White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-02-04
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

Eggs-Ranch, 12@14c.
Cattle Steers, good, $5.35@5.75.
Hogs to choice, $425@5.
Lambs-Good to choice, S4.50@5.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
hard winter, Soc; northern spring, Gle;
western red, 5sc; bluestem, 73c.
Butterfat-23c.
Eggs-Ranch, 12@16c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $5.25@575.
Hogs-Good to choice, s5@5.1O.
Lambs Choice, $4@4.5O.
Spokane
Cattle Steers, good, s5.5O@5.75.
Hogs-Good to choice, $46O@475.
Medium to good, $3.5O@450
The annual convention of the Wash.
ington Wool Growers association was
held in Yakima last week.
Painting on sidewalk in Mount
Vernon, Henry Handy, As, fell into
the street under the wheels of a pass.
ing truck and was injured fatally.
The Crown Willamette Paper com.
pany headquarters camp will begin to
operate about February 10, according
to E. Stamm, superintendent of log,
ging.
The Carlisle Lumber company has
resumed operations at it's logging
camp near Onalaska. Two sides are
being worked, with about 80 men EN-.
ployed.
4 Work has been resumed at Wilson
Brothers mill in Aberdeen, closed for
the past several months. About $50
men were given work, all former EN-.
ployes.
Estimates made by Seattle exporters
and steamship operators show that
100000 boxes of apples will move
through Seattle for Europe by Febru.
airy rs.
Apparently suffocated by gas, Mrs.
Ella w. Turner, Is, bedfast invalid,
and Mrs. Una S. Graves, 60, her nurse.
were found dead in the Turner home
in Spokane.
Teachers and other school district
employees of Cathlamet have voluntar.
lily taken 10 per cent cut in salaries
for the rest of the school year. This
will effect a saving of about $3.50 a
President M Lee Spencer OF the
University of Washington says he will
accept a salary cut if regents of the
university reduce faculty salaries in
April. He is now receiving $4,000
per year.
The city commission Of Wenatchee
is faced with housing problem. The
new 100000 Jail is nearly completed
but there are no prisoners to occupy
it. 1t will be closed until business
gets better.
Olympia's city government is func
tioning under new mayor, q. N.
Steele, former city commissioner.
Steele was chosen by other commits.
sioners to succeed George Mills, who
died recently.
George Schlenker and H. j. Helm,
Seattle butchers, have taken over the
Tillicum fraternity house at the Uni
versity of Washington for the non
payment of a meat bill of $500 alleged
to be overdue.
Operations began last week in the
second cannery established on Willapa
harbor for the canning OF steamed Pa
cific oysters. The plant has been es
tablisheJ at the Willapoint headquar
tiers at Bay Center.
The ruling of the federal Indian de.
partment that Yakima reservation
lessees cannot go on bonds for other
lessees was protested at meeting OF
Toppenish,' Wapato and Yakima resi-
dents and reservation ranchers.
Divorce was blamed for SO per cent
Of crime by Garfield Davis, state pa
role officer, in an address to the Wash
ington Prison association at Seattle
Over half OF the violators of Ne Law
were thrown upon their own resources
in childhood through marital differ
ences Of their parents, he asserted.
Despite sharp drop in the number
of students at the Walla Walla high
school the total enrolment is still
greater than that of one year ago. Tho
total is 100. More girls than boys
have dropped out of school, an unusual
record.
A new use for quarantine cards has
been found at Wenatchee. Families
unable to pay rent have asked ths
health officer to leave the cards OIL
their homes after everyone has recov
cred. hoping that the landloard will