Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-12-12
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume OF Happenings
! of the Week Collected for
Our Readers

bur sneezed, recently, he suffered
the refracture of several ribs that
had been broken in fall two weeks
ago.
Dayton-A new spring of water
has appeared on the farm of Franz
Romano, near Dayton. Its appear
ance was coincident with the Mon
appear in the vicinity in many years.
Wenatchee-Jack Columbus. apple
dealer, said he was preparing dozen
boxes of the Wenatchee valleys
choicest apples for Adolf Hitler. Ger
man chancellor. He received the
order from a California acquaintance
of the dictator.
Kennewick-Possibi that the
spinach crop, frozen last mouth,
might still be of sufficient size to
warrant cannery run, is reported
at Kennewick. Growers report the
spinach has begun to grow nicely fol-
lowing the freze.
Yakima - F. G. Hail, who has
served as election officer in the va
kima school district for the past %
years, will not be able to serve this
year. He is in the hospital with a
broken arm and fractured leg as
the result of collision with an auto
mobile.
Pullman-Harriet Williams Bryan,
wife of DR.. Enoch A. Bryan, president
emeritus of Washington State college,
is dead at the family home at Pull
man after an illness of several
months. She was 70 years Of age
and until her fatal illness was active
in the Presbyterian church and in
women's clubs.
Goldendale- Judge J. E.
Some was given crude marble AK,
fashioned from native marble, to add
to his collection Of curios. The ak
was unearthed by pillow on the
Frank Graham farm near Centerville
The pillow share broke the ak at an
angle. The surface of the blade is
highly polished.
than Is years, the Sherman district,
about 10 miles northeast of Wilbur,
decided to have no community din
ner on Thanksgiving day, for the
reason that so many of the old-time
residents have moved away during
the last year that the occasion would
not be so happy.
Ritzville - Residents of Adams
county are impatiently gazing at the
number of people on reliof-hoping
that there soon will be more! A
| $4,000 curb street lighting project
for Ritzville, under WPA, has been
planned and approved. Now r. B.
OFT, city attorney, makes the start
ling announcement that WPA Of
ficials have told him there are not
enough people on relief to furnish la
Dor. Only rs men are on relief.
Forty are necessary.
Seattle - baby and an elderly
man are alive, saved by science. In
the Ballard hospital, the baby was
born without life. A new respirator,
which forces the lungs into action, as
we'll as pumping oxygen into them,
was brought into play and within half,
an hour the baby gasped and lived. A
few hours later the elderly man, Wall
ter Kuenzi, "died" in the same hos
pital. Because of a growth in his
throat, he ceased to breathe for more
than four minutes. The same ma
chine which had given life to the
babe was brought into play and Ku-
emf, too, came back to life.
Yakima-Last Thursday saw an
other chapter i'm the 50-year romance
with the marriage of Laura A. Lash
Ter and w. G. Scott. They were en-
gagged to be married when she was 16
and he was 10 in Todd county, MINI.
The couple met with parental objec-
tions and Miss Lashier's mother took
her to Battle Creek, Mich, to forget
her romance. Many years later the
now Mrs. Scott moved to Oregon and
through correspondence with a
schoolmate, who was cousin Of Mr..
Scott, learned where he was living.
She came to Yakima two years ago.
They will live on ranch near here.
Spokane-A tradition of/49 years
was not broken Thanksgiving even
ing when Captain John C. Benson,
72-year-old mariner and deep sea
miner, entertained seven street news
paper statesmen at dinner. The group
represented nearly 500 years of life,
the youngest being GO and the Oldest
80. Yarns and experiences were eX-
changed from nearly all walks of life
by the venerable gathering. Forty
nine years ago, Captain Benson en-
joyed his first Thanksgiving in the
United States. A pledge to his wife,
now dead, was made that he would
never be without guests on Thanks
giving day. 1t has been kept.
YakiIna-Leaning over piece of
wet wash, Ann Brown, II, caught
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