The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-05-11
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume OF Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
Our Readers

Our Readers
THE MARKETS
SEATTLE
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, sec; hard winter, west
ern red and northern spring,
soc; bluestem, &c.
Butterfat-22c.
Eggs-Ranch, Is O. Ice.
Hogs - Good to choice, $3.50 q
4.50.
Cattle - Choice steers, $500 q
$50.
Sheep - Spring lambs, $500 %
$50.
Portland
Wheat-Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, 5Sc; soft white and
western white, 1870; hard win
ter, northern spring and west.
ern red, 47hc. ..:...... ~. .- p. a
Hay-Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $14.00.
Butterfat-23 a 24c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16 q tic.
Cattle - Steers, good, s5.25 q
$50. -
Hogs - Good to choice, $3.50 q
4.50. " -. .-.<.. ~
Lambs-Good to choice. $500 q
$50. .+r,.. .@saI.
Spokane
Cattle - Steers, good, $500 @
5.25.
Hogs Good to choice, $500 q
Ais.
Lambs Medium to good, $500 %
4.15.
How X. Monoian, At, Armenian
farmer, who lived near Yakima,
met his death is a question puzz-
ling officers. The body of the
farmer was found on his ranch,
near where he had been burning
weeds. A severe wound on the
head, near the right eye, indi-
Gated he had been struck by a
heavy object or had fallen on a
rock, but no rock was found near
the place, officers said.
Idle for the past two years, the
Semiahmo cannery Of the Alaska
Packers association near Blaine
will be operated this year, G. e.
Wilkinson, superintendent, an
nounced. One hundred men have
been put to work driving traps.
When the cannery starts opera
tions about June 15, $50 persons
will be employed.
An unattended little wagon by
a lily pond carried its mute mes
sage 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 its surf
ace. Endeavors to revive him were
futile.
The last medical bulletin of DIR.
Davis C. Hall Of the University OF
Washington says that kissing
spreads trench-mouth, which is
quite prevalent "among our stu
dents. It is suggested that fra
ternities and sororities consider
"group treatment of the disease"
An honor for which she has
waited % years will come to Mrs.
Beulah Whitcomb of South Bend.
May 81, when she graduates with
the senior class in high school.
Nineteen years elapsed between
her grade school graduation and
high school entrance in 1929.
Hope Of complete recovery OF
baby Mildred 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 SWELL
ing that threatened her life.
Longview Growers association
now has 10 acres of peas signed
for this season. The Pacific Fruit
& Produce company will take the
yield and Robert L. Butner. mana
ger of carlot sales, advised that
local peas would be marketed east
of the Mississippi river.
The old ferry tower, which had
stood guard at the foot Of Main
street, on the bank of the Pend
Oreille river 81 years. was torn
down last week. It was 80 feet
high and its base covered part
of the city park, which was need
ed for clubhouse.
Delinquent maintenance charges
have been paid by 1872 Tieton
ranchers, according to j. S. Moore.
district reclamation superintend-
ent. The outlook for further pay
ments is good. The ranchers are
paving up as well as they did last