Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-05-01
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1 Plans are under way for the forma-
' ton of Cowlitz County Historical
society.
King county needs four additional
superior court judges. according to
Judge J. T.. Ronald.
Thirteen ships carried 6,555,237 feet
1iii11 q Ss from the Grays Harbor
port dock during March
A cottage unit to house children will
be added to the Washington-Ore
|Pythian home at Vancouver.
Fire destroyed the processing plant
| of the American Squash Products COM
pany at Mabton, with a loss of $4,000.
Hailstones an inch in diameter fell
during storm in Sunnyside and piled
Contract for the erection of $685.,
900 high school at Chelan was award
ed to Lloyd Corle, Wenatchee contrac-
tor.
The constitutionality of the habitual
criminal statute of the state Of Wash
Engton was sustained by the supreme
court.
Fire destroyed more than half of the
town of Hamilton, in the upper Skagit
river valley, causing u loss estimated
at 100000.
Receipts at Vancouver postoffice for
three months of 1925 showed a gain OF
s2196.55, compared with the same
period last year.
Property owners in the Millerdale
district near Wenatchee voted to form
an irrigation district, there being only
one dissenting vote out of 40 cast.
CONSTRUCTION at Camas in the i'm
mediate future of sulphate pulp mill
has been definitely decided upon by
the Crown Willamette Paper company
Mrs Jessie P. Hedges. Yakima, was
reelected president of the Washington
State Music Teachers association at
the annual convention in Wenatchee.
Vancouver's historic apple tree,
frop oh I nm,
don and planted by DR.. John McLaugh-
lin in 1926, was a mass of pink-white
bloom again this spring.
The firm of Henry & McFee of Sc
attic have received the contract for
the construction of repair and fit
ting-out pier at the Puget sound navy
yard at price of $1,167394.
Two young men, apparently about
10 years old, held up the State bank
of Marysville, ten miles north of Ever
EFT, and obtained $4,000 in currency.
They escaped by automobile
A new pamphlet containing informa
ton and data from federal engineers
reports on the Columbia basin irriga
ton project has been issued by the
Columbia Basin Irrigation league.
What is believed to be northwest
lumber loading record was set at Aber-
deem last week when the Japanese
steamer Oridono Maru was loaded
mi oF
days.
S. B. L. Penrose, president Of Whit.
man college, has announced receipt of
gift of $4,000 from the Carnegie
corporation, which will be used as an
endowment fund for the college IL
brary.
Mrs. Emma Perry, 60, wife OF DR..
Henry " Perry, retired physician,
formerly of Ellensburg, was found
dead in hotel in Seattle. Police de-
clared she killed herself by cutting
her throat.
Net receipts of the interstate bridge
at Vancouver for three months of
1925 gained nearly SO per cent over
the same months in 1924. according
to report of Auditor Rae. The total
for 1925 was $75,29O.36
j. B. Woods. forest engineer in
charge of the forestry department for
the Long-Be Lumber company. has
arrived in Longview to undertake a
thorough study of the company's west
ern land and timber holdings.
H. E. Wallace of Seattle and Mrs.
Kreebs were killed instantly and a
man named Strayer was injured when
their automob struck tree beside
the Olympic highway at the Wynooche
turn, mile west of Montesano.
Two salmon weighing six pounds
each, caught in the Quinault river, by
Quinault Indians, were received by
President Coolidge in Washington, d.
c.. The salmon were the gift of
State Senator Poison of Hoquiam.
General increases in industrial in
surance rates were listed in a new
ratp chppt Of tho state dana ri ~, ont of