White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-09-01

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Hogs-Good to choice, $4.35@4.85.
Lambs Medium to good, $3.50@3.75
Mrs. Lura Heron of Meyers Falls
has celebrated her Tooth birthday an.
niversary at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Winnifred Smith, at Colville.
Construction Of million-dollar by
pass highway system with state funds
will be urged by the city of Spokane
at the next session of the legislature.
A set of false teeth holding note
on top of stump in the outskirts Of
Seattle led to the discovery of the
body of Harlow LANCE, a suicide by
poison.
Henry DeGroot, 10, of Everett, was
injured fatally on falling into pit in
which stumps and other refuse was
being burned in the clearing of a new
recreation field.
Two and a half million feet of ties
cut by mills in Cowlitz county will be
loaded on the steamer Golden River
for China at the Kalama and Long.
view port docks.
Prominent hop growers Of the Mckee
district announced that they will pay
81 a hundred for picking. This is the
same price paid last year. The crop
is light but the quality good.
Virus diseases cause an annual loss
to Washington potato growers of at
least 100000 bushels, according to
DR.. L. K. Jones Of the State college
plant pathology department.
The grain yield in Asotin county is
expected to exceed last years crop
by $4,000 bushels. The wheat is run.
ming from Is to 40 bushels an acre,
with an average of % bushels.
Sixty names have been drawn at Sc.
attic for a grand jury panel called to
, investigate stories of widespread graft
J in the expenditure of $15,000,OO0 IN
, recent years by city and county Of
ficials.
= Andy Myers, city dump man Of Yaki'
ma, broke his toe in saving boy
from the Yakima river. He forgot to
get the boys name and wouldn't have
$ mentioned the rescue but for the
e broken toe.
Yakima county school salaries fol
= the last term were cut s37,361 below
I previous year figures. A further re
;. duction of 100000 in county schoo
/ costs may be made for the coming
S school year.
Struck by falling snag near Neil
:. ton, car driven by F. w. Matthias
!, secretary of the Grays Harbor Cham
, Der of Commerce, was badly wrecked
e and thrown into ditch and all the
ii occupants injured.
u Chelan countys valuation has beer
set at s2O,339,44S by Assessor Spen
:, Ger. Exclusive of railroads, 1t is 17A
20 per cent lower than last years valua
Q ton, which exclusive of railroads, to
re tailed s24,247034.
d. The Columbia River Milling com
Is pany at Wilbur began a 10-hour shift
- after six weeks shutdown for over
=. hauling. 1t has given 10 men employ
ment. The mill produces ESQ barrel
70 of flour in the 10 hours.
n. A movement to dry hundreds of ton
ne of high quality pears, now going t
go waste on the trees because grower
u can not afford to pick them, has bee
:. launched by the chamber of commerce
of Wenatchee. A survey is bein
made and a massmeeting OF all II
terested has been called.
While reaching for documents on
ns shelf in her office recently, Miss Pear
~ Benjamin, Yakima city clerk, wa
ne painfully injured by blow on tn
liz forehead from a ladder which becam
al locsened and swung violently upo
nj her.
,e BY vote of s to the state 8,
o. preme court has held that close
an banks can, through the state supe
- visor OF banking, pledge their asset
j." IS collateral for loans from the fe,
e:al Reconstruction Finance corpor