Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-01-02
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume OF Happenings
Of the Week Collected for
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ers' National bank of Pomeroy will
receive dividend of Is per cent. for
Christmas present, the receiver an
nounces.
Seattle-Pursuing a robber sus-
pect, Smith Christensen, a Seattle
taxicab driver, pinned the man
against the wall with his cab and then
subdued him with an automobile
crank. Christensen used his car be-
cause he had a wooden leg and was
unable to give chase on foot.
Seattle-Five stories above third
avenue seagull knocked butter
dish off window sill, and H. G..
Leschander, elderly Port Blakely
man, had to be told later what hit
him. Leschander was knocked I'M
conscious by the falling dish. Pas
sersby picked him up and took him
to doctors office.
Aberdeen = Police, called to a
downtown corner here by report of
fist fight, saw two aged men ex-
changing furious blows. One gave
his age as "A, the other 20. The ell
der claimed it was his first fight. Be-
cause both are "fine old gentlemen"
their names were withheld. They
were released after first-aid treat
ment. The fight started after an ar
gument over the merits of the Town
send plan.
Chewelah-Bank of Chewelah de-
positors received through the mail
checks for an per cent. dividend.
According to a 10 per cent. dividend
of $4,000 last year, it will mean
about $1,000 more in circulation.
More than 500 depositors will receive
checks. It was the fifth dividend paid
by the defunct bank and brought the
total paid to AZ per cent. The checks
were released by M. O. Page, Deer
Park, Wash, liquidator.
Wenatchee-Re about the ap-
pie crop freeze in central Washing
ton, a Minnesota storekeeper has
sent IL pairs of overalls, shoes and
overshoes and other clothing to be
distributed to children of ranchers
who lost their crops. At Rotary
luncheon it was announced that 480
suits of underwear and several hun
dred pairs of shoes, overshoes and
stockings had been supplied pupils SO
far this year by private and public re-
lief agencies.
Hoquiam-Hoquiam looks forward
to it's largest industrial payroll in four
years. The employment increase will
be made possible throughsthe addition
of 800 men to payrolls of the Grays
Harbor Lumber company, Hoquiam,
and the Greenwood Logging company
within the next two weeks. The lum-
Der company officials said it's plant
will go on a two-shift basis January
q. The logging company announced
it's camps, closed since May 6, will re-
open soon after Christmas.
Gig Harbor-Another call for the
ichthyologists- hurry call at
that. The present subject is a choc-
olate brown fish, seven feet long-and
weighing over 100 pounds. It's meat
is white-like halibut-and investi-
gators reported it has craw like a
chicken. The fish was washed up on
Wanna tideflats and thus far has
stymied local experts who sought to
identify it. The hurry? Well, near
by residents just think it's been sit
ting around about long enough.
Okanogan-The e. Wagner e Son
sawmill here has just completed it's
seasons run and Otto H. Wagner,
manager, said it broke all records for
production, consuming 5000 man
hours of labor and turning out more
than 100000 feet of lumber. 1t
was almost double the production last
year. Wagner believes 1886 will be
an excellent year for the lumber bust
ness. The company has As men in the
woods logging and will continue that
operation all winter. Ten men are
employed making improvements at
the plant here.