White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-01


Lambs-Medium to good, S3@3.5O.
Spokane realtors will join with Sc
attic realtors in an attempt to make
the new 40-mill tax limit initiative ap-
ply to this years levies and next years
tax payments.
The Fairfield commercial club re-
Gently voted to put up community
christmas tree on Main street and
ordered the streets decorated and
cclored lights put up.
Forty families of Walla Walla ate
venison and pheasant Thanksgiving. 1t
was confiscated by game authorities,
kept in cold storage and distributed
by the American Legion.
Prosser residents will support e. r.
Wells for appointment to the board of
regents Of Washington State college to
succeed Walter Rowe of Naches,
whose term expires soon.
A movement has been started at Sc
attle urging the name of j. D. Ross,
superintendent Of the city light depart
ment, for secretary of the interior in
President Roosevelt's cabinet.
]. Hofert, Los Angeles dealer in
Christmas trees, visited Tenino re-
Gently. Hofert expects to ship 600
carloads of the trees this year, 80 Of
these to be loaded out of Tenino.
Two-year-old Forrest Key of Seattle
supplies what it used to take to make
a news story. Forrest bit his bull pup
on the ear in a moment of anger. The
pup retaliated and bit Forrest on the
Lip.
Two camps of the Clemens Logging
company, working in Weyerhaeuser
timber out of Melbourne, near Aber-
deem, started recently. Between so
and Is men, idle since June, went to
work.
The community kitchen of Walla
Walla served 936 meals during the
week ending November 20, an increase
of 100 over the week before. In addi-
ton 80 families are being given gro
ceries.
School Indebtedness in Spokane
since 1920 has decreased from $143.15
per pupil to $76.19, while the average
Indebtedness throughout the county
during the same period increased from
$5417 per pupil to $114.0S.
The chipping plant at the Poison
Lumber & Single company mill at
Hoquiam has been placed on two
shift working basis, the usual day shift
having been augmented by night
crew to speed up production.
The fight to organize a power dis.
trict in Yakima county will be con.
tinued by the grange. Plans are being
made to place on the ballot at the next
election proposal similar to the one
defeated in the recent election.
James Deweese, pioneer of the
lower Yakima valley, is dead at the
age OF Of years. lie came 10 Lne 1akl-
ma valley As years ago, and in the
early development of the county he
operated a ferry at the Mabton cross.
ing of the Yakima river. N
About 20 families who this year set
tied logged off area southwest Of
Centralia are completing erection of a
Single mill, which is expected to start
oneratious soon. The plant is equip
ned with one machine and will have a
daily output Of 10000. 1t will be run
on cooperative basis. Enough TIM
ber is available to keep it in operation
several years.
d. B. Wilson, farmer one mile south
OF Marcus, was badly hurt when his
team ran over him with load OF
wood, crushing his chest. He was
taken to the hospital at Colville and
is reported to be in serious condl'
ton.
Shirley Chenoweth, 3-year-old daugh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A. Cheno
weth of Olympia, died of burns re
ceived as her dress caught fire from
burning stump, upon which she had
climbed to watch her father worl
clearing land.