White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-08

Hogs-Good to choice, $3.35@3.50.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4,000.
Eight carloads of Christmas trees
are being loaded at the Oak Harbor
dock for shipment to the eastern and
| southern states.
A fire at the W. H. Murray residence
east Of Cashmere resulted in the loss
of a packing shed and 1900 boxes Of
washed apples all sorted and ready to
pack.
, While John Mark of Yakima and his
family were in Portland, presumably
enjoying Thanksgiving dinner, their
home and all it's contents but the piano
were burned.
Mrs. Kate Stevens Bates has cele-
brated her 80th birthday at her home
near Olympia. She is the daughter Of
Isaac Stevens, first territorial COVER
nor of Washington.
A monument will be erected to the
memory of the late United States Sem
ator w. L. Jones by the Yakima Coun-
ty Bar association at Yakima, where
Jones began his political career.
Even the birds near Lyle had a
Thanksgiving feast. "A large number
of crickets came out to bask in the
sun on the North Bank highway and
were eaten by flock of birds.
The United States supreme court
has upheld the will Of Levi W. Hutton,
late mining magnate and philanthro-
pist of Spokane, who left his million.
dollar estate to a Spokane orphanage.
Mrs. Wallace Smith of Longview is
picking ripe raspberries every day
from her berry patch in Columbia Val
ley Gardens. They have been bearing
for the past two months. They are Of
the Cuthbert variety.
The body of Frank w. Smith, 60,
was brought to Walla Walla from the
Blue mountains, near his home. He
had been seated on a log and suffered
q stroke. He was a veteran Of the
Spanish-American war.
Three girls, students at the state
normal school at Cheney, we're injured
recently on the Inland Empire high.
way two miles north of Thornton when
a tire on their automobile blew out,
turning the car over twice.
Homer Smith Of Olympia was hurry
ing in his automobile downtown to
meet his wife. At street intersection
he struck woman, who proved to be
his wife. She was knocked to the pave
ment and severely bruised.
Buried under three feet of mud and
earth when a small tunnel in which
he was digging caved in, 10-year-old
Johnny Hayes of Everett was dug out
by his playmates and suffered only
slight shock from the experience.
Senator-elect Bone, according to
complete returns from the recent cleo
ton, received the greatest plurality OF
any candidate. His plurality was 1877
29S. Martin, for governor, had lead
of 144,3O4, and Roosevelt Of 141,635.
Mrs. A. E. Eagle of Snohomish dis
plays white lily which she had found
blooming in her yard, and Mrs. j. F.
Alcorn was showing a branch of rasp-
berries which had ripened on the vines
in her yard during the past week.
Believe it or not, but in the north
west, which is in the heart of the lum.
Der industry and surrounded by acres
of timber, wooden buttons are worth
small fortune and are hard to find,
according to reports from Aberdeen.
Through declines in commodity
prices, rigid economy and fuller utiliza-
ton of institution farms, the state de.
partment of business control will con.
clude it's biennial operations by turn.
ing back to the state treasury over
100000.
The industrial payrolls of sawmills
of the state increased from $4,000
for July, 1882 to s7s5,S35 for Septem-
Der, and logging payrolls from $685..
800 to s417,30O according to the de.
partment OF labor and industries at
! Olympia.