White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25

third successive two-year term, de-
feating Fred Hudson, Tacoma printer,
e7S6 votes to 1868, election tellers an
nounced at Seattle.
waterville orchardists are taking an
active interest in the control OF peren-
NAL weeds, which infest many or.
chards. Considerable squirrel poison is
also being distributed but not so much
as in former years, on account of fl
nancial conditions.
A baby is not new thing at the
home of Anton Vetsch Of Yakima. a
native of Russia, who is now the faith
er of 20 children, seven of whom are
by his first wife and 10 by the sec
ond. The last child, daughter, has
been named Enough"
An investigation by Seattle immi-
grafton officials reveals that % out
of IS men employed on state high
way project are aliens. The project
is a $11S,O0O paving job let under the
federal emergency employment act,
near Redmond, King county.
M. e. Toilet, AZ, rancher, told
friends IT I have to sell my wheat
crop for SO cents bushel I'll have
to quit" and then shot himself
through the head, dying Immediately.
TT. ~1,a+ I,;,oca1R NTH q rif1o IN f1ia
farm seven miles from st. John.
Walla Walla city commissioners are
considering resolutions calling for the
bulkheading Of both sides OF Mill
creek, from Clinton street to Roose-
yelt street, in which district there was
considerable overflow Of flood waters
March 81. Hearings will be held late
in July.
Two weeks more will see 1t posi-.
BILE to drive an automobile completely
around the Olympic peninsula loop
without detours. The road will not
be completely finished in all sections,
as many tons Of gravel yet are re-
quired, but all grading work will be
finished.
A Cowlitz county firm has started
work on a 10-year program Of logging
In Skamania county. The firm will
employ $50 men in getting out 1885,
100000 feet Of logs, which will be
hauled to the Columbia river and
floated to Longview and other points
on the river.
Harold Wolfrum, IL, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Wolfrum of Davenport,
was playing "mumblety-peg" with
some friends and tossed his jack
knife into the air. The point Of the
blade penetrated his left eyeball. II
Infection does not set in, the eye will
be saved, his physician reports.
Several times after the 14-months-
old child Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Holse,
Selah, apparently had died, the Yaki-
ma fire department squad revived the
heart and lung action, but death final
~ came last week after 111z-hour bat.
tie. The babe was i'll Of double pneu.
monia, measles and Vincents disease.
The wheat crop in the Walla Walla
valley, while it is likely that it will
be smaller than that Of last year, will
be- cleaner, according to growers.
There will be less smut in the grain.
Some of the growers believe the yield
will be cut materially by the hot
winds. Asa Robinson estimates the
loss as high as 80 per cent, but many
others say the shortage will not be as
extensive.
Everyone in Longview, from the
city's mayor to the small urchin, be-
gan wearing red hat recently, the
official headdress for the Longview
rolleo, which will be held there July
and 4 and which will be the third
annual Longview celebration. A COM
mittee, headed by e. A. Nordstrum,
has been named to mete out stern JUS
tice to all citizens who fail to appear
in the regulation headgear.
Almost 500 men and women share.
holders in the defunct Puget Sound
Savings and Loan association waited
in the rain when Receiver H. ]. Hoff.
man opened its doors to pay the first
dividend since it closed in February.
About $4,000 shareholders will parti-
pate In the $1,4s0,0O0 dividend. One
woman had been waiting since 6 A. M.
Some Of the shareholders said they
needed the money to pay for their
breakfasts. Checks varied from one
cent on a S-cent deposit to several
thousand dollars.
Byron Miller was convicted of first
degree murder and the death penalty
decreed by superior court jury for
the Staying Of George Warning, Nab
ton town marshal, on the evening OF
Nov DC Tho i,,rv de1fherafed nearly