Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-04-17
WASHINGTON STATE
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Principal Events Of the Week
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of Our Readers.

The sheriff's report for March show
ed a total of 38 arrests in Clarke
county.
Longview's second annual flower
and vegetable show will be held
August Is.
Net profits of Seattle's municipal
light and power department in 1924
were s7OO,OsS.
During March Cowlitz county paid
bounties on 10 wildcats, 10 coyotes
and one cougar.
Building permits issued by the Van
couver city clerk for March totaled
fifty, valued at $73,3S5.
Three residences were burned at
Halter Lake, five miles north of Sc
attic, with a loss of $4,000.
Prune trees are in full bloom all
over the Walla Walla valley. This is
fully ten days earlier than last year.
Alfred Swanson was drowned when
he fell, from a Milwaukee railroad
bridge across the Chehalis river near
Dryad.
Hoquiam city commissioners an
nounced that definite plans were be-
ing made for erection of a city hall
early in 1926.
A drive for membership just COM
pleted by Grant Hodge post of the
American Legion at Centralia, netted
70 new members.
A group of Astoria and Wahkiakum
county citizens have begun drilling
for oil at the mouth of Grays river
in Wahkiakum county.
About $50 delegates from all parts
of the state attended the annual state
conference at Aberdeen of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution.
Approximately $4,000 will be ex-
pended in Vancouver on improve
ments in telephone equipment by the
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.
i Marriage licenses issued at Van
couver during March this year fell be-
low the March record of the last two
years and far below February, 1925.
The potato crop of Clarke county is
delayed and only a few early potatoes
Of various varieties have been plant
ed on account of the recent cold rains.
A benefit ball to raise a fund to
be used by Vancouver police in assist
ing men who drift to the police sta
ton for shelter will be given on
April IS.
District association No. 8, Knights
of Pythias, comprised of seven lodges
in Clarke and Cowlitz counties, held
it's 25th annual convention Saturday
at Kelso.
Out of the lump sum river and har-
Dor appropriation the secretary of war
has allotted $4,000 to be expended on
Snake river in Washington, Oregon
and Idaho.
The Olympic national forest has
received an allotment of $4,000 from
the federal forest service for road
and trail work in the reserve the
coming season.
During the month of March 397 per-
mits were issued at Tacoma for build
ings valued at $756,891. The total for
the last three months is $50 permits,
$2,502,186 value.
With but one dissenting vote, resi-
dents of Longview voted in favor of
the issuance of $4,000 bond to pur-
chase site and erect a new public
school for the city.
L. A. Mcleod, Olympia, recently ap-
pointed state highway engineer for
Chelan, Douglas, Okanogan and Grant
counties, has established permanent
headquarters at Wenatchee.
The state has started proceedings
to obtain an injunction prohibiting
Walla Walla from dumping unsteril-
lied sewage into Mill creek, the Walla
Walla river or any irrigation canals.
Several hundred tulip, hyacipth,
daffodil and narcissus blossoms were
on exhibition at the first annual
spring flower show of the Clarke
County Floral society at Vancouver.
Mrs. H. r. Odell, wife of Major
H. R. Odell of the military department
at the Oregon Agricultural college at
Corvallis, Or is dead. She was the
daughter of the late Governor Lister.
Excavation has started at Wenat-
chez for modern cold storage and
fruit warehouse for the Wells & Wade
Fruit company. The plant will have
cold storage capacity of from $50
to 200 cars.
Plans for campaign in June to
raise 100000 in this state toward
the American legion's national endow-
ment fund of $5,00O,00O will be made
by the organizations state executive
committee April 10.
Under an appropriation which the