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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
Find Pure Washed
Sand at Rock Island

Again nature has smiled her APP
proval of construction of the Wenar-
chez dam at Rock Island. Romano
Brothers, who have the sand and
gravel sub-contract at the dam, have
just uncovered a great pocket of pure
washed sand in their gravel pit at
Rock Island. Nothing like it ever has
been found before in his experience,
according to Joe Romano, in charge
of work for the company here.
Nature has provided the washing
equipment for the sand, as it is found
below the level of ground water.
Otherwise the sand is in such pure
state that it doesn't have to be SCREEN
ed or worked in any way. 1t is hauled
directly from the pit to the sand hop
pers at the cement mixing plant at
the dam proper.
The test pits put down by Stone
& Webster, engineers, when they were
seeking gravel supply, indicated the
presence of pure sand deposit, but
it's extent was not known until SHOW
els started to work thru it. The de-
post is found at approximately 20
feet below ground level. In Mr.. Ro-
mano's opinion the sand and gravel
are part of an old river deposit left
many thousands of years ago.
-Wenatchee Daily World.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
kENNEWICk TO WORK
FOR NORTH SOUTH ROAD

F. A. English and Fred Gilhuly were
in Kenneweick Monday to attend the
regular weekly luncheon of the Kenne-
wick Commercial Club. An effort is
to be made at the coming session of
the legislature to have the state take
over the road between Kennewick
and Umatilla. IF this can be done, the
county funds used for the annual up
keep of that road could be used in
improving and bringing up to state
specifications the road north of Rich
land toward the Horn, with the hope
that this road will also be taken over
by the state eventually.
The White Bluffs men were inform
ed at the luncheon that the Kenne-
wick Commercial Club will include
in its program of activities, the work.
ing for plan to have the state take
over the entire stretch of road be-
tween Umatilla and Vantage Bridge,
through Kennewick, Richland, Han
ford, White Bluffs and Beverly, as
unit in the North Bank Highway
from Canada down the Columbia river
to tidewater, the most feasible all
year road in the state.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
PARTY HELD TO INITIATE
APPRECIATION GIFTS

A promise made at the close Of
the apple packout at the Codding-
Heidenann warehouse last fall, was
fulfilled last Tuesday, when the Mes
DANES L. A. Codding, F. w. White.
A. ]. Miles, Jess Ray, c. c. Coleman,
Carl Buss, F. M. Wheeler and A.
H. Heidemann, gathered at the home
of Mrs. Herman Heidemann to
initiate" the new percolater that was
the latter's gift of appreciation from
the warehouse crew at that time.
The afternoon was spent in CONVEX
sation Cots of it, because most Of the
ladies' present were seeing each other
for the first time since the end Of
the harvest) and in admiring Mrs.
Heidemann's Christmas gift, fine
electric range, and also her new ht-
chenette, which had just been COM
pleted. The latter was also initiated"
toward the end of the evening by
group of. the husbands of the guests
who, after the manner Of husbands
Of all time, appeared just early enough
for the refreshments.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
MARKETING SPECIALIST
TO SPEAK AT POMONA

Robert Cowan Extension Specialist
in Farm Marketing, will be one OF
the outside speakers to talk at the
annual meeting of Benton County
Pomona to be held at Vale Grange,
held Saturday, January 10, 1881. Mr..
Cowan is the Specialist which was
appointed to this position during the
summer months and comes to the
position well qualified to handle the
work. Mr.. Cowan first started his
experience as County Extension
Agent in Pend Orielle County, NOV
ing from this County to Mason
County and then to Grays Harbor
County where he had splendid op-
portunity to do considerable work
in organizing firm marketing stu
alton for farmers of his county. This
was probably his biggest piece of
work in that county. Following his
work there he moved to Spokane
county where he was County Agent
for couple of years before taking
up his new work at the College.
The program for the meeting as
worked out at the present time is as
follows:
1870 Opening and Regular order of
business.
2:30 Initiation-First degree by Lo-
Gust Grove drill team.
$3.50 IS minute recess.
3:45 Speaker-Mr Robt. Cowan, ex-
tension specialist, farm markets.
4:30 Initiation-Fourth degree by
Kennewick Valley Drill team.
$50 Recess.
600 Dinner.
700 Music (orchestra).
7:30 Installation of all officers-J. A,
Slavin, Yakima Installing officer.
$3.50 Lecture hour.
$3.50 Initiation fifth degree-vale de-
gree team.
Closing.
E. c. DURDLE, County Agent.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
WHITE BLUFFS FOLKS
SEE CHRISTMAS METEOR

On their way home from one of the
neighbours, Christmas Eve. between
80 and 1000 o'clock, Mr.. and Mrs.
II. H. Smith were startled by what
appeared to be falling star but it's
brilliancy was SO great they said that
it lighted up the whole countryside
for a moment or two. 1t was travel
ing from west to east. From Associ-
ated Press accounts that appeared in
the daily papers the following day,
what they saw was probably the
meteor that apparently fell in Idaho
that evening.
One of these dispatches read:
A brilliant Christmas meteor sc.
the Idaho sky ablaze last night while
hundreds in Idaho and Washington.
communities watched, but today the
army of searchers found no frag-
ments of it.
At 9:45 the skies over a dozen
little north Idaho cities were lighted
by the blazing visitor from the fir
mament, and at 9:57 there was a
terrific crash, like an earthquake,
and the flare vanished. Children,
their nerves tenSed tor Santa,S visit
were much impressed by the phc-
nonenon.
THE meteor had been seen in
BOWL, Orofino, Troy, Elk River,
Moscow, Genesee, Lewiston, Orch
ards, Juliaetta, Kendrick and other
Idaho towns by hundreds, in Clark
ston, Wash, and even in Spokane
200 miles away.
Residents in each town said it fell
over toward some other town, SO
searchers had hard time.
Mrs. Joseph Holland of Bovill said
she was returning from Christmas eve.
services when it appeared, like three
glowing stars surrounded by an cleo
trio display whistling through the air.
Z II thought of the star of Bethle-
hem," she said. "Then there was a
shock that frightened the entire town.
and the light went out"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
Use. Wheat For Fuel
At Mes Perce, Idaho

In the town of Nez Perez, Idaho,
situated in one of the premier wheat
producing regions of the Northwest
and almost upon the fringe of vast
forest, are house-holders who are
using wheat for fuel, according to
newspaper reports, because it is
cheaper than either coal or wood.
Coal, said a news dispatch of re-
cent date, costs $3.50 per ton in
the bin at Nez Perce; wood is $40
per cord, while wheat is only So
a ton, delivered. A Nez Perez gar
age proprietor is burning wheat in
his furnace. 1t produces good heat
and holds fire well, he said, and he
intends stocking his firebox with it
thruout the winter.
Turnout the world millions of hn-
man beings many in this country
are literally starving for bread; and
yet here in Northwestern com
munity, where wheat-production is
the major industry, the staple cereal
from which is made the "staff of
life" is so cheap that citizens find
it to their advantage to use it for
fuel!
Two factors contribute to such an
incongruous situation.
One is a faulty system of distri-
button. The other is an equally as
faulty system Of farming.
With scientific and adequate dis
tribution system our cheap surplus
wheat, instead of going into fire
boxes or being stored, as farmers
liability, in warehouses, would be
placed within the reach of they who
need it for bread.
There is not too much wheat iii
the country. The fault lies in the use
we make of it. Spokane News.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
First 1881 Baby at Pasco
To Be Royalty Greeted

Pasco merchants will greet the
first baby born in 1881 with roy
al welcome, according to plans made
this week. The little tot who ar
rives first in Franklin county or
in the west end of Walla Walla
county will be given a number OF
prizes of useful and beautiful mer-
chandise by Pasco merchants. Par
ents and friends of these little ar
rivals are urged to watch for the
announcement of prizes in next
weeks paper. All the youngster has
to do is to be the first one born at
ter midnight on December 81, 1880.
All of Franklin and the west end
of Walla Walla county are Included
-Pasco Herald.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02

In card received this week from
Helmer v. Jennings of Marysville,
brother of the late Mrs. Robert
Nitzsche, Mr.. Jennings says that
Robert who has been in Hollywood
hospital since the automobile accident
in which his father and mother were
fatally injured, is expected to arrive
in Marysville, the old Nitzsche home,
soon after the first of the year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02

In short note accompanying their
check for the Spokesman for the
coming year, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Goodwin send greetings to all their
friends down this way.
christmas was cloudy" they say,
"With very little snow but when it
does come we'll get plenty. Every
one here is well and hope folks down
there are all the same"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02

Fred B. Cox, who few years ago
operated the Lemcke ranch In the
Cold Creek but who for the past two
or three years has been operating the
ferry across the Columbia river at
Paterson, has purchased an interest
in the e. M. Welsh Motors, Inc, Of
Pasco, according to the Pasco Herald,
and will move his family from Pater-
son to Pasco about the first Of the
year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
DR.. and Mrs. E. F. Newton ano
family returned Monday from Port
land where they spent Christmas.

corresponding decline for all railways
of the United States was 12.5 per
cent. In the final four weeks of this
period the falling off in the North
western district was 22.9 per cent,
which was about 8 per cent greater
than that indicated in the United
States at large. Our greatest declines
lmodities which depend largely upon
demand from other regions, as forest
products "a decline of Ais per cent)
and ore "a falling off of 38.5 per
cent?. Electric power is much nearer
to being on a domestic basis than
the movement of freight. Power out
put, both here and elsewhere, has
been maintained on an almost even
level with that of 1929. As the year
has progressed, however, spread in
favor of last year has been manifest
cd, In the third quarter of 1880 there
was decrease in electric power prod
uction in ten states in this territory
amounting to "a per cent, which is
to be compared with a decline of
3.e per cent in the country at large.
Sales in automobiles have declined
in this region, as elsewhere, but con-
sumption Of gasoline has increased
considerably. In the first eight
months of 1890 we consumed 1885,
$50 900 more gallons of gasoline than
in the same eight months of last year,
according to figures released on Oc-
tober Is by the American Petroleum
Institute. This indicates an increase
of IL per cent, a gain 4 per cent
greater than that reported for the
"a states whose figures are available.
Two of our northwestern states
showed small declines, but there
were increases in gasoline con-
sumption in other states ranging from
S per cent in Wyoming to 20 per
cent in Iowa.
The current storage situation pres
ents mixed tendencies. grain contin-
ues to accumulate at northwestern ter
mina1s as a result of heavy loading
at country points and an outward
movement of only moderate pro-
portions. United States cold storage
supplies of fruits exhibit no excep-
tional tendencies. Creamery butter
holdings are declining, are consider
ably less than a year ago, and are
below the average. Warehouse, sup
plies of cheese, are normal, but sup
plies of eggs held in cold storage are
considerably above those of last year
and the five-year average, a fact
which is mainly responsible for low
prevailing prices. Frozen poultry
4 4 - oil D.
serves of beef and pork are in a
favorable position compared with
1929, while supplies of lard are very
much below those of last year and
below all recent years.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02

Among the Christmas boxes that
arrived at the Gilhuly home this year
was one from Mr.. and Mrs. "Scotty'
Webb, who sent gift Of grapefruit
and oranges from their home at Col
fax, California, where Mr.. Webb now
operates the Webb Motor Company.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02

D. o. Walker this week moved his
family from their ranch west of town
to Hartford.
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Scott OF
the Benson ranch, returned Monday
in their car from Portland, where
they had spent Christmas, They
report the roads to be in fine con-
dition, with little snow.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Reierson are
hosts this week to two of Mr.. Refer
sons sisters, Miss Ellen Reierson
of Moscow, Idaho, and Miss
Christie Reierson Of Spokane. Both
the Misses Reierson are teachers.
Gilbert Ponsat was taken to Yak
ina last Saturday to receive medical
treatment for one of his eyes, injured
in play with his brother day or so
before Christmas. The trip was made
by Gilbert's parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
Edward Ponsat, and Mr.. and Mrs. ].
M. Shinn, in the latter's car. The
injury was found to be more serious
than had at first been supposed and
the little lad was left to be with
friends in Yakima while under the
doctors care.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
1t Was Reported To Us That

G. w. Bradshaw returned home
last Friday from Seattle, where he
had spent Christmas. He reports the
marriage of his grandson George T.
Bradshaw on Saturday, December 10,
to Miss Jane Swift of Seattle. The
younger Bradshaw is well known
in White Bluffs, having visited his
grandfather at Bide-a-Wee ranch
often. He is a senior at the Uni
versity of Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Werner re-
turned last Friday to their home at
Auburn, Washington, after having
spent Christmas with Mrs. Werner's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Cole, and
her sister, Mrs. L. c. Robinson, at
the Commercial hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Gilhuly drove
down to Kennewick Monday after
noon to meet Mr.. and Mrs. George
Barta, returning from a trip to Cot
tonwood, Arizona, where they hal
attended the funeral of Mr.. Barta's
brother, Frank Barta. The latter died
as the result of injuries received
shortly before Christmas while work
ing in smelter at Cottonwood.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
Respectfully submitted,
FRED J. CUNNINGHAM

The recommendations of Mr.. Cum
ningham will be given consideration
by the board at its meeting next
Tuesday. If the recommendations are
followed the bond election advertised
for January 10 will be recalled and
held at later date, after the ex-
clusion petitions have been acted on
by the board.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02

w. H. Keal left for the east last
Saturday evening on his way to
Storm Lake, Iowa, to attend farni-
ly reunion.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02
May Postpone
District Bond
Election
Cunningham Advises
Acting on Exclusion
Petitions First

Ing +HSC TESuAdF meetiHg OF In0
new board of directors of the Priest
Rapids Irrigation District will he held
at their office at First Bank of White
Bluffs on next Tuesday, January s.
Among other things that will occupy
the attention of the board at this
meeting will be the matter of order-
ing publication of notice and fixing
time for hearing on the petitions for
exclusion of lands that number of
land owners have been signing since
the question of exclusion was brought
to the attention of land owners sever
al weeks ago.
| According to letter just received
by the board from Fred J. Cunning
ham, attorney for the district, it APP
pears that the board may now be en-.
abled to carry out the original plan
of permitting those lands not to be
benefited in the taking over of the
ditch to be excluded before a bond
election. Mr.. Cunningham's letter.
dated at Spokane, December 80, 1880
and directed to the Board of Directors
Priest Rapids Irrigation District, is
as follows:
wa Il llultIUCT vi Illc IdIlu OWu~
ers decided to make use of the exist
ing irrigation district in an effort to
save the irrigation community, steps
were Immediately taken to eliminate
from the district the lands which
could not be watered from the sys-
tenn. This has been no small task and
the district officials were in the midst
of this work when word was received
that the receiver of the defunct COM
panies would in all probability offer
these instrumentalities at receivers
sale late in the month of January. A
bond election had to be held in order
to enable the district to finance a
bid at the receivers sale. The gener-
al elimination of lands during the
election proceedings would render I'M
certain the voting precincts as well as
the eligibility Of many Of the voters.
and would lead to confusion. The dis
trict board Continued to go forward
with the exclusion petitions but de-
cided for the reason above stated that
it should not act on these petitions
until after the bond election
"It now transpires, however. that
the receivers sale will not be held
uIlCil SOIHctlHle Ill TcDIQdIyS VI tAo
first of March. The necessity for an
immediate bond election is not so ina
perative.
GIN Justice to the owners of lands
that will be excluded from the district
| would recommend that you recall
and postpone the bond election to
few weeks later date, and that in
tho ,,ooa ptinoa Won taka nm a III thn no
titions for exclusion Of lands that can
be gotten ready for your considera-
ton, and that you grant all the
worthy petitions at the earliest pos
sible moment. This plan will not en-
danger the rights of the district and
it will at the same time relieve the
minds of some of the landowners who
want to have their lands excluded
from the district"
Pasnectf,11lv s,Ibroittpd
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-02

3 D. O. Walker this week moved his
family from their ranch west Of town
to Hanford.
The Alaskan., 1931-03-27
KASAAN

The fishermen were up and doing, trying to get gear and equipment ready to chase the livery king salmon. Nick Ba-
 onvitch has repaired his yacht the Private; Robert Jones has built a new 38-foot boat for Seining and trolling; Wells Jones recently sold the Ben" to J H, Coffnan and turned around and purchased Bob Young's Yankee Girl" JOe Jones has been inn proving equipment of the Hem mic and will sperd his time trolling.
 Rev. Davis has enough troubles without getting more than a skiff to move around the beach and that is too much he says, when the skiff goes dry up on the beach.
The Alaskan., 1931-03-27
HYDABURG

Hydaburg has not received any road appropriation while they claim a larger list of voters than any other West Coast town. They are now asking for apDro- priations for roads which are much needed in that section Of the country. The road they want just now is to cross Long Island to the town of Hydaburg. In this they have the support and good wishes of the Ketchikan Cham Der of Commerce.
The Alaskan., 1931-03-27
METLAKATLA

The Annette Island PachinG Company, under direction of H T. Simonds, will operate this ear. The contract of this 'om- nany expires next year. At which time, the town Of Metlakatla will take over operation of the plant, if they feel able to do so. At present, with the exception of a small handful of imported labor, the output of the cannery is made up by residents of the island town.
The Alaskan., 1931-03-27
HAYNES

Considerable changes in the weather and other things seem to be the cause of the midget flu epidemic here the last few days. However, no serious cases have arisen. MT. Patsy Davis who has been in the hospital for two months after an attack of the months is now up and around,
 Here is news. So new we didn't know of it. According to the Ju- neau papers, Q riot was immi- nent, due to the enmty between KlukWan friends of Ed Donnelly and Haines friends of John Fes- sett, suspected of murdering Donnelly,
 Donnelly had been buried on January 24th but the body vas exhumed and on March 9th a second coroner's inquest was held pr. Pigg of Juneau teSti- fled, as did Bill Price and E idle Warren. Fassett, represented by attorney Faulkner of Juneau, was placed on the stand ard told his story of how Donnelly died while they were out trap
 pirg and he brougE; the b1dy to Juneau. A letter purporting to be a confession of the crime could not be introduced as Fas- sett could neither read nor write, and it was proved he had merely asked a Juneau native to answer for him a letter of inquiry from klukWan.
 The coroner's jury returned a verdict of death from cause or causes unknown and found that Donnelly did not meet his death by violence. Following this yer dict, Fassett was dismissed and e the Court Party" consisting of
The Alaskan., 1931-03-27
You have a right to ask: Can

You have a right to ask: Can- not you get his consent? I leave it to others to answer that ques- ton. It seems that some can and some cannot. I recognize the tutility of trying to build up or get financial backing for a busi- ness which can be swept away at the Whim of one man, who poor Cevil, is merely the mouthpiece, the puppet who jumps, runs and speaks when the strings are pulled.
 So you see how the vicious cycle works If you try to operate Q Sawmill in Southeastern Alas ka, you are compelled to saw timber, cut after the most ap- proved timber hog methods from a forest which has never had the henefit of a cleansing fire. You have to use timber, which, in it's entirety is not attractive even to pulp mills at present. If you will notice how the two pulp safes at present laid out are strung out to include young growth, green timber with the least percentage of cull stuff, even if they do have to make a tow of a hundred miles, you have the proof of this. To discourage local operators from putting in 10 operation a much discussed nan of working up and shipping tp outside pulp mills such tim Der as was not profitable to mill here and thus relieve the saw mill of the burden of trash, the clause prohibiting shipment without consent has been tackled on. The price of pulpwood keeps
The Alaskan., 1931-03-27

Linde got sn1acked ten bucks for disturbing the Peace in Judge Chisholm's court.
 Dorothy Albert and Miles Mur- pl1y were duly welded by Rev Russell F. Pederson. Mrs Orlando Bake and Charley Morse, witt nesses. Everybody was happy
The Alaskan., 1931-03-27

That which costs you nothing is worth little to you, be it a fortune or a feather.