davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
HANFORD TEAM TO
MEET IMPROVED
YAKIMA OUTFIT
Valley League Standings
(Second Half)

After weeks lay-off, the Hanford
ball club of the valley league will start
the second half of the leagues sched-
ule when they entertain the Yakima
team on their home diamond Sunday,
June g. Yakima, after going through
the first half OF the schedule without
single victory and with poor Show
ing in every game, surprised the dope
sters last Sunday by trouncing Pros
ser, 9 to 5. Local enthusiasts favor
Hanford to win Sundays game, but
are forecasting close and exciting
battle.
Toppenish, winners of the first half,
have already gotten a good start to-
ward the pennant with two victories
in the second half. On Memorial Day,
they defeated Prosser, to 4, and last
Sunday nosed out Wapato, to S, the
game going to eleven innings
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
WHITE BLUFFS BAND
USES NEW STAND

At the first of the summers free
open-air concerts, the boys Of the
White Bluffs Band entertained with
an hours music played from their new
bandstand on Federal avenue
The audience gathered in their cars
for the concert and showed their APP
prevail of the bands Well-rounded pro-
gram by doing some footing on their
own horns at the conclusion of each
number. The program, directed by F
A. English, was:
National Emblem march (Bagley)
Spirit of Peace march (KiefeD, Moon
Light and Roses Gemare, Black
More), Semper Fidelis march (Sousa)
Invercargell march Githgow), Girl
biribin (band arrangement by F. A.
English, Juarita CHILDBIRTH, Bear Cat
march (Huffine), American Legion
march (Parker), On, Wisconsin,! Pur-
dy), Star Spangled Banner
On Friday Of this week the band will
make it's first out of-town appearance
this season travelling to Sunnyside to
take part in the annual June Fete
This is the third time they have been
invited to this celebration. Owing to
illness, number of the senior band
boys will be unable to make the trip
and their places will be filled by mem
bers Of the junior band.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
fourth CLUB CAMP
AT PULLMAN JUNE II

More than thousand boys and girls
are expected to attend the fourteenth
annual state 4-H club camp at the
State College of Washington, June ~
to %, inclusive, according to early re-
ports from different counties received
by Henry NJ Walker, state club agent.
Plans are under way to house, en-
terrain and instruct the club members
and leaders Arrangements are being
completed to secure as many of the
regular instructors in the college Of
agriculture as possible to help with
classes in the different subjects. Spe-
cial speakers, talent and movies are
being lined up for the daily assemblies
and program is being worked out for
the daily recreation periods.
The theme of leadership will run
through the entire program this year,
says Mr. Walker Dr. E. O. Holland,
president of the State College, will pre-
sent certificates of achievement to all
leaders who have performed outstand-
ing services in their communities.
A special radio broadcast will be CIV
en- by All clubs over radio station
KWSC Wednesday evening" June 10,
at $50, from the stage Of the Bryan
hall auditorium.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
LEGION AUXILIARY
REFLECTS OFFICERS

The present officers, with the excep-
ton of the secretary treasurer, were
reelected for another years term at
the meeting Of he American Legion
Auxiliary Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.
James Morris was elected secretary
treasurer to succeed Mrs Elsie SchWi-
SOW. Other officers of the organiza-
ton are: President, Mrs. Lula M. John
son; first vice-president, Mrs. j. E.
Leander; second vice president, Mrs.
O. w. Brown; historian, Mrs. Vergil
Kern; sergeant-at-arms, Mrs. H. j.
Coleman.
On Memorial Day, the Auxiliary
decorated the graves of ex-service men
with white and green sprays, with a
paper poppy in the center of each
which they had made at their meet
ing earlier in the week On all undec-
grated graves at the cemetery the
group placed sprays which did not
contain the poppy.
Plans for the coming veterans picnic
an annual event to which all ex-ser-
vice men and their families are invited
were also discussed at Tuesdays meet
ing.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
PRODUCTION COST
OF PEARS is SET
AT $18.77 PER TON

The costs of production for packed
pears and cannery pears in the va
kima and Wenatchee districts averaged
81 cents per box for packed pears and
$l8.77 per ton for cannery pears in
1882, according to report on Cost of
Producing Pears in Washington by
Chester c. Hampson and E. F. Lander
holm of the agricultural experiment
station, State College of Washington,
which has just been published as Bull
letin No BOZ OF the experiment station.
The field records on which this re-
port is based were obtained in the va
kina and Wenatchee districts during
the summer of 1888, for the crop of
1882, and records for 46 orchards were
used in the computation.
According to these investigators, in
periods of low prices it is particularly
important to reduce costs per unit of
production. BY reducing the cost of
production, a grower puts himself in
a stronger competitive position relative
to the remainder of the growers Of
the industry. One of the important
methods of reducing the cost of pro-
duction per unit of product is to so
handle orchards that there will be a
! good yield per acre.
Production costs vary widely among
orchards studied The average cost per
box for six of the poorer orchards was
two and one-half times that OF Che
average cost for six OF the better or
| chards
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
EARLY VEGETABLE
AND SOFT FRUIT
SHIPMENTS BEGIN,

After period of cool days and cold
nights which retarded the development
of crops, the warm weather of this
week has FASTENED the maturity of
early vegetables and soft fruits and
picking of many varieties is now un-
derway.
Shipment of peas from the valley
started the first of the week, most
supplies being taken to Spokane Prices
so far have been far from steady, most
quotations received here being from
2a to a cents pound.
Harvesting Of Strawberries has passed
the peak, with retail prices dropping
to four boxes for rs cents from the
price two weeks ago Of Is cents box
Prices to producers are quoted at va
kima as $3.50 to SITS a crate on board
the cars.
Local cherries are now reaching the
markets, shipments having been re-
ported from the ranches of Mrs. I. B
Burns and Ira Flagler, where Black
TartarlanS are being picked. Lamberts
and Royal AIMS are expected to reach
maturity curing the next week.
Reports from Yakima and Wenat-
chez state that Gamers are Offering
six cents pound for No.. Royal
AIMS. In some sections growers are
holding out for higher prices and re-
~
ners are offering seven cents there.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
SAFETY PIN LODGES
IN BABY'S THROAT

What began as a romp with her
older sister Katherine has brought SER
ious consequences to little Grace Har-
riet Abercrombie. AS the older sister
addressed the three-year-old they
played with an open safety-pin and
Grace, thinking it would be a good
hiding place, put it in her mouth. But
it proved an even better hiding place
than she had hoped; for she swallowed
1t.
Wednesday, she was taken to Ken
neWick by her mother, Mrs. Ct. D.
Abercrombie, and r. s. Reierson. X
ray pictures showed that the pin was
lodged about two inches below her
throat, open end up. Since the proper
instruments for its removal we're not
available in Kennewick or Pasco, her
mother took her TO a Spokane speci-
alist.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
Annual Field
Day At Prosser
Station June II
Experiments Being Made
In Production of Many
Varieties

The Fifteenth Annual Field Day at
the Irrigation Branch Experiment
Station at Prosser on Wednesday, June
H. will be of interest to everyone who
is interested in the irrigation agricul-
ture of the state, say officials OF the
station who are busly making final
preparations for the event.
The entire morning will be occupied
with field trips to the experimental
plots. Each visitor will have an oppor-
tunity to spend as much time as he
desires on any particular experimental
project. In order to make this arrange
ment possible, some of the men from
the Agriculture Experiment Station at
Pullman will assist the Station staff
in arranging for smaller groups than
In previous years.
ALI visitors are invited to bring a
basket lunch and picnic at noon on
the Station grounds. The Prosser Com
mercial club will serve free coffee and
iced tea. Lunches and ice cream will
be sold on the grounds at popular
prices to those who find it inconven-
lent to bring their lunches.
II. P. Singleton, superintendent OF
the Station, states that some of the in
teresting things to be seen "wednesday
are as follows:
Sweet clover varieties; safaower, a
new oil plant; tomato, cultural and
variety trials; pasture grasses; soy
beans; nlillets; pasture plots; Alpha ]
sweet clover cover crop in young pear
orchard; Ladak alfalfa cover crop in
young cherry orchard; irrigation ex-
pertinent on Delicious; Red Rome
sWinesap and Jonathan apples; north
ern common alfalfa cover crop in apple
orchard;
Test of corn varieties and hybrids;
fertilizer experiment on alfalfa; new
crop rotation project including 1O2
one tenth-acre plots varieties of SUI
gar beets; 18th year of a fertilizer ex-
pertinent in three-year rotation
yarietal trials with cereals; third veal
of alfalfa varieties and strains; plum
variety orchard; varieties of cherries
apricots, peaches, apples, and other
fruits.
A total of more than 200 varieties
strains and hybrids of crops can be
seen in the fields. Data regarding the
many experiments that have been car
ried on at the Station will be avail
able.
The Washington Irrigation Institute
will have charge of the afternoon pro-
gram One item of interest will be thu
dedication OF a memorial to Mrs. Ina
P. Williams, who introduced the ac
into the legislature creating the Irri-
gaion Experiment Station.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
TAX COLLECTIONS
IN COUNTY GROW

Boosted by collections of $185,953 in
May, tax payments in Benton county
for the first five months of the year
totaled $493,322, Ray Gilcrest, deputy
treasurer announced Tuesday, accord
ing to the Yakima Herald. This was
$32 ,289 more than was collected in the
corresponding period last year, al
though in three of the months the in
dividual totals were smaller than in
1894.
Payments made SO far this year and
last year. with the 1895 figure shown
first, were:
May $185,953 and $154,770 April,
SAB ,604 and $48062; March, $132,683
and S138,482 February, $38,733 and
s41, $40; and January, $92,249 and $780,
ITO.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
SURPLUS LUMBER rs
MOVED FROM YARD

Due to strike conditions, making it
impossible for Yakima valley lumber
yards to receive shipments of lumber,
a large amount has been shipped by
the John Dover Lumber conpany's
yard at White Bluffs to the companys
yards at Toppenish, Kennewick and
Yakima. The hauling has been done
by Harold Keen, w. r. Kirby and D.
O. Walker.
With much of the surplus lumber
here removed, j. M. Shinn, manager
OF the yard, and Wilmot Morford are
now engaged in moving the remainder
into the covered shed, and within the
next week expect to have most Of the
lumber under cover.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
Predatory Drive
To End June 80

With less than month remaining
before the close Of the White Bluffs
Rod and Gun clubs predatory bird
and animal drive the fifteen OF more
contestants are staging determined
rush for leading places in the contest
Nine main prizes have been selected
by the club for winners in the drive
to be awarded as follows: First prize
single-shot % rifle; End, fishing pole
and reel; 3rd hunting knife; 4th, am
munition; 5th, watch; 9th, fiashlight,
and 7th to 9th. inclusive, one free hair
cut. Special prizes for contestants who
bag the highest number of individual
species will also be awarded. Available
window of the White Bluffs Trading
company's store in the near future.
Thus far in the contest but few
ravens, for which the most points are
awarded, have been bagged. -Four boys
are tied, each having bagged one Of
this species. Jack rabbits are likewise
being brought in slowly, most points
having been secured through the kill
ing OF sparrows, pocket gophers and
magpies and the capturing of maybe
and raven eggs.
Plans for next years contest, which
will start Immediately after the close
of the present one, are now being
drafted by the club
Among other matters discussed by
the club at it's meeting Tuesday eve
ming was the possibility of introduc-
ton of antelope to the hills above
Priest Rapids. Other states, it was
pointed out, have been successful in
establishing the species, and as there
are none in this state, the club believes
it would be worthwhile project to
introduce them in this section where
natural conditions are very favorable
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
Mercury Reaches
97-Degree Mark

A blazing sun in a cloudless sky on
Tuesday brought the summers first
heat wave to the Priest Rapids valley,
as we'll as to all other districts Of the
Pacific Northwest. The temperature
that day rose to 81, seven degrees high
er than any other day heretofore this
year.
The temperature was slightly cooler
Wednesday, a reading of 95 being re-
corded. A haze of dust drifting IN
from the west kept today's tempera-
ture from rising too high, although
several more days of hot weather have
been forecast
Temperatures at other points in the
state have been approximately the
same with Kennewick reporting high
of l04 degrees Tuesday, Yakima 95
degrees and Sunnyside So degrees that
same day. At Wenatchee the temper
allure rose to 80 degrees Wednesday
and Seattle reported high of 80 de-
grees.
With a forecast Of several more
days of hot weather, interest in the
probable high water mark Of the Col
umbia river has increased. During the
early part of the week the river rose
but very little, and for several days
was nearly at standstill, due to four
days of cold weather the latter part
of last week along the upper part OF
the river.
At the present stage of the river
the runof amounts to approximately
100000 cubic feet per second, and for
every foot that the river rises the run
off is increased by about $4,000 cubic
feet per second.
The river stage today is 522.5 feet
which is just % feet below the high
water mark of 1884, 5248 feet, recorded
June S. 1t is still far below the 1888
reading of 5282 feet, which was the
highest since 1916, when the river
reached a peak of 1924. The highest
peak ever recorded at the Coyote
pumping plant was 5286, recorded in
1918. The 1928 high water mark, one
of the highest in recent years, was
$3.50 feet.
| The average peak stage Of the river
over the twenty -four year period, 1910
1884 inclusive, that readings have been
made at the Coyote plant is 523.3 feet
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
WEII,ERS PUZZLED
BY INTRODUCTION
TO NEIGHBORHOOD

Local firearms dealers found more
than ready customer Monday in Louis
Weller, who came to town in very
puzzled state of mind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Weller recently
purchased the McCord-Taylor ranch
and on Sunday took possession. AT
about midnight of the first night in
their new home, it seems, Mr. Weller
was awakened by a noise outside the
house. Raising up to look out the VIM
dow he heard the unnaistakable click
of cartridge being locked into the
chamber of gun, and saw flash
lights searching beam.
Having just arrived from Tacoma,
his former home, Mr.. Weilers first
thought was that sheriff's officers,
hunting the kidnappers of the Weyer-
hauser boy, had considered him pos
sible suspect. Deciding that caution
was the better part of valor, he lay
back on his pillow, waiting for the in
truders to take the initiative. But
nothing happened and the f1ashlight
beam finally disappeared.
Conversation the next day with G..
I. Wright, constable, disclosed that
this conjecture was baseless. The pos
sibility Of the kidnappers hiding out
/ in this valley had not been contem-
plated and no search had been made.
So Mr. Weller is still very puzzled
man; but he is now prepared to do
some cartridge clicking on his own ac-
count If he should have any more such
visitors
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
POSTPONED

The all-day Food Preservation Insti-
tute which was to be held June at
the Valley club house in KenneWick
has been postponed until week la
ter, making 1t Tuesday, June 18th, 1t
is announced by Miss Opal Jenkin,
county demonstration agent.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
POSTOFFICE WILL BE CLOSED
AT NOON ON SATURDAYS

In order to conform with the A.
hour week ruling, the White Bluffs
postoffice will close at noon on Satur-
days hereafter, it is announced by j..
E. Leander, postmaster. The train mail,
however will be dispatched and sorted
as usual, and the mail truck to Ken
newick will leave on its regular sched-
uled time.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06

After two months visit in Illinois
with his fathers sister, Billy Hall re-
turned to White Bluffs Wednesday. He
had driven car back from the east
to Yakima coming from there on the
stage.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
SHEEP MOVED TO SUMMER
RANGE IN IDAHO MOUNTAINS

Three bands OF sheep were shipped
from the Priest Rapids valley to their
summer range in the Idaho mountains
over the Milwaukee railroad during
the past week. Two bands were loaded
at Priest Rapids and one at Hanford.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
THE WEATHER

Temperatures during the past week.
as recorded at the Hanford weather
station, were:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-06
Euents Of the Week
Friday, June 7

Friday, June
Junior Women's club meeting.
Sunday, June D
Church--see notices.
Baseball, Hanford VS.. Yakima, Han
ford diamond, 2;30 pm.
Milford chronicle., 1935-10-18
SEAFORD

Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks Marvel, Jr.
are receiving congratulations on the
arrival Of a fine daughter, born on
Monday of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Burton and Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Stewart made bus
iness trip 10 Philadelphia last week
end and while there the two gentle
men attended the Yale and Penn
football game.
Ernest Simon gave the members
of the Seaford High School football
team a treat last Saturday by carry
ing them up to watch Delaware Col
lege play,
Miss Agnes Huston is a guest of
Hon. William H. Boyce in Dover.
Caleb Fine of Springfield, Mass,
spent the past weekend with his
wife at their home on High street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Graner have
returned to their home in Philadel-
phia after spending the past week.
end as the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank c. Dawson.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Seville Harris and
children have returned to their home
in Trenton, N. j., after spending the
past week with the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Harris, on High
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Emery and
daughter, Susan Beth of Railway, N.
j., are guests here this week of the
formers mother, Mrs. Ella c. En-
cry.
Miss Mary Witherbee Of Laurel,
formerly Of Seaford, left this week
for California where she will spend
several weeks with friends and rel
atives.
Mrs. Custus W. McNeilley who
has been spending the summer
months at her home here left last I
week for New York City where she /
will spend the winter months.
Fire, originating from a defective
Hfue, caused about $1,000 damage
to the home of DR.. William i.
Haines last Saturday at noon. The
blaze was discovered by William
James, who was painting a residence
nearby. The flames broke out in the
attic of she home and before the
hremen got it under control the at
tic roof was badly damaged.
Local firemen were summoned on
Monday to the tenant house of Law
renee D. Cannon at Cannon, to fight
d chimney fire.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard, of Whining
ton, were summoned home last week
to the home of the latter's parents,
where Mrs. Joshua Messick is seri-
Ously i'll.
Equipment for Seaford's new post
,ffice is arriving daily and beias
placed in position to be ready for the
opening which will be the first week
in November.
Parents of Ronald Lloyd, olin
Moore and Herman Short, who re-
Gently enlisted in the U. S. Army, re-
ceived news this week that their
sons had sailed from San Francisco.
California, for Hawaii, where they
will be attached to the Coast Artil-
ery. All three of the young men
we're members of the Delaware Ma
ional Guard.
Milford chronicle., 1935-10-18
ROxANA

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Thomas o
Washington, D. c., were guests o
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Lekites q par
of last week.
Robert Wilgus was taken to the
Milford Emergency Hospital on
Wednesday evening about eight o.
clock and was operated upon imme-
diately for appendicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harb Quillen, Mr.,
and Mrs. Samuel Lekites and Mrs.
Belle Lynch were dinner guests on
Saturday Of Mrs. Ella King at Lewes.
Edward Johnson of the University
of DelaYare at Newark, snent the
weekend with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. S. johnson.
Miss Dorothy Hickman spent a
part of last week with Mrs. Kate Ma
ser in Wilmington.
Rev. w. M. Parker made a busi-
ness trip to Boston, Mass, last week.
Harry DerricksOn is i'll at this
writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Furman, Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar Bennett and son Wis
tied George Furman on Sunday who
is a patient in the Beebe Hospital at
LeWes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Lynch an
nounce the birth of a daughter, born
on Sunday, October 10, at the Dover
Hospital. Mr.. Lynch is a member of
the faculty at Kenton Public School.
Mrs. Lynch was formerly Miss May
Hickman of near town. Mr.. and Mrs.
Lynch have a home in this town.
The road leading through town
and on down to Fenwicks bridge has
been given a heavy coat of tar and
Stag.
Mrs. Milton Marvel has been en-
tertaining out-of-tOwn guests.
Charlie Richards, assistant super
intendent of the NJ. E. Sunday school
is very pleasantly conducting the
school during the absence of
the superintendent. J. c. Evans, who
is spending most of the time with his
wife in the Wilmington General
Hospital.