White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-29

Lambs-C Choice, $6.50@7.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $750@S.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.65.
Lambs Medium to good,$5@6.
The Cowlitz county commissioners
took action recently to have an 49,
bed addition constructed at the coun.
ty hospital.
The Lincoln county game commits
sion is offering a bounty of 10 cents
a head for magpies killed in that coun
ty until February %.
Two crews have gone to work on
the extension of the north Quinault
road and on trail construction in the
Olympic national forest.
The town Of Woodland has control
Of the Cowlitz county fair grounds at
Woodland for the next so years under
a lease from the county.
Fire in Seattle destroyed the Rain
Ter Furniture plant and spread to
smaller structures across the street.
Damage totaled about 100000.
Delegations from II towns and COM
munities in the southwestern part OF
the state have launched a movement
to organize grange power district.
Aberdeen's first convention of 1881
was held when exalted rulers and Sec
retaries of the Washington State Elks'
association held midwinter conclave.
The opening of the 25-mile highway
from Raymond to Aberdeen has been
hard on deer. Several automobiles
have been wrecked by surprised ami
mails.
Clemens Logging company of Mel
bourne, southwest of Montesano, has
reopened two of it's camps after hav-
ing been shut down since late in De-
cember.
Considering that Yakima is town
of 22,10O population, its retail business
for 1880 of $23,2SS,3OS is a fine show
ing, the per capita business being
notably large.
The city commission of Chehalis
has called for bids for laying 1000
feet of cast iron water mains to re-
place worn out wooden mains on the
west side of the city.
Over ESQ Washington state sheep
men, with several national leaders,
were in Yakima recently for the an
nual convention Of the Washington
Wool Growers association.
There are 224 retail stores in Olym-
pia, which did business of S9,311 $3.50
in 1880, and these stores gave full
time employment to us persons, with
a total payroll of $1,024,37S.
About $50 attended the third annual
sheep conference held in Chehalis re-
Gently. Lewis, Pacific, Grays Harbor,
Mason, Thurston, Clark and Pierce
counties were well represented.
All business institutions in Yakima
will be requested to furnish one days
work weekly for the next six weeks
to jobless men and women in an eff.
fort to relieve the unemployment sit
uation.
Work is expected to start early this
spring on closing the gap in the hills
bordering the Gle Elum river ten miles
above that city. Tens Of thousands
of cubic yards of earth and rocks
costing approximately s3,500,OOO in
construction outlay, will create a huge
dam, behind which will pile up the
waters Of an artificial lake sufficient
to irrigate 100000 acres in the Yakt
ma, Rosa and Kennewick units.
Fire Of undetermined origin de.
stroyed several business buildings al
Mossyrock in central Lewis county, 80
miles southeast of Chehalis, on Klicki
tat Prairie. The loss will total $4,000
partially insured.
Jesse, Martin Hit, state librarian
since 1908, is dead at his home in
Olympia at the age of IS years. Hit
came to Washington in 1889 and
taught school at Bellingham. Later
he was elected superintendent of the
Whatcom and Jefferson county
schools.