A Rainmaker Meets His Match in Ephrata
Hatfield and towers in Hemet, California, 1912 From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: The reel grabbed at random this week contained The Big Bend Empire, the first newspaper established in Waterville, Washington. The issue for May 13, 1920 included this intriguing article: EPHRATA TO TRY OUT RAINMAKER “The people around the Grant county seat want rain, and in fact they are willing to try any old scheme to get it, even…