White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-16

Stratton Of Raymond, and held them
for several hours while they shivered
in an alder tree. They broke for free
dom at a. m.
The loss by fire that destroyed the
manufacturing department OF Eva
porated Fruits, Inc, at Sunyside Is
placed at 100000. The fire destroyed
Is tons of asparagus, valued at $1,000.
The company's ESQ employees will be
laid off temporarily.
Efforts will be made by the Parent
Teacher association Of Walla Walla to
have the school board reinstate the do
nestle science department in the high
school. Under the plan the district
will pay part of the cost and the gov
eminent the remainder.
Other cities may go in for munich.
pal power plants, municipal water
works and municipally-owned markets.
Vancouver goes them one better. 1t
has municipal potato patch. The
Sunshine division will use the spuds
to feed the unemployed next winter.
1t is hard to find needle in hay.
stock, but penitentiary officer found
convict in one. Charles A. Guettel,
36, trusty who vanished from the coal
pile at the state penitentiary in Walla
Walla, was located in the hay in the
prison barn, and is not trusty any
longer.
Water taken from a we'll at Lattice
Inn, 16 miles south of Ellensburg en-
the Canyon highway, was contamsnat-
ed and has caused an epidemic OF IT,
phoid fever in a road construction
crew. Five men are being treated in
Yakima, two others at Seattle and one
at Spokane.
Funeral services were held at Ken.
newick last week for Donald Franklin,
23. and his brothers, LaGrande, 8, and
Leroy, IA, who were burned to death
was leveled by fire recently. All bust
ness houses closed for an hour during
the services.
Mr.. and Mrs. Art Thompson, resid-
ing on Lincoln creek, are the owners
of six-legged pig, born last week.
Three of the freaks legs are in front
and three behind, all with perfectly
formed hoofs. The pig is one of
litter Of II, the others in which are
all normal.
An historical account of the Colum
bia county Farm bureaus George
Washington picnic, July 4, is going to
be preserved in the archives of the
federal government at Washington, &C
cording to word received from the
American Farm Bureau federation
headquarters at Chicago.
Dashing into his house when he saw
an autogyro lowering over his ranch.
wheat farmer near Spokane came
out with his rifle and fired two shots
at it. Whether the rancher resented
the intrusion or was near-sighted and
mistook the strange machine for a
huge bird is not known.
AS part of federal relief for dis
tressed Indians new highway is be.
ing built from the Olympic loop on the
Queets river to the mouth of tie
Queets. A mile of right-of-way clear.
ing is being done at the present time,
the Job being the first of several Oh
which Indians will be given $4,000 in
relief. Indians are being employed.
The champion perennial college stu
dent of the northwest, If not of the
land, is no more. He became bache.
lor of arts at the College of Puget
Sound last week and joined the select
ranks of college graduates. His name
is Alexander B. Brooke, and his home
is in Hood River, Ore. Brooke first
entered the College of Puget Sound in
1907.
j. L. Bockover of Melton, north of
Hoquiam, didn't build mouse trap,
but he did build grotesque house and
is swamped with visitors. He calls
the structure "Krazy Kaben." 1t is
built Of logs, and Sc different kinds of
wood were used in it's construction.
The windows are a-slant, the panes
being automobile windows. Shelves in
the interior are canted, and other odd
features make it one of the most uni
que of structures.
Pearl Anderson and Phil Heawood,
both Of Kelso, sat in different boats
on the Cowlitz river fishing. The
current swirled their lines together.
"Men are such bother" doubtless
muttered Pearl. "Women oughta keep
off the river" probably fumed Hea-
ward. The lines came to the top. They
were half hitched about perfectly