White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-05-14
WASHINGTON news
J ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
white, soft white and western white
69c; hard winter, northern spring and
western red, CSC. N
Hay-Buying price, I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $14@15; valley timothy $50
1850; eastern Oregon timothy. SIT;
clover, Sill: oat hay, 3$12; oats and
vetch, $12. g
utterfat-19@22c.
Eggs-Ranch. 12@14c. a
Cattle-Steers, good, $7.35@7.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, $6.75@$7.75.
Lambs-Good to choice, $S@S.5O.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
bluestem, 69c; western red, northern
spring, hard winter, &c.
Eggs-Ranch, 13@22c.
Choice steers, $7.75@7.S5.
Hogs-Good to choice, $7.65@775.
Lambs-Choice, $500.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $7@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $735@75O.
mbs-Medium to good, s775@8.25
About $4,000 will be spent oiling
roads out Of Omak and Okanogan this
summer. The money will come from
the countys permanent highway fund.
The West Coast Power company
started the construction of it's new
| power line to run between Oak Point
and Cathlamet over Beaver mountain.
A plane fell 200 feet onto the root
of a barn near Kent, crashed through
the roof and set the barn afire. The
| two filters in the plane escaped with.
out injuries.
| William Braack, 81, of Columbia
Heights, last surviving charter mem
Der of the Kelso Masonic lodge, died
recently. He had lived in the county
for SO years.
When Joe Grell, White Bluffs avia.
| tor, took his airplane from winter
| storage recently he found that the
wings had been badly damaged by
woodpeckers.
A proposed 4-mill special levy for
the Toppenish school district has been
carried by vote of 219 to 1872. The
levy is expected to make about &c..
| 900 available.
The first sweet peas of the year
were reported by Mrs. B. 3. Lee OF
Longview. The flowers were red,
white and purple, with as many as
three blossoms on a stem.
Petitions for formation of a power
district in Spokane county under pro
visions of the district in power act are
being circulated at Spokane. The
grange is leading the movement.
The lives of 3S5 persons were lost
in automobile accidents in Washington
during 1880, according to the report of
William Cole, chief of the state high
way patrol. In 1929 the number was
1872.
Operation of the 44-hour week in the
postal service will cut Saturday after
noon service at Yakima and necessi-
tated the addition of several substi.
tute employees, Postmaster H. L. Leep.
er announced.
The Washington Savings & Loan
league has offered a reward of $1,000
for the arrest and conviction of any.
one circulating false statements con-
corning any savings and loan associa.
ton in the state.
Tomato growers of the Walla Walla
valley furnished work recently OF
planting million and half seed.
lings. Most of the crop is handled by
the Freewater Tomato Growers Co.
operative association.
Nearly 100 jobless men recently
marched to the Yakima county court.
house and the chamber of commerce
office to show resentment at the state.
ment Of county officials that there is
plenty of work at Yakima.
Walter Liebe, 40, made the mistake
Of calling at the residence of Chief
of Police Cresap of Vancouver, asking
for a handout. He was taken to the
police station where he was found to
have $4454 on his person.
A simple ceremony in planting a
Washington oak to commemorate the
2O0th anniversary of the birth of
George Washington marked the open.
ing of the diocesan conference OF