Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-03-11
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume OF Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
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under way fOr Digger TOueO tnlS
Fourth of July at Kennewick, with
larger purses in prospect for riders.
:. YalSima-.After drilling nearly two
weeks in mud formation, crews in
Roza tunnel No. are now back in
solid rock and going full speed ahead.
Waila Walla-Official dates of the
annual state grange meeting, at
Walla Walla, have been changed.
Meetings will be held June to June
IL, not June 1 to June A.
Wilbur-A frightened China phea-
SAINT flying against and through the
windshield of an automobile, pro-
PEELED a piece of glass into the face
of 5-year-old Jimmie Jake. Gollehon
of Wilbur, barely missing an eye.
Pullman-Abolition of 'Hell Week"
the hazing period preceding the
initiation of fraternity or sorority
pledge, was favored. by 80 per cent
of the students of the State college,
Pullman, answering a QUESTIONABLE
of The Evergreee, the college news
paper.
Toledo-Visions of an extensive
copper mining industry at Spirit
Lake, at the base of Mount st. Helens,
are had by group of local residents
who are actively backing the con-
struction of mine-to-market road
from this city to Green river to con-
meet with Spirit Lake highway to the
lake.
Tacoma-Mrs. Lavina Helen Bas-
sett broke 1O1-year record and
also her wrist. The aged woman, who
explained her Longevity by saying,
II have kept myself WELL" had never
before suffered fracture of any
kind. Hospital attendants said the
INJURY was apparently having no Sc
rious effects.
MontesanO - Construction of
modern freezing plant here for peas
and other vegetables and fruits is
being considered by the Pickering
Pea Packing company. While final
details are not ready to be announced,
Lloyd F. Pickering said plans have
been progressing satisfactorily. He
said the plant should be ready for
the coming season.
Observation-Disclosures of snow con-
ditions that made it impossible to
continue the operation of the Okano
gan county wood camps, which were
providing work for more than 100 un-
employed of Omak and Okanogan, au-
thority has been obtained from the
state department of public welfare to
employ an average of so men a week
or 10 days on street and road work.
Colfax-Load limit restrictions
were extended by J. A. Masterson,
maintenance supervisor, to include
the entire eastern division of the In
land Empire highway from Rosalia
. to Pullman and from Pullman south
to the Idaho line. The order leaves
the Spokane to Pullman hihghway,
via Colfax, the only highway in this
district which is not subject to load
limitations.
Walla Walla-"Too much fire
works." declared Sheriff c. A. Wood
ward as he pushed efforts to round
up what was left of A sticks of dyn-
amite. The explosive was missed from
storage room of the Mill creek flood
control project. First clue came when
Woodward was called by an excited
parent who said his boy was play
ing with dynamite. Other youthful
possessors of the oversize ''fire-
crackers" were found and relieved of
the explosives.
Walla Walla-Crested wheat grass
may take up the burden of reclaim
ing this regions vanishing grazing
lands if sheepmen of the Wenaha
Wool Growers association follow the
advice of their president, E. G. Bur-
lingame. The bunch grass that once
made the area a stockman's paradise
is gone, Burlingame said. The crested
wheat was found in Siberia, where it
grows hardly under conditions SINH
lar to those of this region. He urged
all sheepmen to plant the grass on
their grazing lands.
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