White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-06-01

6.25.
More cheerful news on Grays har-
boris industrial front reveals that be-
tween $50 and 700 men will be re-
turning to jobs in mills and forests
June /. The plywood workers re-
gard themselves as particularly for
tunate, as they return to jobs at an
increased rate of pay. A 3O-cent per
hour minimum wage scale which Of
ficially goes into effect July 1 by the
Douglas Fir Plywood Manufacturers
association will be moved up one
month on Grays harbor.
Frank Sherman, "a, Aberdeen
resident and a grandson of a war
of 1872 veteran, almost handed a
bill for SIS to Commander Louis J.
CULVER of the United States frigate
Constitution. Sherman says his grand
father served throughout the war of
1872 with Old Ironsides as sailor
and soldier and received an ~. o.
u" for SIS. He thinks Old Ironsides'
conscience should be bothering her
and something should be done about
paying the bill.
The secret of the dead flavor" ia
out. Prohibition Agent Ben Meyers.
who last Saturday seized big still
hidden in the brush near the beach
road at Hoquiam and arrested Glen
Keith on possession and manufac-
turing charges, declared that in big
vat Of first run whiskey he discovered
the body of a civet cat, commonly
known as skunk.
John Simmons was fined three pigs
In justice court at Spokane recently,
but Constable Rooney, and not the
county, was the recipient of the pork
ers. Simmons was arrested on Room
ey's complaint of Cruelty to hogs.
Rooney said he had spent SIS for
feed for the pigs to keep them from
starving while under the Simmons
roof.
In the only hop deal of the week at
Yakima a buyer paid rs cents
pound for rs bales of the product.
The amount Is one small carload.
Growers held for rs cents, but de-
mand was not keen at that figure.
Contracts signed during the week
call for delivery of 100000 pounds
In the next five years.
Forty-four straight carloads of as
paragus, grown in the Kennewick,
Pasco, Richland, Finley and Benton
City regions, have rolled from Ken
newick to date, according to a sur
vey today. The canneries at Sunny
side and Walla Walla drew 139 tons.
Express and truck consignments were
uncounted.
Gruber and Docherty resumed OPP
erations at their sawmill at Yelm.
following long shutdown. A few
men were put to work to try out the
machinery, which replaced that de-
stroyed by fire some months ago.
Early next week 1t is expected that
full crew of SO men will be employed.
Missing since May IL, Theodore
Mcclure, 20, for whom a search has
been conducted by his neighbors and
Sheriff Dick Bone the last two weeks,
was found dead a mile and half
from his home on Gold Creek, 20
miles northwest of Colville, where he
lived alone.
A move to have the state pur-
chase the Brewster toll bridge at once
and operate it hereafter as toll-free
project has been given setback by
an opinion of the attorney general,
who holds that the state cannot make
the purchase without a specific au-
thorization by the legislature.
Asserting that the welfare Of his
church required congregation with
out dissension, the Rev. Frank b.
Beatty. pastor of the Wenatchee
Presbyterian church for II years, has
resigned, despite an expression OF
confidence by his congregation.
Marvin Clifford, IL, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Clifford, of Centralia,
died last Saturday, alter taking an
overdose Of rhubarb powder given
him by his mother. The medicine
caused commissions.