Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-03-18
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume OF Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
Our Readers

Fairfield-C Contractors for the new
school building here have started
work. The building will cost $4,000
and will take care of grade schools
and high school.
Pateros-The school election here
last week was no contest. Will
liam Wheeler, filed to succeed him
self, was the only candidate. He has
served on the board six years.
Bellingham - Reopening of the
Saxon lumber camp of the Bloedel-
Donovan mills Monday, March Is,
was announced last week. The camp
idle since before Christmas, employs
200 men,
Spol1ane-The traffic survey, con-
Quoted by 20 WPA enumerators, is
reaching huge proportions. The work
was started January l and already
1,342,O00 cars in motion have been
checked.
Pomeroy-According to the Union
Pacific agent, carloadings out of
Pomeroy for January were 46 cars
of wheat, one car of barley, one car
of cattle and one car of horses; for
February 324 cars of wheat, six cars
of cattle and four cars of horses.
South Bend--Willapa harbor oy-
stermen are urged to place their or
ders early for 1887 seed oysters to
be imported from Japan by Ira Mu
rakami of Nahcotta, sales represen-
tative of the Japan Cooperative
Seed Oyster Export association for
Willapa Harbor, Grays Harbor and
Oregon.
Chewelah-The public school suf-
fered it's second fire loss in week
when the bus used to transport 80
pupils from the Burnt valley district
was lost when the garage that housed
it on the Burnt valley school grounds
burned L. W. Gaiser said that he
would send out bus for the stranded
pupils.
Kennewick-A Christmas cactus
started from slip FL years ago by
Mrs. Carl Williams here has produced
$50 buds and blooms since Thanks
giving and is still budding. Seven
hundred and seventy buds were on
the plant in list best blooming year,
said Mrs. Williams. The plant is more
than four feet across
AImira-Herman Hilson was re-
elected president of the champber of
commerce at it's bi-monthly banquet
last week. Other officers reelected
are: A. V. Kreger, vice-president, and
Ray Johnson, secretary. Paul Blair
was named treasurer, succeeding
N K. hansen, who had served some
years. Mr. Hilson spoke on legisla-
tive questions he had studied while
at Olympia.
Walla Walla-Indigents of Walla
Walla are still getting potatoes al
though many people, able to pay their
own bills, are going without. Cla-
renee Cummins, relief officer, remem-
bering that year ago when potatoes
were high and he was unable to
buy any for the needy, laid in a
large supply at low price last fall.
Since then the price has gone up
materially, but the supply on hand
will last for several weeks until new
onces come in.
Colfax-It seems certain that the
$4,000 Palouse river channeI-clear-
ance operation of the WPA here had
obviated any chance, feared earlier,
Of floods such as have caused dam
age in the past. The project, begun
in 1895, was later discontinued
awaiting funds, resumed last fall,
suspended during the extremely cold
weather and again resumed recently.
Fifteen men are now on the last
phase of the work, clearing the chan
it at places.
Grand Coulee Dam-New spring
styles in "hard' hats, bringing to
light the latest color creations of the
season, will blossom out this week
as the result Of time-saving device
adopted by the MWAK. Workmen's
protective helmets have been tinted
various hres of the rainbow, har-
mopizing brilliantly at times, so fore
men may save many steps in search
'ng for certain types of workmen to
90 certain job. The color of the
bonnet will label the classification
of the laborer.
GOVERNORS INVITED
Rcemerton-GovernO of the five
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