White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-01-21
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS


Cattle-Steers, good, $5.50@6.
Hogs-Good to choice, s4.65@525.
Lambs-Good to choice, $450@5.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
western red, Gle; hard winter, north.
ern spring, &c; bluestem, 74c.
Estterfat-23c.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@19c.
Cattle-St good, $575@6.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5.15@5.25.
Lambs-Choice, $4@4.5O.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, S5.50@6.
Hogs-Good to choice, $500.
Lambs-Medium to good, $3.50@4.50
The state highway department last
week began placing 5000 yards of gray.
ell on the new Raymond Aberdeen
highway.
Mrs. Mary B. Dickinson died at her
home in Aberdeen recently. She had
celebrated her Tooth birthday anniver-
sary last June Is.
Although there was slight decline
in postal receipts at Chehalis for 1881,
the office remains in the first class,
with a total of $4O,O65.S4, $4,000 be-
ing required.
The Endicott Wheat Growers, Inc,
had a good year and has declared
20 per cent dividend, which will be ap-
piled on notes given by the farmers
in the corporation.
Washington democrats will hold
their state convention at Tacoma Feb
ruary G.. Edward w. Robertson, Spo-
kane, will be temporary chairman and
will deliver the keynote address.
Officers and enlisted men of the 18th
regiment, stationed at Vancouver bar
racks, Colonel Dwight d. Ryther in
command, celebrated the 134th ami
versary of its organization last week.
Sprague Grain Growers, Inc, local
unit of the North Pacific Grain Grow
ers, has mailed to members dividend
checks for half a cent bushel on
wheat sold through the organization.
Andrew German of Cathlamet has
been fined IS for the Instruction of a
number of young trees planted re-
Gently by the Cathlamet Woman's club
in honor of the Washington bi-centen.
NAL.
A sale of timber estimated at 2,O0O,-
900 feet is announced by Supervisor
Harris Of the Chelan national forest
to the Fender Box & Lumber COM
pany of Mazama. The timber will be
logged this winter.
The Bank Of Bickleton has CONSOLE
dated with the Community State bank
at Mabton, leaving only two banks in
Klickitat county. There were nine
banks six years ago. The number has
been reduced by mergers.
A representative of the farm board
Is on the way to Wenatchee from
Washington to make a survey Of the
fruit industry, which is preparing to
ask the federal government for aid in
financing the coming crop.
Grain dealers of the Inland Empire
estimate that they have lost $780,
900 in freight rate savings by the de-
cision of the supreme court setting
aside lower rates ordered by the inter-
state commerce commission.
Whitman county highway work in
1881 included the improvement of Ga
miles of county road in addition to
state highway work. The total cost
Of construction was $1s1,95 of which
$4,000 came from the lateral highway
fund.
Yakima valley fruit men January /
had in storage S041 carloads of apples
and had sold 5105 carloads, according
to figures released by A. H. Landes,
president of the Yakima Valley Traf-
fic and Credit association. The stor-
age figure represents a trifle more
than 81 per cent of the total market
able crop. An increase of 1913 per
cent over the storage year ago.
County road employees have had
their wages reduced by about rs per
cent by the commissioners of Okan-
ogan county. The action was forced
by 2-mill slash in road tax levies.
Common labor will be paid 30 cents
per hour.
That Idaho's new "gin marriage"
law is causing many couples to pat
ronize county seat auditors in eastern
Washington seems to be proved by the
records at Davenport. In 1881, 144 H.
censes were issued as compared with
LIE in $780,