White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-11-24


The plant of the Northwestern Mag.
nestle company at Chewelah will be
reopened December 1, giving employ.
ment to about 200 men.
Ben Schmidt, who resided at Littell,
four miles west of Chehalis, was killed
at Camas mill when he became en-
tangled in the shafting.
An order for $4,000 pounds of wiener
wurst for the United States navy has
been placed by the government with
Spokane packing house.
A number of Walla Walla farmers
with land suitable for barley growing
will plant this grain in the spring, be-
cause of the heavy wet vote.
The deer season closed at Oroville
with many deer having been brought
in, although the hunting was made
difficult by the rain and snow.
Kettle Falls was left in darkness for
a time last week. A Chinese pheasant
flew against high-power wires near
the G. l.. Hansen pumping plant.
The body of Arthur Loven, 81, a
rancher living near Wright, who ap-
parently froze to death while hunting,
was found near Colville by searchers.
Funeral services have been held at
Coulee for Joseph A. Herbert, one of
the oldest pioneers Of Douglas coun'
ty. He was IS years Of age and settled
In Douglas county in 1895.
Mrs. Glen Yount accompanied her
husband, DR.. Glen Yount, recently on
hunting trip to the Grand coulee and
bagged three Canadian wild geese
averaging 10 pounds each.
Yakima county voters did not like
the idea of forming a power district
under the Bone power bill. Returns
from ~ precincts show $50 votes for
the proposal and 2473 against it.
A gift of $S5 from the Carnegie cor.
poration of New York to Whitman col.
lege is announced by President Pen.
rose. The money is to be used for
development of the Whitman art de.
partment.
Jalmar Henderickson, AZ, Of Deep
River and Henry Niemi of Ilwaco were
drowned in Bear creek when their
automobile plunged through the rail
ing of small bridge along the dixie
near Ilwaco.
Yakima county, which has had the
reputation of being prohibition
stronghold, voted with the rest Of the
state to repeal the state prohibition
law. Only one precinct, Sunnyside
voted to sustain the law.
The Lincoln County State bank al
Davenport was closed last week by
order of the board Of directors for the
protection of depositors. d. G. Moul
ton, state bank examiner, has been
placed in charge of liquidation.
Washington and Oregon highway of
ficials will confer in the near future
on the route Of the Blue Mountain
highway south from Grand Ronde
river to the Oregon boundary. Two
routes are under consideration.
The old log jail, erected at Kettle
Falls almost 40 years ago, has beer
torn down. 1t was well-built struc
ture and did service through the boom
days and saloon days. An old land
mark, an Adventist academy ant
church, burned in recent years, while
the grade school building, with it's fire
places, and the Presbyterian church O
pioneer days still stand.
School board district No. 102 of Dee
Park has decided to hold another cleo
ton, November 26, to vote on bono
issue OF $4,000 with which to redeem
warrant indebtedness. At the frs
election the bond issue failed by II
votes.
G. O. Kolback, rs, pioneer farme
in Naselle, was gored to death by hi
Jersey bull last week. He was help
ing his son Oscar put the Jersey herr
in the barn for tuberculosis ties
when the bull turned on him withou
provocation.