White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-08-13
Pouring concrete for the three-story


ing will be completed shortly after
the fall term of the school starts.
Henry Gies is in the hospital suf-
fering from bullet wound in his arm.
as the result of an unusual accident
in Walla WaIla recently. Gies was
burning trash raked up in his yard
and a cartridge in the trash exploded.
A new type hijacker is reported IN
Silver creek district, southeast of Che
halls, where IS stands of bees were
robbed of their honey, estimated at
between 1900 and 1000 pounds and
valued at $3.50 to $500. The bees be-
long to ]. o. Wallace.
The first huckleberries of the sea-
son, fruit of large size and in excellent
condition, were marketed by Indians
who had visited the large berry
patches southwest and west of Mount
Adams in Klickitat county. The
berries were retailed at 20 cents
pound.
Sixty bean growers Of the Longview
area, who have 80 acres in beans,
which they had planted for the Allen
Packing company, which is in a re-
Ownership, met recently and formed
a cooperative marketing organization
with Paul Forsback, Willow Grove, as
president.
Harry L. Miller of Wenatchee, chair
man of the advertising committee Of
the Washington boxed apple bureau,
announces that this years 100000 adj
vertising compaign will start a month
earlier than in former years. Nearly
100 per cent of the states apple crop
has been signed up.
Jack of the Beanstalk had nothing
on l.. A. McCracken of Montesano.
Only it is peas rather than beans Nc
Cracker fancies. He has brought in
and placed on exhibit in local hard
ware store peavine 10 feet in height
that had II long, well-filled pods. The
vine was especially sturdy.
AS much of the highway work in
the Vancouver district as can be done
efficiently in the winter will be de-
ferred, instead of rushing it through
in two or three Of the summer months.
and this will provide work for many
needy men at a season when work is
always scarce, State District Engineer
Schwartz stated.
Thirty-five carloads of cinders, form
ing a veritable mountain, are ready
for use In constructing the new Wash
ington State Quarter-mile running
track at Pullman, according to Earl V.
Foster, graduate manager. The track
will replace the old half-mile oval. An
extensive water system and complete
fencing Of the track, which encircles
the football gridiron, are among other
improvements.
A ten-year-old barefoot boy, Hubert
Nichols Jr, shot and killed Sheriff
John Wormell, u, at Asotin. The boy
fired at close range through WormeTs
brain from behind barrel when the
sheriff, Deputy Wayne Bezona and
Peter KLAUS, merchant, caught him
robbing the Klaus mercantile store.
Then he threw away the gun and told
his captors that William Robinson,
about 80, had promised him So and a
trip to Canada for the robbery.
The number Of persons per family
is steadily decreasing in the state Of
Washington, according to the census
bureau statistics just released. Adams
county is the one where the number
is largest, being 4.02 persons per fam
lily, with Garfield county second, with
persons. The average for the state
Is 81 persons, whereas ten years ago
there was an average Of persons in
all counties. Washington has 426,019
families, and of these 1SO,299, or 42.5
per cent have radios.
Ethel Stinson, II, Morton high
0SAOOA 6AA1, Wdo h1kAOO dL 0L6t0 oCI.
gems service station near Riff where
she was in charge while he was away
on vacation trip. A so-called "trick
gum" resembling an auto tire gauge,
said to have been loaded with a 32-
caliber cartridge, was the cause of her
death. Miss Stinson was alone when
she accidentally shot herself, the bull
let piercing her breast near the heart.
A passing customer found her body on
the floor in front of the cash register.
PIuvius, once thriving little village
at the "top-of-the-hill" on the Ocean
Beach highway between South Bend
and Chehalis, boasts the only wood
block pavement in Pacific county. The
pavement is the pride of j. r. Shriner,
now mayor and sole resident Of Plu-
vi1Ya uvhO hYi1f II hv QUITTING block