The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-07-27
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume OF Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
Our Readers
THE MARKETS
SEATTLE

Butterfat-24c.
Eggs Ranch, 10 q zoe.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @
SIS. .= 5---
Cattle-Choice steers, $3.50 @
800. .... e., ...< ..-... .,
sheep-Spring lambs, $500 q
SIS.
Spokane
Cattle - Steers, good, $5.75 @
600. 49,. -. ,........ 3D..
HogsNGood to choice, $500 q
$40.
Lambs - Medium to good, $5.25
@ $50.
Wheat-Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, CSC; soft white and
western white, 8Sc; hard win
ter, northern spring and western
red, 8Sc. ,s.. 49,
Hay - Buying prices, fob. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, S14.00.
Butterfat-24 @ Csc.
Eggs Ranch, 20 q 22c.
Cattle 80 Steers, good, $500 @
$50. -
Hogs Good to choice. $500 q
$40.
Lambs-Good to choice, $3.50 a
5.75.
Centralia - Claiming that he
has lost trade at the rate of SIS
week since Centralia's whisker
ordinance went into effect two
weeks ago, Bill Clark, local bar
Der, filed a claim with the city
commission for $50. The claim
was turned over to City Attorney
Jahnke for investigation. "Men I
have shaved for years are now
forced to go around like rowdies
and hitch-hikers," Clark declared.
Must the barber pay the price
IOT CuiS OuITdSS.
Walla Walla-Automobile tra-
vel is falling off, reports Mrs.
Pearl Husel, secretary Of the au-
to club office here, largely due.
she believes, to higher gasoline
prices, but motor coach and har-
ness business is better. The har-
ness and stage men, who report
ed improvement In trade, aren't
certain whether it has anything
to do with the gasoline prices.
Montesano - Dainty bonnets
and aprons will bedeck the women
Of Montesano during the week of
the towns golden jubilee, the
chief days of which will be Au-
gust IL, IL and Is. The colors will
be the official jubilee colors of
blue and gold. The women are
already at work making their cos
tunes. With them they will also
wear old fashioned gowns.
Walla Wal1a - Walla Walla
wheat was within earshot Of the
dollar mark recently, with bid
ling yesterday running up to IS
and 70 cents for fob. sacked
grain. Some farmers have retired
notes by selling their holdings
from other years and look to the
1893 harvest to give them
profit. 80
Yakima - Gasoline contracts
representing between 800 and 400
consumers in all the oranges ex-
cept three in Yakima county have
been signed. The grange will buy
gasoline at Seattle for 1215 cents
a gallon and deliver it in whole
sale quantities with the cost OF
transportation added.
Seattle - One hundred tons OF
cherries have been shipped from
the Naches and Naches Heights
districts to Seattle, where they
will be put into brine and ship
ped via Panama canal to Belle
vile, N. j., for maraschino pro-
cessing. The cherries brought
$4,000 to the growers.
Vancouver - Resuming opera
lions for the first time since 1881.
the Hidden brick plant here will
begin manufacturing again next
week, Foster Hidden, proprietor,
announced. The plant will turn
out 10000 sand-molded brick
daily, giving employment to about
20 men.
Walla Walla - Ducks are all
right in the water, but chickens
are better on land, it was proved
at the C. H. Strobe ranch near
here. One-hundred chickens es-
capped but ducks were burned to
death in a fire that destroyed
barn, garage and poultry house.
Olympia - Ruling on a test
case, the state supreme court
holds that a provision of 1888
law designed to give delinquent
taxpayers a respite from foreclo-