Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-14
Washington News

erations, after a shutdown of several
months.
Thomas Sanatarium at Soap Lake,
near Ephrata, was burned recently.
Fire started from the kitchen flue
and was discovered by the janitor.
The place was insured, for $4,000.
The Highland Dairy has awarded
a contract for the erection of a
creamery and. dairy goods handling
plant at Longriew. The building will
be 60x7O feet, 1t will be built of
tile
The cut stone on the ground site
of the new Legislative building of
the new Capitol group, at Olympia,
Is estimated to be worth $270,000.
Work will begin very soon on the
building.
A glass factory is urgently needed
in Seattle. according to Clancy NJ
Lewis, secretary of the Manufacture
ers' Association Of Washington. There
Is no glass factory here, consequent
ly Seattle sends its money outside
for bottles.
The first annual sale of purebred
Holsteins, under the auspices of the
Washington State Holstein Associa-
ton, was held at Puyallup Fair
Grounds last week. Buyers from Cali
fornia and Northwest states attend
| ed the sale. Two hundred head Of
stock changed owners.
The new stumping powder, Soda
tol,' is. giving as good results as the
ordinary stumping powder, and at
only about two-fifths OF the cost.
County agents are taking in numbers
Of orders and are well on their way
for the first carload order.
| The first of the wooden hulls that
| have been moored on Lake Union
was burned at Richmond Bea h.,
where it had been towed to its fun
eral pyre. 1t is the first Of is hulls
| which will meet the same fate in the
| near future.
Thirty-six fatalities from autom O.
| biles were reported during the month
of .October-in the state. For the first
10 months of this year fatalities
reached 1872 as against 122 for 1922.
Eleven of the fatal accident occurred
in Seattle, two in Spokane and three
in Stevens County, Bellingham and
Everett
Robert Zindel, living near Kenne-
wick, has been awarded the Armour
and Company prize of a free trip to
the International Livestock Exposi-
ton, in Chicago, on his pig club
work. Robert, who is only 13 years
of age owns Miss Long Chief, reg
istered Poland China SOW, and from
this animal he won the prize
Knights Templar of Commandery
No. 1, of Pittsburg, Pa, plan their
tour through the Northwest to the
1925 triennial meeting at Seattle to
mathematical perfection, according
to members of their pathfinding com
mission who were in the state re-
Gently. Nearly two years before the
the advance guard, are preparing a
schedule and tabulating every stop
on the long journey. Over 100000
visitors are expected to tour the
Northwest in 1925 for the event.
To foster development of the Ocean
Beach Highway project, : M. Hafen
brack, secretary of the Longview
Chamber of Commerce, is planning to
visit Wahkiakum County points this
week, in the interest of closer union
between Longview and that county
The road right of way has been
slashed and it will be passable for
ktravel early in the spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark, of Longview,
lost their two little girls in fire
that burned their tent house. Mrs
Clark had gone to some neighbors
for visit leaving the two babies in
| bed. The little girl, Pauline, was
| two years old and her baby brother
two months old. The children's ia
| ther is employed by the Long Bell
| Lumber Co. as blacksmith.
George Gibson, bell boy at the
Hotel New Arctic, found two bright
nuggets of virgin gold in the gizzard
of duck, which he had bought for
Thanksgiving dinner The nuggets
we're worth about $40 Gibson found
out that the duck was bought from
farmer living near Oak Harbor on
the north end Of Whidby Island. Per-
haps this discovery will start sec
ond Klondike rush.
A gift of $25O,OOO to the University
OF Washington has recently been
made by Mrs. A. H. Anderson, as. a
memorial to her late husband Alfred
H. Anderson The money Is to be
used to build new forestry build
ing, to be known as the alfred H.
Anderson Hall of the College Of For
estry." At Mrs. Anderson's urgent
request the work on the building will
commence at once. The forestry group
Of buildings Is expected to have the
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