Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-04
Washington News

The quarantine has been lifted for
the State College of Washington, as
no more cases of scarlet fever de-
veloped after five segregated cases
recovered. No dances or roller skat-
ing parties, however, will be sched-
uled after the Christmas holidays.
Vacation ends January 5.
After two years search, deputy
sheriffs recently located and arrest
ed three men charged with Is bank
robberies. Their names are John j.
Reed, 33 years old; John H. Mason,
80 years odl, and James Watson, 48
years old Reeds wife was also ar
rested and is held in King County
jail with the others.
The Puget Sound Navigation Com
pany has withdrawn, for the rest Of
the winter, the ferryboat Mount
Vernon from the Anacortes-Vancou
yer route. During the season now
closed, the ferryboat has carried
thousands of automobiles to and from
Vancouver Island, the service deyel-
oping into one Of the big tourist feat
ares of the Northwest.
A campaign for funds for the cree
ton of the first unit of hospital to
pacity, will be started in January.
The Longview General Hospital AS
ISOLATION, with DIR. w. S. Sharp as
president, was launched recently. DR..
]. L. Norris is vice-president; G. M.
Hagenback, secretary; DR.. E. G.
Hackett, treasurer.
The Cowlitz River channel to the
Longbell Lumber Company holdings
at Longview, Wash, will be dredged
and widened by the dredge employed
in the West Seattle Waterway here
for several years. 1t was sold to the
lumber company recently by the Du-
vanish Waterway Commission, which
purchased the dredge three years
ago at cost of about $3.50, 200.
Charles Schulz was elected presi-
dent of the Puyallup Chamber of
Commerce last week, at the annual
election in the Chamber of Commerce
rooms in the Civic Auditorium. W.
H. Grayum. present president and
chosen a candidate refused the office
for second term, because he said
Of an unwritten law that no man
should hold office for second term
Dense fog has taken another toll
of Puget Sound steamers. The S. S.
Historian was sunk after collision
with Union Oil Company barge
recently on her way from Bellingham
to Seattle. All on board were saved
the barge was towed to Smith Cove
The S. S. Astorian carried cargo
estimated to be worth $4,000, con.
sisting chiefly of turkeys from the
San Juan Islands, intended for Sc
attle's Christmas.
| Kelso is soon to have a lodge OF
| It's own. The Elks of that town plan
to beat its neighbor, Longview, to it.
as indicated by action already taken
down that way. Granting of an
Elks' charter is molly possible if the
town has 5000 people. A very lively
bunch constitute the committee hand.
ling the proposed lodge organization,
and strict count will be made of
the inhabitants of Kelso.
Whitman College trustees have Of
fered a competitive Boy Scout schol-
lrship, amounting to tuition for four
years-at present $135 a year-open
to Boy Scouts or ex-Boy Scouts of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon.
tana. To be eligible for the contest
a boy must have been certified as
having passed all requirements for a
irst-class Scout and must have ade-
quate high school credentials for en-
trance to Whitman College. Credit
will be given for qualities OF leader
ship manifested In both activities.
Scout merits and special distinctions
will also be counted as well as school
honors and distinctions.
A graded and surfaced highway is
being constructed through the can
yon of the Yakima River, between
Ellensburg and Yakima, on the In
land Empire Highway. More than a
million dollars of state and federal
aid money is being spent in the
Yakima Valley district, which will
make the present route IS miles
shorter between Ellensburg and
Yakima, eliminating 20 miles of un-
improved mountain road, and climb
Of 1000 feet over the divide between
Wenas Creek and Ellensburg.
On account of a proposed trip
abroad for year, for study. DR.. H.
K. Stockwell of Monroe, resigned as
president of the North Pacific Show.
In accepting his resignation, and in
recognition OF his services in pro-
noting and successfully carrying
through the shows of 1922 and 1923.
the directors Of the association pre-
sented DR.. Stockwell with a hand
some leather travelling bag, and In
further recognition of the doctors
services, he was made honorary pres
ident of the association.