White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-01-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

1 d,
$3.50; eastern Oregon timothy. $3.50
$40; clover, IA; oat hay, $14; oats and
vetch, $13.5O@14.
Butterfat-
Eggs-Ranch, 14@24c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $8.75@9.15.
Hogs-Good to choice, $9.25@9.50. I
Lambs-Good to choice, S6.50@7.0 90.
| Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
66c; northern spring, hard winter.
western red, 64c; bluestem, CSC.
Eggs-Ranch, 12@24c.
Butterfat-29c.
Cattle-Choice steers, $7.50@8.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $9.50@9.65.
Lambs-Choice, $6.5O@7.
Spokane
Cattle-steers, good, $7.5O@s.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $500.
Lambs-Medium to good, $500.
Neil Masterman Of Route 4 near
Yakima, bagged wild goose that car.
ried a Fairbanks. Alaska, tag.
Five new county roads were ordered
established at meeting Of the Lewis
county commissioners in Chehalis.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. Roswell observed
their seth wedding anniversary at
Kelso with four generations in atten.
dance.
]. W. Bayley, former merchant at
Fruitland, has begun the development
of the first commercial game farm in
Stevens county.
Ronald Hooper, "a, organist, and
Miss Gladys Leslie, 20, elocutionist,
were married in a funeral chapel at
a cemetery in Seattle.
All former records for mail handled
through the Kelso postoffice at Christ
mas were broken this year, according
to Postmaster Maurer.
Bids were opened at Okanogan by
county commissioners January Z for
the construction Of portion of the
Oroville east lateral highway.
A small broom factory was opened
recently in Bingen by Eugene Lewis.
Local gardeners and farmers already
have become interested in raising
| broom straw.
| Sallie Wahkiakus, 105, last descend.
ant of the tribe of Klickitat Indians,
has gone to the happy hunting
grounds. Death came to her at her
home in Wahkiakus.
Efforts to obtain state appropria-
ton of $4,000 for pest control will be
made at the coming session of the
legislature by the Washington State
Farm Bureau federation.
Peter Pickton celebrated his Tooth
birthday in the Masonic home at Zen.
it'll recently. Masons from Tacoma
gave him party. P:ckton, who has
been a Mason for IS years, came from
Fargo, N. d.
John Annonen, one Of the best.
known poultrymen of the Winlock dis.
trict, was reelected president Of the
local branch Of the Washington Co
operative Egg and Poultry association
at it's annual meeting.
Snoqualmie pass is open to vehicu.
lar traffic, Samuel ]. Humes, director
Of highways for Washington, has an
nounced. "Snoqualmie pass has been
open all year, is open now, and will be
kept open all winter" he said.
Potato growers of the Yakima val
ley will hold mass meeting at Yaki
ma to consider proposal to ask the
railroads to place the district on 6
parity with Idaho in the matter OIL
freight rates to the east as an emer
gency measure.
The Blue Lumber company has
started construction of sawmill al
Tenino that will replace a plant re
Gently destroyed by fire. The new
mill will specialize in ties. Logs will
be secured from scattered timber
tracts in the district.
Gas forming in the furnace of the
Commercial hotel at Vader resulted
in an explosion. The furnace chin
ney was cracked from top to bottom
and portion of the furnace was
blown away. A new oil heater hat
been recently installed.
A decided increase in the acreag,
of cranberries in the Grayland distric
is reported. The excellence Of Pacifi
county cranberries is winning a mucl
wider and larger market, which JUST
fies growers in that section in expand
ing.
II Mrs. Lucy Weeahinchah an old