White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-05-19

Longview's second hospital is ex.
pected to open for business on June 1.
The United Grain Growers of Har.
rington have decided to build a ware
house at Mohler and have it ready for
this years crop.
Gross receipts from the states s.
cent gasoline tax during the first four
months of this year amounted to &c..
54O,64O. For April the amount was
S1,0S7,521.
A cloudburst south of Pullman did
considerable damage to farms in an
area of about six miles square and
caused flood scare in the small town
Of Johnson.
John Morgan, farmer, was crushed
to death under his truck when it over.
turned near his home, near Colfax. He
had started to Colfax with a load Of
chop feed.
A formal Investigation of domestic
and irrigation water rates for the city
of Charleston and adjoining territory
will be made by the state department
of public works.
Fred Matthies of Pomeroy has been
elected grand master of the grand
council of Royal and Select Masons
Of Washington. He succeeds Robert
e. Sullivan of Seattle.
After sounding the alarm for a fire
which destroyed the residence of his
son, Clarence Deal, near Deming, T.
M. Deal, II, lay down beneath tree
and died of heart attack.
Orville Chase of Colfax has received
a postcard from cousin at st. John.
81 miles from Colfax. 1t was post.
marked December 5, 1911, and had
travelled at the rate Of one mile per
year.
The supervisor of the national for
est at Wenatchee has announced COM
p1etion of timber sales involving s.
100000 feet of Pondosa pine to Valley
mills. The timber sold for $3.O5 per
1000 feet.
Clothing that hung beside stove
to dry caught fire at the home of Mrs.
r. l.. Montgomery, proprietor of
Dicks Grocery near Kelso, which is
located in the same building in which
she lives.
Coyotes have become so numerous
in the Two Rivers section out from
Walla Walla that Frank Bigler, game
warden, is planning to spend some
time there Kidding the section of the
"varmints."
The Satsop valley, near Aberdeen,
claims the worlds largest lilac hedge.
Mrs. Charlotte Mcdonald, ranch own.
er, points with Pride to the lavish
growth, which is Is feet high, IL feet
wide and $50 feet long.
The Klevenhauser cold storage plant
at Altoona, on the north shore of the
Columbia, one of the most elaborate of
such plants on the river, was destroy
ed by fire last week. The plant Is
total loss. 1t was valued at $4,000.
Frank H. Henley of Pomeroy has on
display there his gigantic lemons
grown in the lobby of the Pomeroy
hotel-yellow, perfectly formed fruit
five inches long, 14.5 inches around
and tipping the scales at from LIS to
two pounds each. Oranges are also
grown there, but, Mr.. Henley admits
they do not do so good. The Pomeroy
lemons are of excellent quality and
are source of tourist wonderment.
A mass Of ice and snow % feet deep
and 300 feet long near the summit Of
Stevens pass has been dynamited by
the state highway department in clear.
ing the pass for summer traffic. Be-
yond the snowdrift the snow is eight
feet deep.
Arrangements have been made SO
that water users on the Yakima In.
dian reservation delinquent in the pay.
ment OF operation and maintenance
charges shall receive water. The In.
dian bureau will accept a note and
chattel mortgage.