White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-02-18

| alive Trading Co., Inc, the manager,
C. ]. Reikki, reported good volume
Of business for the year. The Wood
| land store was capitalized Ia years
ago at $4,000 and has been in BUSH
ness continuously since.
The cost o. operating the union high
school district of Chewelah is too high
in the opinion of State Examiner
Brown. The per capita cost per pupil
is S175.96 and the district has bond
indebtedness of $4,000. The average
salary of man teachers is $215 per
month and the average for woman
teachers $3.50.
Elmer Lane, assistant fire depart
ment electrician at Walla Walla, has
quit parking his automobile alongside
the fire station tower. He left it there
once too often and huge chunk of
ice dropped from the tower and cut
hole through the top. Another lump
fell on the fire station proper and
cracked a rafter.
An economy session of the city corn
mission of Wenatchee broke up early
and suddenly when Commissioner ia
cob Miller, pioneer and state senator
from Chelan and Okanogan counties,
struck l.. O. Nelson, taxpayer, on the
nose. Earlier in the session the COM
missioners voted to cut employees sal
aries 10 per cent, to effect a reduction
Of $1,000 month in city expense.
Reports from the Nordby Box and
Lumber company are that last month
"a cars of material were shipped from
it's plant near the White Salmon-Bin-
gen depot an increase over last years
shipments for January. The first of
February showed untitled orders for
II cars of material, indicating good
months business for February. This
business is being secured from buyers
in the east.
For the second time in history flow
of the Columbia river was completely
stopped last week. All gates of the
Rock Island dam were closed to per-
NIT engineers to inspect the tailrace.
Hundreds of amateur gold seekers and
fishermen swarmed the river bed be-
low the dam. In the early '70s the
river was damned for day when an
earthquake shook loose tons of rock
from huge cliff near Entiat.
There were 493 COWS on test in the
Lewis County Dairy Herd Improve
ment association during January, &C.
cording to report of Fred lettering,
tester. The Ais COWS under the tester
sampler plan averaged each COZ
pounds of milk ard 25.6 pounds fat, 62
dry cows being included. In the gen.
eral group there were 81 COWS that
made each over so pounds of fat, a
grade Jersey, Bessie, heading this list
with 500 pounds.
Delegates to the annual meeting Of
the North Pacific Fairs association
held in Seattle prepared a schedule
for the summers fairs at the opening
day of their two-day gathering. The
schedule included: Provincial exhibit
ton, Victoria, B. c., August 22-27;
southwest Washington fair, Centralia-
Chehalis, August 1928; Washington
state fair, Yakima, September $40;
and western Washington fair, Puyal-
lup, September 1918.
An increase over January, 1881, in
water shipments last month from Pu-
get Sound of flour, wheat, lumber and
canned salmon was announced by the
Merchants Exchange. Canned salmon
shipments were 225,741 cases, an in
crease of 1882; flour, 355,406 barrels,
an increase of 124,S75; wheat, 231,991
bushels, an increase of 142,953; and
lumber, from Puget Sound, Grays Kar-
Dor and Willapa Harbor, 50,1S9,000
feet, an increase of 3,740,000.
The hatchery business is on at Win.
lock in full swing. The first matches
of the season are already off and many
deliveries of baby chicks to local pa.
irons as we'll as to other points in the
state have already been made. The
incubators of nearly all hatcheries
will be loaded to capacity during the
next few days, as the bulk of orders
are for March delivery. The incu-
bators will remain working at capa-
city during March at least. There
were few cancellations of orders as
result of the recent drop in egg
prices.
An egg within an egg was the "find''
W. e. Thompson of Longyiew made
recently when he went to his hen
house to gather the days lay. The
egg weighed five ounces, was three
and half inches long and four and a
half inches in diameter, with cir.