White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-02-18

Hogs-Good to choice, S4.75@4.S5.
Lambs-Choice, $4.75@5.25.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, s525@5.75.
Eogs-Good to choice, $4.50@465.
Lambs-Good, sa.5o@44.75.
At meeting OF the Klickitat Wool
Growers association recently the price
of shearing was set at 10 cents and
herding was set at $40 month.
The RAIDER sawmill near Proebstel,
destroyed by fire last August, has
been rebuilt and is now putting out
an order for ties to be shipped to
China.
The Spokane County School Direc.
tors association has gone on record
in favor of state income tax law and
will circulate petitions in behalf of
such a measure.
Chelan county teachers are trying
to cash $4,000 in pay warrants but
find banks unwilling to take them I'M
less discounted per cent. The teach
ers protest the discount.
Contractors have finished the new
city Jail at Wenatchee, built at a cost
of $4,000. The cid one-cell Jail, built
% years ago, has been leased and will
be converted into an apartment house.
A campaign to sell s10o00,0oO worth
of Pacific coast salmon in less than
five months was launched recently,
Dixie Fleager, general manager Of the
Pacific Salmon Sales corporation, an
nounced.
Carrying news pictures of the Sino-
Japanese war front from Seattle to
San Francisco, monoplane piloted
by Jack Waterworth cracked up in a
forced landing on the Emil Jarvi farm
near Winloc!1.
The White Salmon Rod and Gun
club has been placing feed in the
woods for pheasants, which are unable
to find food owing to the deep snow.
Feed has been placed in several places
in 25-pound lots.
The seed oysters that were planted
en- the Markham and Ocosta shores
Lest spring have grown to marketable
size. They are being highly praised
for their flavor and gaining great favor
in the community.
Fifty children have been adopted by
Yakima families in the past two years,
survey of records by the county
clerk shows. Adoptions slumped heav.
lily in 1891, with only II recorded, as
against So in 1850.
Tie hemlock looper, which did so
much damage in the Naselle river
country last year and in 1880, has now
appeared in Grays Earbor county, F..
l.. Nethery, cruiser for the Weyer.
Lauser Timber company here, reports.
Orphan children will benefit from
the 100000 estate of DR.. D. N. L. New.
bury of Spokane. The money was left
in trust with the Elks lodge as me.
mortal to his only child, who died in
1918. The income will be given to or
plans.
On top Of reductions already made
in administration of county affairs in
Yakima county, county commissioners
announced even more drastic steps to
assessed valuations placed on lands,
valuations for tax purposes will slump
| anywhere from $6,000,0OO to $4,000.
Oco OF the assessed valuation of little
more than s5O,OO0,00O in real property
| THIS will necessitate cutting budgets
| to an extent not experienced in this
| county in May years. 1t was believed
| the heaviest reduction would be in the
administration of public schools.
Loagview's annual spring opening
| VIII De nel0 trl0ay, FeDiuary 20, tHs
| Merchants association Of the Longview
chamber of commerce decided at its
nesting recently, when committee
headed by T. E. St-other was named
| to arrange for the event.
In an attempt to reduce the cost o.
education to the student to the loves
level President Spencer of the Uni
| versity Of Washington has sent let
ter to faculty members urging savings
in the number OF assigned textbook
| ard laboratory equipment