
suit Of a heavy frost that practically
destroyed all strawberries around HUI
sum, six miles north of White Salmon.
Further up the valley. the Mt. Adams
orchard properties, with an anticipated
crop of 10000 boxes of pears, reported
a loss of 60 per cent Of this estimate,
due to frost.
Stressing the citizenship education
phase Of the citizens military train
ing camp, the government has just ac-
cepted six bronze medals from the
Military Training Camps association
of the United States, to be awarded
at Vancouver barracks this summer
to outstanding boys who attend camp
between June 20 and July 20.
Final details of the consolidation of
the North Cove and Brooklyn school
districts of Pacific county, respectively
with the Ocosta and Vesta districts Of
Grays Harbor county were worked out
at South Bend at a meeting between
Mrs. Jessie Simmons, Pacific county
school superintendent, and Mrs. Riley,
Grays Harbor superintendent.
Puget Island will have cheese fac
tory soon. Stock in the proposed I'M
dertaking has been taken by suffi-
Client number Of local people to insure
its success. Recently site was pur-
chased near the grange hall from Har-
old Johnson, and a group of interested
workers cleared sufficient land of I'M
dergrowth for the main building.
The old Covington house that was
moved from the original site near Or
chards to Leverich park at the north
ern limits Of Vancouver is being re-
paired with the end in view of making
it a meeting place for civic and patri-
otto organizations. 1t may be used to
house relics, historic of the days when
the residence was the gathering place
for the elite of Vancouver.
A heavy run of chinook salmon has
swamped the packing plant of the Co
lumbia River Packers association at
Ellsworth, nine miles east of Vancou
yer, and the pack to date is far ahead
of the same period last year. The to-
tai value will reach $25O,000 by the
end Of the season. A carload Of this
seasons pack has been shipped and
two more cars will be shipped soon.
A new cheese factory is to be start.
ed at Glenwood, which is to have
capacity of 10000 pounds of milk
daily. Doherty & Sons, who operate
the cheese factory at Trout Lake, are
installing the plant. This company
is manufacturing 1850 pounds Of
cheese daily at Trout Lake. 1t expects
to start with at least 5000 pounds of
milk per day at the Glenwood factory.
Indications are that the 1880 cascara
bark peel in southwest Washington
will be much heavier than for two or
three years. A surplus of bark which
had accum ulated about three years
ago, is reported to have been largely
absorbed. A closing down of much
of the logging operation in the south
west is expected to result in many
men from the camps going after cas-
cara bark.
Weather and vandals have been
playing havoc with the new power line
in course of construction from South
Bend and Ilwaco to Grays Harbr. One
night falling trees tore the wires from
number of poles along the Rhodesia
beach road, while on the next night
some miscreant cut several strands
of wire on the poles just out of South
Bend and stole about 100 pounds of
copper wire.
The Grown Willamette Paper com
pany is constructing cutoff plant
on the Columbia river water front two
miles west of Cathlamet, for the pur-
pose of cutting logs which are too
short to raft and which formerly have
been sent to Oregon City on barges.
When completed the plant will have
capacity of about $4,000 feet day,
and will be operated one shift, en-
ploying Is men.
All hope Of obtaining any state mon
ey for the road over the K. M. hill
between Skamokawa and Grays River
was dispelled by the announcement
that all proposed maintenance on the
Ocean Beach highway from Johnson's
landing to Longview, all proposed new
machinery purchase, all proposed new
surveys, the construction of guard
rails and possibly top dressing for the
surfacing, would be held over until the
next session of the legislature.
Bears I1avT, recent1v haap doimy oou
siderable damage to livestock. M. g.
Reiser, who lives near Chinook, re-
norris that haar l,ac I,.,a,, d,ix,er xae,.,.