White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02

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been booked by Clark G Nash, timber
and piling contractors of Winlock, for
| delivery to the Union Pacific Railroad
company. These will be cut in the dis
trict east of Toledo from which point
they will be shipped.
| Trapping of beaver has been begun
| by Gilbert Murk of Woodland for the
| Cowlitz county game commission at
points where they are causing damage
to farm lands. He is doing most of
the trapping near Castle Rock, and al.
ready has taken six beaver.
Andrew Samuelson, 37-year-old To
ledo service station operator, is suf'
fering from what may prove fatal
burns, received when his clothing was
burned off after he had fallen over
gasoline stove. Samuelson's entire
body is mass of burns.
| Controversy over the boundary line
| between Washington and Oregon has
been reopened before Federal Judge
Cushman in civil action brought by
Stuart Davis of Chinook against the
Columbia River Packers association.
The suit involves fishing traps at Sand
island.
The contract for construction Of
steel og-carrying barge with capa
city of 100000 feet was awarded to
the Marine Construction company OF
Seattle on a low bid Of approximately
$85,OOO. The barge will be placed in
operation between Nehalem bay, Ore
gon, and Grays harbor.
A graduated personal income tax
will be asked of the Washington legis'
lature by the Washington State Tas
Equalization council. The council rep
resents farm, labor, realty and educa
tional groups. The income tax would
exempt $1,000 for single persons, $4,000
for married couples and $500 for each
dependent child.
Lloyd Miller, Sunnyside realtor and
prominent in irrigation work, was
elected president Of the Washington
irrigation institute at it's 18th annual
meeting held in Ellensburg. F. A.
Norton, Grandview, was reelected first
vice-president, and Eugene Logan, Of
Spokane, prominent in Columbia basin
work, was reelected second. vice-pres
ident.
Merger of five western Washington
motor freight lines into $1,000,OOO
corporation is announced by ]. G. Ryan
of Seattle, president of the Pacific
Motor Transport company. Head
quarters Of the new company will be
at Seattle and Tacoma, with branches
at Bellingham, Mount Vernon, Everett,
Olympia, Aberdeen, Centralia and Che.
halls
Business men of Dayton are expert
menting in the use Of wheat for fuel
in office stoves. They are purchasing
the grain at 80 cents per bushel, and
small stoves are consuming about Is
pounds daily. 1t is estimated say.
ing of dollar a month will be made
by the use of wheat instead Of coal in
small quantities, and a great deal
more in large burners.
To help Santa, the Stone-Webster
Engineering corporation, constructing
the Rock island dam on the, Columbia
river above Wenatchee, advanced pay.
day from Friday to Wednesday. The
27OO men received $180,OOO in checks
With exception of the maintenance
crew, all operations stopped Christ
mas day, the first time since work on
the dam started early last January.
Chris Turnbull is roller-skating
addict. So is the girl who became his
wife at Kelso recently. To avoid miss
ing their usual evening recreation at
a local skating rink they were married
on the rink, the entire wedding party
including bridesmaid, best man, flower
girl, ringbearer and L. H. Huntington
justice of the peace, who performe ed
the ceremony, being on roller skates
Final census figures for the state Of
Washington, released few days ago
give the, population as $1,565,396, rep
resenting an increase of 206,775, Oh
1872 per cent. Twelve of 80 counties
have decreased in population. Cowliti
was the most rapidly growing county
showing 17O.6 per cent increase. Tit
most sparsely settled county is Ska
mania, with an average of IL persons
to the square mile.
A half-million cedar shingles, par
, of an Atlantic coast order totaling g.
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