White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-11
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Wheat - Soft white and western
white, sec; hard winter, western
red and northern spring, SOC;
bluestem, &c. ~, LII,
Butterfat-22c.
Eggs-Ranch, Is @ Ice. 4
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @ 4.50.
Cattle-Choice steers, $500 q $50.
Sheep-Spring lambs, $500 @ $50.
Portland
Wheat = Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, 5Sc; soft white and west
ern white, 49hc; hard winter.
northern spring and western red,
47kc.
Hay - Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, s14.O0.
Butterfat-23 @ FAC.
Eggs-Ranch, 16 @ TIC.
Cattle-Steers, good, 1928 q $50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @ 4.50.
Lambs - Good to choice, $500 %
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $500 @ 5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $500 @ 4.15.
Lambs Medium to good, $500 @
Ais.
How he might have been knocked
into kingdom come was related by
w. j. Hilligoss, Jr., who told OF
being narrowly missed by what may
have been fragment from meteor.
Hilligoss heard something hit the
ground near him. He investigated
and found buried a few inches in
the soil rock. When Hilligoss dug 1t
from the ground it was so hot 1t
could hardly be handled.
How K. Monoian, At, Armenian
farmer, who lived near Yakima, met
his death, is question puzzling
officers. The body Of the farmer
was found on his ranch, near where
he had been burning weeds. A Sc
we're wound on the head, near the
right eye, indicated he had been
struck by heavy object or had fall
en- on rock, but no rock was found
near the place, officers said.
4 Idle for the past two years, the
Semiahmo cannery of the Alaska
Packers association near Blaine will
be operated this year, G. e. Wilkin-
son, superintendent, announced.
One hundred men have been put
to work driving traps. When the cam
merry starts operations about June Is,
$50 persons will be employed.
j. An unattended little wagon by
lily pond carried it's mute message
of tragedy to Mrs. Clarence Barnes
of West Touchet too late. Rushing
to the pond, she found the body of
her 8-month-old-son, Clarence, Jr.,
floating on it's surface. Endeavors to
revive him were futile.
y The last medical bulletin of DR..
David c. Hall of the University of
Washington says that kissing spreads
trench-mouth, which is quite prevail
ent "among our students" 1t is sug-
gested that fraternities and sorori-
ties consider "group treatment OF
the disease"
Longview Growers association now
has 40 acres of peas signed for
this season. The Pacific Fruit & Pro-
duce company will take the yield
and Robert L. Butner, manager of
carlot sales advised that local peas
would be marketed east of the Miss
issippi river.
Hope of complete recovery of baby
Mildred Wittkopf of Prosser was ex-
pressed by the attending doctor. The
child, who has breathed and taken
nourishment through glass tube for
four days, is apparently recovering
from the throat swelling that threat
ened her life.
The Commercial club of Davenport
has adopted resolution asking the
Washington Methodist Episcopal
conference to return the Rev. A. F.
Kroneman to the Davenport church.
He is president of the club and an
active community worker.
In replying to the Pacific Power
& Light company's offer of l per
cent of gross earning for 10 years
and 2 per cent for Is years for a
franchise in the city of Yakima, the
city commission has asked 3.5 per
cent for Is years.
With more applicants than Jobs in
sight, county welfare boards are reg
istering young men eligible for en-
rollment in the reforestation camps
to be established in Washington.
Washington's quota is $3.50 men.
Rees L. Bungay, Spokane, has been
elected president of the Inland En-
pire Retail Fuel Dealers association.
The dealers will petition the rail-
roads for return to the fuel rates
in effect in October, 1916.