White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-06-23
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

EggS-RduCH, 1oW14C.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.75@4.00
Cattle-Choice steers, s600@7.0O.
Thanksgiving, $3.75@4.0O.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white. western white,
hard winter, 52Ac; western red, Size;
northern spring, Size; bluestem, 617zo
Eggs-Ranch, 17@1Sc.
Butterfat-Pound 15c.
Hogs-Good to choice, s410@425.
Cattle-Choice steers, $6.OO@625.
,Sheep-Spring lambs, $3.75@410.
Spokane
'Catt1e-Steers, good, s6.O0@650.
Hogs-Good to choice, S3.6O@3.75.
Lambs-Good to choice, s3.5O@4.00
With the numbers of orchard work
ers being increased, unemployment at
Kennewick has taken a decided drop.
The Junior band of Brewster, under
A. w. Ruedi, Omal, gave it's first sum-
mer evening concert in the park last
week.
Lewis county's new rock crushing
plant on Olequa creek short distance
north of Winlock, is now fully equip
ped and operating.
Depositors of the Dryden State bank,
closed last January, received their
first dividends June 16, according to
w. K. Yost, receiver.
e. e. Yarnell has started his saw
mill north Of Chewelah. Twenty men
were put to work for 80 to 120 day
run, according to Mr.. Yarnell.
Twelve-year-old Hazel Lowe of Oak
Point was carried beyond her depth
by the current while swimming in the
Columbia river and was drowned.
The state supreme court has upheld
the legality of the ballot title to the
so-called estate game" initiative meas
ure to be voted on in November.
His neck broken when the car hit
a viaduct, Elwood Zyph, 18, of Ritz
Vile, who was riding in the rumble
seat, was instantly killed last week.
Chief Garry of the Spokane tribe of
Indians, friend Of the white man in
pioneer days, is to be honored by hav-
ing a Spokane park named after him.
The Walla Walla school board has
refused the request of large number
of citizens to reestablish the home
economics department in the high
school.
Mrs. w. 1. Crawford, SO, died last
week at Yakima Of burns received
when grease, spilled over the front of
her dress while she was frying dough
nuts, ignited.
Farmers at Othello are putting up
cheat grass hay. This is the first time
cheat has been converted into hay
in that section. 1t is said to be an
excellent feed.
The cherry harvest has started at
Charleston and soon the Bling, Lambert
and Royal Ann harvest will be on in
full swing. The fruit is reported to
be extra good this year.
City Clerk George A. Allen, 70, of
Medical Lake, who came there 10 years
ago from Valleyford, died last week.
Fox six years he edited the Medical
Lake Enterprise and practiced law.
An airplane pilot, Roy Johnson of
Yakima, and his two passengers re-
ceived fatal injuries when Johnson's
transforming plane went into nose
dive 100 feet in the air near Quincy.
Mrs. Lulu Schwartz of Walla Walla
has been named president and Mrs.
Edith Orsborn of Yakima state warden
for the Rebekah assembly at the state
convention in session at Everett re-
Gently.
If property owners of Walla Walla
do not object too much the city plans
to construct about three blocks of
bulkhead along the north side of Mill
creek, east of Wildwood park, this
summer.
Charles Haines is dead at his home
on Walkers prairie at the age of II
years. He was one Of Stevens coun-
tvs Oldest settlers and has served as
a resident deputy sheriff for more
than 80 years.
Deputy Game Warden Walter Har-
ris reports that $500 pounds of suck
ers were taken from the fish ladder at
the Clearwater river dam recently and
distributed to persons who called for
them. He says that the suckers are
being canned.
When Yeshiko Kasai, 3, put her
head through window of her par
ents' home at McAleer station to re-
trieve bean bag from the roof the