White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-05-05
Manson's 18th apple blossom festi.

tivities. She was the first white child
born in the Manson community.
Fifty acres of peas, to be grown
on Puget island, have been signed with
the Longview Growers association.
Seed for planting the crop has been
received from the Ray Mailing COM
pany of Hillsboro, Or, and members
Of the association are ready to plant.
Plans for federal and state coopera.
tion in the Identification of the Peace
Arch park at the border town OF
Blaine, were completed by the state
park committee last week. More com.
plete Identification of the park will
be possible through cooperation of fed.
eral and state officials.
Business is getting BETTER" re-
marked George Calender, Clark coun.
ty auditor, who cited data from his
records to prove his assertion. April
filings in the auditors office show an
increase Of from to 10 per cent over
business done in either Of the first
three months of the year.
| A big crop of cranberries and bet
ter price than last year can be expect
ed at Grayland next autumn, accord
ing to T. G. Bloomer, Ilwaco, presi.
dent of the Pacific Cranberry ex
change, which handles all Oregon and
| Washington cranberries. A smaller
| eastern crop is expected.
| The Longview Rolleo will be held
July 2 and 4, with countrywide reli-
gious program, featuring music, to be
held on Sunday July 3, it was decided
at meeting of the board of directors
last week. The Rolleo, the fourth an
nual celebration of loggers and woods
men, will be held, as usual, on the
shore of Lake Sacajawea.
Picking up hitch-hiker on the high
way south Of Chehalis cost Jack
Thorpe, Seattle travelling man, 500 in
cash and badly battered head, plus
the loss of an automobile. Thorpe,
bleeding and in semi-dazed condi-
ton, told his story to the sheriff at
Chehalis, after he awoke from an un-
conscious condition on side road.
George Reither, II, was injured ia
tally while walking through tunnel
on the Evergreen highway when he
was struck by an automobile driven
by r. T. Niblock, railroad station
agent at Lyle. Mr.. Niblock said he saw
the pedestrian in the tunnel and sound
ed his horn, whereupon Mr.. Reither
stepped directly in the path Of the
machine.
Plans for Centralia's annual pioneer
celebration in August were given con-
siderable impetus last week at meet
ing of committee chairmen. Increase
of parade prizes, extension Of the tin
erary of the caravans that will adver-
tise the celebration and announcement
of "The Story of the Flag" as the title
of this years pageant were develop.
ments Of the session.
Marvin Chase, hydraulic engineer,
has outlined to the Cashmere chamber
of Commerce a program for the con-
struction of a $664,SOO pipe line sys-
tenn to carry mountain water from
Snow lake to supply domestic and ir-
rigation needs of the Wenatchee val
ley. His plan calls for 80 miles of
pipe with capacity Of 100000 gal
Ions, which would take the water as
far as East Wenatchee.
Temporary arrangements for the
operation of the ferries connecting
Puget island with the Washington and
Oregon mainlands were made recent
ly when Captain Nelson Of Cathlamet
was assigned the ferry franchise by w.
G.. Coats, who has operated the ferries
for the past few years. A tug with
barge phys between Cathlamet and
Puget island, and a scow Is being
operated from Westport to the island.
Freedom from all bonded indebted
ness for Franklin county was the re-
suit last week Of the payment Of the
last of the bonds on the courthouse
and Jail, amounting to $500 principal
and $425 interest. There are no bonds
outstanding in the general fund, road
and bridge fund or road district fund,
which have been on cash basis for
the last 20 years. Few counties in the
state can boast similar record, ac-
cording to E. f. Redd, county treas
urer.
The Japanese razor clam has secret
| ly entered these shores Of the United
States, voyaging in steerage with
oyster seed imported from Japan. The
odd looking clans puzzled veteran
clam diggers at Oystervlle until they
were identified by Ira Murakami, who
became highly excited at the sight Of