White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-30

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Palix farmer, who lost practically all
their belongings by fire last week.
A distribution of $72S,134 to poultry
men of the state is announced by the
Washington Cooperative Egg & Poul-
try association. The amount is made
up Of the retirement of capital stock
of s7OO,134 issued four years ago and
a per cent dividend for the half
year.
The Walla Walla Canning company,
at it's experimental plant this season,
processed 5242 cases of green aspara-
gus with a value of $2205S.50. The
payroll was S2537.15 and growers were
paid S9O6S.34 for supplies which were
going to waste because of lack OF
market.
Yakima and Walla Walla onion
growers have been assured of an even
break on freight rates, in message
received by the Yakima Chamber Of
Commerce from Congressman Sum-
mers. The two sections ship about
14OO cars of the big Spanish Sweet
variety.
There are just as many Indians on
the Yakima reservation now as there
were in 1880, a check made by the
Indian agency showing 1908, exactly
the same number as there were two
years ago. In the period the number
of males increased and the number
of females decreased.
The Rev. Henry Fernybough, IS, for
Is years superintendent of the Ia
coma Seaman's institute mission, died
after an illness of a year. He was
known to sailors around the world.
He met and cared for 325,000 sailors
in Tacoma during the last quarter of
a century, he estimated.
A second consignment of % tons Of
flour from the federal farm board has
arrived at Vancouver and will be dis
tributed to needy families through the
local unit of the American Red Cross.
The flour came by train, instead of
by boat, and was unloaded at the plant
of the Washington Growers.
Resolutions favoring elimination of
county road and bridge taxes have
been adopted by the State Grange.
Day labor on state highways is also
recommended. The grangers went on
record in favor of some legislation that
would prevent the use of state road
funds for political purposes.
Through an arrangement by the
county commissioners of Spokane
county the park board, the city COM
missioners and the United Railways,
unemployed family men receiving
groceries from the county will be
given an opportunity to work in pay
ment at the Indian Canyon golf course.
Declaring he had never seen so much
snow in the mountains this late in the
season in 26 years service with the
| forest department, Albert Baker, rang
er, predicted the scenic highway along
| the ridge of the Blue mountains be-
tween Weston, Or, and Dayton, prob
ably would not be opened before July
Is.
| A new high record for log produc-
ton was set at the Beaver camp Of the
BloedelDonovan Logging company
near Forks recently when los cars of
logs were loaded. The previous rec
ord, made few weeks ago, was 95
cars, according to A. @. Morgan, fore
man. The trainload consisted of 638
unscaled logs.
When Mrs. Nettie Hoon of Wal1a
Walla awoke last Thursday she was
able to look back on a full century
of living, for on that day she cele.
brated her Tooth birth anniversary.
When only a girl, fortune teller told
Mrs. Hoon she would live to be los
years old, but Mrs. Hoon doesn't place
much faith in that fortune teller now.
She intends to live longer than that.
When a flood of water was released
from the big dam on the Coweeman
river recently, about 20 swimmers,
who were at beach several miles
below the dam and two miles above
Kelso had a narrow escape. Some of
the party heard the roar of the ap.
preaching water, and gave the alarm.
and all reached high ground above the
water except one girl, who was able
to fight her way through the swift
water.
R. L. Lovejoy, owner and operator
of the Brentwood dairy at lone, spent
his leisure time during the winter and
spring making an odd birdhouse. He
used his own five-room dwelling as a