White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-15
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, 621ac; soft white and western
white, 47c; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 46c.
Hay-Buying price. I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $14@14.5O: valley timothy
$15@15.5O; eastern Oregon timothy
$1S@1S.5O; clover, Sill; oat hay, Sill;
oats and vetch, $1O@10.50.
Butterfat-27@29c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16@27c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $6.OO@6.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5.75@6.5O.
Lambs-Good to choice, $5@5.25.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
western red, 4Sc; hard winter, north.
ern spring, 49c; bluestem, Gle.
Butterfat-32c.
Eggs-Ranch, 17@34c.
Cattle-Choice steers, $6@65O.
Hogs-Good to choice, $6.50@6.75.
Lambs-C Choice, $5@5.75.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $5.50@6.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5.25@5.50.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4@4.75.
Traffic on the Aberdeen to Westport
road has been resumed with installa.
ton of new steel bridge across
Johns river.
Senator Wesley L. Jones said that
Aberdeen soon is to get new federal
building, for which money has been
appropriated.
Yakima valley exhibitors took II
premiums in the egg display at the
western Washington fair at Puyallup
out of possible % prizes.
Organization of cooperative berry
growers association for all Of Cowlitz
county was discussed at a meeting of
growers at Kalama last week.
Mrs. w. T. Saunders gathered big,
luscious raspberries from her garden
In Kelso last week. She says that
they were Of exceptionally good flavor.
Precipitation for September was 1923
inches on Grays harbor. Normal is
424 inches. The highest temperature
was "a degrees and the lowest SO de-
grees.
!. Receipts Of the Yakima postoffice
for September from postage, handling
Of newspapers and permit matter to-
tailed $15,65O. In September, 1880, the
total was $16,396.
The Young Mems Democratic club
of Seattle has adopted resolution
opposing Walla Walla as the meeting
place Of the 1882 state convention be-
cause the city is too distant from Sc.
attic.
has voted to send delegation to meet
with the Lincoln county commission
ers at the annual budget hearing and
demand a substantial reduction in
taxes.
The highway department has grant
ed a franchise to the Interstate Tele-
phone company in Douglas county to
construct line along portion of
state road No. 10, between Chelan and
Okanogan.
Tax reductions totaling $46,761 have
been made by the directors of 81
school districts in Walla Walla county
outside Of Walla Walla, according to
Miss Fannie Dunwoodie, county school
superintendent.
With $4,000 people participating the
1881 apple harvest in the Wenatchee
district is in full swing. The season,
which runs about As days, will result
In the distribution of $1,S00,000 in sal
aries and wages.
Mrs. T. r. McCouch, Longview, was
painfully injured there recently when
she was trampled in bargain sale
rush at local closing-out sale. She
was at the Longview Memorial hospi-
al with back injuries.
Payment of outstanding warrants
has been suspended by County Treas
lrer Pender of Clark county as the
current expense fund is exhausted and
10 relief in sight until second-half
axes begin coming in.
The Kennewick Flour mills is one
If the mills of the northwest to assist
n converting 100000 bushels of
wheat into flour for the relief Of flood
ufferers in China, as proposed by the
train Sterilization corporation. The
mill will grind 1900 barrels for the
chinese trade.