White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-09-17

Lambs Choice. s5@5.75.
Spokane
Cattle-steers, good, s7@7.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $6.25.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4.75@5..
One hundred per cent examinations
Of Fortyfold wheat in five days is the
remarkable result attained by H. Q.
Doepke at Fairfield.
The Long Beach chamber OF COM
merce has gone on record in favor OF
the Knappton-M Mills hill route for the
Ocean Beach highway.
Two unmasked men slugged a girl
assistant cashier unconscious with q
gun and robbed the Pennington State
bank Of approximately 5000.
Wholesale thefts of automatic pis-
tolls in raids on two state armories
have been revealed by Adjutant Cen
eral Thompson of the national guard.
Mint distilling on Puget island is
now at it's height in spite of drop
In the price of the oil to $1.10 per
pound. The oil is running extremely
heavy.
Property owners in the west side Of
Omak will be asked to vote on $45,-
900 bond issue for municipal sewer
system before any action is taken by
the council.
Registration at the University OF
Washington will be held open in the
larger colleges until September 20.
With 1900 students already registered
total of 1000 is expected.
Although authorized by voters to
use. an extra levy of mills the Pull
man school board will ask only for
levy of mills. The board thinks this
will be appreciated by the taxpayers.
With steam shovel and pumps pre-
parations are being made to work the
bed Of the Similkameen river in north
ern Okanogan county, for the gold it
contains. Operations will be started
soon.
The United Bulb company Of Mount
Clemens, Mich, which owns farm
near Woodland, has completed ship
ment of nine carloads of bulbs, part
of the bulb crop grown on the place
this year.
At cost of between s65,000 and
$4,000 the city Of Wishkah water
system pipe replacement job will be-
completed this month. The funds to.
defray the cost were taken from water
department earnings.
Improvement of the county roads:
lying between the Kalama and Lewis.
rivers in Cowlitz county is in prospect
for 1882. There is available 100000
in state money in the permanent and
lateral highway funds.
An attractive feature Of the Labor
day weekend at Long Beach was a.
free Sunday oyster dinner served at
the Willapa Bay Oyster company's-
plant on the Peninsula highway, 6.
miles north of Long Beech.
The Fourth clubs in the Orchards,
Hockinson and West Mill Plain dis
tricts will try out the idea of juven-
lie fair at the Orchards school Sep
TENDER 26, which will be the first Of
Its kind ever held in Clark county.
For the first time in years it will be
necessary for the Johnson public
school to vote an extra levy for school
purposes and the levy will be lowered
3 mills. The reason is continued In
crease of enrolment of non-resldese
high school pupils, who pay tuition
fees.
That lone will have bridge across
the Pend Oreille river is assured defin-
itely by the board Of county commits
sioners, who will use farm-to-market
road funds. The estimated cost of the
bridge Is $4,000. 1t will take the
place of ferry.
The Vader Chamber of Commerce is
on record as opposed to the proposed
6-mill cut in the road tax levy advo.
Gated by the Lewis County Tax league
committee. The present levy is 10
mills and the tax league has proposed
q reduction to mills.