White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-04
WASHINGTON NEWS
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Wheat - Soft white and western
white, SO nc: hard winter, western
red and northern spring, 57kc;
bluestem, 661zc.
Butterfat-23c.
Eggs-Ranch, II @ &c.,,
Hogs-Good to choice, $40 a 4.5O
Cattle-Choice steers, $500 O. $50.
Sheep-Spring lambs. $500 a $50.
Portland
Wheat = Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, 67kc; soft white and west
ern white 59hc; hard winter
northern spring and western red
57kc.
Hay Buying prices, f. o. b. Port.
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $14.0O.
Butterfate-23 @ 24c.
Eggs-Ranch, Is q Ice.
Cattle-Steers, good, $4.85 O. 5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 a 4.35.
Lambs-Good to choice, $500 o.
500.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $500 @ $5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1885 @ 400.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4.75 @
5.25.
Hoquiam presents to the world the
wooden handkerchief. Delicate spruce
veneer handkerchiefs of lacy fine
ness, bordered with fancy shavings
and bearing monograms appeared,
result of an order from Martha
Pearce, Oakpoint, ILL.,, who collects
rare handkerchiefs. This city's mills
produce many other unusual pro-
ducts of wood including dresses and
bathing suits.
The Diamond Match company will
soon start building about three and
a half miles of road, to tap its tim
Der holdings in the Calispel basin,
west of Cusick, in Stevens and Pend
Oreille counties. Logging operations
also will be started this summer, the
logs to be trucked over the new road,
and connecting county roads to the
company's mill at Cusick.
Declaring that Canadian fish pric-
es had forced their prices down, be-
tween 100 and $50 fishermen OF
Westport have been on strike for sew.
eral days, demanding 10 cents 8
pound instead of the ~ cents 9
pound they have been getting. AL
fishing boats have been tied up a
Westport several days. The fish run'
have been poor this season.
Married teachers, whose husband:
are capable of supporting them, will
not be employed by school district
No. 46, at Wenatchee next term, the
directors announced. Teachers elig
ible for retirement, under the state
retirement law, also will be barred
from teaching next year. Twelve
teachers will be affected, the super
| intendent said.
Forde Phelps, postmaster at Min
eral, reports that the labor situation
has been slightly relieved in thai
section recently by the steady opera
ton of the M. r. Smith Single com
pany plant, which is employing abou
rs men, directed by Robert Matthews
The West Fork Logging company il
now working about 80 men.
The Watkins Produce company i
putting in a plant to manufactur,
berry crates and hallocks and will
wholesale and retail it's product
throughout Cowlitz county and south
western Washington. The output will
be 1900 daily, with eight people EN-
| ployed.
Mortgage loan companies hav
been warned by Governor Martin Ell
Their to adopt a policy of leniency il
foreclosures or run the risk of hay
ing special session of the legisla
ture enact more severe mortgag
and debt moratorium measure.
Plans for the construction of tw
36-foot hop kilns in the Mckee dis
trict are announced. The kilns, to
built of concrete, will cost 100
and will be used by 80 growers OF
Grating 200 acres Of hops.
The appointment of Mrs. Harol
G.. Wells of Seattle as superintendent
of the state school for girls at Gran
Mound has been made by Olaf
Olsen, director of the department {
business control.
Despite efforts of physicians
save her life by an emergency Ope
alton, four-year-old Alice Blundel
of Tacoma is dead, victim of fra
tured skull suffered when she W;
kicked by a horse.
The first commercial planting
holly in the vicinity of Montesar
will be made soon by Mark Sisevic {
two acres he has recently brought
the Medcalf tracts here.
The resignation of DR.. A. E. Stul