White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-04-20


annual convention at Okanogan
They resolved to ask the secretary
| of agriculture to cut national forest
| grazing fees in half for the year and
to ask the state game commission ia
name the bear a predatory animal.
The Schmitten Lumber company
at Cashmere began it's seasons run
last week, putting IA men to work
in the sawmill. Nearly million and
half feet of timber are stacked in
! the mill pond, ready to be cut, while
about 100000 feet are to be brought
from the woods, enough to operate
the sawmill six weeks.
Colville Valley Dairymen's associ-
alton, has been strengthened by the
names of 80 additional members.
Growth of the movement in eastern
Washington was manifested by re-
quests from several communities for
| representatives to discuss Organiza-
| ton plans at community meetings.
Crews employed by the new county
relief committee are making street
| improvements at Okanogan and
| Omak. In both towns the men are
digging "niggerheads' out of for
merly unimproved but much used
streets and walks. They are given
orders on local stores.
Pend Oreille county has long been
noted for the superior quality of it's
potatoes and many tons of seed have
gone out of the county to different
potato growing district of Washing
ton and several shipments to points
outside the state.
Despite earlier denial by dealers
of an increasing interest in barley
production near Walla Walla, several
farmers, particularly north of here
on into the Waitsburg district, are
reported reseeding lands with Blue
stem barley.
Traffic associations of the Yakima
Wenatchee, Hood River and Rogue
river fruit districts began concerted
action to obtain Immediate reduction
of all freight rates to pre-war levels
and forwarded to the railway man
agements a petition for such
change.
A Whitehall deer walked the
length of Union avenue at Newport
last week and crossing the Great
Northern railway track started to in
spect the south side of town, but
came in contact with dogs and hur-
riedly left for the timber.
The Blake-David Lumber company
of Goldendale has been receiving or
ders for beer shocks. Prices have
raised about 81 thousand on lumber
used in making this commodity. The
company is shipping two and three
cars Of lumber each week.
The oldest grange in the state -
Washington grange, at Washougal-
has celebrated it's 50th anniversary.
1t was organized in 1888, three years
before the founding of the State
Grange. At first it was affiliated with
the Oregon State Grange.
Longview Growers association,
now turning it's attention to pea
planting, is endeavoring to sign up
at least 100 acres in this district. B..
F. Foreman is director for the Long
view district and is in charge of the
registration of growers.
Eight more men have gone to work
on an additional welfare project,
which consists of putting rock on
several streets and improving the
road entrances to town. Twelve men
are being employed regularly on the
rock crusher.
Married persons who have filed
state income tax returns and failed
to take advantage of savings by sub
hitting separate returns will be per-
mitted to change their filings, under
a recent ruling of the tax commission.
Plans are announced for the re-
opening of the Yakima Valley Bank
& Trust company about June under
an arrangement with the Federal
Reserve bank and the Reconstruction
Finance corporation.
Twenty-Five men will go to work
in the Wagner logging camps on the
Loop Loop before the end of the
month and about 80 will be employed
In the sawmill and yards shortly aft
erward.
Regulations for the beer trade
were made by the city council of
Sprague with the first reading of an
ordinance repeating previous liquor
laws and setting license fees.
Spokane county commissioners
have decided to license country gro
GERS to sell beer in packages, but to
prohibit sale at dance halls and with
In five miles of lake resorts.
Field work has begun at Latah,