Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-28
Washington News

| Four hundred and seventy-nine cars
! of Yakima farm products were
shipped this week compared to 534
cars last week.
Golf is to be adopted as a minor
sport at the Washington State Col
lege. Golfers will participate in the
Pacific Coast tournaments. A six
hole course was constructed last
year.
Ending their session lately, the
Washington Congregational Confer
ence announced that plans had been
made for purchase of site for a
dormitory for Congregational stu
dents attending the University of
Washington.
After being appointed public health
nurse for Kelso and Longview, Miss
Caroline Gosnay has assumed heT
duties. She will have supervision
spect school children. Her salary
will be paid by Cowlitz County, Kel-
so and Longview.
Lacey " Murrow of Blanchard,
Skagit County, and Felix Rea, North
Bend, King County, have been des-
ignated by Representative Lin H.
Hadley for the West Point Military
Academy entrance examination to be
held beginning on March next,
with view to admission to the
Academy on July 1, 1924.
Putting a bottle of fashlight pow
der into the stove to see the result,
Roger Gee, ID years old, son of Her
bert Gee, civil engineer of West Sc
attic, is in the hospital suffering
from injuries to his right hand and
face The explosion blew off the
stove lid and broke four windows.
Four veteran workers in the Yak
ina postoffice ate their Christmas
dinners at home this year for the
first time in 81 years, due to the re-
cent department ruling curtaiIing
service on that day. They are:
Postmaster II. l.. Leeper, Assistant
George S. Hough, Superintendent OF
Mails A. R. Mcwain, and Clerk
Frank Lauterman
Many inquiries have been made
lately by men in the Middle West for
farm lands west of the Cascade
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dairy farms, most OF them having
been west as tourists during the last
summer. The inquiries are mostly
for farms ranging from 200 to 600
acres each.
F. j. Mist, president of the Seattle
Box Company, has just booked sin.
gle order for 100000 egg cases from
the Washington Cooperative Egg and
Poultry Association. To fill these
cases 36,OO0,OO0 eggs will be required
and 200 cars to ship them to mar
ket. This order represents about a
90-day requirement of the poultry as
ISOLATION
/ An English firm is seeking a loca
ton for big apple storage ware
house, either in Wenatchee or Yaki
ma. This firm intends starting a
continuous shipment of apples TIC
London. The storage plant will be
erected in time to handle the trade
next year Cold storage fruit is not
wanted in England; only fresh fruit
is demanded. Meat and butter are
about all the commodities that have
cold storage trade.
The erection of the Hotel Win
throp, the $1,50O,000 community en-
terprise of Tacoma, has been award
ed to Tacoma contracting firm
Pratt & Watson. the hotel will be
ready for operation in the spring Of
1925. The site of the hotel is al
Ninth and Broadway, which has al
ready been cleared The Winthrop
will have 253 sleeping rooms, eacf
with bath and shower. A roof gar
den will surmount the eight stories
above the Broadway level.
The former battleship Connect
cut" was towed from Bremerton re
Gently to the ]. F. Duthie & Co
wharf. This battleship once flew The
flag of Fighting Bob" Evans, ant
headed the squadron of American
battleships on tour of the worlt
Is years ago. Her engines were lont
since dismantled, her mighty gun,
spiked and useless. She will be re