White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-19
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Our ReaGerS.
THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem' hard
white, etc; soft white. western white,
eec: hard winter, northern spring
western red, CSC.
Hay-Buying price. t. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, s14@15; valley timothy $3.50
155O: eastern Oregon timothy, SIT;
clover. s11; oat hay, $12; oats and
vetch, $12.
Butterfat-25@2Sc.
Eggs-Ranch, 13@15c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $7.75@S.
Hogs-Good to choice, $S@8.25.
Lambs-Good to choice, $6.76@7.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
bluestem, CSC; western red, northern
spring, 64c.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@22c.
Butterfat-31c.
Cattle-Choice steers, $7.50@8.
Hogs-Good to choice, sS0S.25.
Lambs Choice, $7@7.50.
Spokane
Cattle-steers, good, $7.5o@775.
Hogs-Good to choice, SITS.
Lambs-Medium to good, $6@7.35.
Rev. and Mrs. F. L. Rife Of Nesika
district celebrated their golden we'd
ding at Chehalis recently.
Neils Hansen Petersen, Is, pioneer
of the Evelaine neighborhood near
winlock, died recently. He was born
in Denmark and had resided in Lewis
county AZ years.
The Clark county commissioners
have granted a gas company fran
chise to lay a gas main on the county
bridge at Camas and all Of Camas Will
soon be supplied with gas.
Wages for farm hands in the Walla
Walla district for the current season
have been generally set at $35
month and board for men, and $40
month and board for women.
The Willamette camps near
Cathlamet have reopened after SHUT
down of several weeks and have given
employment to about 175 men. Two
sides and two caterpillars are in op-
Grafton.
A break in electric service recently
between Wilbur and Govan was found
due to an electrocuted eagle, the car
cass being suspended on the wires.
The bird measured five feet between
wing tips.
Voters of Naches will be asked to
approye a $4,000 bond issue on March
27 for the purpose Of building a new
fireproof city hall and to sink deep
well for supplying the city with ade'
Quate water.
Assurance that the contract for the
Gle Elum dam will be awarded soon,
was contained in kilograms received
nv the chamber of commerce from
CONGRESSMAN John w. Summers and
Senator G. g. Dill.
/, The contract for the 16-mile stretch
of road south from Wilbur on the Will
burOdessa highway will not be let
before April Is, according to Frank A.
Hudkins, county commissioner. 1t will
cost $4,000, it is estimated.
H. s. snead, M. E. Morgan, b. T.
Conn and w. Kasper were in Othello
recently to aid in organizing a Column
bia basin irrigation district unit.
About 40 landowners attended the
meeting and unit was organized.
Five families were left destitute by
a fire that destroyed their cabins at
: Ariel, Northwestern Electric company
construction community on the Lewis
river. 1t started in the cabin owned
by Charles Tilet and spread rapidly.
Southwest Washington firemen from
nineteen tswns in Lewis, Pacific,
Thurston and Grays Harbor counties
met in Chehalis recently and complet.
ed their organization, planned to be
mutually helpful in fighting big fires.
Seventeen mills in Washington and
Oregon, representing the entire pro.
duction of Douglas fir plywood in the
United States, announced a three-year
nationwide program of advertising,
sales promotion and engineering re-
search.
Friday, April II, the city will hold
a special election at which Winlock
voters will cast their ballots for or
against a proposed $4,000 bond issue
Proceeds, If voted, will be expended
IN huildinp q semitic tank for citv san.