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Dorsey Mayor Walla announces that the free kitchen being operated for transients is proving successful. Men are given tickets for six meals and after these are had they are required to move elsewhere. While being fed they are required to work on city projects. Scores of the small streams of Cowlitz county will be closed to fishing next year under an order adopted by the county game commission, which has been forwarded to the state game authorities for approval. All streams and lakes in which fish were planted this year will be closed. Nine thousand boxes of cranberries, the total year's harvest, enriched the Grayland section of Grays harbor by $30,000 this fall. The last of the bogs were recently cleaned of the 1931 growth. Grayland growers have been concentrating on McFarland and late Howe types of berries. An organization to help prepare young people for happy and successful marriage has been formed at Tacoma to combat the divorce evil and to preserve the American home. The organization includes representatives of the Y. W. C. A., the Y. M. C. A. and the First Congregational church. A new hotel, to cost about $50,000 is planned to replace the old Moffitt's Springs hotel, which was burned a year ago near Stevenson. For many years the curative properties of the springs have been known and they have drawn a large patronage from many sections of the country. The Olympic loop highway, sections of which washed out last winter during heavy rains, is standing up well this season despite recent heavy downpours, according to state engineers. Rain last winter cost contractors and the state a huge sum in replacement of washed fills and bridges. The annual migration of the thousands of crickets that infest the bottomland around Centerville during the summer is taking place now. They are to be seen on all sides going to the higher lands. This migration has taken place for years and the populace is at a loss to explain this annual event. Bread at three loaves for 10 cents and potatoes 50 pounds for 25 cents were advertised at Spokane for Saturday specials recently. Dealers say these are the lowest prices for these commodities in many years. On the same list apples are as low as 10 cents a box and cabbage and squash at $1.25 per hundred. The state highway department's winter regulations covering load and speed limitations on the Stevens Pass and North Bank highways became effective November 10 and will remain in effect until March 10. The limitations went into effect on Snoqualmie Pass and Naches Pass highways November 1. Hoquiam is taking its first bank failure with fortitude. Scores of merchants whose funds are tied up in the closed First National bank opened accounts in the Bank of Hoquiam, and business was being continued as usual. Merchants generally were optimistic, while not attempting to minimize the seriousness of the situation. Montesano's new entrance parkway, which is expected to provide the town with one of the finest entrances in southwest Washington, is now complete as far as the initial plantings are concerned, according to L. F. Heuperman of the city park board. The parkway, 1200 feet long by 10 feet wide, is planted according to an elaborate plan. The Grays Harbor Plywood corporation announced through Vice-President E. W. Daniels of Hoquiam that it would operate three factories under its control steadily, paying no less than $3 a day for common labor. The plywood factory is to run six days a week and the American door plant and the Knox & Tombs plant will each operate four days a week. The dairy business in the Deep River territory of western Wahkiakum county is gradually increasing. Several new barns and residences have been built during the past summer. Farmers are busy clearing more land. The dairymen have just completed their annual task of weeding out their poor cows and are gradually replacing them