White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-12
Word from R. E. Arne, acting man.

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Walla chapter is the first in Washing.
ton to reach and exceed it's drouth re.
lief quota. The quota was $4,000 and
$3721.S9 was forwarded.
Walla Walla' county commissioners
have $4,000 on hand for road con.
| struction and do not know what to
do with it. 1t is the money previously
appropriated for the Harshaw-Clyde
highway but work on this was aban.
doned because of right of way diff.
culties.
For nearly one-half year Lynden
has been free from fire. The last
summons from within the city limits
was received by the Lynden fire de-
partment on September z, 1880, the
longest period in recent years that
| property within the city has not been
menaced.
Seven persons, one a woman, mar.
|
ger bus broke through a guard rail
near Knapp's Hill on the Wenatchee.
| Chelan highway and overturned four
times on it's way down to the rock
strewn Columbia river bed several
feet below.
Improve, ent of the road from the
Howard schoolhouse on Union Flat to
the Pullman-C olfax highway has been
approved by the county commission.
ers and will accommodate 10 more
families with gravel road into Pull.
man through operation of the farm-to-
market act.
The big apple crop Of Central Wash.
ington is continuing to move out in
fine shape. During February the Great
Northern moved 1850 cars from the
Wenatchee and Chelan country, max.
ing total of 21,613 cars for the sea.
son. This compares with 1886 cars
shipped in 1880.
The 1881 Lewis county high and
grade school music festival will be
held at the Chehalis Junior high school
Friday and Saturday, April IL and 10.
Entries have been received from To.
ledo, Dyar, Randle, Boistfort, Napa-
vine, Winlock, Adna, Mossyrok, Ona-
laska, Chehalis and Centralia.
Cantaloupe growers of the Mabton
district, who last year shipped out
twenty-five carloads of melons, are
planning to search in the middle west
for new market for their produce.
Seattle and Bellingham consumed the
entire output in $780, The growers
reported a fair profit during the year.
Wapato reservation farmers are
using very little water this year, in
spite of the fact they already have
seeded large number of acres to
field crops. Alfalfa fields probably
will be the first to be placed under
water, in the opinion Of L. M. Holt,
supervising engineer for the Indian
service.
County commissioners of Clark
county have fixed minimum salary
of $3.50 per day for men who work
on county projects. The move was
seen as step to protect the worker
whose salary was cut, sometimes as
low as $150 per day, by contractors
attempting to bring their bids as low
as possible.
Installation of fourth huge vat that
will increase the daily cheese produc-
ton Of the Lynden plant of the What.
com County Dairymen's association to
one and one-quarter tons will be com.
pleted within few days, M. M. Boney,
general manager Of the association,
said. The association plans on max
ing $500 pounds of cheese daily for
an indefinite period.
Markham, Ocosta, Westport, Gray
land and all other communities on the
south beach road from Grays harbor
will have power and light service for
the first time March Is. The Twin
Harbors Electric company, which is
now completing distribution system
from Aberdeen, covering nearly 40
miles Of territory, will turn on the
current on that date.
G. v. Rossing, president of the Dav,
export chapter of the Izaak Walton
league, is holding a birdhouse build.
ing contest among the school children
Of the Davenport consolidated schools.
AS an inducement cash prize of $40
is being offered for the best built bird
house, and for each pair Of birds in,
duced to nest, after the first pair, a
prize Of $3.50 will be given.
A stony meteorite about ten inches
in length and sphere shaped, found