White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-29

take the scholarship If Stiller does not
accept it.
H. A. Young Of Salem, Or, has
leased the Tenino cannery plant and
| is making plans to operate it next
| year. He expects to can fruits, vege-
| tables and other articles, and may go
| into the chicken canning business.
Strawberries will also be barreled at
the cannery.
Olympia's oyster industry remains
only partly developed. according to
DR.. A. E. Hopkins, international au-
thority on oyster culture. DR.. Hop.
kins made a study of culture there
and explained methods for greater
production to approximately 100 oys.
ter growers.
The Adams county commissioners
have pruned another $1,000 from their
tentative budget. They cut the road
and bridge fund $4,000. AS adopted
the budget is $4,000 less than that of
last year. The levy will be 1876 mills.
a reduction of 1S1 mills as compared
with last year.
Melvin Wheeler knows what the
dummy used in football practice feels
like when ambitious grid hopefuls
tor at recent game between Ryder
wood and Vader high schools when he
was hit by two players. He emerged
with broken leg.
Two men were shot and wounded
as four robbers held up rs card players
at the Terminal hotel in south We
natchee. G.. II. Peck, Spokane, was
shot through the chin and Glenn
Brownfield, Wenatchee, was injured
on the wrist. The robbers took be-
tween $500 and $500.
Travel over the newly completed
Olympic peninsula loop highway is
eclipsing all predictions, according to
checks made by state traffic officers.
Fully 200 cars week are making the
complete 350-mile loop. A larger num-
Der of automobiles are making short
runs on the new road.
Construction Of the new Spirit Lake
highway for nine miles between Green
mountain and the Asher ranger sta
ton was completed recently by road
district No. crew, which has been
surfacing the road for more than
month. The work completes Cowlitz
county's share of the Spirit Lake high
way.
According to Lyman w. Ward, coun-
ty engineer of Klickitat county, plans
and specifications have been sent the
director Of highways at Olympia, for
approval, on lateral highway No. 6,
Goldendale- Wahkiacus road. 1t is be-
ing built on steep sidehill through
the Big Klickitat river canyon, where
there is no road.
w. w. Pettijohn's tomcat, of Walla
Walla, with reputation as king Of
his feline neighborhood, met his mas
ter in a Chinese pheasant cock that
took refuge in the Pettijohn garden
when hunters guns began to bark.
Tom undertook to breakfast on the
chink. The battle, brief but fierce,
ended with the cat in full flight.
A refunding bond issue of $175,0O0
will be presented to the Aberdeen
voters for approval at the primary
election November IA, members of the
city council decided. The bond issue
and interest will be retired over a
period of Is years, starting in 1884.
A three-fifths majority will be re-
CURED for passage Of the ordinance.
The Washington State Holstein
Breeders association will hold it's an
nual convention in Everett February 3,
it was announced recently. More than
200 delegates are expected to attend.
Harvey Shoultes of Chehalis Is asso-
citation president. Max Arp Of Bothell
is president of the Snohomish County
Holste1n Breeders association, nOSt 10
the conclave.
While other public agencies are
having all kinds Of difficulty balanc-
ing budgets, the Chinook school dis
trict has more money than 1t needs.
Last spring Chinook voters authorized
an extra 5-mill levy, in addition to the
regular 10 mills for school purposes.
The district now has cash balance
Of $4,000, and 10-mill levy will suffice
for it's expenses for the current year.
John Lindblad Post No. II, Ameri-
can Legion, will attend the national
convention to be held in Portland, Or,
next year, with two hundred packed
boxes of extra fancy Jonathans and
Delicious apples. These apples will