Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-03-07


will start soon to manufacture the
gas Mr.. Shultz has secured 40
acre site from the Longview Company.
Mr.. Shultz was formerly chief engi-
neer of the Santa Fe Railway system.
LONGVIEW.-A committee Of Is
was elected recently here to manage
the affairs Of the Longview Commu-
nifty Y. M. G. A. B. H. Smith, Jr., Is
chairman.
SEATTLE.-Melville T. Perkins Of
Tacoma has been awarded the E. l. du
Pont de Nemours & Co. fellowship in
chemistry at the University of Wash
ington for the second time and has en-
gagged in study Of the chemical re-
actions occurring around the electric
car. The du Pont concern has offered
a fellowship in chemistry each year
since 1918 that has enabled the win
ners to pursue graduate work and
conduct industrial researches along
chemical lines. The University of
Washington is one of 20 institutions
where the fellowship is awarded.
William A. Hardy Of Seattle was the
flyst winner and the following year
William G. McIndoe of Portland, Orc,
obtained the award
TACOMA.-A Japanese cherry tree
In the yard of James Perfeld, 11S
Fourth Avenue Northeast, Puyallup,
is mass of pink blossoms.
TACOMA. - National advertising
launched by the Wheeler Osgood Co.,
door manufacturers of this city, re-
ceived hearty approval at the meeting
of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club,
which organization has passed vote
Of appreciation for the boost Tacoma
industry has been given through this
company's enterprise. The Wheeler
Osgood Co. has perfected door which
is declared to be proof against shrink
age or expansion. One hundred In
quiries day are being received from
throughout the country.
OLYMPIA.-Great concern is felt
among cattle men over reports OF the
presence Of foot and mouth disease on
the Pacific Coast. They are the first
reports, for a long period, OF this
disease, and unless 1t can be confined
to small territory, it may prove very
serious.
SEABECK.-H. B. Creel of Seabeck
has been appointed field representa-
tive Of the State Farm Bureau and
will begin campaign in Skagit Coun-
ty early next month, to inform the
farmers and the public generally of
the purpose Of the organization and
to show the close relation which farm
ing bears to other industries.
SEATTLE.-Profess Trevor KIN
caid, Of the department of zoology,
University of Washington, has just
received from the old world one of
the most valuable contributions that
has ever been sent to Seattle in the
shape of consignment from France
of "Digonichaeta Setipennis"-i 9TH
er words, what is commonly known as
the tachinid fly. This insect is about
a quarter the size Of the common
house fly and is the deadly enemy of
the dreaded earwig. Professor Kin
caid is now caring for this first ship
ment Of tachinid flies, and will re-
lease them as soon as he is certain
that spring is really here.
EVERETT.-Snoho County Po-
mona Grange at its quarterly meeting
in Sultan adopted a resolution favor
ing restriction of foreign immigration
to the minimum. From an education-
al point of view the meeting was de-
clared to be the best for long time,
the prominent speakers included r.
M. Turner, Washington State College,
on the purebred sire campaign now in
progress; A. G.. Ziebell, Pomon mas
ter, on the necessity Of business in
terests of the state sustaining the
pure dairy food law, and of necessity
for cheaper powder for clearing
land; A. q. Smith, county agricultural
agent, value of COW testing.