White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-25

ton service.
Unaware that John Jorry, II months
old, was playing behind his vehicle, j.
r. Glaze backed truck In the yard
of Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Jory, three,
miles northwest of Sunnyside, and one
wheel crushed the child's head, caus.
ing instant death.
The Whitman county commissioners.
awarded to G. B. CULLEN, Charleston.
the contract to grade and gravel the
Ace Clark road from Albion to Fallons.
six miles, for $24,822, the lowest Of
10 bids. The contract calls for com.
pletion by December.
Mrs. A. G.. Clevett of West Kelso
has a dahlia growing in her flower
garden that threatens to rival the
gigantic beanstalk of "Jack and the
Beanstalk." 1t has attained height
of z feet inches, and others in the
garden are feet z inches tall.
The tax-levying bodies of Clark
county will not only be confronted
with demands for lower taxes but will
also have less valuation on which to-
levy. The real and personal property
valuations this year are approximately
100000 lower than the 1881 estimates.
Attacked by an Infatuated bear in
the hills near Mount Adams, Henry
Leonard, White Swan, Indian, was
seriously injured recently. Leonard
owes his life to companions, who
helped him to break away from the
clutches Of the bear, which they
killed.
The grain yield in Asotin county is
expected to exceed last years crop by
$4,000 bushels. The total wheat har-
vest is expected to produce 100000
bushels of wheat. Yields are reported
to be running from Is to 40 bushels
per acre, with an average of %
bushels.
The city commissioners Of Walla
Walla have made application through
Governor Hartley for loan of $751;
600 from the Reconstruction Finance
corporation to fund the indebtedness
incurred by repairing bulkheads and
streets damaged by the high water
in 1881 and 1882.
The Grange petition to create a
municipal power district in Spokane
county outside Of cities and towns will
be tested in the courts. An action will
be instituted to restrain the county
commissioners and the election board
from placing the proposal on the
November ballot.
Joseph Schaal, 46, of Olympia suf-
fered injuries in harvesting accident
near Dusty, from which he died three
hours later at the hospital in Colfax.
He was working as cleanup man on
a stationary thresher near the feeder
when his jacket caught in a revolving
shaft, crushing his chest.
A milk can, Is feet high and 16 feet
in diameter, was erected at the Long.
view auto park for the farmer-mer-
chant picnic recently. This Paul
Bunyon can was used for buttermilk,
which was dispensed free the day Of
the picnic by the Cowlitz County Co.
operative Dairymen's association.
1t was announced at Kennewick re-
Gently that construction of two new
buildings, to be rented to the fair
board, will start Immediately. The an
nouncement was made at a meeting
of the Benton-F Franklin fair board, at
which further plans for the fair, Sep
TENDER 8, 8 and 10, were outlined.
A cough saved a very hazardous
operation for Jack Edwards, IA, son
Of MIR. and Mrs. Len Edwards, at the
Longview Memorial hospital. Jack
swallowed small disc, supposed to
give the voice ventriloquist quality,
and it lodged at the top of the lung.
Just before the lad was put en- the
operating table he coughed violently,
dislodging the disc.
Ray Clark, service station attend
ant, can testify to the success of the
nationwide anti-hoarding campaign.
Recently motorist rendered him a
1898 silver dollar in payment for some
gasoline. The next day the motorist
returned, bought more gas and gave
Clark 1899 dollar. Clark went to
the bank in Bellingham and discovered
each dollar is now worth So under the
rating given by coin collectors.
A new industry is to be started at
Okanogan by w. T. Ramsey, local
florist and Jim Armstrong. They plan
to grow mushrooms for sale. They
have contracted with Seattle and spo-
kane firms for the sale of the product.
The mushroom spores will be obtained
from laboratories at Montreal and bits