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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1921
Page
9
A weekly digest of notable happenings around Kettle Falls and the Upper Columbia River Valley. Mrs Myrtie Fish represents Kettle Falls guiding local civic and social notes in the garden spot of the great northwest.
Community notes from Kettle Falls detail St Peter’s church services at 11 a.m. and the St Peter’s Guild meeting at Mrs. J M Williams home on Wednesday December 28 with Mrs Williams and Mrs P F Schroeder as hostesses. Also reports on local alumni returning for holidays, Masonic lodge officers for 1922 installation January 4 with Grand Master John Gifford present, Baptist church services and choir plans, Legion and B B I T club events, widow Mason entertainments, obituaries and various local health and social updates including illnesses and holiday visits.
Local notices describe people hauling wood, woodworking, and building projects. Shoppers and travelers visit Spokane for holidays while dances light up Meyers Falls and Greenwood grange hosts a Dec 30 event. Mrs. A L Swanson travels to Spokane and Lapwai for holidays as Myron Spencer and Cliff recover from injuries.
Local items report visiting relatives in Staples Minnesota and Spokane Washington. Mrs. Harrison dies of tuberculosis leaving five children and a husband. Marcus freshman girls beat the seventh and eighth graders 13 to 11. Birth announced for Riley Morris's son. Several residents travel to Colville and Grand Forks for business or visit. A heavy snow event causes drifting over the weekend.
Paul Haburn and his son Andrew motored to Colville Saturday on legal business. Misses Izora and Emma Bennett, who are attending Colville high school, came home Friday to spend their Christmas vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cottman were doing Christmas shopping in Colville Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Timmell and two children of Rice visited his mother and brothers here several days of the past week. Ben Eilar, a former resident of the valley, visited at his uncle John Raber’s last week, going to Colville Saturday to spend a few days with his sister Mrs.
Preparations were made by West Side school teachers for a Christmas program Friday night at the school. Mrs J Van Dyke and children left for St John to spend Christmas with relatives. Herbert Ward left for Spokane Tuesday on business and will attend a meeting and banquet honoring his company. Heinie Thorn is under Dr Storkan with a bruised hand. The Addy commercial club and school held a community Christmas tree at the W O W hall. Monday and Tuesday were the two coldest stormiest days in years with a piercing north wind despite temperatures not going below zero.
W E Noble hauls wheat to Colville warehouse this week. Mr and Mrs Ray Hall and family attend Colville church Sunday. Eddie Harrison back to school after illness. Mr and Mrs George Wilcox and daughter Lillian, Mr and Mrs Evan Alborn, Rollie Smith and Norma Keyes dine at T M Orser home. Lee English buys a team of horses this week.
Miss Vella Thompson remains in hospital recovering well. Winona Motteler returned home near Wenatchee for the holidays. Tonsilitis circulates. Mrs. R. E. Hurd and Winona Motteler were ill, then Genevieve Motteler and Thelma Westerbeck. A surprise party honored Emma Pratt and O. E. Wisdom at the Pratt home with music and dancing. Colville Valley Orange met with 42 members. three new applications. Christmas program postponed due to sickness. New officers to be installed Jan 7. Mrs. Underwood and Mrs. Westerbeck visited the Hurd home. Miss Rice’s class held Christmas exercises with attendees.
Wm Bouck formerly master of the Washington State grange spoke to a large Dominion audience Sunday afternoon and met with Dominion grange in the evening. His addresses at both meetings were interesting and instructive and were highly appreciated by hearers.
A Christmas feature at the Douglas Falls school house on Friday December 28 included a program by Miss Orpha Rickey and a Christmas tree for children. Snow touched the area Wednesday as locals from the falls visited Colville during the week and a Farm Bureau meeting with the U S department extension service was held at the school on December 20.
County Agent Plumb outlined the extension service business and plans to have department heads visit during 1922. Guests will include the irrigation engineer, soil chemist, and horticulturist. F A Savage described Farm Bureau origins, and a bountiful lunch followed served by local ladies.
The Biology class under Supt Lee studies heredity using Strayer and Thorndike tests on memory, judgment, and analysis with results graphed for personal variation. Christmas holidays bring travel for Miss Slaunch Brock Norling Davisson and Gifford. The freshmen staged The Christmas Sprite, while Marcus lost to Colville 52 17 in basketball. Prep girls beat freshmen 13 11, junior girls challenge others for Dec 23 game.
The Stevens county jail poured out about 15 gallons of liquor and moonshine on Monday morning. The items were kept as samples from private stills around the county. The sheriff noted the potent mixture smelling like a distillery and arsenic plant. A milk can lining had been eaten away by the liquor’s corrosive properties. Also: Frank T. Loulou, 22, of Kewa, died December 24 at Chewelah and was buried Thursday at Highland. Services were by the Christian Scientists society. His funeral featured abundant cut flowers. Loulou was born near Orient and married in 1918 to Maude Savage of Chewelah. He is survived by Julius Toulou and a daughter Margaret, age two.
The Old Dominion shipped a ton and a half of butter to Seattle and western points this week. Frank Wines sent 83 pounds of dressed chickens to Spokane. Wingham's Market received about 200 live turkeys for the holiday trade. Cold weather slowed shipping. trucks faced radiator freezing. Lane & Bronson shipped three cars of poles to Minnesota Transfer via Sandpoint Idaho for asphalt treatment. Holiday passenger travel spiked yesterday, with continued today. November receipts at Great Northern station totaled just over $25,000, $12,000 less than last year, with freight, ticket, telegraph, and express revenues all down versus November prior year.
Call for city sewer bonds for improvement districts two to eighty two and twenty to ten payment dates set in late December 1921 and early January 1922. Estray notice lists four and a half mile south of Orin horses and cattle seized by M W Cheek, sale scheduled December 30, 1921, with a final publication December 29, 1921.
Charles Huffman reports an estray bay mare about 900 pounds with white forehead stripe, age 8 to 10, near Clayton Washington. Sold to highest bidder for cash on specified date. Colville police publish notice of sale January 8 1922 for a white mare with indistinct left shoulder brand, about 750 pounds, age about 12, at the city pound.
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