Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-10-01
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
Our Readers


men are engaged in tearing up, wild
ening and resurfacing five miles of
highway east of here.
Spokane-Plans for the establish
ment of three new CCC camps in the
Northwest accommodating 500 more
men were announced here recently.
Prosser-A local merchant recent
ly displayed in his store window a
squash weighing 118 pounds and
measuring " inches in circumfer-
ence.
MISREPRESENTATION of county
welfare association is to be completed
with the election of officers and the
appointment of committees to make
a survey to determine eligibles for
relief.
Mason City-More than 200 pow
err engineers visited the Grand Coulee
dam recently. The delegation repre-
sented 20 foreign countries and all
the larger utilities concerns of the
United States.
KeIso-Two carloads of fresh sal
mon were shipped to New York last
week by a Kalama fish company. APP
proximately 100000 pounds of CHI
nook and silversides were included in
the shipment.
Bellingham-An order for 800, 900
apple box shocks from Nelson, New
Zealand was placed recently with
the Morrison Mill company here and
will be divided between the Belling-
ham and Anacortes mills.
St. John-A local farmer recently
found that several of his potatoes
from small patch were pierced by
quack grass. This grass is null
sance in the midwest states but is
not common in this part of the coun-
try.
Olympia-For the first time in his
tory of the state the number of mo-
tor vehicles registered has exceeded
the 100000 mark. A check up on
September Is revealed that 504,330
were listed as compared with total
of 449,425 for the entire year of
1895.
Seattle-An eleven year old lad
was recently rescued after being bur-
led alive for half an hour when
"pirate's cave" of his own digging
collapsed. A neighbor noticed that
the cave had smothered the boy and
dug him out. He was revived by
pulmotor
SYSTEMATICALLY all of the 800
employees of the White Pine Sash
company went back to work recently
at the conclusion of an agreement
between union and mill officials that
the men receive 40 cents an hour I'M
til November 1 when the scale is to
be raised to II cents.
Shelton-A. e. Harris resorted to
the use of a ladder in order to har-
vest his largest squash, Hubbard.
The squash, three feet in circumfer-
ence, was hanging from plum tree.
The vine climbed the tree last spring
and had attained the height Of Is
feet at the time of harvest
Observation-Disclosures by the recent
prices of As cents a pound for hops,
several growers who had abandoned
their yards in the spring, put crews
to work picking hops where the
vines had grown on the ground dur
ing the season. Several tons were
harvested in many instances.
Valley-A six foot rattlesnake was
killed by Artie Dunlap recently. Dun
lap was about to enter the front gate
to his brothers house when he spied
the serpent, almost stepping on it.
He ran to the house, secured gun
and shot it. The RATHER was five
feet ten inches long with IL rattles
and button.
Satsop-Ted Mouncer claims that
he has finally discovered the worlds
best rat trap. Finding an injured owl
recently, he took the bird to his
store, bound up the injured wing and
left the owl perched on rafter of
the store for the night. The next
morning he found six dead rats scat
fnrad IN tho floor