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The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

The Presbyterian mission boat Princeton, Capt. Rev. Swanson, pulled out Saturday morning for KlaWock.
The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

WANTED:-USed 30-30 rife or what have you. Must be ;n good condition. Inquire this of flee.
The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

Mrs. Jack Holmes of Wrangell was a visitor in Petersburg. Re turning to her home Tuesday.
The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

M. B. Pointer and family hitch ed their f1oathouse behind the Tasmania and will make their home in Wrangell in the future.
The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

Tex" Morris was adjudged insane in the local commission |er's court, Thursday evening. R. E. Baumgartner, representing defendant states that an appeal from the decision will be made
 on points of law relating to con-
 stitutional privileges.
The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

to women now! "
The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

Mrs. Annie Martinez, adopted daughter of Mrs. John Lott, died in the Juneau hospital Saturday. Mr. Martinez, learning that his wife was in low condition, left on the Juneau mail boat but ar rived too late to be at the death bed. Her remains were taken to Rake and from thence to Kla- wock by her relatives for burial. Mrs. Martinez was a fine, clean, loVable woman and her early de- mise is a distinct loss to her peo- pie.
The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

The foundation for the new qchool gymnasium is nearly com pleted.
The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

MT. and Mrs. William Walters of Rake, stopped in Petersburg a couple of days during the week while enroute to Wrangell.
The Alaskan., 1931-10-16

A surprise party was rendered Mrs. William Stedman in the home of Mir. and Mrs. Ralph LOken.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25
Announcements of
the Churches
St. Paul's Evangelical

Lutheran
Rev. L. G. Krug, Pastor
Lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven" Matthew 6, 20.
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Divine Services at II a. m.
Bible School meets Wednesday eve
ming at o'clock.
OVER THE RADIO
THE LUTHERAN HOUR
Columbia Broadcasting System
Every Thursday I to 1880 p. A..
Pacific Time.
XIII, Los Angeles, 900 klc.-
KCIN. Portland, Ore, $40 kic.
KFRc, San Francisco, $40 kic,
KOL Seattle Tacoma, 1870 klc,
KFPY, Spokane, 1910 klc.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25
HANFORD HAPPENINGS
BIZ Mrs. Nj. r. Slausns

Arthur Fairbanks and daughters
Arliss and Darlene, who came owe
from Seattle to visit the Martin famil.
at White Bluffs, were in Hanfort
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Sharp and sol
Rupert drove over from Seattle Fri
day and visited at the j. H. Evet
home. Mrs. Sharp is Mrs. Evett's sis
ter. The two former left Sunday bu
Rupert will remain for a more ex'
tended visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Smith and two
sons drove over from Ellensbure
Thursday and spent few days at the
Walter Elliott home. Mrs. Smith Is 9
niece Of Mrs. Walter King who is also
visiting here.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. r. oriner and Mrs
Mamie syfford drove over to Yakime
Saturday. From there Mrs. drinel
and Mrs. Syfford went to seattle anc
will visit their daughters over the
weekend.
The Misses Margaret and Mildred
Moulster left Wednesday evening to
attend the state convention OF Chris
tian Endeavorers held in Tacoma June
1921. They expect to visit their sister
verna before returning to Hanford.
Mrs. Lois Hagen, Rev. and Mrs. H.
A. Noyes, Mrs. j. A. Purdy, and Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar McConnachie attend
ed services at White Bluffs conducted
by Bishop Cross and Archdeacon Cof-
fin Mrs. Edgar McConnachie was con-
firmed and united with the Episcopal
church.
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Wooten, Miss
Marie Wooten and Miss Hazel Horton
returned from their trip to the coast
the latter part of the week. Mr.. Woot-
en- attended the state meeting OF the
Veterans of Foreign Wars while they
were in Port Angeles. They visited
Mir. Wooten's mother in Seattle and
also visited the Wings, former White
Bluffs residents.
Miss Edith DeRigio left Sunday for
Monmouth, Oregon, to attend the sum-
mer session of the Monmouth Nor
NAL. Her brother took her as far as
KenneWick and she made the rest OF
the trip by stage.
Mrs Walter King, who with Mr..
King is visiting at the w. j. Elliott
home, received word that their house
and barber shop in Reubens, Idaho,
had been destroyed by fire Saturday
morning. Mrs. King thinks that per-
haps it was caused by the water heat
er but the message did not give de
tails
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Jones and Mr..
and Mrs. Glen Stewart and daughter
Tia returned Monday evening from
Walla .Walla where they attended the
Seventh Day Adventist Encampment.
While there they called at the Ray
Van Akin home.
Mr.. and Mrs T. E. Kamerer and
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. S. Weber attended
Christian Science services at Yakima
last Sunday They came home by way
of Benton City and saw the latter
part of the ball game.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25
Twenty Years Ago

Twenty years ago the White Bluffs
Spokesman of June % reported:
"A horse having been stolen from
Liveryman Zane of Hanford and the
suspected escape of the thieves into
Oregon, and limited that there was
likelihood that Judge Lynch would be
called upon to preside at the festiv-
tiles some bright and serene summer
day if horse stealing were not stopped.
That Superintendent Moss of the
White Bluffs school had engaged as
his assistants for the next year Miss
Eva Shotwell of .Ellensburg and Miss
Helen Parsons of Cheney.
The landing Of the first carrier and
stacker in the White Bluffs district.
ordered by the White Bluffs Mercan-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25

Benton City won from Hanford last
Sunday, the score being 4 to g. This
is the first game Hanford has lost
this season. AT the ninth inning the
score was to 3. Ten innings were
played to decide the game.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Rollinger enter
tanned at bridge on Saturday evening.
in honor Of their eighth wedding an
niversary. Four tables were in play.
Mrs. Robert mcdonnell won high
pripe and Mrs. Edwin Newton low.
Leo Weber had high score for the
men. Mr.. and Mrs. Rollinger were
presented with davenport table by
the guests. Refreshments were served
by the hostess.
Rev. Moves and Miss Rachel Noyes
drove to Sunnyside Monday morning
and returned Tuesday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25
Low FARE
4TH OF JULY EXCURSION

4TH UF JULY EACUhSION
tickets will be on sale July 2, 8, 4, via
tThe Milwaukee Road between all sta
tions Butte and west at ONE CENT
PER MILE, good for return until mid
night July 9. Journey must be COM
pleted to starting point by that hour
and date. Special trains will be run
Between Spokane and Puget Sound
July 2, and 9, leaving Spokane $3.50
a. M, arriving Seattle 5:55 p. M, Taco
ma 1920 p. m. Leaving Tacoma 7:3O
a. M, Seattle 900 a.. M, arriving Spo-
kane 6:15 p. m. Tickets will be good
on these specials and on all regular
passenger trains, main and branch
lines. For further particulars ask your
nearest Milwaukee Road agent
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25

The beauty Of the yucca is just be-
ing discovered by some White Bluffs
flower lovers, although few speci-
mems Of this ornamental plant have
been cultivated in some OF the older
gardens for years. The yucca is ma
tive American plant having long
pointed, often rigid, fibrous margined
leaves on a woody stem. It bears a
large panicle Of creamy white blos-
SONS. Stalks Of the yucca seven feet
long, cut from plant in the F. M.
Hill yard, that were used in decorat-
ing the Presbyterian church for Chill
dren's Day exercises few Sundays
ago, excited much admiring comment.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25

tile company for J. B. Tromanhauser
|-Kennewick to be on the eve of voting
out the saloons.
An accident at Coyote Rapids as the
result of which Edward Greenlee, a
P. p. &, L. lineman, was lowering be-
tween life and death. Greenlee had
been working among the live wires at
the Coyote pumping station when a
slight movement of his hand released
the danger that lurked around him
and instantly the wooden shed in
which he was at work was filled with
flame. No one could aid him and he
could not help himself until he was
released by the burning through Of a
large wire. When freed, he yet had
strength enough to enable him to dash
for the river and plunge into the wa
ter. When helped from the river all
the clothing had dropped from his
body. Even his shoes were burned to
crisp.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25
Allard-V ernita
Age and Ring Generalship
Succumb to Youth and Ambition
Famous Eariy-Fruit District

Age and Ring Generalship
Succumb to Youth and Ambition
The single men won the ball game
they had to have big leaguers to do
it, importing players from the White
Bluffs club. This evens the series and
the deciding game will be played next
Sunday.
The Allard Vernita district is busy
part of the valley these days. The april
cots are on and it seems like every
one here is shipping. They are the
Moorpark variety and are exception
ally nice.
A splendid crowd attended the dance
at the Vernita school house last Sat-
urday night A Mckee orchestra fur
nished the music.
Mr. and Mrs. w. M. Mellest returned
Wednesday morning to their home in
Tacoma after weeks visit with their
daughter, Mrs. Allan Cudahy.
Jack Grom was Yakima business
visitor Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. N. Fry and daugh-
ter Catherine we're in Yakima last
Thursday. While there Mrs. Fry con-
suited physician about the condition
of her knee, injured when she
stumbled on the basement stairs at
the school house several weeks ago
Her physician told her it would be six
weeks or two months before she would
be entirely recovered.
Miss Anna R. Knaub, Jay Austin,
j. P. Richmond and Thomas Sigurd-
son are in Prosser today, Thursday,
attending the hearing in the water
case.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

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Sunday school services, 1880.
Bible Study, 2:45.
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HanfOrd Lodge No. 256, F. & A. VI.
Meets End and 4th Wednesdays, 8 p. m.
q Masonic Hail. Hanford, Wash
HNfEN2 Visiting brothers cordially
W \ invited.
Norman Anglin, w. M.
Edwin F. Newton, Sec'y
Business and Professional
Directory
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25
St. Mary's Catholic

Services will be held at st. Mary's
church at a. m.
Rev. A. Joda,
Pastor
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25
Community PRESBYTERIAN

Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Sermon at IL a. m.
Rev. H. A. Moves,
Pastor
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
UNION
(Near LincOln)

The Ladies' Aid will meet at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. John J. Dep
uty on Friday evening, August 2S,
rain or shine. Everyone is cordially
invited, to attend. Members please
don't forget the birthday gift. Plen-
ty of ice cream and cake for sale.
The Kenton family held a family
reunion at Big Stone Beach on Sun
day, August Itch. The day was an
ideal one and the bathing was fine.
Everyone carried baskets of good
things to eat, to which they all did
Justice. Those attending were: Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Kenton, Sr., Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Kenton and daughter
Gertrude, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray New
man, Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Pritchard
and family of Pennington, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. S. Pritchard and son Gus of
near Greenwood, Mrs. Rosa Robin
son, and grandson William Thawley
of GOldsbOrO, Md, Mr.. and Mrs. ELL
wood KentOn and family of Lincoln
City, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert KentOn
and family and w. H. Kenton, Jr.,
and Carlisle Fox of near Union, Mr..
and Mrs. Preston KentOn and fam
lily and Ross Lemex, Mr.. and Mrs.
George SOckrider, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
B. KentOn and family, Mrs. George
Bennett, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Walls
and family, James Whaley of Mil
ford. Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Webb and
son and Marie Wilson of Frederick,
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
THE GREEN LAWN

Formerly people used to call the
ground around their homes, the
yard" 1t was something like a
horse corral, where the children
were let loose to play. 1t was more
or less a dumping ground where
you could put anything you did not
have room for in the house.
Today in every we'll maintained
home, the lawn is carefully tended
possession. 1t is smoothly moved
as often as necessary. Even if the
family lacks ambition to raise flow
ers, a lawn of velvety green turf is
a setting of beauty. 1t is a carpet
of natures verdure, the background
that gives dignity and charm to
even a plain looking home.
In many locations such a lawn re-
quires constant watering. Also ugly
weed pests always fight your good
honest grass. But care and skill will
do it, and a we'll tended lawn is a
refreshing welcome to the tired
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

People often thOughtlessly say
that their home towns have too many
organizations. 1t has been humor-
ously said, that one society should
be formed the purpose of which
should be to kill off other societies.
The American people are called a
nation of liners" who belong to so
many organizations that all their
spare time is taken up, and they
have no leisure for reading and
thought. ."'-
And yet when you talk of disband-
ing societies, where would you be-
gin? Certainly not with the church
es. No one wants to live in a town
where there is no religious infiu-
ence. Not with fraternal orders,
which provide friendship and tangi-
BILE benefits. Not with the women's
societies, which add to intelligence,
and give welcome relief from mo-
nOtOnOus hours of toll.
If there are too many organiza-
tiOns in a town, sOme of them will
disappear as the result of indiffer-
ence. AS long as the members like
them enough to attend the meetings
and pay the dues, they must obtain
something of value.
People need social meeting places,
and opportunities to express their
idea sand talents, associations that
will accomplish business and com
munity results. You can judge a
town by the amount of life seen in
these societies. If their meetings
are we'll attended and enthusiastic,
they are giving the community
something that is indispensable.
So let us all during the coming
season take a real interest in organ
izatiOn life here in Milford. A good
takes scattered individ-
ual forces that are helpless when
alone, and combines them into re-
suits benefiting the life of all. Any
one who performs any service in a
good organization is one of the
builders of the community.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
ROADSIDE STANDS

Many country roads have been
transformed from marvellous pano-
ramas of Natures charm, into rows
of lunchrOOms, hot dog stands, gas
stations, etc. The nature lover may
dislike the change. But travellers
will get hungry, the gas tank will
run low, and this line of business
provides a living for many. But
such enterprises should not deface
beautiful scenery.
The more attractive such places
are, the more business they can do.
If lunch room looks disorderly and
run down, the traveller will fear
that the food will be equally unat-
tractive.
But if it is clean and artistic, it
will look to him as if equal care
had been taken by the lady of the
kitchen. The business men say that
a shabby looking salesman sells
few goods, and shabby looking re-
freshment place entices few travel
lers.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
BETTER THAN OTHERS

In personal life, claims to supe-
riOr virtue are highly unpopular.
The man who sets himself up to be
"holier-than-thou," is ridiculed, and
the sincerity of his virtue is ques-
toned.
In the relations between nations,
however, this spirit of superior feel
ing exists with little restraint. Every
nation considers itself superior to
its neighbOrs. This feeling had it's
uses in the early days of our coun-
try, when our people suffered from
feeling of inferiOrity to older cOun-
tries. They were looked down upon
by the proud nations of Europe, so it
was natural enough, and not wholly
harmful, for our people to boast
about their own achievements.
But in this day when civilization
and education among the leading
nations are not so different, this
feeling of superiority does not work
out so well. The Germans had a bad
case of it. They sincerely believed
that they were supermen. They felt
that if they could dominate the
world, the spread of their ideas
would promote general welfare. This
spirit helped cause the World War.
Englishmen have always been ac-
cused of being arrogant toward 9TH
er peoples, and many of them are.
The French and Italians have a very
high notion of the achievements of
their countries. And as for Ameri-
cans, the sentiment still prevails
that we are the biggest, best, brain
lest, and most achieving of all peo-
pies. When nations entertain this
superior feeling toward each other,
between them fails to de-
velop.
If sentiments like these are so OBJ
noxious in personal life, they also
lead to dislike between nations. Our
people, in their power and relative
prosperity, can well afford to ridi-
3ule the bOastful spirit. While not
osing our ardent affection for and
ldmiation of our own country, let
is do full justice to the people of
,ther lands.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
CARELESS FATHERS

Said Rev. DR.. Harry Emerson Fos-
dick recently: Fifty fathers out of
100 do not answer letters from a
college where their boys have got
into serious trouble"
The true parent is bound up in
the fate of his children. If they do
well, he oVerfiows with pride. If
they have misfortune, his heart
aches, and he yearns over them with
sympathy. If they go wrong, he can
scarcely think of other things while
he plans some way of amendment.
But fathers who will not answer
when their boys need their help and
eadership-what shall we say of
them? If boy lands in jail, the
father is sometimes the one who
should really serve the term.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
@N&E
WORK NOT DONE

''The work is never done while the
power to work remains" said JUS
tice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the
U. S. supreme court, shortly after
reaching his 9Oth birthday. Some
men who contemplate retiring from
business at a much earlier age
might well reflect on that.
A man who quits before his work
is done, is about like the boy who
leaves school before his course is
completed. His work becomes an un-
finished thing. If a man is working
merely for money, he may feel,
when he has earned all he needs,
that it is time for him to quit. But
if he is working for the satisfaction
of making a contribution to the COM
which motive brings re-
wards better than money, he will
not want to wholly quit while the
working power is left.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
REMEDY WORSE THAN DISEASE

Speaking recently of the problem
OF unemployment, Governor Ritchie,
of Maryland, is quoted as saying:
"This constitutes a challenge to
our social order and is the strongest
argument for Communism unless
solved"
To which a country editor out in
Kansas where the air is so clear
that men get in the habit of seeing
sOphistries. responds:
This is much like saying that if
an ailment fails to yield to treat
ment by castor oil or porous plas-
ters, this makes an argument in
favor of giving the patient a bottle
of arsenic"
And then the editor goes on to in
quire how much of our present trOu-
BILE is due to an economic system"
or social ORDER" and how much
of it is due to the abuses of that
system and that order by individuals
and elements. And that is a very
pertinent inquiry, which may we'll
be addressed, not only to Governor
Ritchie but to the whole school of
revolutionaries and pessimists who
want to scrap the Constitution and
our whole system of representative
government every time there is the
slightest jar in the smooth operation
of our economic machinery How
do these gentlemen know that it is
our economic system or our social
order that is at fault? The best
in the world can be land
ed wrong side up in a ditch by an
driver No economic sys-
tenn, no social order, is proof
against over-production, against
speculation, against collective folly
or individual bad judgment.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
..THURSDAY'S CHII.D"

Thursdays child was /, and always
prone TO sulk and pout bit.
"Luckless one, 'tis not her fault"
my grandmother would say
THE biacI. dogs on her shoulder,
sure, ard how shall we get rid
of it?
Perhaps, fresh-baked cooky man
will coax the beast away"
Shed make a man of gingerbread,
with currants for the eyes of
him,
And raisins down his vest, arTang-
ed all in an even row
When he was in the oven (Oh, tile
fragrant, spicy smell of him!D
My sorrows would grow lighter
then fade away-then go!
Grandmother's dead a-many years.
God rest the kindly soul of
her,
Who helped to lift the sulky moods
of me, her little lassi
But, when the black dog comes these
days, no power of mine can
make him stir,
And ginger cakes have no more
power to drive him off, alas!
MAIZE V. CARUTHERS
In New York Times
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
"WATCH lis GROVE

The above is a favorite slogan in
some rapidly advancing cities. Such
boosters may talk in an exaggerated
way in some places, they may claim
more than they can back up. And
yet this hopeful, achieving spirit is
infinitely better than the carping
criticism that you find in many COM
munities, and which is a constant
wet blanket that checks progress.
When people set out in a deter
mined way to accomplish something,
they are apt to get results. When
an influential group in any city is
determined to push that place
ahead and obtain more business and
advantages, and when such a group
of people get good support, that city
can say watch us grow" with en-
tire confidence.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-21
AUGUST IN THE COUNTRY

Above the almost imperceptible
hum of the season the locust is
dangerously buzzing It is August
The ecstacy has gone out of things.
The fiedglings in one late nest of
chipping sparrows keep up an in
termittent chatter in the syringa
bush under the window. But most
OF the neighborhood birds are foot
loose again. BObolinks and orioles
have been silent so long that you
can hardly remember how glorious
ly they sang in May and June. But
the song sparrow still keeps UP his
spirits, the Maryland yellOwthroat
still prattles of witcheries in the
raspberry patch and sometimes the
catbird has something sententious
to say. Now that the swallows are
Matched they are perching in long,
contemplative rows on the telegraph
wires. The blue jay, who kept
mighty quiet while his children were
young, is beginning to trumpet and
bluster again. In the morning and
evening the bluebird recovers his
contralto warble of goodwill.
The haze is fairly constant over
the mountains, turning every view
into landscape, and turks deep and
blue in the valleys. In fields where
the hay is still uncut, goldenrod,
Queen Anne's lace and st. Johnswort
begin to take full charge. The sun
Is living ball of fire. If you cross
a mown field the heat ripples up all
around you; close yur eyes and you
have a sensation of rising. But it is
cool and moist in the woods, and it
IS tranquil under the hemlocks.
Where the sun leaks through the
canopy of spires and branches it
'alls to the soft ground in pools of |
Iluish light. For the light in hem
Ock groves is filtered; the glare and |
blaze are removed.
Any one can understand that it is
unnatural to work in such weather.
Nature is making little effort now.
There is no longer a sense of ex-
'ectancy. All during the day there
re long interludes of silence. The
hrob of a motor straining on the
ill, the purr of a mowing-machine,
threatening "hO" flung at the
orses in the bayfield, a mile away,
dogs bark in some sleepy door
ard are the only variations in the
reat symphony of quiet. Even the
ocust is no more than the seasons
vertone.