White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-17

Cattle Steers, good, $5.75@6.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5@5.15.
Lambs Choice, $5@6.5O.
Spokane
,Cattle-S Steers, good, $5.50@6.25.
Hogs Good to choice, $5.G5@5.
bs-Medium to good, $4.25@5.25
The fifth annual sheep conference
for southwest Washington counties
was held in Chehalis last week.
Columbia union high school Of
White Salmon defeated Camas high
in the first debate of the season held
in White Salmon.
The Peshastin Mill & Box company
at Wenatchee has announced that it
will employ no women this winter, as
an aid to jobless men.
Spokane's population has increased
494 this year, according to the compil-
alton Of Folks Directory, which shows
that the city has population Of 1885,
752.
The Northwest Mining association
has asked President Hoover to call an
international conference to consider
the establishment of silver for mon
etary uses.
Over 1000 Alaska beaver skins,
seized at Seattle by the government,
were sold at public auction December
16. The skins were valued at more
than $4,000.
Three roughly dressed men entered
the Outlook State bank near Yakima,
bound and gagged Cashier Schroeder
and Frank Stoltys, customer, and
escaped with about $500.
The Wenatchee reclamation district
has announced 81 per acre reduction
in the 1882 assessment. Only $S9,7OO
will be raised next year, of which S49,-
900 will be for bond debt.
Miss Florence Cooper of Walla Wal
La is being treated at hospital for
severe burns received when her combs
caught fire while she was drying her
hair in front of hot stove.
BY voluntarily taking 10 per cent
reduction in wages, members of the
office force of the Sunnyside Valley
irrigation district are helping to re.
duce the burden on water users.
That work will be started OH the
KIM mountain road this winter in
Wahkiakum county was the word re-
ceived in Longview from Samuel ].
Humes, director Of state highways.
The First National bank of Aberdeen
failed to open for business recently,
and it's affairs were taken over by J.
T. Rummel, national bank examiner
for the southwest Washington dis
trict.
Irrigation districts of the state have
no authority to use funds to employ
witnesses or lobbyists before congress
in behalf Of the Columbia Basin prof.
ect, according to an opinion Of the at
torney general.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Van Auken OF
Aberdeen recently harvested Fl fat
potatoes from hill with stalk II
feet high. The vine grew along the
side of the Van Auken house. They
were Multnomahs.
st. Paul's Lutheran church of Win
lock celebrated the 10th anniversary
of it's founding Sunday, December 6.
Festival services began at 1880 A. M.
in the English language, and at 1880
A. M. in German.
A load limit of five tons has been
placed on the Lewis River road by the
commissioners of Cowlitz county. The
limit will apply from the Pacific high
way intersection to the Cowlitz-Ska,
mania county line.
The new 100000 highway between
Ellensburg and Gle Elum has been Of
ficially opened to traffic. The new
road will reduce the distance between
central Washington and Seattle TN
miles and nearly an hour in driving
time.
Because preservation of the Little
Wenatchee river watershed is held es
sential to the supply Of water for irri
cation of the Wenatchee valley Senator
Dill will be asked to take steps to
prevent the sale of timber by the for
est service.