White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-09-24

A statewide investigation Of school
buses will be ordered by the state
highway patrol as result of an acct
dent recently near Bellingham in
which % students of the Pleasant Val
ley district were injured.
A loss estimated at $4,000 was sus-
tanned when the sawmill of the Guer-
rier Lumber company, located at
Guerrier, ten miles southeast of Che
halls, burned. The plant had capac-
ity of around 10000 feet.
The second big shark to be captured
In Grays harbor waters in the last 30
days was taken from fisherman's
net few days ago. 1t was nine
foot, 3OO-pound shark, declared by its
captor to be "man-eater."
AS result of the hearings between
the Stevenson city council and the
West Coast Power company on an adj
justment of overcharge the city won
out. The light company will refund
enough to pay the city lighting bill in
advance to June. 1882.
The city council of Charleston Is con-
sidering the matter Of ordering BIZ
cycle riders to refrain from riding on
the roadway of the Lewiston-C Charleston
interstate bridge. 1t is suggested that
riders dismount and push their wheels
across the bridge on the sidewalk.
Bids for what is likely to be the last
county road contract of the present
season were called for by the Pacific
county commissioners recently, the
contract to be awarded October 6. The
job in question is the Pacific Gran
berry Valley road, near Grayland.
Men in overalls and women in aprons
or work dresses was the rule at the
poor mans ball held in the Montesano
city hall recently for the benefit of
the local relief fund. The dance was
under the auspices of the American
Legion auxiliar and the Kiwanis club.
A loss by fire estimated at 100000
was sustained at Dryad when the roofs
of three brick dry kilns at the big
sawmill of Schafer Bros. there were
burned off and about $4,000 feet of
lumber was destroyed. The Pc Ell
and Chehalis fire departments re-
sponded.
Intense cold and raging blizzard
have halted sulphur mining operations
on the slope of Mount Adams. A shaft
IS feet deep, sunk at an altitude Of
12,307 feet, has not yet penetrated the
solid ice. Present indications show
that approximately 100000 tons Of
sulphur are available.
Starting movement that they hope
will become nationwide, the Washing.
ton conclave of the Order of De Molay
in session at Walla Walla recently,
passed resolution agreeing to as.
sumo an obligation under which each
member of the order in the state shall
pay 81 year for 1882 and 1888 to aid
in extension work.
Fruits and vegetables donated for
the feeding Of needy individuals this
winter will be canned at the state
prison cannery in Walla Walla, it is
announced by Mayor Dorsey M. Hill.
The relief committee will bear the
expense Of the cans, sugar and other
materials and the state will furnish
the cannery and the labor.
Ten thousand tons of evergreen
blackberries are whitening on Grays
Harbor county vines this year. There's
a heavy crop Of the big berries but
no one seems to want them and so
they are going to waste. Last year
about 1000 tons Of evergreens were
picked and shipped to canneries, but
this year the canneries have not asked
for berries.
Following reconstruction Of trestles
and railroad roadbed damaged by
forest fire this summer in the eastern
end of Grays Harbor county near Oak
Vile, three camps Of the Schafer
Bros. Timber company will reopen
soon. The camps will put 200 men to
work. Schafers already are operating
camp at Dryad and mills in Aber-
deem, Montesano and Dryad.
A mock wedding in the clouds last
week, at Lake Tipsoe, celebrated the
practical completion of the 143-mile
Naches pass highway, new trans-
Cascade route which adds another
scenic road between Yakima and Port
land and cuts the distance between
Yakima and Tacoma by IS miles, and
the Lakima-Seattle route by 20 miles.
The highway, which really crosses the
Cascades via Chinook pass, though re-
tanning the name originally given, has
been finished after II years Of con.