White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-02-11


Hogs-Good to choice, $500.
Lambs-Good, $3.5O@4.75.
The M. B. Lyle logging camp neal
Ocosta resumed operations last week
Hugh Mckuen, age los, pioneer res
ident of Winona and veteran Of the
Indian wars, died in Colfax recently
The Walla Walla chamber Of com
merce celebrated it's 5Oth birthday
last week with a home products din
ner.
George w. Bowen, aged Kelso shoe
maker and violin maker, for the sixth
successive year received Cowlitz coun
ty tax receipt No. 1.
Officers of Douglas county have sub
mitted records to show that expenses
of county government last year were
held 80 per cent under the budget.
The charter of the G. A. r. post at
Colville was formally surrendered
February 8. There are no living mem
bers. The last one to go was G. w
Dexter.
An ordinance intended to stop the
peddling of bakery products from door
to door has been adopted by the city
of Walla Walla. A previous ordinance
was found to have loopholes.
s The finance committee of Univer
sity of Washington student board OF
control announces saving OF $lO,S65
through a complete revision of the
student publications contracts.
The state is improving stretch OF
the Evergreen highway on the Lyle
hill, known as the switchback. Local
men have been employed and the
county is donating the use of machin
cry.
More than $500 families have been
placed on farms in the state during
the past year through activities oil
the State Chamber of Commerce, &C
cording to III. ]. Gille, chairman of the
land utilization committee.
Three per cent of all county game
funds henceforth will go into fund
with which to "sell wild life to the
state at large" This decision was
made at the recent convention Of
county game commissioners.
Beginning February the Yakima
Canyon highway will be closed tc
travel each night from 1 to a. m. fol
a period of two months. This is to
facilitate blasting being done to i'm
prove the road for pavement.
Indians involved in an Ahtanum
creek water dispute have decided tt
call general council Of all Yakima
reservation sub-chiefs and elders ant
carry on a fight to see that treaty
rights are not set aside by congress
The Washington Gas & Electric com
pany, operating public utilities III
Longview, recently announced re
duction in residential lighting rates
which will benefit the small user o.
electricity. This is the second reduc
ton made by the company within {
year.
Want to buy some Jail cells? Lewis
county commissioners, who are hav
ing the old courthouse building il
Chehalis wrecked, are advertising jai
cells, brick, lumber, vault doors ant
long list of other salvage for sale
at bargain prices. Demolition Of the
three-story building is well along to
ward completion, the work havins
been apportioned out in the way O
charity jobs to the unemployed in var
ious parts Of the county.
Three smaller Tacoma banks dis
continued business recently, the as
sets to be liquidated for the benefit o
depositors. They are the Washington
National bank, the Central bank ant
the Lincoln bank, the two latter beini
neighborhood institutions.
Arrangements are being made t.
dedicate the new Madame Doriol
bridge across the Walla Walla rive
near Wallula early in April. MADAME
Dorion was the Indian wife of Pierr
Dorfon, Interpreter and guide for tn
Astog overland party in 1911