White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-07-16

| farmers and merchants picnic to re
staged at Alexander park, Chehalis,
July "a, by the Chehalis chamber of
commerce.
The Clark county prune crop will
be about 40 per cent of normal and
with favorable weather at harvest
time there will be fair quantity OF
dried fruit, growers say. In some
sections of the county the trees are
loaded and in other sections the or
chards are bare Of fruit.
Thrips are causing considerable
damage to gardens and fruit in some
| sections of Clark county, according to
County Agent Izett, who recommends
| spraying or busting with preparation
| of nicotine or black leaf 40. The in
sects are so small as to be difficult
to see with the naked eye.
Contract for constructing the new
stretch of approximately two miles of
the Ocean City road was awarded by
the Grays Harbor county commissions
ers to the Grays Harbor Construction
company of Hoquiam for $11,922.71.
The road runs south from Copalis and
will be completed in the fall.
Four banks of the city of Walla
Walla have total deposits of $1O,O62,-
8S9, according to a compilation as OF
June 30, the date of the usual call by
the comptroller. This is slightly less
than the March Is call, which showed
S10,343,533. The banks have reduced
their loans more than 100000.
The Ostrander Railway G Timber
company dredge is now operating in
the Cowlitz river removing "dead-
head" logs, which have sunk to the
bot ON of the river and sanded down,
becoming menaces to navigation.
Most of the logs are hemlock sinkers
which have become waterlogged.
Despite generally adverse condi-
tions, the Chehalis postoffice showed
gain in postal receipts for the quar-
ter ending June 80 compared to the
corresponding quarter year ago.
True, the gain was not large, but it
was a total of $3.50, which would in
dictate a healthful business condition
locally.
John Kent of Aberdeen recently
played LA holes of golf in single
day, starting at $40 A. M. and stop
ping at 1920 P. M. He did the stunt
on the Highlands course, nine-hole
layout, making 18 nine-hole rounds,
averaging 43k strokes a round. He
believes this is record for a single
days play.
Wild blackberries, a product for
which Cedarville to the south and east
Of Elma is famous, was the offering
of the Cedarville grange to visiting
grangers recently. The berries were
served in pies with rich cream that
farms of that section produce. Served
in deep dish with spoon, the
grange supper committee defied any
group to offer finer feed, any place,
at any time.
Completely recovered from serious
illness of last winter, Samuel Benn,
patriarchal founder of Aberdeen, cele-
brated his Goth birthday anniversary
in Aberdeen recently. Mr.. Benn spent
the day with relatives and pioneers,
the Aberdeen Pioneer association
holding it's annual meeting at his
home. Mr.. Bonn predicted he would
live to 100 years providing l don't
fall and break my neck
Through the enterprise Of the Kunz
Flying Service Grays Harbor, aided
by big crews of volunteer workers
from South Bend and Raymond, Will
lapa Harbor now has an airport and
a regular plane service. The airport
is on what local residents hope will
be developed as county air field
level land just south of the Ocean
Beach highway about midway between
South Bend and Raymond.
All things are not right with nature,
is the belief of Toivo Hovila, owner
of poultry farm and hatchery in
Winlock. Hoyila has found no less
than four freak chicks among the
many turned out by his hatchery. One
of them was born with three legs and
three of them were born with four
legs. In all his Is years Matching.
Hovila declared this was the first
time he ever found freak.
Hotels in the state of Washington
had receipts Of $2O,OOO,0O0 in 1929, &C
cording to the census bureau. There
were 694 hotels operating the full year
and these took in $19,323,000. Thir-
teen hotels of the resort type had re-