White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-02-12

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spring, 64c.
Eggs-Ranch, 12@1Sc.
Butterfat-30c.
Cattle-Choice steers, $775@S.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.65@S.75.
Lambs-C Choice, $6.50@7.25.
Spokane
Steers, good, s6.75@7.25.
Good to choice, $3.50.
| Lambs-Medium to good, $5.5O@6.50
Winlock's newly completed theater,
Roxy, was dedicated recently, there
being a packed house. for the opening
performance.
Il. o. Albers Of Chehalis has been
awarded the contract to lay 1900
feet of castiron water mains for the
city on the west side.
George Berg, Kelso contractor, must
serve 60 days in the jail that he built.
Judge Kirby sentenced Berg on q
drunken driving charge.
The ex-Skykomish bridge, recent
ly washed out by turbulent flood wat.
ers, was opened for travel, following
emergency repairs by highway crews.
The Walla Walla Valley Merchants
association has announced that almost
all of its members have agreed to
adopt the uniform 30-day credit plan.
At cost of s19,41O, ten miles of
drainage canals have been completed
in the Wapato irrigation district in the
1880 season, L. M. Holt, supervisor
reported.
Reduction of water assessment rates
on class B lands in the Wapato PRO
ject will become effective this sea-
son. Water users will pay 60 instead
OF 20 cents an acre.
The first annual rabbit show spon.
sored by the Snohomish County Rab-
bit Breeders association was held
with more than 200 entries from points
throughout the northwest.
Aroused by IL traffic deaths dur.
ing the first "a days of the year, Mayor
Edwards of Seattle has appointed
traffic safety COMMITTEES of prominent
citizens to devise means Of reducing
automobile accidents.
Mrs. Harvey Schroeder, e.. of Shell
ton, was killed instantly near Schneid.
ers prairie, Is miles south Of Shelton.
when an automobile driven by How.
ard Conklin, H., struck her as she was
watching her husband repair tire on
their car, parked beside the highway.
Dedication services for the newly
completed First Congregational church
was held at Walla Walla recently. DIR.
Lucius o. Baird of Seattle, state SUI
perintendent, preached the dedication
sermon and DR.. S. B. L. Penrose of
Whitman college gave the dedicatory
prayer.
Gov. Roland Hartley and Highway
Supervisor Samuel ]. Humes will take
part In the opening of the new 100000
bridge across the Yakima river at
Prossar. Though no date has been
set for the opening it is presumed 1t
will be the latter part of March or
early in April.
The Winlock Cooperative Cream.
cry reelected it's officers for the com.
ing year at the annual meeting held
recently. The organization has I'll
members and its affairs are in excel.
lent condition. There was large at
tendance of stockholders at the an.
nual meeting.
A hair cut and shave for musk.
rat hide was r. G. Rakestraw's latest
trade in his barber shop at Winthrop,
near Wenatchee. Rakestraw said
business has been good since he start
ed to exchange his services for butter,
milk, potatoes and meat from ranch.
ers in the district.
The gauge at the pumping plant at
Coyote rapids shows that the Colum.
bia river is at the lowest stage since
the gauge was established. over 20
years ago. There is no ice along the
shores below Priest rapids.
Hundreds of boxes of smelt are be,
ing dipped from the Cowlitz river near
Longview as the annual spring run,
arriving earlier than usual, gets into
full swing. Scores of commercial
fishermen are operating boats night
and day to reap the harvest from the
silvery horde.