The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-01-12

hard wheat, 5Oc; So1t WHITE anu
western white, 39c; hard winter,
northern spring and western red,
37kc.
Hay-Buying prices, f.. o. b.
Portland; Alfalfa. Yakima, s12.50,
Butterfat-19@ 20c. +
Eggs-Ranch, 23@24c.
Cattle-Steers, good, $500 q $50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50
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Lambs-Good to choice, $4.75@
500. I@ l.s..= ~ ,NH.-.
For holding an automobile draw
| ing contest the. Inland Theaters,
Inc, of Walla Walla, paid a fine
lof $50 in superior court.
Ernest Minor, Lincoln county
auditor, has been offered deputy.
ship by Cliff Yelle. state auditors
elect. Minor will accept.
Speaker-Elect George r. Yantis
Of Olympia is believed to be one Of
Governor Martins selections for
the state tax commission. Yantis
is a lawyer. r.
A Chevrolet truck, loaded with
groceries, was stolen from Eli Fon-
der, proprietor Of the Rockford
Meat company of Rockford, while
lon a buying trip in Spokane.
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The Blue Ribbon single mill at
Kalama has resumed operations
after a shutdown for Christmas
and because the log haul-up broke
down. About 40 men are employed.
|
The epidemic of influenza and
colds continued to hold Yakima in
its grip as 555 school children, or
10 per cent of the total enrolment,
failed to report at the end of the
holiday period.
school districts of the state free Of
debt. The district has s6,142 cash
on hand to cover $500 in out
standing warra IS. Delinquent
taxes total $4,000.
Commander Harold Jones, 40.
Tacoma, recently retired from the
navy because of nervous break
down, Ieaped to his death from the
fourth floor Of the Kneeland hotel
at Olympia last week.
The Commercial club of Daven-
port has passed resolution .oppos-
ing any expenditure Of state mon
ey for new road projects or the
purchase Of toll bridges, under
present financial conditions.
The unemployed men at Omak
are being given an opportunity to
secure winters wood through the
Incorporation Of the county COM
lmissioners. Each man is given
eight days on shift and five cords
of the wood he cuts.
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| Publisher A. S. Hillyer of the
Sunnyside Sun paid off an election
bet and celebrated the New Year
by walking barefoot from his home
to his office in the center of the
business section while early morn
ing spectators cheered loudly.
j a truck containing &c celebrat-
lors returning from watch night
party hurtled down the steep We
mas canyon grade, mile from
Naches, at 80 miles early the first.
and crashed into a concrete cul-
vert at the bottom, critically in
Turing three women. Fifteen 9TH
lers are in serious condition.
i The body of. John O'Leary, about
As, bachelor of the Mill creek dis
i trict, was found in his cabin by
Elmer Payne, neighbor. O'Leary's
body was found upright In chair,
J his legs crossed. 1t is believed that
! O'Leary either died from heart
attack, or was poisoned by eating
some old fish, some of which was
E found in his cabin.
Six Grays Harbor mills have re-
. sumed operations since the Christ.
mas shutdown and at least one
other will start cutting within the
>. next three weeks, operators an.
! nounced.
Il Following a report that no can
: didates for state and federal job
, would be considered unless in
: dorsed by the county committee
> the Yakima county Democratic
{. central committee is deluged will
. ~ applications. &