White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-08

showed the greatest gains III ScnCol
census children this year, according
to the report Of superintendent Of
Public Instruction Showalter.
The bryad mill OF Schafer Brothers
Lumber & Single company resumed
operations last week, according to
Carl Schafer. mill superintendent. The
repairs of the damage done by the re-
cent fire have been completed.
Purchase of II bales of hops at 16
cents pound from Wetzel Brothers
on the Herke ranch in the Ahtanum
district is announced by l.. L. Hughes,
Yakima hop buyer, who voices an op
timistic outlook for hop growers.
Henry T. e. Herman of Spokane,
who was appointed by Governor Hart
ley to fill the place on the supreme
bench made vacant by the death of
Judge Mark A. Fullerton, has been
sworn in. He is classed as wet"
Puyallup Fair association officials
have purchased 20 horses to replace
the 81 head that suffocated in an ex-
press car while en- route to the fair.
The horses belonged to Chief Jim Slut
skin and were to be used by the In
dians in the parades at the fair.
Public schools in Tonasket, 100 miles
north Of Wenatchee, may be forced to
close March l, two months earlier
than usual, as special levy amount
ing to $4,000 was voted down there.
Heretofore the district has voted the
special levy without opposition.
One hundred and fifty reindeer, Sc
lected for Santa Claus teams in east
ern and middle western cities, will
be rested on Wilson creek, 60 miles
east Of Wenatchee, after being dis
charged at Seattle by the steamer
Oduna from Alaska early in October.
w. A. Gliddes, who resides in the
Little Hannaford valley, was in Cen
tralia recently, exhibiting two squash
Of unusual size. One, Marblehead,
weighed 6S pounds, and the other, an
unknown variety, So pounds, attesting
to the fertility of the soil in the valley.
The state prison license plate plant
at Walla Walla has almost completed
it's work on the 1882 automobile H.
cense plates, and the task will be fin.
ished in about a week. The order was
for 4SS,000 pairs of plates. The plant
averages about $500 pairs Of plates a
day.
A reduction Of approximately 10000
900 is possible for Washington tax
payers provided counties, cities and
school districts and other tax levying
bodies follow the lead Of the state
board Of equalization, according to
Samuel L. Chase, chairman Of the
state board.
A machine for husking and grading
filberts will be tried this fall at the
plant Of the Washington Gamers CO.
operative in Vancouver, where the
1881 crop of the Washington Nut
Growers cooperative will be handled.
The machine was invented by Rex
Smith of Vader.
The supreme court has affirmed the
law passed by the last legislature low
ering the rate of interest on delin-
quent taxes on real property from IL
per cent to 10 per cent. The court
held that the law was retroactive Of
taxes delinquent prior to June 1, the
day the law became effective.
Tariffs fixing an export rate Of 22h
from the Wenatchee and Yakima dis
tricts to Seattle and Tacoma became
effective October 1 over the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific lines,
railroad officials informed the depart
ment of public works. The old rate
was 281a cents hundred.
Earl M. Oliver, mail messenger be-
tween the Union depot and postoffice
at Ridgefield, has exhibited nam
moth striped Delicious apple, which
was grown On his acreage in the east
part of town. The apple, which is be-
lieved to be the largest Of its variety
ever seen around there, measured 1914
inches the longest way around, had a
height Of Az inches, a circumference
of 141s inches, and tipped the scales
at "a ounces.
The Aberdeen city council slashed
at the proposed budget recently, cut
ting $4,000 from the total before call
ing the session enough for one night.
A total of $4,000 was cut from the
$4,000 city hall building fund; the
street department was cut $4,000 when
a new grader was eliminated from the
list OF prospective purchases; street
lighting was reduced $500; the park
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