White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-14
patrymen Of Clark county will have

| spector in the future, to comply WITH
the requirements of Vancouver's new
| milk ordinance.
| Dedication of the airport at Che
welah was married by an accident
when ship piloted by G. E. Forbes
TAXED into another plane driven by
Carl Schirmer, which was about to
leave the ground. No one was hurt.
A whirlwind at Yakima lifted
garage into the air in the northern
part of the city, carried it half block
over light and power lines and drop
ped 1t on the roof house. The
lines were 80 feet from the ground.
Safecrackers who wrecked the safe
in the Starr Sherman coal office In
Walla Walla evidently didn't believe
In signs. Hanging on the handle was
a sign: mo money here" but the
crackers went ahead anyhow. The
sign told the truth.
L. d. Burrus, statistician for the de-
partment of education, will leave soon
for eastern Washington to spend
month checking the financial practices
of school districts. He will check bud
gets, expenses, levies, outstanding war
rants and finances.
Two hundred delegates to the Ore
gon.Washington Epworth league an
nual convention elected new officers
at Seattle and voted to meet in Ia
coma next year. Milton Field, Belling-
ham, was elected president, succeed.
ing O. A. Wiggen, Seattle.
Work has started on construction
of mile and half of paving on the
Tenino-Bucoda road, extending south
from Tenino. F. q. Wilder Of Olympia
is the contractor, his bid of $19,O58.68
for 5000 feet being considerably under
the Thurston county engineers esti-
mate of $4,000.
The grain crop in Columbia county
is in the best condition of recent
years. Recent frost has done but little
damage to fruit. A few cherries were
nipped, but pears, peaches and april.
cots have escaped in most localities.
Early apples are just blossoming. In.
dications are for heavy fruit crop.
The beautiful lilac garden of Mrs.
Hulda Klager of Woodland, whose Gre
alton Of new and novel varieties of
lilacs has made her name famous
wherever lilacs are cultured, were
viewed by the thousands recently
when Mrs. Klager was hostess at the
opening Of her annual Lilac week.
The Consolidated P1ywood company
Of Aberdeen will be revived and will
cut alder, according to the men who
bought the plant recently from the
receivers. The company was declar.
ed bankrupt several months ago. The
new owners are emphatic in state
ments that the plant will not be
"junked."
Stanley Cohen, Longview, won the
Cowlitz county high school declama.
tory contest at Longview, Nathan Dix.
on, Kelso high, placing second. Dallas
Williams, Kelso, won the Junior high
division contest, with Burdett Craig,
Longview, second. Mickey McCaffer-
ty, Kelso, won the grade school con.
test, with Mary Kerr, Longview, sec |
ond.
Approximately 40 per cent of the
timber in the timber belt through |
northern Klickitat county was felled
by the recent storm, according to esti-
mates. Great difficulty is being en-
countered by sheep owners who take
their bands of sheep to the mountains
to Craze during the summer, in blaz.
ing new trails for the sheep to follow.
1t means much expense, which will be
difficult for many owners to stand.
Members Of knights Templar in
Washington returned to their homes
after completing their 44th annual
conclave and electing officers for the
year at Tacoma recently. George
Shortly of Mount Vernon was installed
as grand commander; William D.
Freeman, Seattle, grand generalissimo;
William P. Williams, .Walla Walla,
grand senior warden; Marion L. Cot.
ton, Montesano, grand junior warden,
and Harvey ]. Woods, Seattle, grand
warden.
Discovery of the "hemlock looper"
in Pacific county has aroused state
forestry officials to immediate action.
An appeal is being made to Governor
Hartley for emergency funds to wipe
out the pest. The discovery was made
by Charles S. Cowan, chief fire war
den of the state, while on an airplane
reconnaissance trip through the south