White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-17
D. O. Mecklem of Everson was elect

State Supervisor of Banking Moody
has asked the superior court for au-
thorization to pay Is per cent divi-
dend to creditors of the Farmers State
bank of Almira, closed last spring.
This is the first dividend.
The members of the Kittitas County
Dairymen's association are receiving
a dividend of $4,000. The amount OF
butter marketed by the association has
increased from $4,000 pounds in 1925
to 946,O00 pounds in 1881.
Ykima county will be short over
100000 in tax money from one sim
gle source. The Northern Pacific rail-
way has withheld that amount from
its 1ast-half tax check. The road paid
only $13,02S, asserting that $127,913
Of the levy was excessive.
Work has been started on the dock
and new ferry landing construction at
Knappton, some IA miles south OF
Deep River, for the Pioneer Ferry
company Of Astoria. The Pioneer op-
crates between Astoria and Deep Riv-
er and way points on Grays bay.
Bids will be opened December 20
for the construction Of $4,000 Unit
ed States customs station at the inter-
national boundary above Oroville, re-
placing the present station, which is
three miles south of the line. Water
will be piped to the station from Lake
Osoyoos.
The state highway department has
agreed to resurface Sargent boulevard,
entrance to Aberdeen and Grays Har-
Dor, which has been badly cracked
and broken from heavy trucking in
connection with the construction Of
new portal above it on the Chehalis
river banks.
Three deaths caused by auto acct
dents in the last few months and in
Vulnerable collisions have caused res
idents Of Charleston to form an organ
ization to study means of eliminating
danger. Women drivers are said to
be responsible for their share of reck-
less driving.
The state highway department has
a crew Of so men employed on the Pa
cific highway between Madsen's cor
ner, mile southeast of Chehalis, and
Gray's corner on Cowlitz prairie, IL
miles southeast. The work being done
is that Of widening the shoulders to
the sides of the pavement.
It paid John Lund, ", to make good
friends of the boys and girls he Knew.
Lund was the idol of youngsters in
the Federal Way school district Of Ia
an automobile. His small friends raised
money to bury the penniless old man
who always went out Of his way to
make them happy.
Citizens of Cashmere have sent a
petition to the federal government to
alleviate distress this winter among
D. TSuuduL Ol LILO OuCO-lduSu w oncA-
atcha tribe. The Indians were report
ed practically destitute, awaiting de-
cision on the amount of money to be
paid them in a land deal made with
the government many years ago.
The Northwestern Fruit exchange
at Wenatchee has received word that
the Great Northern railway has re-
quested publication of a reduction in
the transcontinental rate on apples
from $3.50 hundred to $1.15, or 177s
cents per box. This rate would make
it cheaper to ship by rail to Europe
through Atlantic ports than from Pa
cific coast ports.
An appropriation of $4,000 to aid the
Queets Indians, under jurisdiction OF
the Quinault Indian agency, in pur-
chasing fishing gear, has been author
lied by the Indian department. Indians
requested aid from the government,
declaring the depression had hit them
severely and that they had no funds
with which to purchase new nets to
fish in the streams of the reservation.
All Grays Harbor county banks have
! Joined in refusing to cash Aberdeen
city and Aberdeen school district war
rants. The action followed defeat at
the polls recently of a plan to issue
$4,000 in bonds to retire city war
rant Indebtedness. The banks refuse
to cash warrants either at face value
or discount. The action affects about
145 school teachers and 100 city en-
ployes.
st. Luke's Episcopal church, one of
the Oldest landmarks Of Vancouver,
the oldest city in the northwest, went
up in flames last week, scant half
hour after the building had been emp
tied of it's congregation. The fire
started from an overheated furnace,