White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-03-30
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Brief Resume Of Happenings
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THE MARKETS
SEATTLE
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
white, soc; hard winter, western
red and northern spring. 4Sc;
bluestem, SIC.
Butterfat-16c.
Eggs-Ranch, 16 q tic.
to choice, $3.50 @ 3.75.
Cattle Choice steers, $3.50 @ 5.25.
Sheep Spring lambs. $500 q SIS.
Portland
Wheat - Soft white and western
wheat, Sic; soft white and west
ern white, 46hs; hard winter,
northern spring and western red,
44c.
Hay - Buying prices, +. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $3.50.
Butterfat-14 @ 15c.
Eggs-Ranch, Is @ tic.
Cattle Steers, good, s4.75 @ 5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1878 q 400.
Lambs-Good to choice, s5.25 @
5.65.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $4.25 @ 500.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.25 @ 4.35.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4.75 @
5.25.
A number of men are being given
employment by the reopening OF sew
eral small mills in different centers
Of eastern Lewis county. Most OF the
output is ties, which are cut for the
Milwaukee and are trucked to Nor
ton for shipment over the Tacoma
& Eastern. Last week Tiller Bros
plant near Rife and the Betchart &
Brisband mill near Bremen were add
ed to the list of those operating.
Announcement was made that the
Churchill glove factory at Centralia
will be running full time the next
four or five months filling an order
from the United States navy for TO-
900 pairs of gloves. The plant re-
Gently completed smaller naval
order. In addition to running full
time, the new order means slight
increase in the working force.
The Crescent Single company mill
at Kelso resumed cutting shingles
last Monday. A crew of about SO men
will be employed. The mill will oper-
ate full capacity on the day shift and
two of the seven machines will oper-
ate at night. How long the plant will
operate is dependent upon market
ing conditions.
Jack Luce, IL, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. A. Luce, is in a dangerous
condition at Whites hospital, Lew
iston, Idaho, the result of 10-foot
fall down cliff along the Snake
river. A hiking companion, Hazel
Odell, summoned aid from motor
list, who hurried him to the hospital.
Instructed by the Wenatchee VAL
ley Traffic association. a committee
is Investigating power rates for orch
ard and commercial purposes in the
district and the disposition of money
collected from shippers for certify
ing carloads of fruit and held by the
state department of agriculture.
Olaf Erickson, 48, of Spokane, is
recovering in a hospital at Tacoma
from severely frozen arms sustained
when he became exhausted on the
new east side highway on Mount
Rainier. He lay in the snow all night
while a companion went for help.
DR.. John Busby, widely known
physician and surgeon, is dead al
Spokane. He was prominent in North
ern Idaho, whre he resided before
coming to Spokane, Is years ago
Death was caused by apoplexy.
Farmers near Othello are seeding
wheat and the hillsides are showing
green with cheat grass. The band OF
sheep Of George Hendricks has gone
to the range from the winter quar-.
ters near Corfu. His lamb crop is well
over 100 per cent.
Mrs. Oscar Dudansky, 81, and q
daughtr, Dorothy, 5. died at the
Longview Memorial hospital of burns
suffered when kerosene burner ex.
ploded in broder on their farm al
Lexington, near Kelso.
Hoquiam-manufactu paper will
be used by the Black Ball Ferry com.
pany to print $4,000 maps Of the
Olympic peninsula and to print 3OO,.
900 time cards for the ferry lines.
Suggesting April 4 as cleanup day
the Prosser commercial club has
asked the city council to appoint 8
''big chief and proclaim that date 8
civic holiday.
For stealing a jug Of whiskey from
meat market at Leavenwortl
three boys have been given 30-da,
Jail sentences by Justice OF the