The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-12-04

months the state mas operated Tie
LIQUOR monopoly The agencies, 10
Gated in smaller towns, sold but ST.
37O.OOS worth of 'firewater".
While the average small city IL
ouor stores sales run 5000 TO $l5,-
600 a month, heaviest sales in an
agency have not been more than
! sec, 534 in IS months operation. Cou-
lee City carried off high honors Tor
1.-THE biggest agency sales With that
| figure.
Grand COulee Sales Heavy
While dam workers at Grand Cou-
lee bought $lO,5OO worth Of liquor
from the local store during October
alone, North Bonneville's agency at
Bonneville dam has taken in but
$29, 12l in IA months.
AS rule, heaviest agency sales
were recorded at agencies located
on outskirts of large cities, like
Hillyard, near Spokane, with $685.
OO8 total sales to date, and Kirk
land, near Seattle, with $37 ,12l.
In the dry, central Washington
area, agency managers are finding
the populace thirstier than in the
4 average western town. Towns like
Onak, Palouse,. Ritzville, Newport
: and Uniontown far outstripped
agencies in western towns of Suni-
l lar size.
Coast Sales Listed
| Sales in those towns since their
agencies opened ranged from $685.
/. 600 to $4,000, compared to only
S15,641 for Montesano, $12,588 for
South Bend, or $16,07S at Monroe.
The following list shows total
liquor sold in the agencies from
the time of their opening up to
October l when the new fiscal year
opened. Agencies are listed in
the approximate order Of their
opening, with the last II named
not opened until early in 1885.
| Coulee City, $66.534; Cathlamet.
SIT, 1892; Stevenson, $12.2O7; Gold
endale, $26,289; Castle Rock. $13,-
867; Morton, $13,502; Eatonville,
s7,848; Kent, STAG; North Bend.
S24, 342; Sedro Woolley, $27 ,585;
Long Beach, $27, 72o; Kirkland, $751;
: l21; Concrete, $16,251; Snohomisl.
!, s12,S34; Monroe, sl6,078; Arlington,
sl4, 628; East StanWood, $16.553.
Okanogan-Ch elan Sales Big
Edmonds, $17.OO6; Burlington.
s17,13s; Orting, $6,867; Buckley,
So, 784; battle-ground, $10,180; Quin-
cy, 1892; Soap Lake, $13,678; South
, Bend, $12,588; Republic, $17,O44;
: Tonasket, $1,000; Omak, $2s, 700;
Okanogan, $3O,591; Chelan, $30,912;
Waterville, $11,039; Almira, $l2,125;
Davenport, $25,132; Harrington
s11, O48; Chewelah, $15,203.
Kalama, $7,873; Newport, $43, 582
I Ritzville, $31,129; Palouse, $38,647;
Cashmere, 23,267; Wilbur, $2s, 1868
:. Deer Park, $1O,36O; Sprague, SILL
586; Wasntucna, $9,618; Rosalia
!. $13 ,169; Uniontown, $53,676; Pom.
y eroy, $28,724; Dayton, $26,387
t Waitsburg, $10,216; Wapato, $18,45O
Q White Salmon, $19,455; NORTH
: Bonneville, $29,121; Tekoa, $23,287
: Prosser, $17,816; WinsloW, Sill POI.
q Use Little Booze At Linden
? Quilcene, $5,387; Sequim, $l7,52O
!. Clallam Bay, 1882; Forks, $17,Ce7;
}. Pacific Beach, $7,854; Elma, $l8,-
9S6; McCleary, $685.; Montesano
$ $15, 641 Winthrop, $14,252; Oroville
n $18,979; Northport, $4,18l; Metaline
Falls, $12,675; Marysville, 1888;
6 Burien, $4,000; Linden, $9,152
d Blaine, $12,5O1; Sumas, So 366.
Ferndale, $7,693; Everson, $3,459
), Oak Harbor, $5,233; Coupeville, $4,.
o 692; Ephrata, $1O,367; Hillyard, $780,,
). OO8; Pc Ell, 1914; Winlock, $15,179
wilkinson, $4,279; woodland, $9,392
Gig Harbor, $3,095; La Center, ST.,
n Alb; Ridgefield, $3,447; Connell, So,
y 991; Odessa, 1888; Onalaska, So,
; 1871; Lind, $8O81: White Center