White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14
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literature urging building and removal
ing throughout the city in order to re-
lieve the unemployment situation.
Grandma Jane Draper is dead at her
home in Govan at the age of 81 years.
About six months ago she fell and
broke her knee. Up to that time she
was able to do her homework. She
came to the Big Bend country in 1891.
Dredging operations at the mouth
of Deep river, some seven miles below
the town of Deep River, will be under
way soon, it was learned last week.
The contract calls for the removal of
$1,000 cubic yards of material from the
shoal at the mouth of the river.
An association is being organized at
Yakima by wage-earners who propose
to conserve from their savings during
summer $25 and to use the accumu-
lated fund at the beginning Of next
winter to purchase enough groceries
at wholesale prices to last until
spring.
After Mrs. w. B. Kelley pleaded with
burglar in her home in Wenatchee
to "shoot me, but spare him for the
children" when her husband was
threatened because he could produce
only SGT, the intruder turned his pis-
toll on her and fired. The bullet
struck her in the hip.
A return of copper to "profitable
level together with other general i'm
provements in mining industries was
foreseen by E. G.. Morse of Seattle.
The present slack times will be re-
placed by turn for the better, the
mining man told delegates at the 3Sth
annual spring convention of the north
west mining association.
Over 700 regular city employees at
Spokane are affected by the 10 per
cent salary reduction agreed upon by
the city commissioners to take effect
July 1. The reduction will total over
$4,000 for the half-year, based on an
annual payroll of $1,460,000. Wages
of county employees also will probably
be reduced 10 per cent July /.
Daffodil fields at Fargher Lake in
northern Clark county are a mass Of
golden bloom. About 20 acres in this
old drained lake section is given over
to bulb culture. An estimated five car
loads of bulbs will be harvested from
these fields this year to be shipped to
eastern concerns. The fields give work
to about $50 men, women and children
at harvest time.
Charles F. Eaton sang at his own
funeral in Spokane. A member of the
Elks' lodge quartet for 80 years, Eaton
died recently and the other three mem
bers Of the group were to have sung
at the rites. Overcome with grief, his
friends decided they could not sing
A recording of "The Vacant Chair"
sung by the quartet at scores of fu-
nerals, was played. Eaton, tenor,
carried the lead for the photographic
transcription.
Gross collections from the states s.
cent gasoline tax during the first quar-
ter of 1882 aggregated $2,453,11S, or
an average of $S17,7O6 a month, AS
sistant Treasurer Homer Jones re-
vealed recently. Gross collections for
the corresponding three months last
year totaled $1,610,793, with the Scent
tax in effect. OF the total net re-
ceipts this year, the lateral highway
fund obtained S462,376 from the 1-cent
farm-to-market road tax.
The Inland Power e Light company
power plant and dam on the Lewis
river at Ariel was given valuation
of $1,55O,O00 for 1892 taxation pur
poses by Assessors Howard Lum of
Cowlitz county and G. M. Walker Of
Clark county at conference recent
ly following conferences with G. M.
Sanford, tax agent for the company.
Cowlitz county will have $750,O00 of
this years value on it's tax roll and
Clark county $S00,000.
Vancouver, renowned Gretna Green
to whose varied affairs have come
maids and SWANS of many creeds and
several generations, is mildly feeling
the pinch of economic circumstances
which restraints matrimonial ardor.
County Auditor Calender reveals the
fact that only 1865 marriage licenses
were issued from his office in 1881,
producing gross revenue Of $10,197,
as against 2517 licenses issued in 1880,
yielding gross of $11 ,426.50.
Hoarding is not an exclusive privi-
lege Of the present day. Andrew Win
berg, Aberdeen baker, learned recent
ly when he discovered a corroded
metal box containing some 300 silver
and copper coins, buried beneath