White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-09
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS


THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem. hard
winter, es1ac; soft white and western
white, 5s1zc; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 56Ac.
Hay-Buying prices. t. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $14.
Butterfat-Pou 13@15c.
Eggs-Ranch, 13@14c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.90@4.10.
Cattle-Choice steers, s6.O0@6.50
thanksgiving, $4.oO@4.50.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
N'hard winter, SEC; western red, 55c;
northern spring, SIC; bluestem, &c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16@1Sc.
Butterfat-Pound Ice.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4@4.20.
Catt1e-Choice steers, $6@6.50.
Sheep-Spring lambs, $4@4.50.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, s6.00@6.50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.65@3.75.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.00@4.5O.
Summer school at Cheney normal
school opened for enrolment last
week.
The Washougal Wooden Mills closed
Cor an indefinite period, throwing ap-
proximately $50 men and women out
of work.
Waino Talso, %, is home at Aber-
deem after making four trips around
the world in the Dollar liner Presi-
dent Van Buren,.
Commercial fishing in the Column
bia river near Kelso is virtually sus-
pended at present due to the high
water in the Columbia.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Spuler were
drowned in Lake Wenatchee when a
small motorboat in which they were
riding capsized in storm.
A statewide apple grade and pack
conference will be held at Wenatchee,
July 8. The conference is to consider
the elimination of G grades and small
apples.
II, nh, Vol
notified that the Tieton Hardware
company's store at Tieton was rob-
bed and large quantity of merchan-
disc taken.
Cash prizes. for the best canned
strawberries, preserves or jam will
be offered by the Vancouver Cham
Der of Commerce in strawberry can
ning contest.
Violet Caddy, 17-year-old high
school student of Bellingham, suffer
ed broken neck when she dived into
Bellingham bay while swimming with
party of friends.
The Charleston Chamber OF Com
merce has declared for an extra ses-
sion OF the legislature to provide for
hand labor on highways to relieve the
unemployment situation.
Walla Walla Grain Growers, Inc,
have increased their capital stock
from $4,000 to $4,000. sixty-five
new members have come into the or.
ganization in the last year.
Residents of the Columbia Heights
district are receiving building lumber
for spring work via Oak Point. A
scowload of lumber was towed to OAK
Point, IL miles west of Longview.
Charles Edward Lambert, 80, form
er president Of Willamette university
at Salem, Ore, and the holder Of pro.
fessorial chairs in several universe.
ties, died at the veterans hospital at
Retsil.
Fears that the Columbia river will
rise to a dangerous height are ex.
ready exceeds the high mark of 1881.
The peak is not expected before the
middle Of June.
Erection of farmers market at
First and Academy streets in Kelso
will be started soon, according to plans
of several oranges of that vicinity.
A building 100 feet long containing
ten stalls is planned.
Grandma Anna Dunlap celebrated
her S5th birthday recently. She came
to Valley 40 years ago, is a charter
member of the Methodist church there
and still teaches Sunday school
class of young people.
While on class picnic, Charlotte,
1S-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.