White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-11-19

Mayor Dorsey M. Hill OF Walid
Walla announces that the free kitchen
being operated for transients is prov
ing successful. Men are given tickets
for six meals and after these are had
they are required to move elsewhere.
While being fed they are required to
work on city projects.
Scores of the small streams of Cow
litz county will be closed to fishing
next year under an order adopted by
the county game commission, which
has been forwarded to the state game
authorities for approval. All streams
and lakes in which fish were planted
this year will be closed.
Nine thousand boxes of cranberries,
the total years harvest, enriched the
Grayland section Of Grays harbor by
$4,000 this fall. The last of the bogs
were recently cleaned Of the 1881
growth. Grayland growers have been
concentrating on Mcfarland and late
Howe types OF berries.
An organization to help prepare
young people for happy and successful
marriage has been formed at Tacoma
to combat the divorce evil and to pre-
serve the American home. The organ
ization includes representatives of the
Y. w. G. A., the Y. M. G. A. and the
First Congregational church.
A new hotel, to cost about $4,000
is planned to replace the old Moffitt's
Springs hotel, which was burned a
year ago near Stevenson. For many
years the curative properties Of the
springs have been known and they
have drawn a large patronage from
many sections of the country.
The Olympic loop highway, sections
Of which washed out last winter dur
ing heavy rains, is standing up well
this season despite recent heavy
downpours, according to state engi-
neers Rain last winter cost con-
tractors and the state huge sum in
replacement Of washed fills and
bridges.
The annual migration of the thous-
ands of crickets that infest the bot
tomland around Centerville during the
summer is taking place now. They
are to be seen on all sides going to
the higher lands. This migration has
taken place for years and the popu-
lace Is at loss to explain this an.
nual event.
Bread at three loaves for 10 cents
and potatoes so pounds for rs cents
were advertised at Spokane for Sat.
urday specials recently. Dealers say
these are the lowest prices for these
commodities in many years. On the
same list apples are as low as 10 cents
q box and cabbage and squash at $1.25
per hundred.
The state highway departments
winter regulations covering load and
speed limitations on the Stevens Pass
and North Bank highways became eff
fective November 10 and will remain
in effect until March 10. The limita-
lions went into effect on Snoqualmie
Pass and -Naches Pass highways
November 1.
Hoquiam is taking it's first bank
failure with fortitude. Scores of mer-
chants whose funds are tied up in the
closed First National bank opened ac-
counts in the Bank of Hoquiam, and
business was being continued as usual.
Merchants generally were optimistic,
while not attempting to minimize the
seriousness of the situation.
Montesano's new entrance parkway,
which is expected to provide the town
with one of the finest entrances in
southwest Washington, is now COM
plete as far as the initial paintings
are concerned, according to l.. F. Heu-
perman of the city park board. The
parkway, 1900 feet long by 10 feet
wide, is planted according to an elab-
crate plan.
The Grays Harbor Plywood corpora
ton announced through Vice-President
e. w. Daniels of Hoquiam that it
would operate three factories under its
control steadily, paying no less than
SO day for common labor. The ply
wood factory is to run six days a
week and the American door plant
and the Knox & Tombs plant will each
operate four days a week.
The dairy business in the Deep Riv-
err territory Of western Wahkiakum
county is gradually increasing. Sever
al new barns and residences have been
built during the past summer. Farm
ers are busy clearing more land. The
dairymen have just completed their
annual task Of wedding out their poor
COWS and are gradually replacing them