White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-15
An endemic Of influenza has been

A mother who sought her son for
20 years and finally found him serving
a term in the Walla Walla peniten-
tiary may be reunited to him if the
stat2 parole board grants a parole to
Kenneth Lloyd Purcell.
r. ]. Brett, Seattle auto freight
truck driver, was instantly killed ON
Snoqualmie pass and then burned al
most beyond recognition, when giant
2OO-foot fir tree struck the vehicle,
smashing the gas tank.
A S55O,OOO public Improvement plan
for unemployment relief has been pro-
posed to the Spokane city council by
Leroy Lambert, commissioner of pub
lie works. The money is to be raised
by bond issue next March.
The city council of Colfax is draft.
Ing resolution to present to the state
legislature asking that the state re-
build two bridges in the city to re-
place the present bridges, which were
not designed for the traffic the state
highway has brought.
The Kittitas County Cooperative
Dairy association has ordered the dis.
tribution Of $4,000 in dividends to
members. The amount represents a
return Of about 8 cents a pound on
nearly 100000 pounds of milk
handled during the year.
Helen Jergenson, 16, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Jergenson, Of New.
port, was hit by part of a steel wedge
her father was using in cutting wood,
the injury resulting in death. She
had been helping her father and was
standing a short distance from him.
Five carloads of Christmas trees
have been shipped from Winlock to
California and other southern states
and SIX or seven additional cars will
roll out before the season is finished.
Approximately 100 men have found
temporary employment cutting and
loading the shipments.
Eight high school students living
alone along the Clearwater and Queets
rivers in Jefferson county and attend
ing school at Lake Quinault will have
$4,000 miles of travel to their credit
at the end of their high school course.
They travel 70 miles day by school
bus to and from their classes.
Plans for the placing of crushed
rock on the Washington end Of the
Wallula cutoff have been completed
and Joselyn & McAllistec, Spokane
contractors, started setting up a rock
crusher four miles west of Wallula.
About 20 days will be required to put
the plant into full operation.
Farmers in the vicinity of Yakima
were trying to persuade G. D.
Stephens, newly elected county treas
urer,, to accept livestock or farm pro-
duce in payment of taxes. One wo-
man rendered SIS ring in payment
of $50 in taxes. Stephens is forced, by
law, to reject all such offers.
At least one hen in the big flocks
of Otto silva of South Prairie has an
answer to the depression. When a
huge egg, 31a inches long, from one
OF his hens was broken recently it
yielded one yolk and the usual white
with the rest Of the space being taken
up by second unbroken egg of nor
NAL size.
Cutting and shipping Christmas
trees and green's reached it's peak last
week and it is estimated that 2,00O,-
900 fir trees will have been cut in the
state by December Is. Thousands of
them are being shipped from Long
view by rail and ship and other
thousands are being trucked to the
markets.
Fresh sweet corn is being served
on the Jay V. Carithers table in Long
view. Returning from trip to Cali
fornia too late to plant corn, Mrs.
Carithers concluded to try it anyway,
with the result that the family has
enjoyed fresh corn during the entire
month of November, and number Of
ears remain to be picked.
The Longview Paint & Varnish
company, headed by Roy L. Sailors,
recently received an order for varnish
from the port of Lourenco Marques,
| in Portuguese South Africa. Mr.. Sail
ors announced that recently his COM
pany has shipped its products to Bris-
bane, Australia, and to Scotland. In
quiries have also been received from
India and Spain.
Robert Foster, Cosmopolis road
workman, tried to learn what makes
wildcat Wild" and is nursing an as
sortment Of cuts and scratches as re-
| sult Ha encountered a wounded Wild