White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-20
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
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Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, SIC; soft white and western
white, Ate; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 45c.
Hay-Buying prices. t. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima. $3.50.
Butterfat-16@1Sc.
Eggs-Ranch, 26@2Sc.
Cattle-Steers, good, $4@5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, S3.S5@4.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.25@4.50
Seattle
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, 471Ac; hard winter, western red
and northern spring, Ate; bluestem,
f6c.
Butterfat-19c.
Eggs-Ranch, Csc.
Hogs-Good to choice, S415@4.50.
Cattle-Choice steers, S4.75@5.50.
sheep-Spring lambs, S3.75@4.15.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, S4.50@5.
Hogs-Good to choice, s3.75@3.90.
Lambs-Medium to good, S3@3.60.
The assessed valuation of Lincoln
county is $21,29S,O34. This is S4,579,'
1876 less than the 1881 valuation.
Plans for the formation of a CO.
operative dairymen's association in
the Woodland district were discussed
recently.
A proposal for $4,000 bond issue,
to enable the city of Newport to &C.
quire municipality owned water sys.
TEN, carried 253 to 107.
An exceptionally fine potato crop is
reported by A. A. Fehrenbacher, Trout
Lake valley, many of the spuds weigh
ing from IN to TX pounds each.
A total of $1,000 has been raised by
the Camas Relief associations annual
fall drive for funds. The quota set
for the 35 canvassers was $500.
Twenty-four hours after her nurse
dropped dead while attending her, Mrs.
Eudora L. Thorpe, an S3-year-old resi-.
dent of Spokane, died from heart
attack.
Boards of commissioners of nine Of
the counties involved in the railroad
tax litigation have signed an agree.
ment to retain an attorney to appeal
from the recent decision of Federal
Judge Webster.
Odessa citizens voted for a $4,000
bond issue for improvement work on
Grab creek to save the town from fu.
ture winter and spring floods. Two
hundred three votes were cast for the
bond issue, 10 against.
While Sheriff Porter of Grant coun'
ty was en- route to Lewiston, Idaho
to attend a meeting of the Inland En-
pire Peace Officers association two
armed bandits held up and robbed the
Wilson Creek bank of $2492.
The town of Skamokawa now has 8
good ship channel into the docks Of
the Skamokawa Farmers Creamery
association. Two dredges of the Brook
field Quarry company have completed
dredging the Skamokawa sloughs.
Fossilized skeletons of fish IL fee
long uncovered in a silica bed neal
Pomona have attracted the attention
of scientists and may lead to further
knowledge of prehistoric days, whe1
the Yakima valley was great lake.
The county commissioners Of Wash
ington have adopted resolution ask
ing the coming legislature to divert al
additional cent from the state gasoline
tax to the lateral highway fund. Undel
the existing law only cent is diverted
Lew Waldron, who lives on the An
drews place near Hillyard, picked al
the pears from his back yard tree ;
few days ago. Now he finds the tre'
is In blossom again. An apple tre'
also has blossomed since the fruit WA
picked.
The Lackamas Valley COOPERATIVE
association has completed construc
ton of its new modern cheese factor.
at Proebstel. The factory was erecte'
on the site of the plant which wa
destroyed by fire July 2, at an approx
mate cost of $4,000.
Cowlitz county bees produced abou
20 tons of honey during the seasol
that has just ended, Martin Pykonel
of Kelso, bee inspector for the county
estimates There are annrOyimatel