White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-01-28

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Hogs-Good to choice, $500.
Lambs-Medium to good, $3.5O@4.50
Large reductions in the valuations
Of personal and real property In Okan.
ogan county have been demanded by
county taxpayers.
The Aberdeen school board has or
dered special election to vote on
two bond issues, one for $4,000 and
the other for 100000.
Everett has been selected for the
annual meeting of the Washington
Music Teachers association in June
Between 400 and 500 delegates will
attend.
"Gellatly for Governor" forces are
organizing at Wenatchee for the com
ing campaign. They are confident
that the district will go solidly fol
Gellatly.
Damaged and overturned buildings
uprooted trees and almost impossible
roads marked the path of the chinook
wind that swept over the Yakima val
ley recently.
Clark County Pomona grange has
started movement to correct the
wide difference in valuation figures
of public service corporations for rate
making purposes and for taxation.
In keeping with the fall of the cost
of living, Justice of the Peace Clay
pool of Seattle has reduced fines fol
automobile license violations from SIS
to 1925, the price Of the license
plates.
An extension of time from 20 to 4G
years to pay construction charges, and
a partial moratorium Of two years
has been granted the Prosser irriga
ton district by federal reclamation
officials.
A payroll of $4,000 to 100000 is
created in Columbia county each year
by the apple industry, according to
j. G. Israel of the Israel-Erbes com.
pany. The annual production Of the
county is 225,OO0 boxes.
More than 26O men will receive work
for three months or more owing to
road and mill work opening up in the
Yakima valley. Half Of the men on
road work must be war veterans, I'm
der the rule of state officials.
The annual report of Superior Judge
Carey Of Stevens county shows he is
turning back to the county $4525 OF
his appropriation. His budget for 1881
was $10,450. The cost of the court
during the year was only $5924.
1t may be winter in many parts oil
the country, but in Skamokawa spring
is just around the corner, for local
citizens have violets and primroses
in bloom despite the fact that heavy
snow fell just few days before.
When the Chelan county commits
sioners found that Mrs. Edna Mont
gomery had bought radio on the
$40 month installment plan they re
duced her monthly allowance from the
INDECENT relief fund from $50 to $40
Outstanding athletes from over the
entire world will wrap themselves in
wooden blankets made in the Wash.
ougal Wooden mills when the Olympic
games are held in Los Angeles and
other cities in the United States this
summer. An order for 1000 of these
famous Pendleton blankets is now be.
ing finished in the mills, the biggest
unit of the Pendleton organization.
Smelt fishing is continuing active.
1y in the Columbia river ten or Is
miles below Longview. A run has
shown up at Oak Point and the fish
are quite plentiful at Eagle Cliff, Oak
Point, Clatskanie and other lower
localities.
The Kittitas town council has order.
ed special election February Is to
vote on a bond issue Of 100000 for
the installation of water system. 1t
is planned to drill well and erect
a 100-foot water tower with 100000.
gallon tank