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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1919
Page
3
The Colville Examiner print indicates weekly Saturday publication with second class matter status since Oct 31 1907. Editor proprietor J C Harrigan advertises subscription rates and renewal process and address changes.
The notice urges residents to treat kidney trouble promptly with Doan’s Kidney Pills. It cites Mrs. Etta Caskill of Ritzville, Washington, praising the remedy for back pain and weak kidneys. Price 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Company, Buffalo, N Y.
The notice lists Sabbath school and Mass times for Adventist, Catholic, and Christian Science churches with officiants and Sunday timings. It also covers Free Methodist and Baptist services including Sunday schools, preaching times, and youth programs, plus St John’s Episcopal service dates, Sunday school, and Advent season greetings with Christmas service notes.
Congregational Sunday school at 10 and morning worship at 11 with Miss Ruth Mantz singing. Evening service at 7 30 featuring a sermon on Profit and Loss. All are cordially invited to attend these services.
The Methodist Episcopal Church invites with a cantata The Christmas King performed by a twenty-voice choir under Mrs. Robert H. Allen on Sunday evening December 21. The church also hosts a I O O F hall sale December 20 featuring fancywork and aprons plus cake sandwiches coffee and Sunday dinner dishes. Church of Christ members hold Bible school at 10 and an evening service at 7 30 with the topic The Spiritual Life of Jesus.
Prices paid in Colville reflect Spokane market levels with quotes from Wilson Produce Company Wingham's Market TopNoch Mills and Old Dominion Creamery. The week’s meat prices and wheat Bluestem figures are listed as paid to produce sellers.
Schedule of events lists Dec 19 primary grades play at Colville theatre, Dec 20 old fashioned dance and basket social at Park Rapids, and Dec 31 New Year s Ball by Odd Fellows and Rebekahs. Estrays notice covers two animals in Colville pound a bay mare aged about five with V brand a bay suckling colt and a black eight year old gelding with half moon on forehead both unclaimed by Dec 16 will be sold per city ordinance.
A small item notes fresh shipments of McDonald’s chocolates and Christmas candies at the Smoke House. An accompanying ad-like line promotes Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for ailments described as a sickening headache foul breath and constipation, claiming it “never fails.”
The Colville thermometer fell to 20 below zero amid a cold stretch with clear skies and northeast winds from the Selkirks. Residents report unprecedented December severity, little snow, and livestock kept off slopes with alfalfa rations. Community notes mention Red Cross gift distribution, local visits, and civic club elections. two local children underwent appendectomy procedures at Mt. Carmel hospital.
The paper lists the third month honor roll by class with names for seniors juniors sophomores and freshmen and reports per cent enrollment and perfect attendance for each group. It also provides high school averages by grade overall enrollment demographics and a grammar school attendance breakdown. A sophomore party is noted and upcoming Christmas performances are announced with admission details. The page ends with a note of social statistics on estates and incomes in America.
A lighthearted piece recalls the thrill of auctions and explains bidding fever in action. The narrator notes a craving for free lunch and describes spirited scenes at past sales with quirky exchanges and attendees chasing bargains.
Miss Ruth Fryatt, visiting for weeks with her grandparents Mr and Mrs E P Botts, returned last week to her Bremerton home where her father William Fryatt formerly of Orient runs a mercantile business.
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