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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
COULEE CITY VETERANS GET
ABOUT FIFTEEN THOUSAND
COUNCIL MEETS
AT EPHRATA FRIDAY NIGHT

The Four-County council will
meet on Friday evening at 500 o.
clock at Ephrata to discuss the
problems of different communities
within their boundaries. James
Ford of the Spokane Chamber of
Commerce, will be the featured
speaker of the session. He has just
returned from trip to Washing
ton. D. c., and will doubtless have
many interesting facts to tell his
audience of what is going on in the
national capitol.
Rufus Woods, Wenatchee news
paperman, will also be present and
will give talk on his recent visit
to Russia and other European coun-
tries.
A group of local businessmen are
planning to attend and bring up
matters affecting this area.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
RHODES HURT
AT BLUE LAKE
Vertabrae Fractured From Dive
Into Shallow Water, Youth
VIII Live

A dive into shallow water at
|estark's beach, Blue lake, Sunday
resulted in the serious injury of L..
r. Rhodes, 81, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Rhodes, Sr., of Coulee City.
Young Rhodes suffered the fracture
of two vertabrae when his head hit
on the bottom of the lake after div
ing into water about three feet in
depth.
He was Immediately rushed to
the Soap Lake hospital and from
there to the hospital at Mason
City, where it was at first doubted
that he would survive. However, he
rallied and last reports indicate he
is on the road to recovery.
Doctors at Mason City expressed
the opinion that the youth was
lucky to be alive considering the
nature of his injuries He will be in
cast for about six weeks.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
LARSEN SAYS LAW SUIT HAS
BEEN SETTLED OUT OF COURT

Harvey N. Larsen, former editor
and publisher of the Grand Coulee
Times, paid the Dispatch visit on
his return from the Coast Wednes-
day. He announced that he was def
anitely through with the Grand Cou-
lee publication, as the impending
suit filed last month in the Superior
Court at Ephrata against the pres.
ent management had been satisfac-
torily settled out of court in Seattle
Asked as to his future course, he
intimated that he h1d been ap-
preached regarding a new publica-
ton strong enough to cover the en-
tire Columbia BASIN He will be
heard from again, trust Larsen for
that.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
DRY FALLS STATE PARK

Professor j. McMacken and son
of Lewis and Clark high school of
Spokane, were guests at the Dry
Falls park. They went through the
cave to study the stalagmite and
stalactite formations on the rocks.
Two perfect specimens of fossil tree
moIds were found near the cave.
Many new sights are to be seen
around this vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Haw return
ed to their home in Seattle.
Joe D. Sprout, timekeeper at Dry
Falls, moved his wife and family
from Selah to Coulee City.
The family of Silas Carlisle, Dry
Falls carpenter, has taken up resi-
dence at Fred's service station
in Coulee City. They have been liv.
ing at Yakima.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
Bonus Given to Over Fifty yvor,a
War Vets; Bonds Exempt From
All Taxation

Approximately $4,000 worth of
bonus bonds arrived at the Coulee
City postoffice Wednesday to be
distributed to veterans registering
from this district. Over fifty regis.
tered packages were receiver and
were nearly all called for by Thurs
day noon. No definite amount could
De ascertained as a few bonds had
not been signed. according to Alt
Twining. postmaster.
"a special statement to the Dis.
patch from Collector of Internal
Revenue Alex NICK vierhus in re-
CARDS to the numerous being re-
ceived on taxing of these bonds
stated:
In accordance with applicable
laW-the bonds are exempt both to
principal and interest, from all tax
alton. except estate, Inheritance or
gift taxes, now or hereafter imposed
by the United States. any state, or
any possession of the United States.
or by any local taxing authority.
ION the basis Of the statutes and
regulations the bonus funds are
exempt from taxation, and need not
be reported as income on 1896 re-
turns"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
SHOULD REGISTER OFTEN

A large percentage of persons
seeking employment during the past
three years through registration with
the offices Of the National Reem-
ployment Service at Davenport, have
neglected to keep active their regis
trations due to failure to contact
this office periodically with the re-
suit that the MRS does not have def
mite knowledge as to availability OF
applicants still seeking employment.
All persons registered with the
National Unemployment Service. who
have not contacted the local MRS in
person, by telephone or letter, dur
ing the past 80 days, or longer,
should do so at once, advising tho
office whether or not they are still
seeking employment.
The cooperation OF all registrants
to the end that the MRS may be OF
the utmost assistance in directing
them to available work opportunit-
les is invited.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18

An equity in ten weed-grown
acres, trailer-house and the clo-
thes he stood in were total assists
presented by Bill F., near Pas
CO. Washington. in applying for a
rehabilitation loan.
If he could borrow, he had a
chance for self-support. If not, he
must 80 on relief. He got the loan.
Today, he has a small but Deepen
dable income, neat house, well-built
poultry barns, splendid garden.
small orchard and health. well-fed
family.
His story is simple. Foreclosed
from large farm, through cir
cumstances beyond his control, he
loaded his wife and two children
into trailer house. and sought a
small, irrigated tract where he
could get foothold.
He founn ten acres of abandoned
orhcard land, weed-grown and ne
elected, without buildings, but good
soil, with a dependable water sup
ply. Then he applied for rehabili-
tation loan.
Last court of appeals for dis
tressed farm families, who seek to
reestablish their credit and reach a
self-sustaining basis, the resettle-
ment administration arranged a
character loan" for the earnest
young applicant.
With the cash he bought second
hand lumber, and built a small
house and poultry barn. bought
chickens and feed, planted several
acres of alfalfa and an extensive
garden. Now he is keeping accounts
on cash income, and making plans
to repay his loan.
This family is only one of 1915
Washington farm families operating
this year under the rehabilitation
farm plan and loan program. II
every case the farm family was OF
relief or in dire need, and had ex
hausted all other credit sources
Now, back on their feet, adequatel!
financed and helped by the friendl.
service Of the farm advisers, the.
are on their way up.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION RATE
ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS

Only two more weeks and the
special yearly subscription rate for
the Dispatch will be put back On
the regular rate of $3.50. For this
month only the rate has been cut to
$1.00.
Subscribers are urged to take adj
vantage Of this opportunity to pay
up delinquent accounts, and people
not on our circulation list are also
invited to subscribe at this low
rate offer.
Mail or bring in your subscrip.
ton money, as it is necessary to put
the Dispatch on a paid-in-advance
basis and bring the office records
up to dateas soon as possible. A
special discount will be given on
subscriptions over one year in ar
Tears.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
ALUMNI PICNIC
DRAWS MANY
N w Members Initiated Into Or.
ganization at Hopes Beach
Last Sunday

Perfect weather amid an added at
traction of2the Blue lake swim meet
drew a crowd of about sixty-five to
the annual Coulee City alumni mi.
ton picnic at Hopes beach, Park
lake, Sunday.
Four Of the eight graduates of
the class of 1886 were present, with
Gilbert Wagner acting as master of
ceremonies. The four initiates were
Wilma Trout, Dean Pugh, Glen Lee
and David Spurbeck.
Immediately after the ceremonies
a picnic dinner was served. The lun-
cheers lined up according to classes,
and a direct contrast was offered in
the first graduate of the school,
Mrs. Roy Craig, who graduated in
1912. and the newly-installed men,
bers of 1886.
Out-of-town alumni present in
cluded Mrs. Roy Craig of Winches-
ter, graduate of class of 1912. her
family and Alice Webley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl McDermitt, Peshastin,
Mrs. Carl Lee, Dryden, Mr.. and
Mrs. Leonard Olin, Waterville, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Finas Burton, We
natchee.
Ray Croft, alumni president, and
Thelma Pugh were in charge of the
event.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
Judges Named
In Yard Contest
VIII View Yards At Start of Con.
test On Friday, June 20; Flower
Show This Fall

Friday, June 26, has been desig-
mated as the day on which local
yards will be Judged for the first
time in the More Beautiful Yard"
contest. Two judges, George M. De-
laney. county extension agent, Eph-
rata, and Ruben Sinex, government
horticulturist of Administration
City, Coulee Dam, have been chosen
and third judge will be announced
later.
DR.. Snyder of Washington State
college will be the other member of
the Judging committee in the finals
this fall. and flower show will also
be held at that time. with these
three men deciding on the trophy
winners in both events.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
BUSINESS OUTLOOK is BRIGHT

The business outlook of CouIee
City has turned from just fair to
one OF the brightest in it's history.
The added $20,75O,OOO appropriat-
fd Tor the high dam foundation
VIII have direct favorable effect
on commerce.; the rainy season CIV
es all indications of great bumper
crop Of wheat in this country, the
stand of grain now bearing out the
forecast, and the $4,000 worth of
bonus money that arrived here this
week will do great deal to aid the
upward trend Of business.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
Dam Attracts
Many Tourists

With the Grand Coulee dam
proving a major attraction and with
many large national conventions.
including that of the Shrine at Sc
attic and the National Educational
association at Portland, scheduled
for Pacific coast meetings this
summer, all agencies dealing with
travel report that tourist travel to
this region in 1886 promises to set
an all-time record.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18

Mrs. Beatrice Lemley, who has
been visiting her parents, left for
BTemerton Monday.
Mrs. Ethel Trueblood of High
land, called at the John Mccain
home Saturday.
Miss Muriel Mende of Odessa will
work at the Security State bank
during the absence of Mr.. Jones who
Is leaving Saturday night for trip
to Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Mobley and
daughter, Shirley, were visitors at
Fred's service station Sunday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
Church Hsws
GRACE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH
J. f. shackelfofd, pastor


Sunday school Sunday morning at
10 a. m., Mrs. Shackelford, superin-
tendent. Glasses for all ages. Come
and bring the children with you.
Morning worship at IL o'clock.
Evening evangelical service. Spe-
cial numbers will be rendered by the
choir and orchestra. Sermon by the
pastor, "The Rose of Sharon
Tuesday evening prayer d
praise service
Thursday evening Bible study.
Young peoples meeting Sunday
evening at p. m.
Prayer meeting at the parsonage
tuesday and Thursday afternoons
at 2:3O.
All are welcome.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
CHAMBER MEETS

The Coulee City Chamber of Com
MERGE met last Thuraday evening
at the Columbia cafe in regular ses-
sion. Plans were discussed for rails
ing money to carry on work now In
progress at Dry Falls state park. A
move is also on foot to get the
highway routed through Coulee,
and further action is planned on
this subject.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
Breaks Arm In
all From Horse

Suffering a compound fracture
OF her arm as result of fall from
horse, the ten-year-old daughter
of Oscar Fredericks, Mold, was
rushed to the Wenatchee hospital
Monday in serious condition.
She was brought to DR.. N. R.
Gregg at the Coulee hospital where
the arm was set, but had to be talk
en- to Wenatchee for an x-ray to de.
termine the extent of her injuries.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
ROAD sURFACING COMPLETED

The eagerly-awaited surfacing of
Coulee City's main street was COM
pleted Saturday, after a brief delay
on account of rainy weather.
The town council should be COM
mended on the early completion be-
cause Of the nearing tourist season
and added use of the roads during
the summer months.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
PROSPECTS BRIGHT

Prospects for a heavy grain crop
have been increased by the contin-
ued rain and cool weather The Big
Bend, at this period, has a record
breaker in sight.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
REBEkAHS PLAN DINNER

The Rebekah lodge met Tuesday
evening in regular session. They
pan to hold pot dinner at the
hall on June 80. This will be for
Rebekas, Odd Fellows and their
families.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
BLUE LAKE
McCann'S Beach

Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Vaughn of We
natchee, were here Sunday.
Attorney and Mrs. Joe Wicks OF
Grand Coulee, were guests at the
beach over the weekend.
Edwin F.. James, manager of the
Roosevelt theatre at Grand Coulee
spent the weekend with Mr. Moe.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18

DR.. Mae Booth Jones, who takes
care Of the Spokane office Of the
Jones Optical company, was in town
looking after patients in this vicin-
ktx TharsAay.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
HOSPITAL NEWS

Mrs. Clyde Walker of Stratford,
was released from the Coulee hos
pital the first of the week, after a
long stay, suffering from burns
sustained from >scalding. Her condi-
ton has been serious, but she i'm
proved lately and able to return to
her home.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18

Mrs. Don Taylor underwent an
emergency appendectomy at Spo-
kane the latter part of the week.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-18
NEW PLAN WORKS FOR
BANKRUPT FARM FAMILY

An equity in ten weed-grown
acres, trailer-house and the clo-
thes he stood in were total assists
presented by Bill r, near Pas
Evening star., 1936-07-26

There seems to be some doubt as to
what became Of Jacob Funk after he
laid out Hamburg. Robert H. Hardness,
In writing of him, quotes a statement
that his house was queer structure,
built largely Of imported materials,
after some pattern peculiar to his ma
tive town, and that he lived to an ad-
vanced age, revered for his paternal
relations to the burg" 1t is also said,
and it Is probably quite true, that he
moved to near Hagerstown and had
his ambitions rewarded-to have his
name transmitted to posterity-by CIV
ing his name to the village of Funks-
town.
According to Mr.. Harkness the firm
operating the glass factory, which in
cluded Messrs. Andrew Way. jr.;
George Way, Jacob Curtis, Horace H.
Edwards and Solomon Stinger, bought
in 1907, square SO, upon which, at the
river front. was a wharf known as
the Commissioners Wharf, where
there was a depth Of 8 feet Of water.
OF block 88 to the north, the same
author says the same firm owned about
230 feet front on the opposite side of
Water street, which, at this point
would now be approximately Constitu-
ton avenue.
ONE, can hardly imagine at this date
the magnitude of this plant. which
at one time employed as many as 1875
hands. who were paid good salaries
which enabled them to live just little
better than the majority of people then
living in Washington. At one time the
profits of the firm reached 100000
year which, If expressed in the value
Of our money today, would be at least
four or five times that amount.
Many of the families connected with
the industry owned their own homes
and are said to have taken the greatest
amount Of pride In their cottages. i'm
proved them with porches and veran-
das and covered and surrounded them
with vines. flowers and trees One COL
ored family named Tasker, referred to
by Mr. HarkneSs. had a cottage COM
pletely covered with an immense multi
fora running rose. and the home, too
was a marvel of neatness and cleanli-
ness.
On the north side of what was then
probably upper Water street, in Square
88, was a row of six broad, two-story-
and-attic brick dwellings, called Glass
House Row." and back in the same
square there was another group called
Glass Blowers Row Water street
was then beautifled with row Of fine
lombardy trees.
One can only grasp the full i'm
portance of this glass factory at that
early period. when the fact is taken
into consideration that there were at
this time very few places in America
that made glass. Temple, N. H., one
of the earliest places to make glass in
this country, did not begin its manu-
facture until sometime subsequent TO
1880: New Haven began making it In
1899. and Boston in 1909 so that
Continued on Fourth Page)
Evening star., 1936-07-26
Bv Miriam de Haas.

~ NE hundred years ago this
1 month. there was published
in Cincinnati a modest little
~ brown book that. for some 10
years. was to mold the thought and
lives of millions of young Americans
throughout the Republic. AS the
Johns and Susies of 1886 trudged over
dusty roads to the little red school
house that stood like a bulwark be-
tween them and the frontier isolation
of a still pioneer country, they would
have been much surprised to learn
that the "McGuffey,s First Reader"
which they carried in their schoolbags
and over whose fine print they strained
young eyes in their daily reading les
son, would in less than century be
Evening star., 1936-07-26

which had a tendency to deter most
persons from settling in that region.
OF course. in time, scientific drainage
did away with the dreaded ague, and
then some very fine houses were erect
ed on sites where had formerly been
frog ponds and marshy places. which
the boys we're wont to explore in pur-
suit of frogs. catfish and mud turtles.
and, according to tradition. the inces-
SAINT croaking of the frogs at night in
this section and its lonely and desolate
appearance often furnished material
for marvellous stories of ghostly sights.
But. regardless of conditions. near
the glass house" as early as 1925, was
a favorite place for the First Baptist
Church of this city to baptize its con-
verts, and in this connection We find
it stated: "At o'clock Mr.. Brown
went into the baptismal waters with
three AS many of 1000 gathered at
the riverside to witness the ceremony"
Evening star., 1936-07-26

10, II, and 10, in square SO. and lots
numbered 8, 8, 10. II, IL and l3. in
square SO. comprising in the whole
about 10000 square feet, or nearly
two and a half acres of ground. The
works are now in full blast. and have
been in successful operation for the
last eight or nine years. producing an
average of 5000 boxes equal to 300,-
600 square feet) of glass per annum.
The workmen. it is believed, are not
inferior to any in the country in the
manufacture of cylinder window glass.
They are sober and industrious and
from the circumstances of their hav-
ing generally acquired real estate in
this city and vicinity, they prefer be-
ing employed here. than removing, for
this purpose, to other places"
Other property is listed in this notice
in other parts of the city. but it has
no connection with the glass house
property.
Evening star., 1936-07-26

In order that the reader may get his
bearings, square 88, here referred to,
is the one where now stands the Ma
tional Academy Of Sciences and Ma
tional Research Council Building, Con-
stitution avenue, between Twenty
first and Twenty second streets. In
cidentally. the executive secretary Of
these institutions, Paul Brockett, is an
early fellow employe with the writer
at the National Museum.
Square 80 was the block Immediately
to the south Of the Academy of
Sciences Building and was regularly
condemned for the purpose of continu-
ing the improvement of Potomac Park
THE glass works were located in the
extreme southern part Of the early
town site of Hamburg or Funkstown, a
part Of which-particularly from F
street south to the river and from
Seventeenth street to Rock Creek
was known as Foggy Bottom, noted
many years ago for its unhealthfulness
and for its particular brand Of chills,
Evening star., 1936-07-26

.(Coutinued on Seventh Page.)
Evening star., 1936-07-26

ers from any part Of the
Evening star., 1936-07-26
OLD GLASS HOUSE ONCE GUARDED POTOMAC PARK SITE
VISION OF. CHRISTIAN HINES
Washington Historian Foresaw Transformation Of Area Into Beau
tful Capital Parkway-Lega1 Hurdles Met-Pioneer
Work in Production of Glass.

Bureau Of the Public Health Service.
the War and Navy Department
Buildings, headquarters Of the Pan
American Union, the American In
stitute of Pharmacy and other nearby
structures. Where, in his day, he
saw only the humble cottage of David
Burnes, the mansion Of John P. Van
Ness, the canal that flowed through
Constitution avenue. the little stone
lock house still standing at Seven
teenth street and this avenue. where
was also large canal basin, and, be.
tween Twenty-first and Twenty-sec.
ond streets was the old glass works.
q noted factory Of its day.
Nor was his vision as restricted as
now. for he then got a better view
of Braddock Rock than is now pos
sible, and Camp Hill-where Is now
the Naval Hospital-to him was quite
a familiar scene, as was Easbys Point,
to the west of the old Observatory
grounds. or, maybe, Easbys Point was
too recent a name for him, and he
knew that neck OF the land only by
such names as Cedar Point, Windmill
Point or Peters Point.
But, perhaps, the old Glass House
to him was the most familiar, for this
enterprise got very early start in the
history of Washington, and at one
time, so we are told, was quite an in
stitution, employing many hands and
producing q quality Of window glass of
superior quality as early as 1909. In
deed, its proprietors demonstrated
their belief in advertising, for In the
Intelligencer of November ! Of that
year we find this notice:
WINDOW GLASS
Of Various Sizes
For Sale
Wholesale and Retail
At the Glass Works in this City.
Orders from any part Of the
country will be duly attended to
by
Edwards, Way & Co.
N. B. Sixteen Cents per bushel
Evening star., 1936-07-26
continent will be promptly at
tended to.

continent will be promptly at
tended to.
A. g. G. Way q Co."
On May 9. 1919. the press records
the desire of A. g. G. Way to retire
from business in the following notice:
Window Glass Mandatory, and
Other Valuable Property For Sale.
an consequence Of the declining
health Of one Of the subscribers and
the wish OF beth to retire from business
here, and remove into the country,
they are desirous Of disposing. on lib
eral terms, Of the following valuable
property:
"lst, Their Window Glass Manu-
factory. eligibly situated on the mar
gin of the Potomac, near the mouth
Of T1ber Creek. The principal build
ing of this establishment, together
with six dwelling houses, Of two stories
each, designed for workmen, are sub
stantial brick ediflces, occupying with
their enclosures, lots numbered 8. Q.
Evening star., 1936-07-26

1T was all the little boats
That had ever sailed the sea,
It was all the little books
That had gone to school with me.
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
The Blue Flag in the Bog.")