White Bluffs spokesman. [volume], January 05, 1923, Image 1

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"WHITE BLUFFS SPOKESMAN
VOL. 16, NO. 23
‘ The
White Bluffs Warehouse Co.
Just to start the New Year
right, we are going to sell
50 pr. vof $5.00 work shoes at $4.00
35 pr. of $5.50 work shoes at 4.50,
8 Stag Shirts, value 3.50, at 2.00
50 e 2700, Asl
6 Mackinaw Coats, ” 10.00 "’ 6.50
Also have a few small size
overcoats at $3.50 each.
“Leggett Mercantile Co.
BEN HERING, Mgr.
| WHITE BLUFFS, WASH.
‘‘Buy for Cash and Save Money."’
( STORAGE
C Willa¥d )
Let us taKe care of your Battery
troubles. All work guaranteed,
New Batteries for Ford Cars, $18.50
Located in City Garage
THOMAS GOODWIN
Electric Service Now Costs Less
~Use More of It =
QOur new reduced rates for Residential
Electric Service will apply on all bills
for motor readings taken after Janu-..
ary 10th. :
You can use more electricity in your
home for appliances and better light
ing without proportionately increasing
- your bills.
Assume that you have a 5-room house
and observe the comparison shown
below: '
WHAT YOU GET FOR YOUR MONEY
Monthly Bill ~ Oldßate ~ Newßate
$2.90 20 KWH 24 KWH
3.65 2by Y st
4.35 80" 48 .7
5.30 407 s g ey
6.25 50 ” g 8 ”
8,060 cismve 2B 142 ¥lB 1
For a 5 room house, the rate is only
6¢ per KWH
for all over the first 17 KWH per month,
Pacific Power & Light Co.
- “Always At Your Service”
SOLDIER SETTLERS
WANT COOPERATION
The I.and Settlers Association,
whose membership is made up of
soldier settlers on the state project
in this valley are planning their
crops for the coming season. Some
of them, Roy C. Robinson in par
ticular, have had expert experience
in the production of vegetables on
a commercial scale, and they be:
lieve that with the early season
that prevails here, they can make
‘these crops pay the grower a nice
return. They want to go at the
Jjob systematieally, selecting those
‘vegetables that experience has
shown to produce well in this val
ley, and setting out enough acre
age that the shipments will come
on in carload or partial carload
jots, so as to get away from the
high express rates.
The acreage of the different
crops selected is also to be divided
up among the growers so that in
the event apything happened to
any of the crops, or the market,
the grower would have the other
crops to fall back upon. Tn_ other
words, they do not want any of
the growers to put all of their
eggs into one basket.
The soldier settlers do not be
lieve they will have enough of
their own number this year to fur
nish the required acreage, partic
ularly as theirs is all new land,
and they would like to have the
other farmers here to cooperate
with them. A committee from the
land sett'ers association will pre
sent the matter to the community
club meeting next Tuesday even
ing, and they also want to take it
up with the Farm Bureau and the
Grange with the idea of making
the undertaking a community
affair.
Using the earliness of the season
here as the basis for his conclu
siong, Roy C. Robinson, who came
here last summer from Walla Wal
la to take up one of the state
tracts, says he believes that if they
go at it in a practical and scientific
way, the farmers in this valley can
secure better and more permanent
returns by the growing of vegeta
bles than by any other crop pro
duced.
The proposition sounds reason
able and merits the. consideration
of all the farmers in the valley.
FARM BUREAU ENTERS
THE MARKETING GAME
~ The newest of the national co
operative marketing institutions
fostered by the American Farm
Burcau. federation opened for
business in 140 marketing cen
ters on January Ist. It is the
Federated TFruit & Vegetable
Growers Inc. The new marketing
agency is entirely grower-owned
and controlled and will sell all
kinds of fruit and vegetables for
local cooperative marketing asso
ciations. {
The organization has pur
chaged the assets and contracts
of the North American Fruit ex
change, which has been market
ing cooperative association pro
ducts for the last 11 years. A.
R. Rule, manager of the North
American Fruit Exchange, is re
tained as manager for the Fede
rated organization. °
J. 8. Edwards of California is
president and C. E. Durst of 111-
inois, secretary.
~ SBome of the markets in which
operations are to begin are New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Boston, Cleveland and
St. Louis.
Membership in the Federated
Fruit and Vegetable Growers is
intended to be mainly by associ
ation or exchanges, according to
C. E. Bradfute, newly clected
president of the American Farm
Bureau Federation. Ondy coope
rative associations will be ad
mitted. Large individual grow
ers, who ship in carlots and whe
are not so located they can con
veniently work through an asso
ciation, may join the federated
directly and market through it
but will have no vote. Only asso
ciations may vote.
The federated will be primarily
a carlot distribution organization
and can not handle the product
of small isolated growers unless
organized so they can properly
standardize their products and
ship in full car lots.
The regular annual meeting of
the White Bluffis Community club
will be held at the high school au
d'torium next Tuesday evening,
Officers for the ensuing year are to
be elected at this meeting and a
full attendance is desired. Sam‘
Allard, who has filled the position
of president of the club for the
past year, says that his duties as
‘county commissioner and as chief’
operator of the pumping plant at
Allard will require all of his time
from p~w on, and he desires to be
reliey -
WHITE BLUFFS, BENTON COUNTY, WASHINGTON
To the White Bluffs-Han-
ford Folks:
Dear Friends: Those Wine
sap apples that you sent The
Star staff certainly went
home with me. - If that’s the
sort of fruit you turn out in
that district, I don’t wonder
the soldier settlement project
is winning favor.
(Erom Seattle Star, Jan, 2nd)
PRIEST.RAPIDS VALLEY
- "NOW IN SPOTLIGHT
Men who travel around a lot and
are therefore in a position to know,
say that they hear more favorable
comment on the Priest Rapids Val.
ey than they do of any other place
in the state. There are two prin
cipal reasons for this: one is;#with
out doubt, the 100 per cent Ameri
can Legion Post that has been
‘maintained here ever since its or
‘ganization, shortly after the boys’
return from overseas; and the oth
‘er is the fact that the state has se
lected this valley for its tirst land
settlement experiment. Both of
these have attracted not only state
wide, but nation wide, interest.
Of course, if we did not have the
productive soil, unlimited water
‘supply. early season, climate, the
‘promise of development of “Priest
rapids power site, the natural gas
}wells and prospects for oil, and
other natura' advantages, we prob
ably would not have had the 100
per cent Post, and we certainly
would not have had the state land
settlement; but we needed the ad
vertising to get us on the map.
During the ‘latter part of the
summer, Carl A. Helm of Illinoig,
bearing a commission from the
American Legion weekly to “‘write
up the soldier settlement’’ in this
ivalley, spent a few days with us,
gathering material for his story.
'Mr. Helm admitted that he wa;
‘not a farmer and knew nothing of
farm methods or conditions, and
‘his article that appeared in the De
cember 15th issue of his magazine
certainly bears out this admission.
| But he did ‘‘get over’” to the
millions of readers of the American
Legion Weekly the ' fact that the
state of Washingtonyis pntting on a
land settlement scheme for ex-ser
vice men, and where the project is
located. Mr. Helm closed his ar
ticle with the advice to those read
ers who might be interested, to
write to the adjutant of the local
Post for data and information. Up
to Thursday evening, mote than
200 inquiries had been received.
While most of these came from the
middle western states, almost ev
ery state in the Union was repre
senited by at least one request for
information, and one inquiry came
from Canada and another from
Mexico.
All of the letters have been
turned over to J. C. Scott, project
‘manager, and and while the infor
‘mation furnished 1s somewhat gen
eral, Mr. Scott is attempting to
give a personal answer to each in
quiry. He says that from the in
formation contained in the ingqui
ries, there are a number of likely
prospects among them and that it
is altogether probable some of
them will wind up by owning
farms in this valley.
The American Legion Weekly
article, together with the other
publicity given in the Spokesman
‘Review. the Seattle Times, the Se
att’e Star and other Scripps papers
}on the Coast, the Yakima Republic,
the Yakima Herald, and other
‘newspapers in the state within the
last few months, have all contrib -
’uted their part in keeping the pub
'lic posted on the progress being
made in the state's first land settle
ment project and have —incidental
ly—been a wonderful advertise
‘ment for the whole Priest Rapids
iValley. A reporter from the Seat
tle Pest-Intelligencer is expected to
\arrive in the valley within the next
ltwo weeks to gather data for an
larticle 01 the land settlement, to
be printed in that publication with
/in the near future, and when that
'is dono, practically every daily
[newspaper in the state will have
covered the subject.
And now while all of this pub’ic
ity is bound to have a tremendous
influence in bringing about the set
tlement and development of the
\valley, it is well to keep in mind
' the old adage, ‘‘lt pays to adver
tise but you must deliver the
goode’’ and it behooves all of us
who are here now not only to ex.
tend a welcome to the newcomers,
but to lend every aid and assist
ance in helping them to make their
farms a profitable undertaking o
that those who travel about will
enntinue to hear good reports of
the Priest Rapids Valley. Team
work got us this far, and team
‘work, or lack of it, will spell suc-
Jtcess or failure for the Valley’s fu
urel
Dr. W. F. Morrison, who has
been ?endlng the holidays in Se
attle with his daughter and her
family, returned to the valley
Wedoesday evening, -
CHIEF SEATTLE
GROWERS ASK FOR
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
{ Growc’rs at White Bluffs who
marketed their froit last year
}through the Wenatchee Valley
EFruit lExchange, met at the Fred
M. Weil office building Tuesday
lovening to discuss what action
if any, should be taken to pro
tect their interests. The.affairs
!Of the W. V. Fruit Exchange are
}now under the direction of an ex
ecutive committee selected by the
lcrcditors from among their own
‘number, at the request of officials
of the company
, At the meeting Tuesday cven
ing there was considerable sent
iment at the outset to insist on
the appointment of a man from
this valley on the executive com
mittee but after a discussion of
all phases of the matter, J. C.
Lloyd was appointed to secure
from the Exchange a financial
statement, together with all
other information that might be
of interest to the local growers.
Upon reeeipt of this = statement
and information it is probable
that another meeting .will be
called and the growers will then
decide shat steps they want te
take.
There was a general expression
of confidence in the ability and
honesty of 8. H, Andrews, gen
eral manager of the company, to
gtraighten out the affairs of the
company and a reluctance to do
anything that might embarrass
him.
l The books of the company are
now being audited by the cred
itors and when this audit is com
plete the future of the company
will be determined. 1f the checlk
of the books sustains the state
ment submitted by the company,
the creditors will continue to op
crate the business with 8. H.
Andrews as general manager.
The committee that has charge .
now, is composed of J. W. Max- '
well, President National City
Bank, Seattle; William Carr of
Spokane, R. L. Lawrence, repre:
senting F. E. Nellis & ©o. 6f Chi
icago, W. W. Jones, mayor of
Cashmere, and = William Grieg,
’one of the leading growers of the .
Cashmere district. '
J. C. Lloyd acted as chairman
of the meeting Tuesday and ex
nlained to the growers what their
leeal rights are in the present
difficulty. F. J. Bonn, local man
ger, said that the company's books
show that with the exception of
four, every onec of the growers in
this valley whose apples they have
handled has received zdvances fn
the way of cash end supplies, of
between 75¢ and SI.OO per box.
T 0 SERENADE COMMANDER
Col. Alvin M. Owsley, National
Commander of the American Le
gion, will deliver an address at the
opening of the state legislature at
Olympia on January Bth, and is
going to urge and recommend to
the legislators that the extension to
the land settlement project in this
valley be granted, increasing the
project from 58 to 100 tracts. As
Commander Owsley is one of the
foremost orators of America, his
address will, without. doubt, have
gréat influence with the legislators.
Tae local Post, in appreciation
of his efforts in behalf of the sol
dier settlement, have appointed a
committee to meet the colonel next
Tuesday at Beverly on his way
Bast, and they will be accompanied
by the White Bluffs Band, which
has consented ta go and give him a
gerenade. Arrangements have
been made with the Milwaukee
railroad to have the train stop at
Beverly a little longer than usual,
to permit Commander Owsley to
deliver a short address. Everyone
is cordially invited to go to Bever
ly Tuesday to greet Commander
Owsley and to hear the White
Bluffs Band deliver its first out-of
town performance. It promises to
he a trip that will be well worth
the time.
’
Program
This Week
Saturday and Sunday
January 6 and 7, 1923
“‘City of Silent Men''
-~ .
starring
THOMAS MEIGHAN
Thomus Meighan’s greatest role
since George Loane Tuckers ‘‘Mir
ucle Man”’
' Next Week
Saturday and Sunday
Jan. 13 and 14
‘‘Education of Elizabeth''
starring
BILLIE BURKE
and a Grouch Removing
Mack Scnnett Comgedy
IFRED"M. WEIL
PRIEST RAPIDS & COLUMBIA BASIN LANDS
FARM LOANS-INSURANCE
L . M A S
Representing: Seattie Office:
Netherlands-American 612 Leary Bldg.
Mortgage Bank Phone Elliot 2524
S A M S SRS T
JAMES E. SELLS in Charge
Local Office y
FIRST BANK of WHITE BLUFFS
WHITE BLUFFS, WASHINGTON
IN THE VALLEY A LONG TIME
SOC B GWERNT
General Building Construction
The Only Carpenter in Town Who Has No Side Lines
WHITE BLUFFS, WASH.
Rosldence Phone 256
3 COTTON SHEET BLANKETS
Good weight $2.25 per pr.
LLADIES’ HOSE
Special, 30c per pr. Brown and Black
CHILDREN’'S COTTON HOSE
15¢c per pair 2 pairs for 25¢ Black only
g C. B. LUHMANN & CO.
0 Phone 400
We plan to carry at all times a full line of
BEEF PORK MUTTON VEAL
FFish in Season
Prices reasonable Sanitary Shop
Am in the market for cattle, hogs, sheé.p,
hides and pelts.
The Valley Meat Market
Jeoe Schuster
We do
Acetylene
Brazing and Welding
SRS NI N
W. H. WEBB, Mgr.
TT T S S T S TSiSO - T i S —— .St S-Sy
GOING UPI
Tire prices have advanced 10 to 15
per cent this week.
Unti# the 10th of this month we
will sell tires at the old prices.
Authorized Ford Sales and Service
White Bluffs Motor Co.
Our Motto is ''SERVICE" Phone 167
FRIDAY, JAN. &, 1825
Phone 167