The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-09-07

Lumber company at RyderWood,
the Weyerhaeuser Timber COM
pany and Ostrander Railway &
Timber company, did not resume
last Monday because Of the contin-
ued danger Of fire. They shut
down the middle Of last week be-
cause Of the low humidity. There
are no fires of any size In the
county at present.
Wenatchee-Wages will be 25
per cent more than last year for
apple harvesting in the Wenatchee
district. The wage for general la
Dor will be rs cents an hour;
packing apples and pears, cents
a box; packing pears out of stor-
age, 81 cents; sorting and stamp
ing, % cents; out Of cold room, 80
cents and hour; mailing, Is to IS
cents an hour; Kidding and stamp
ing, SO cents and picking, 21z
cents per box.
White Salmon-While harvest
ing huckleberries for mess, Bill
Marshall, from C.C.C. camp No.
604, at Peterson Prairie near
Mount Adams, discovered a live
baby bear, but before he could
grab it the irate mother appeared
and without argument forced Bill
up a tree, then fingered around,
apparently satisfied to keep him
prisoner. sE-.. ..-..
Kelso-Nearly 100 new indus
tries employing one or more per-
sons have sprung up in Clark,
Skamania and Cowlitz counties in
the past 21k months, according to
a report from the bureau of Ia
Dor and industries. Five hundred
persons have been added to the
Industrial payroll of the district.
South Bend-The city council
Of South Bend has decided to re-
main on the daylight-saving
schedule. South Bend and Ray
mond and a part of the county
courthouse offices are the only
sections of the country to operate
under daylight saving, which will
obtain until September 80.
Newport-When d. M. Edens Of
Spring Valley heard his pigs
squealing frantically last Tues
day evening he Investigated. At
the pen he found a 100-poEnd
porker torn and bleeding and the
tracks Of a large cougar in the
soft ground leading to the tim
Der.
Colfax-Children playing with
matches in a barn were suspected
as being the cause of a farm fire
that swept over more than 700
acres and caused losses estimated
at more than $4,000 last week,
between Mockonema and Diamond,
northwest of here.
Three thousand persons
are picking huckleberries in the
Columbia national forest near Gull
er. The berries are selling at So
cents gallon. The crop is excel
lent and pickers will not be able
to gather all the berries before
frost comes.
Yakima - David williams, q
Harrah rancher, is wheat king Of
the Yakima Indian reservation.
His six-acre tract has produced an
average Of 1101s bushels Of wheat
to the acre. This yield beats by
eight bushels an acre the previous
record.
Coulee-Three oiled highways
will be built to the Grand Coulee
damsite at a cost Of approximately
100000. One road will run from
Coulee up Grand Coulee to the
dam, another will go from Almira
and another from Wilbur.
Walla Walla-The Walla walla
school board has contracted for
1000 tons Of Washington coal to
heat the schools this winter. Eight
bids were submitted for the same
price per ton. The board divided
the business among the eight.
Seattle Declaring that police
guards will be furnished to insure
delivery Of milk at 2 cents a half
pint bottle to Seattle schools, May
OF Dore has sought aid from the
federal government in a fight
against milk racketeers.
Hoquiam- Harvesting Of the
Grayland district cranberry crop
will start about September 20,
with the yield expected to be 1000
barrels, more than twice that Of
last year. About 1900 harvesters
will be hired.
Cou1ee City-Charges that the
state highway department is fav-
oring one Big Bend town over an
other in the construction of a
road to the Coulee dam site are
vehemently denied by District En-
y;noar rI;lI