The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-23

Hogs-GoOd to choice, $500 %
4.35.
Lambs Good to choice. s5.25 q
5.65.
Spokane
Cattle - Steers, good, $4.25 @
500.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @
400.
Lambs - Medium to good. SAFE
q 500.
An Ariel fisherman caught 149
fish in the Lewis river one day
recently, he claims, and yet did not
break any law. When he started
home he had two good-sized trout
that he had caught, but in the
stomach of the largest trout,
which was about seventeen inches
long, he found large quantity of
minnows. Upon counting them, he
discovered that the trout had din
ed on LAT minnows.
February lumber shipment from
Grays Harbor nearly doubled Jam
uary's totaling 21,653,0O0 feet
against 12,30O,000 feet the first
month of the year. February also
saw substantial increase in gem
eral cargo export, with large lots
of doors, plywood, chairs and
tables, trays. cascara bark, oysters,
fruit basket covers, paper, pulp
and other commodities dispatched.
BY burning wood which stu
dents cut during vacation in the
mountains, installing an indiyidu-
al lighting system at saving of
$500 monthly, and other rigid
economy, Walla Walla college.
Seventh Day Adventists school
near Walla Walla, is cutting $10,-
900 off its annual budget.
The Lincoln county commission
ers have ordered that all roads in
the county with gravel surfaces
are to be closed to trucks of more
that one-ton carrying capacity and
to stages weighing more than a
ton, including weight of passen-
gers. School buses are exempted.
Hundreds Of applications r
- Dc{n do "a ont "a
new Kittitas irrigation project
have been received at Ellensburg.
A 2O-mile canal, finished last fall.
opened $4,000 acres to cultivation.
OF this acreage 5000 acres will be
homesteaded.
In addition to crews working on
county roads and city streets. for
groceries paid for by Reconstruc-
ton Finance corporation money,
the district highway office sent out
100 men on central Washington
highways to do odd jobs.
r. C. Mccormick is at st. An-
thongs hospital in condition de-
scribed as critical, as result of
injuries he received when he fell
from a ladder while pruning fruit
trees. He has broken neck, ply
sicians said.
Const.tutionality of the recent
legisla. n, which cancels interest
and allows liberal rebstes on de-
linQuent taxes, will be tested in
the courts; according to Mrs. Bes-
sic Lewis, Chelan county treasurer.
Fifty men and women went to
work at Cashmere last Monday, as
the Cashmere Dehydrating comp
any went into action. cutting up
and drying apples, many of them
on the way to waste.
Okanogan county roads h ave
been closed to gross loads of more
than 5000 pounds. A resolution
to that effect was passed by the
commissioners this week.
The Yakima school board has
decided to drop married women
from the teaching staff at the ex-
piration Of their present contracts.
An accidental shot fired by her
small son wounded Mrs. H. Wan.
She was struck in the thigh. The
wound is not serious.
Preparatory work for the, re-
pairing of the railway bridge that
spans the Cowlitz river, two miles
south of Kelso, to provide the rail-
way connection for Longview has
been begun by a Northern Pacific
crew.
The train crew on the Oroville
to Princeton branch of the Great
Northern railway also will make
the run from Nelson to Marcus.
The train will run. to Princeton
and Nelson to Marcus one day,
each place. each week.