White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-03
The state of Washington will re-

quota will be $46,319.46.
John Scott, an aged Indian, who
started on horseback from Omak to
his home at Nespelem, has been
found frozen to death on the Okanogan
river road north Of Wenatchee. He
had apparently fallen from his horse
and been injured so that he was I'M
able to rise.
National bank examiners closed the
First National Bank Of Zillah, with
deposits of approximately $1S0,0O0.
Heavy loans to two fruit companies
which recently failed impaired the
banks resources to such an extent the
action was made necessary, Examiner
G. H. Mclean said.
Farmers of the Wilcox Grange have
reached an agreement with County
Commissioner l.. Strobel wherein the
Wilcox cutoff road from the intersec-
ton with the Inland Empire highway
will be surfaced. The farmers will do
the work and the county will furnish
the material.
Farmers and farm homemakers from
all corners Of the state will convene
at the State college in Pullman, De-
cember Z to II for the first annual
farmers and farm homemakers' week,
sponsored by the college of agricul-
ture, college Of home economics, ex-
pertinent station and extension serv-
ice.
Hot soup and milk are served daily
at the Charles McDermoth school in
Aberdeen free to children found to be
deserving cases. The school parent
teachers association and interested
donors are sponsoring the service. The
hot soup and milk also is being sold
at cost to children who can afford to
ply.
Work on a new $4,000 dam and
power plant on Cougar creek, six miles
from Camas, will begin soon. The dam
will be 65 feet high and 80 feet wide.
Water will be piped from the dam
three quarters of mile down steep
hill to the power plant, which will
serve Camas, Washougal and the east
ern part Of Clark county.
Fire which broke out in shoe re-
pair shop housed in an addition to the
Masonic hall in Elma, resulted in
destruction of the main part OF the
two-story frame building and consid-
cradle damage to the one-story addi-
ton. Owned by Elma lodge Of Ma
sons, it was one of the oldest down
town building in the city.
Preferring state to county control Of
the unnyside-Bickleton road, the
Sunnyside District Pomona grange
has adopted a resolution asking the
state highway department to restore
the road to the state highway system.
1t was turned back to Yakima and
Klickitat counties when the Status
Pass road was completed.
C. A. Button, La Center banker, has
been granted permission by the state
banking department to transfer his
La Center bank charter and the bank
to Woodland and to increase it's cap
ital stock from $4,000 to $4,000. The
new bank will take over the building
and fixtures of the defunct bank. 1t
will open at Woodland December IA.
With the announcement that the
state highway department had award
| ed a contract to l.. S. Peterson Of
| Enumclaw to build a 19-mile stretch
| of Ocean Beach highway from ter
minus of paving on the Beam road
| into the town of Pc Ell for $26,543,
the last work in the county for 1881
on that state road has been cared for.
H. w. English, president Of the
Spokane, revealed recently that the
institution would pay off depositors
in full and go out of business. The
bank has about $225,O0O in deposits.
The volume of business is so small,
English said, that it would be "im.
practicable and inadvisable" to con-
tinue to operate.
Said by national guard officials to
be the first man ever to be honorably
discharged from the Washington Ma.
tional Guard service because of maxi
mum age, w. e. Rigby, sixty-four,
master sergeant of Company l., Third
Battalion, in Everett, was honored re-
Gently. Rigby has not missed drill
in thirteen years. His son, Donald, is
a first lieutenant in the company.
Two men compelled Fl. G.. Woodland,
store manager OF Everett, to return
to the building and open safe after
they had driven him around in an
automobile. They escaped with $4,000
in currency and quantity Of checks,