White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-10


Cattle-Steers, good, $5.25@6.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.S5@5.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4@5.
Herman Nelson, So, prominent re-
tired lumberman, died at his home at
Napavine from heart attack. He had
resided in Lewis county Al years.
Three persons escaped death at Ca
mas recently when the 50-foot brick
front Of the Columbia River Truck
company building collapsed without
warning.
Snohomish county Pomona grange
has taken steps to form a countrywide
public utility district under the power
law. 1t will be voted on at the state
election next year.
The Chelan county Pomona grange
has adopted a resolution criticizing
the county commissioners for propos-
ing the use of butter substitutes in in
digent relief rations.
An hour after his four-day siege OF
hiccoughs was ended by the first adj
ministration of sodium amytol, George
Lawrence, "a, Seattle contractor, suf-
fered heart attack and died.
Starting the year with a budget OF
$123,573, Okanogan county faces the
possibility of being $1,000 in the red at
the end of the year. During the first
10 months the county has spent S1O9s-
914.
The receipt of card from Moscow,
Russia, saying his broadcast over his
homemade amateur transmitting set
was heard in the Russian capitol,
elated Harold G. Jones, Kelso, recent
ly.
Billy, 6-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Blake Of Ryderwood, was Sc
verely bitten beneath one eye by a
rat, while sleeping. The boys parents,
awakened by his screams, killed the
rat.
The Washington Water Power COM
pany announces that electric light and
power rates will be reduced in Pull
man, Colfax and Charleston, In Wash
ington, and in Moscow and Lewiston,
in Idaho.
Work of enlarging the laterals on
the Highland irrigation ditch has be-
gun at Kennewick. A crew Of "a men
is employed, with prospects of in
creasing the number to 40 as the work
progresses.
With crash that awakened the en-.
tire town of Pasco, Edgar G. Bigelow,
"a, Varney Air Lines reserve pilot,
plunged to his death at the edge Of
that city in the regular night airmail
plane from Portland.
Three thousand Christmas trees and
ton Of cedar boughs, destined for the
Hawaiian islands, from the northern
part of Cowlitz county, were loaded
on the steamer Dan Hanlon at the
Longview port dock recently.
John S. Baker, financier of Tacoma,
has celebrated his 10th birthday. He
has been resident Of Tacoma so
years, beginning his career as dock
hand. In 1883 he organized one Of
the first baseball teams in the state.
Announcement Of the purchase Of
SIT acres of oyster land in Willapa
bay, north of Nahcotta, by Seattle
concern, was made known recently.
They are planning to invest $4,000 in
buildings and equipment for first
class oyster cannery. The work will
start in the near future.
Glenn e. Mitchell, supervisor Of the
Colville national forest and formerly
assistant supervisor Of the Chelan ma
tional forest, has received notice Of
his transfer to the Siskiyou national
forest with headquarters at Grants
Pass.
Beulah Moody, 16, OF Woodland,
represented the five Pacific northwest
states in the national health contest
for farm girls at Chicago, after win
ming the Washington state title. She
is feet 1 inch tall and weighs 1Os
pounds.