Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

The Harding Memorial Association
has been formed by admirers of the
late executive and fund will be
raised to erect a memorial building
at Marion, Ohio.
A new book of especial interest to
many residents of the Northwest is
Stories of the Vikings" by Maurice
P. Dunlap, of the State Department
at Washington, D. c., and published
by Bobbs- Merrill, Indianapolis. The
book is illustrated by Tenggren, the
well-known Swedish-American artist,
and adds a Viking touch to the ap-
pearance of the publication.
In line with the advertising move
ment of other Northwest@cities Vic
toria, B. G., plans campS gn to at
tract tourists to Victoria and the
Northwest. The attractions of the
Northwest and Vancouver Island will
be pictures in advertisements in
magazines and newspapers. George
LIS Warren, industrial and publicity
commissioner, is in charge of the
work
Alberta, Canada, alone produced
approximately 2OO,OOO,OOO bushels of
wheat this year. All previous rec
ords of the Canadian wheat crop are
being broken this fall
Norwich, England, has the honor
of naming the first woman lard may.
or of England. The dignity has been
bestowed upon Miss Ethel Colman,
daughter of the late j. j. Colman,
MP
A committee of Austrian women
headed by Frau Fritz Kreisler, wife
of the great Austrian violinist, will
open a charity dining-room this win
ter in. the Kitchen of the old royal
palace in Berlin.
Madame Enrico Caruso is engaged
to marry Captain b. A. Ingram, a
Scotchman, the New York Times
says. Madame Caruso met Captain
Ingram last August on the Lido, and
the romance began when the captain
started giving her swimming lessons
The American Red Cross will spend
approximately $12,000,0O0 during the
current fiscal year ending June 80
1924. The budget allots $5,543, 077S1
for advancing the welfare of the PEG
pie and communities. The remainder
will be spent locally by the 5000
chapters of the organization.
Like bananas, sardines are liable
to be scarce this winter. The sum
mer was SO hot in Europe that sar
dimes, instead of coming inshore, as
has been the custom for hundreds OF
years, went to sea, apparently to
keep cool; hence the light pack
Scotch herring are also scarce.
Huddled together by thousands, in
tin shacks, the refugees in Japan are
starting a miserable winter. There
is also a great shortage of clothing.
Soldiers are building log barracks
with partitions every 20 feet, provid-
ing a 1Ox20 foot space for each fam
lily, in which quite large families are
huddled together for warmth
Bios were lately opened at the
Japanese Embassy for 12OOOO.O0O
board feet of American lumber to be
used in the construction work in the
Japanese earthquake district. Much
of the building can be only of a
temporary character, to be replaced
later by permanent structures. The
American commerce department is
cooperating with the embassy in or
der to insure fair prices. y.
Racine County, Wisconsin, claims
a 98-year-old resident-Mrs Carrie
Wilson Lane, who lives on a farm
near Waterford Mrs. Lane was born
in Norway, came to America with
her parents in 1841. At 20 years of
age she married John Lane, and had
10 children, only one of whom is
still living. She uses glasses only
to read and is in good health.
Life Insurance Record
l. twenty-five per cent more new
life insurance was bought by the
American people in December, last
year, than in December of the year
before, according to the monthly new
business report furnished to the