White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-09-15

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Sheep-Spring lambs, $3.50@4.25.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $4.50@5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.35@4.85.
Lambs-Medium to good, S35O@3.75.
Iones new cantilever bridge over the
Pend Oreille river was dedicated
Labor Day.
School enrolment in Okanogan coun-
ty showed an increase Of 159 this year,
over 1881. The total enrolment is re.
ported at 62S7 pupils.
Fifteen carloads of spring lambs
rolled from Omak and Riverside last
week for the Chicago market. The
sheep averaged ESQ to the car.
Forest rangers of the Naches coun.
try reported that 10 inches of snow
fell last week at the Hawkeye look
out station, on the Upper Naches hill.
Baart wheat jumped to 60 cents a
bushel at Ephrata when V. e. Bjork-
1und told farmers he would trade any.
thing in his store for their grain at
that price.
Robert West cranked his auto at a
street curb in Walla Walla and then
backed it out Of George Hedger's
jewelry store. The machine had been
left in gear.
Albert Baumann, 50-year-old farm.
er, living southwest of Chehalis, suf-
fered badly fractured pelvis when
he fell rs feet from the loft of new
barn he recently completed.
Appointment of ]. ]. Lotus as super.
intendent of the new $445,0O0 power
plant of the reclamation service near
Prosser has been announced. The
plant began operations September l.
Four blocks of cast iron water main
are being laid through the business
section of Newport ahead Of resur-
facing, replacing main laid when the
water system was installed 20 years
ago.
A series of holdups on Blewett pass
in 1923 are believed to have been
cleared up at Wenatchee by the con-
fession of Howard Helton, who says
he was one of the three bandits sought
for four years.
Prune growers of the Walla Walla
valley will cut their shipments to as
carloads a day. When the season
opened it was planned to ship between
70 and rs carloads daily, but the de.
mand has been poor
Mayor Kellogg of Bellingham will
recommend to the city council that
eight city parks be closed during 1883
as an economy measure. He classes
the parks as luxuries under present
economic conditions.
Bumper wheat crops are being re.
ported at Chewelah. The yields are
running 35 to so bushels an acre. An
abundant hay crop is also being har-
vested. Alfalfa is yielding more than
for several seasons.
A party Of 40 men staged hunger
RAID on grocery store at Anacortes
recently, acting in an orderly manner
and taking about $3.50 worth Of food
and supplies and carrying them away
before police arrived.
The city council of Seattle has de-
cided to limit a proposed bond issue
of 100000 for unemployment relief
to $1,200,000 in order that the bonded
debt shall not be brought too close to
the constitutional limit.
The Pullman Chamber of Commerce
has adopted a resolution in favor of a
com bination of direct tax and income
assessment as means of raising
enough money to provide employment
for local men this winter.
Bert ]. Morse, 62, Growmore ranch
er, near Yakima, cranked his auto
mobile which, unknown to him, had
been left in gear. He received fatal
injuries when it sprang forward, ran
over him and dragged him several
rods.
Public utility companies which de-
liver monthly statements instead of
mailing them were condemned by reso.
luton passed by the state council OF
the National Federation of Postoffica
Clerks, In annual session at Walla
WIlla last week.