White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-27
Brief Resume of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS


Hogs-Good to choice, $3S5@4.
Lambs-Good to choice, $4.25@450.
Seattle
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, Acc; hard winter, western red
and northern spring, 451ac; bluestem,
Csc.
Butterfat-18c.
Eggs-Ranch, 26c.
Hogs-Good to choice, S4.25@475.
Cattle-Choice steers, $4.30@5.50.
Sheep-Spring lambs, $3.75@4.15.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $4.5O@5.
Hogs-Good to choice, s365@3.75.
Lambs Medium to good, $3@3.6O.
Eva Doe, Ann Davis and Betty Ward
are in the county Jail at Chehalis fac
ing shoplifting charges.
Odessa citizens have voted $4,000
bond issue for improvement work on
Crab creek to save the town from
future winter and spring floods.
Superior Judge Lindsey has upheld
Spokane's per cent franchise tax and
given the city a Judgment against the
Spokane Gas & Fuel company for $21,-
23O.
Mrs. A. Lorenz of Bellingham had
only time to grasp her two infants and
rush into the street in scanty cloth
ing when she found her home in
flames.
Live stock of the Othello region this
year have been marketed directly from
the grass and are in prime condition.
Many years have passed since all
stock looked as we'll as this year.
A large gathering of old friends
celebrated the 18th birthday of Mrs.
Mary Spalding, widow Of the pioneer
Indian missionary, Henry Spalding. at
her home at Almota.
Fruit and vegetable shipments from
the Kennewick-R ichland district gained
81 cars during the first nine months
Of this year over a like period in 1881,
a survey revealed recently.
A dozen carloads Of spinach have
been shipped from the Walla Walla
valley this fall. Between so and rs
carloads remain to be cut, the total
depending on market conditions.
Actual construction on the Glover.
land Jerry highway will not begin be-
fore the middle Of January, according
to announcement of V. Anderson, coun.
ty commissioner of the Charleston dis
trict.
Lowering of the wage scale from
$3.50 to Sc per day for graduate nurses
was voted at special meeting of the
Washington State Graduate Nurses as.
sociation mem ers Of the Walla Walla
district.
Drastic reductions in expense in two
Of the states largest departments,
school and highway, are demanded in
resolutions adopted by the Washing
ton State Tax Reduction association
in session at Everett
Mayor Dore Of Seattle has called an
end to the feeding Of unemployed with
out their working in return. OF the
10000 persons being fed, he said that
it is estimated that rs per cent are
not entitled to their supplies.
The gallant fight Of little Joe Mid
dlekauff against ravages Of infantile
paralysis ended last week in death at
his home in Yakima. He had spent
most of the last year in respirators in
Portland and Seattle hospitals.
Several bolts of Red Cross material
have been received at Marcus for dis
tribution among the unemployed. The
Community Aid society and the Home
Economics club will probably have
charge of the sewing of the garments.
A. E. Ready, rancher in the Bench
district on the Yakima Indian reserva.
ton near Yakima, said his motto is
"Grow potatoes in big way" and ex-
hibited an armful of potatoes as an
example of his results. The largest
weighed 31a pounds and was IL inches
long. Three Of the potatoes weighed
nine pounds. He said he harvested
many that weighed two pounds each.
The dispute among the Yakima city
commissioners over installation Of a
new $4,000 fire alarm system, which
has caused friction for several weeks,
was settled by their decision to re-
habilitate the present system at a
cost of $500.
With hundreds OF local workers busy
throughout the Kennewick Richland
diatrict ,noet Of tho anD1a cron is he.