White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS

Cattle-ChOice steers, $0.50@6.
Lambs-Good to choice, $5.75@6.35.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
northern spring, 5Sc; hard winter,
western red, SEC; bluestem, soc.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@16c.
Butterfat-Pound 22c.
Hogs-Good to choice, s5.10@5.25.
Cattle-Choice steers, $5.25@6.
Sheep-Choice lambs, $5.50@6.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $525@5.S5.
Hogs-Good to choice, S4.60@4.75.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.50@5.
Joe Post, 80 years Of age, was smoth.
cred to death when load Of hay tip
ped over on him in pasture near
Lowden.
Reductions in power rates are de-
manded by the Okanogan County Pow
er Users association, of the Washing
ton Power company.
Fire did $4,000 damage at Asotin last
week when the city hall, the Getty ice
plant and vacant residence burned,
menacing the courthouse.
Okanogan county school directors
have appointed committee on taxa
ton to study means that would relieve
the tax burden on real property.
The population Of the state prison
at Walla Walla again set new high
ecord last week with total of 1910
prisoners, Warden Clarence Long an
nounced.
AS temporary relief measure a
voluntary rs per cent reduction in the
carpenter wage scale will be put into
effect at Wenatchee. The new scale
will be Is cents per hour.
W. G.. Foster, pioneer Of the upper
Chehalis valley near Wildwood, recent
ly celebrated the 50th anniversary of
the location of Mrs. Foster and him.
self on their present home property.
At a meeting of the Washougal unit
Of the Dairy Cooperative association
speakers were optimistic and said that
dairymen are receiving more money
for their milk than they did a year
ago.
Over the protest of Mayor Mooney
the city commissioners of Wenatchee
have voted to buy road grader for
$4,000 for the city street department.
Mooney opposed on the ground Of econ
omy.
Determined, if possible, to operate
through the season with both day and
night shifts, the Cascade Lumber COM
pany Of Yakima put on second crew
at it's mill, increasing the payroll to
400 men.
The Pea Growers association met at
Longview recently and members of the
association from each district elected
representatives to the board of direc-
tors. About 80 growers attended the
meeting.
Hoquiam's death rate the past year
was the lowest of any city in the state,
official federal figures disclose. Aber.
deem was the second low with a rate
Of 9.3 per cent. Hoquiam had rate
Of 8.6 per cent.
Washington is credited with having
taken one Of the greatest strides in
water power development during 1880.
81, climbing from fifth to third state
In the Union in the amount Of horse
power generated.
DR.. Walter Farnham, pioneer ply.
sician of the Palouse district, is dead.
He was known all over the Pa1ouse
country, having settled there 35 years
ago. He was born at Ashland, Or,
December 5, 1868.
Bids on two state road paving jobs
and an approach to the George Wash.
ington Memorial bridge in Seattle will
be opened at Olympia, April 1. The
paving jobs are four miles on the In
land Empire highway in Spokane
county and 8.5 miles on the Sunset
highway west OF Fall City, in King
county.
The Inland Empire Fat Stock show
was held at Old Union Stock yards
in Spokane last week. A feature Of
the show was the annual sale of pure
bred shorthorns. Carl Greif of Union.
town was manager Of the shorthorn
sale.
An Initiative to repeal the tax of Is
cents pound on butter substitutes
passed by the 1881 legislature was
filed in Olympia by William Laube,
Seattle attorney, acting for John A.
McGregor, manager OF a Seattle i'm,
porting firm.