White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-03-02

Hogs-Good to choice, s3.5O@4.50.
Lambs-Good to choice, $1,000
6.25.
The fame Of Hoquiam's spruce We
heer clothing Is becoming nations
wide, now that the National Geogra-
dresses and material "play." Let
ters are being received daily at Ho-
GUAM about the wooden dresses"
many Of them being from women cur
aous to know how clothes can be made
from wood, and how the stuff will
wear.
The canning company at Walla
Walla has contracted with so garden
ers to supply produce and will try to
sign 80 more. Gardeners agree to
each take share Of stock and one
fourth payments for produce will be
credited to paying for stock. Work
will resume on the cannery as soon as
weather opens, since cannery funds
60-day holiday.
v. l.. Underwood Of walla walla
is the fellow who "let the cat out of
the bag" Attracted by many dogs
growing around sack that had been
buried in deep snow in the path Of on.
rushing cars, Underwood stopped.
opened the sack, and let out cat
which led the CANNES in q hopeless
chase up an adjacent tree.
Sweeping in from the ocean on their
annual migration to the Cowlitz riv-
er with the smelt run, hundreds Of
seagulls are patroling the Cowlitz
searching for choice smelt which they
gobble up eagerly. 1t is believed as
many smelt are eaten by the gulls as
are caught by fishermen.
The Community State bank Of Nab
ton, which is on a 90Aday holiday,
can be reopened If depositors agree
not to make heavy withdrawals i'm
mediately, a group Of depositors were
told by bank officials and represent
tative Of the state banking depart.
ment.
Their lands whipped back by five
Chehalis river floods this winter, Ce-
darville farmers have sought county
aid to build bulkhead or other
means of flood control. Many farm
ers along the river despair each flood
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ing toward the sea.
The body of Mrs. Amanda Laville,
~, of Renton, who disappeared last
September while returning home from
grocery store. was found in swamp
IN miles from her home last week
by two Renton youths. Her weather.
worn market bag and its contents
lay beside the body.
Clifford Potter SON Of Mayor and
Mrs. Herman ]. Potter of Ridgefield,
and e. Thompson OF Vancouver have
formed the PotteY-Thompson Logging
company, which Is operating on the
William e. Carly Blackwater ranch
one mile north OF Ridgefield.
A "soup kitchen" for hundreds of
yearling deer that are starving on
the upper Lewis river will be estab-
lished by national forest officials. Sew
eral tons OF hay will be rushed to the
snow-bound anmtlas that are herded
together in an isolated valley.
h,,n1 a 0f
were shipped out Of Wenatchee last
Saturday, the day the 121a cents a
box reduction in freight rates went
into effect. Since February 1 ship-
ments have averaged 25 cars daily.
The news that the Washington
Wooden Mills worsted material has
been specified to supply new uniforms
for Seatles 600 policemen and 400
firemen was received by the mill al
Washougal.
During the first three weeks of its
existence the state emergency unem-
ployment relief commission has re.
ceived applications from 10 of the SO
Washington counties for authority to
administer relief under the new state
law.
One hundred farmers and taxpay.
ers organized "the United Farmers
league OF Washington at Charleston
recently and appointed a committee
to ask the superior court to refuse to
take action on mortgage foreclosure.
Tor a period Of 80 days,