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Lambs-Medium to good, $3.75@4.25 Hoquiam's new postoffice in the recently completed federal building, costing $150,000, was opened to the public last week after months of delay. Don Lomski, brother of Leo Lomski, prizefighter, was killed near Chewelah when a logging truck on which he was riding turned over, crushing him. Twenty-five men are working alternate 30-hour shifts on the Pend Oreille highway project being constructed from Slate creek north to the Canadian boundary. The Crown-Willamette headquarters camp closed last week for the winter. The camp has been operating about six weeks. The wood mill will continue to operate. The Carnegie foundation has allotted Whitman college $15,000 for the purchase of new books. This will total $90,000 in contributions from the foundation to the college. Three employes of the Bloedel Donovan Lumber mills at Bellingham, dropped a rope noose over the head of James M. McCrevy, 61, and saved him from drowning. Superior Judge Webster of Spokane county has declined to order forfeiture of a contract for a home until the legislature has an opportunity to enact relief legislation. Postal savings deposits increased $89,000 in November bringing the total to approximately $2,900,00 of which more than $2,000,00 has been redeposited in Spokane banks. Shipments of third grade apples, unwrapped, in lugs, from Yakima to Montana and the Dakotas have increased greatly since freight rates were reduced on such packages. The official count of Chelan county's vote shows that John A. Gellatly carried his home county by 206 votes. Unofficial returns had indicated that Martin had a majority of nearly 200. Work on the new grade between Touchet and Van Sycle canyon, a ninemile job, will start soon with about 80 men being put to work. It is expected that this work will continue all winter. The Farmers' State bank of Palouse announced a 60-day holiday. The decision to suspend business for that period is the result of a decision by the board of directors, sanctioned by Mayor W. J. Batten. Yakima valley members of the Washington Co-operative Egg & Poultry association will receive dividend checks aggregating $3000 to $4000, before Christmas. The total dividend amounts to $244,725. The Spokane county game commission will turn over to the new state game department one game farm estimated to be worth $50,000, a cash balance of about $5000 and 300 pairs of Hungarian partridges. Evidence that the codlin moth, chief pest in the apple orchards of eastern Washington, may be gradually developing an immunity to present spray material has been presented to the Washington Horticultural association by Dr. R. L. Webster of Washington State college. The latest development at Winona of ways to battle "the depression" is for the farmer to take a load of red wheat to some custom mill and come home with a load of flour and wheat roughage. Several growers here are doing it. Violets? Lots of them at White Salmon, as well as marigolds, asters, primroses, chrysanthemums, and salvia continue to blossom in that town. Shrubs are loaded with new buds, and the foolish narcise' are up five and six inches.