Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-02-20
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
8riet Resume Of Happenings
Of the Week Collected for
Our Readers

~ SCHOOL directors nave ADOPTED res
olutions urging that standard first
aid kit be supplied to each school in
the county and that preference be
given in hiring school bus drivers to
those who have had Red Cross aid
training.
Centralia - Mrs. Aaron King of
Glenoma, in eastern Lewis county,
gave birth to her fourth set of twins
the other day. The Kings now have
nine living children. Three others
are dead. The twins, boy and a
girl, weighed 9 and II pounds, re-
spectively. Mrs. King is less than 80
years old.
Aberdeen - A drought" hit the
Wynooche Oxbow, site of Aberdeen's
proposed municipal power planA in
January when only Pills inches of
rain fell. The January average there
is more than an inch a day. Last
year the January rainfall totaled
1886 inches, 9.47 inches falling in
single day.
White Salmon-Local mills are
starting preparations for spring oper-
ations. The Northwestern mill on
Northwestern lake will soon begin
cutting 100000 feet daily. The Nor
ris mill is to be moved from the
Snowden district to Troutlake. The
output of the Norris mill is to be be-
tween 10000 and 10000 feet daily.
A lath mill is also to be installed to
use waste material and edgings.
Seattle-The state bar association
board of governors announced that
gray-haired mother led all the So
students who passed the state bar ex-
aminations. She is Mrs. Sophie Rob-
bins Samuels, wife of DR.. S. Maimon
Samuels, Seattle oculist and aurist.
And now, with a paper showing she
is qualified to practice, Mrs. Samuels
said, IT hardly know what to do,
whether to open an office or just go
on being housekeeper.
Custer-A horse is alive here,
saved from death by an automobile
wrecking car. Sunday the 1900
pound horse fell into we'll on near
by farm. Deputy Sheriff Sydney
Stewart called for wrecker, which
found the surprised horse on its
back, ii feet down in the dry we'll.
The horses feet were tied together,
and the cable that has pulled many
a car from the ditch slowly pulled
the frightened but uninjured animal
to the surface.
Randle - John Kehoe, so, cham
pion wood chopper of Lewis county,
using an ak, competed against man
with gasoline-driven saw-and lost
"by few sticks. While Kehoe re-
lied on his ak alone, Robert McNee,
40, cut his wood in lengths with the
saw and split it with an ak. At the
end of an hour, each had cut approx
imately four ricks and the judges had
to count leftover sticks to decide the
winner. Despite his 80 years, Kehoe
appeared little fatigued.
Aberdeen-Roscoe the Rats merry
bell will jangle nerves of Aberdeen
housewives no more. The big rat,
belled by a merchant here 10 days
ago, has gone to rat heaven or wher-
ever dead rats go. Roscoe erred in
returning once too often to the store
where he was belled. The merchant
responsible for the belling was anX-
ious to escape the abuse heaped on
him, even though his name had not
been published. A quantity of food
tempting to rats lured Roscoe back
into the warehouse again. He was
shared in large trap made especial
ly for him.
Wenatchee-1f it's apple juice, ap-
pie peeling or apple pulp you want,
Wenatchee has it, either alone or all
combined, but when an order came
for 1000 pounds Of apple seeds, ev-
erybody was stumped. 1--WE have tons
of apple ,seed,' said Hunter Martin,
secretary of the chamber of COM
merce, "but he would have to take
the apples along with them" Rich
ard V. Bausher, Allentown, Pa, seed
dealer, wants the seed, and would like
to have prices for immediate ship
ment. However, Martin couldn't ev-
en- find pound Of seed, not to men
ton a ton.