Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-12
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a time-limit parking ordinance in the
business district.
Hoquiam - State Health Director
Coffey has called on all parents to
check their children's health before
the opening of schools. A recent
survey showed that IS per cent. of
pre-school children had some type of
physical defect-poor teeth, eyes,
sight and hearing.
Seattle - After conquering Mt.
Baker, four-year-old Raymond Bright
Jr. is all set to climb Mt. Rainier
next year. The youngster used a
broomstick cut to his size, for an
alpenstock. He made the trip with
a group of climbers from Bellingham
state normal school.
Dayton - The city council of Day
ton has appointed committee to
meet with the city attorney and
committee from the chamber of
commerce to devise means to pay
Mayor William Rennewanz for his
services. He is serving his seventh
year as mayor on non-salary basis.
Inchelium-Plans are being made
to fool the waters of the Columbia
when Grand Coulee dam is complet-
ed. Drawings for a new school
building 101x11O feet, are being pre-
pared by George Rasque, Spokane.
The building is to be frame and NOV
able. 1t will be set on the present
school site, but may be moved as the
waters creep up on it. 1nchelium is
nearly 100 miles above Grand Coulee.
Chehalis - The "galloping goose"
motor train, which has been han
ling the passenger service on the
Northern Pacific's Chehalis-South
Bend branch the past two years or
more, has ceased to gallop, except on
Sundays. Due to increased log and
lumber shipments on that line of late,
a mixed steam train is now being run.
This is reminder of the early zoos,
when all the business on the South
Bend branch was handled that way.
For year or two or three passenger
tickets were not sold.
Yakima - A vacuum sweeper mo-
tor and drain pipes of sink COM
bined with a hand-operated device
for alternate pressure and suction
are essential features of a machine
that has been operating for three
weeks to restore circulation in the
fractured leg Of Byron Poisel at st.
Elizabeth's hospital here. The ma
chine was planned by DR.. ]. E. Bitt-
ner Jr., who says it is yet experiment
tai and unnamed. Electricity oper
ates the motor and Poisel himself
operates a pully that reverses the
air circulation.
Pasco = Improved business condi-
lions are indicated in the employment
records of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company here. ALI engine
men who have been on indefinite
leave for many months because of
scarcity of work, have been called
back into the service. A dozen
brakemen have been borrowed from
other divisions of the railroad. Prac-
tically all the switchmen on the SEN
iority lists are working, and tele-
graphers who had planned vacations
have been refused leave of absence
because they were needed.
Longview-A huge tree was felled
at the Jacobsen brothers logging OPP
erations at Brookfield in Wahkiakum
county last week. The spruce taxed
the capacity of the camp in falling,
bucking and putting it into the river
for rafting. The tree was II feet
through at the top of the 10foot
stump, and the first 16-foot log was
bucked scaled 10000 feet. Jonas
Larson and Pat Jacobsen required
day and a half Of steady work with
nine-foot saw to bring the giant
down. John Ashley was the bucker.
buck the first. At the top of the
stump, rings showed that the tree
was 405 years old.
"Stone Girl' Shows Signs of Recovery
Tacoma-Proper diet and exercise
is bringing Mona Cloyes, 10, Roy,
Wash, "stone girl" a cure from
scleroderma, a rare disease that was
turning the tissues of her body to
stone, DR.. H. G. Willard, her physi-
clan, states. Miss Cloyes' condition
was caused by deposits of excess
mineral matter in her body. She