Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-02-25
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings
Of the Week Collected for
Our Readers

Republic-Republic's city council
in response to request of the PIT. A..
has agreed for siren to blow at cur
few time and to instruct the city
marshall to see that the curfew law
is obeyed.
Fairfield-Fairfield will soon have
one of the best public schools in East
ern Washington, directors of school
district No. 334 having announced
contract awards on new 100000
grade and high school.
Chehalis - More workers were
placed in private employment here
during December than in any month
during 1886, it was disclosed this
week by L. I. Hill, local manager of
the national unemployment. service.
Reardon - One hundred farmers
attended the annual caterpillar trac-
tor school held here last week by the
Raymond Hardware company. AL
though the county roads were still
badly blocked, farmers came by trac-
tor and horse-pulled sleds, skis. and
afoot and some in automobiles.
Olympia-The Washington State
School Directors association closed
a two-day convention by electing Alec
Turnbull, Spokane, president Her
man Anderson, Foster, was named
vice-president for western Washing
ton and D. Morgan, Yakima, vice
president for eastern Washington.
Walla Walla Chamber of COM
merce directors have Endorsed a COM
prehensive development program for
the upper Columbia and Snake rivers.
A river development program pre-
viously had been adopted by the In
land Empire Waterways association
and was presented at Lewiston, at
a river hearing last week.
Steyenson-BertB eaubond of Bear
Prairie was in the "doe" with plenty
of "bucks," when he started to enter
his barn one day recently, and furry
bodies whizzed past him. Fifteen
deer, by Beaubond's count, had taken
refuge in the barn and eaten good
ly quantity of hay because deep snow
covered all the grazing ground.
Wenatchee-John Gellatly, realtOr
Ia coid thof
during the last five months an active
demand for orchards has developed
as result of profitable apple prices
He said prices on all kinds of orch
ards are advancing gradually with
holders generally showing reluctance
to cut loose of heavy producing
tracts.
Montesano-Two of Montesano's
oldest structures are being demol-
ished. One is the former Phelps
apartments, which was built as pri-
vate residence in the early 1905,
by e. P. Bragdon, one of Montesano's
early day merchants. The other is
the former Schafer mill office, used
before the building of the present
structure.
ville-Improvement of roads
in the Klickitat valley looms in a
proposed WPA project submitted to
the Yakima WPA headquarters. The
project, submitted by ]. w. Dressed,
commissioner of the central district
here, includes the roads at Blood
good, Spring creek, Pine Forest,
Horseshoe Bend, Centerville, War
wick, the Loop and the Goldendale
fair ground hill, and Blockhouse.
Olympia-The senate recently ac-
quired two new girl pages-Mary
Kay Drumheller, daughter of Senator
Joe Drumheller of Spokane, and Fay
Maxwell, daughter of Senator Earl
Maxwell of King. Both girls are II
years old Merriam Murfin, Is,
daughter of Senator A. NJ Muffin of
Yakima, has been page since the
session opened. Lieutenant Cover
nor Vic Meyers son, Vic Jr., also is
a senate page.