White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-18


600, the average price being ~ cents
sack.
Construction by the state of the
Grand Coulee dam to irrigate the co.
lumbia basin and supply power is pro-
posed by w. e. Southland of Ephrata.
He claims that it would give employ
ment to 5000 men directly and to many
more thousand Indirectly.
John F. Miller, who served as con-
gresham from the Seattle district fcr
seven consecutive terms, and who was
beaten by Ralph Horn two years ago,
has started comeback campaign. lie
announces that he is in favor OF SUB
hitting the prohibition question to the
people.
Some of the members of the Col
vile Indian tribe are thinking OF ap-
pealing to President Hoover in case
the annual salmon run up the Column
bia does not materialize soon. one
reason assigned is that the fish cannot
get over the big new Rock Island dam
near Wenatchee.
George H. Middleton, who served
as a lieutenant with the union forces
during the civil war, has just lost two
companions after 70 years. He shaved
his mustache and beard which he
started when he was 16 years old, or
two years before he left England to
fight with the north.
Whisker-growing ended for all male
residents of Centralia with the excep-
ton of members Of the American
Legion band, which will attend the ma
tional convention of the legion in Port
land September 1915 with hirsute
adornments and pioneer attire. The
band numbers 81 pieces.
The citizens advisory committee,
Harry Laberge, chairman, plans to
establish a logging camp in the Rain.
Ter national forest, where Yakima I'm.
employed may cut wood, which will
be hauled to Yakima. Workers will be
paid in certificates, exchangeable for
food, clothing or housing.
Irene Mckinney, 16-month-old baby
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Mckinney, of
| Yakima, died of burns rereived when
she pulled pot of beans from the
stove. The toddler reached for the
pot and jerked it in such fashion a
stream of boiling beans poured over
her head and down her back.
If Ripley would look at the city
registration books at Walla Walla, he
would have something for his believe
1t or Not" column. He would find that
motherhood removes years. One wo-
man, registered last week, gave her
age as 81 years. A few hours later the
woman's daughter registered, saying
she was "a.
One of the business spots in Mon
tesano these days is the warehouse of
the San Diego Fruit G Produce CON-
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Germs local field are being sorted,
iced and loaded in cars for eastern
markets. Fifteen carloads have gone
out within the past few days and more
are being loaded.
Seventy-two years ago next Novem.
Der William Royal Elma man, went to
the polls for the first time and cast a
vote for Abraham Lincoln, a fact of
which he is mighty proud. Royal, who
has reached the advanced age of IS
years, registered in Elma last week.
Not since the nomination and election
of Lincoln have such issues been at
stake as there are at present, the aged
voter believes.
More than 100 families have set up
camp in the vast huckleberry fields
known as the Peterson prairie and
Twin butte area, south of Mt. Adams.
Indians and whites, in wagons, on
mules and ponies, on motorcycles,
"bugs" and big sedans, all eager for
the harvest. 1t is reported that the
berries are being sold for 40 to SO
cents in the field Indications point
to an abundant crop.
Bringing touch Of modern civiliza-
ton to region heretofore inaccess-
ible, except by pack trains, landing
field for airplanes is being completed
at the head Of the Similkameen river
in the Chelan national forest. The
airport is miles from the nearest
wagon road and was constructed main
ly by hand labor and hydraulic
methods. The field will be 2100 feet
long and 40 feet or more wide.
Walter ]. Purdin, deputy sheriff oil
Yakima, underwent an operation in
the hospital there for chronic appen
dicitis. His twin brother, Wallace, g
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