White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-11-05

Hogs-GoOd to choice, 20.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4@4.50.
Seven carloads of beef cattle are be-
ing driven in from Mount Adam ranges
to the shipping point at Lyle for the
Portland market.
Water department workers have
been constructing revetments along
Mill creek in Walla Walla to protect
the city from flood.
An eagle, which was carrying away
a pig, was shot by Glenn Follett near
Walla Walla. The bird had wing
spread Of Z feet inches.
Plans for making 100000 available
for relief work for unemployed have
been approved by the Seattle city
council finance committee.
Expenditures upon Clark county's
highway system in 1882 are estimated
at $4,000. This sum is slightly more
than $4,000 less than in 1881.
Poultry schools for Cowlitz county
will be held at Woodland and Kelso
November 13 and IA, County Agent
Claude Anderson has announced.
Oiling of 81 miles on the new
Matches Pass highway has been com
p1eted. The new highway gives Yaki
ma motorists road 148 miles long to
Tacoma.
Whitman college fraternities and
sororities are taking active steps to
reduce social expenditures, in the face
of depression. Dance costs will be cut
materially.
The consolidated tax levy for ColfaA
in 1882 will be COS mills, including 81
mills for county, Is mills for schools
10.5 mills for state and 1873 mills for
city expense.
Hubert Niccols, IL, was convicted
at Asotin Of murder in the first de
gree for the Staying Of Sheriff John
Wormell, and the jurors recommended
life imprisonment. :.
The Stevenson chamber Of com
MERGE road celebration was held re-
Gently. Governor Hartley, State High.
way Director Humes and other speak
arc uoro procant
Wesley l.. Vandercook, Longview,
was reelected president Of the South
west Good Roads association at the
organizations annual meeting held in
Olympia last week.
Yakima's welfare federation has set
its community chest drive figure at
$47,393. This is 5000 less than last
year. 1t shows an increase, however,
Of $4,000 for charitable work.
Lowlands were under water, streams
were transformed into torrents, streets
and Easements were flooded and slides
caused some damage as a result of O
storm which dashed Grays harbor last
week.
w. S. Starr, proprietor Of the Column
bia inn near Ridgefield, picked nam.
moth sunflower bloom in his back
yard which has a diameter of is inches
and tips the scales at nine pounds and
10 ounces.
According to the September report
Of Charles Anderson, tester of the
Clark County Cow Testing association,
total of 765 COWS were tested during
the 30-day period, 200 of which pro-
duced over 80 pounds Of butterfat.
Sixtyfour cows produced more than
40 pounds during the month, Is over
so pounds and two over 60 pounds.
Applications for 1892 flat rate auto
mobile licenses are coming in slowly
and the county auditors throughout
the state urge motorists to apply now
and avoid the inevitable rush after
December /, when licenses must be
obtained.
Ten cows of the Cowlitz County
Dairy Herd Improvement association
averaged more than so pounds of but.
terfat a month for the first eight
months of the testing year, the report
Of H. H. Laudermilk, tester. for Sep
TENDER. shows.