White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-31

Wenatchee region this fall, the in
dustry is faced with serious short
age of apple boxes. A 22,000-car crop
will require 100000 boxes, or co.
100000 feet of lumber.
Magpies are worth more dead than
alive at Walla Walla. Until June Is
the county game commission will pay
10 cents each for old birds, cents
each for young birds and eggs. Cash
prizes will also be given those who
kill and bring in the most.
An oddly of nature is revealed at
the e. J. Boiling ranch near Elma,
where a double lamb was born recent
ly. The creature has two mouths, four
ears and three eyes. The bodies were
free and seemingly perfect, only the
heads having grown together.
Joseph M. Zaharis, state highway
department inspector, was run over
and killed by gravel truck while
checking gravel on the North Bank
highway near Wishram. The rear
wheels of the truck passed over the
upper part of his body.
The retail trade committee of the
Centralia Chamber of Commerce was
host last week to several hundred boys
and girls at an Easter egg hunt. One
thousand egg were hidden on what is
known as the Nudd tract on North
Pearl Street. Four hundred of the eggs
had cash value.
Spring blowing has started in sew
eral sections of the Walla Walla farm
ing area The general outlook Of gen.
eral farming conditions is favorable.
The moisture in the sol is greater
than for number Of years and the
growing grain has come through the
winter in good shape.
Preferred stock certificates totaling
S64O5 were received last week by men,
bers of the Centralia branch Of the
Washington Cooperative Egg and
Poultry association, representing re-
bates on feed purchases during 1881.
Winlock members received $2S,359.
The total rebate in the state was $685.
62S.
Lambing has been in progress in the
Kennewick section for about two
weeks and some CT the larger herd
owners expect it to last until about the
middle of April. The yield is some
what above average with lambs in
fine condition. Flock owners expect
higher prices in 1882 for wool and
mutton.
A band of 200 ewes, becoming mired
in the mud about three miles north OF
Sunnyside, could not be driven out by
the herder. After some had killed
themselves, the others had to be shot.
County Commissioner r. j. Core, In re-
porting the event, said the animals
tramped into the mud before tho
herder realized it..
| A blow was struck at unemployment
n the Kelso section with the announce
ment that so men would be employed
at Lake Merwin, at Ariel, immediate
ly to get out logs. The logs, which
were felled when the reservoir for the
Ariel dam was cleared, will be trucked
through Woodland to the Columbia
river, where they will be RATED.
Mrs. Rachel Hewitt, "a, Washington
state pioneer and direct descendant OF
two illustrious American families, died
at the family home in Hoquiam follow
ing long illness. Mrs. Hewitt was
descendant of David Crockett, hero Of
the Alamo, and Of Kit Carson, hunter,
trapper and Civil war hero. She had
lived in the state for more than 40
years.
With reports showing red cedar
single mills of Oregon, Washington
and British Columbia gained 10 per
cent in production for the first quarter
of 1882 as compared to the similar
period of 1881. the red cedar single
bureau, meeting in Seattle recently,
made plans for giving customers
single roof guarantee or form of in
surance.
Business reversals have had one
good effect, according to Land Com
missioner Clark Savidge, the sending
of many people back to farming. Ac-
cording to Savidge, IL all citizens are
buying and renting farm lands from
commercial real estate dealers with
the same enthusiasm they are apply
ing for state lands,~a real back to the
farm" movement is under way in
Washington.
Longview mice have expensive
tastes, as Paul Oliver has discovered
at a cost of $50 in currency. Oliver
had $40 carefully tucked away in
ha akat-fhe sim representinp his saw.