Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-02-06
EARLY DAYS
DESCRIBED IN TALK TO CLUB

The following is a resume of talk
delivered at a recent meeting OF the
Coulee City Women IS club by Mrs. j.
L. Tucker, wherein are recounted ex-
periences in the pioneer days of Cou
lee City:
IT was born in Kansas but we NOV
ed to Washington not long after, 10
eating first five mile north of Almira.
and coming to Coulee City fifty years
ago this spring. The railroad was fin
ished this far and there were plans to
built it further west but it never was
accomplished. The town was very live
ly when we arrived bit it soon died
down to quiet little village. This was
the end of the railroad and freight was
hauled out with wagons to Okanogan
and Mcthow. Houses left vacant were
bought and moved out of town.
Waterville was the county seat Of
Douglas County. The county included
Coulee City and other towns in this
part of the country. Douglas was later
divided into Grant and Douglas.
''Coulee City now stands on what
was known as McEntee's Crossing.
Philip McEntee was one of the early
pioneers of Douglas county. In 1881
he built log cabin east of the ball
field. In 1908 the Adrian Branch was
completed, connecting the Washington
Central with the Great Northern and
this brought more business and people
to the town. The town was moved from
McEntee g Crossing to the present site
and the named changed to Coulee CITY.
"George Roberts was the first post
master and owned one of the first stor-
es later taking his brother-in law, Thorn
as Parry, as partner. They were III
business when we came to Coulee CITY,
James Odgers ran the Conlec City news
at that time. Our Senator Dan Paul,
had the only green lawn with trees,
in the country and on many hot after
moons we children have walked the mile
TO his place to sit around on this green
spot.
"When the town fiEt started four
room schoolhouse was bnflt but FOR
years only one room was used We held
c5urch and Sunday school in One OF
ia
church has been built about 33 years.
"Stock raising was one OF the bus
inesses engaged in and IN those Gays
herds of wild cattle used to come in to
drink at the springs close to town
s'I remember the night Tracy came
through town. 1t was around midnight.
Nv father was land commissioners here
at the time and that night he had some
men filing on land and as they came
cut of his office Tracy saw them. He
y as about to get off his horse and enter
saloon, but became scared and went
rient on and out of town.
81 have seen lots of changes III
this country. If you people think the
train we have on the Central Wash
nigton slow, you should have been
there then. Leaving Coulee City around
four in the morning you were in luck #
you arrived in Spokane at four that at
ternoon. 1t was mixed train, freight
md passenger, and took its time gett-
ing there. If you wanted to go to wat
aryille YOU took a stage around SIX LII
the morning and got there in time FOR
supper.
"At one time my father was the
only ordained minister from Davenport
to Waterville. My brother, 7. j. How
I'll, now of Ellensburg was born in the
old house that we lived in so many
years.
"There being no high school went
to Whitworth Collee in Tacoma for
high school. Mrs. Amy Stacey, first
president of the Washington State
Federation of Wornen's clubs was my
Bible teacher