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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1917
Page
7
An old Colville notice describes the city as the commercial center of Stevens County with a population around 2,500 and a growing economy. It includes details on schools, public works, and a brief railway and post office timetable, plus advertising for Foley products.
The Colville Chamber of Commerce held its annual banquet and meeting at the Masonic Temple with 109 tickets sold. Officers and directors discussed past year finances and projects, including registration day, Fourth of July entertainment, livestock show support, and home industry patronage, with new president W Lon Johnson pledged to advance the city. County Commissioner Pat H. Graham hinted at a beneficial proposal for Colville to be announced later.
Auction sale for Armenian relief fund to be held in Colville with date to be announced. Donations of usable articles invited, drop with committee members or notify them for pickup. Auctioneers M A Daggy and William Buckley. Clerk Neal Ledgerwood. Committee members listed. Also note Colville shoe sale and sewer bonds call for payment on December 30, 1917 by city treasurer I J Lassweeg.
The Colville Girls Club lists numerous donors with foods and fabric items including cookies nougat jelly fruit cake and towels. Also mentions clothes magazines and cash gifts plus holiday outreach to Camp Lewis and Stevens County soldiers. Real estate transfers and deeds followed, listing multiple property trades and dates December 10 to 13 1939.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh, a constitutional disease, by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. The ad offers 100 dollars to any case it fails to cure and urges sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, with a 76 cent price.
Gustav Wangelin of Pinckneyville Illinois endorses Foley Kidney Pills citing quick relief from backache rheumatic pains and kidney trouble. Moran School principal Frank TH Moran announces a home study plan to extend Moran course to boys nationwide expanding the Moran network and highlighting his community work with the Red Cross and M A professionals.
A reader from Los Angeles touts Foley Cathartic Tablets as the best remedy he ever used with no unpleasant after effects. Also notes public bond call for Stevens County Drainage District No. 2 from December 1917 and various local notices including estrays and assessment hearings in Colville Washington.
TICOLAS ZEDELER leads the Zedeler Symphonie Quintette in a strong recital at the M E Church with a reed organ for special effects. Emma Bruce Beck appears as a singer of note as the five member group presents masterworks with explanations for audience understanding. Aimed at music lovers and general audiences alike.
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