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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1919
Page
4
A compact digest of events in Kettle Falls and the Upper Columbia River Valley. Notable items include community notices, local happenings, and the town’s outlook in the Great Northwest. Mrs Myrtie Fish contributes a brief note from Kettle Falls.
Local residents return home for Christmas and New Year celebrations. Families hosting guests include the Roy and Smith households in Cashmere, Spokane visits by Leiser and Heath families, and Cheney Normal students coming home for the holidays. A Christmas birth is reported and several community members plan social events at Masonic hall and with local families.
The M. KE Tucker family moved into the Perry house to be nearer school. Mr. and Mrs Slingsby left for Seattle for a month. Frank Kenady remains under a doctor in Colville. Melvin Holford returned from Spokane to spend Christmas. Guy Potts visited from Idaho for the holiday. Lee Robbins, Abe Cory, Lee Clemons and nephew, Hattie Holford, Lola Clemons, W Hofstetter, Chas Countryman, Gene Holford, and Merty Tucker appear in local visits and errands around town with various family and health notes.
Suite of rents visitors from Tesla Washington and Spokane join local families for the holiday. Public school children enjoyed a Christmas tree and treats while teachers Ruth McKay and Lou Kilgore plan holidays with relatives. Vernon Kilgore, after four years in the navy, returns home with his discharge. A. Lawson of Harvey dies at 82, with funeral by Rev. Mumau. family thanks friends for support.
A Meyers Falls round up details a Ladies Aid gathering last Thursday with Mrs A L Swanson hosting. Activities included stocking scavenger games won by Mrs P H Briscoe and Mrs Hanisch, an ornaments contest won by Mrs Vern Swartout, a Christmas luncheon, a movie at Geo Single hall, and remarks by Rev Hollingsworth. The piece notes community visitors, local schooling updates, and a festive program with refreshment and plans for Dec 31 meeting.
On a grim yet hopeful Sunday the Greenwood Sunday school gathered for a missionary Christmas program. Forty six attendees participated in gift giving for children overseas, with a box filled and total gifts of four dollars seventy five cents collected. Local residents shopped in Colville and joined trips to North Basin and Ferndale during holidays.
N G Persson and son Melvin arrived from Gem Idaho to spend the holiday at the home ranch. The group attended a Camp Creek ranch gathering Thursday evening. Mrs Mathis funeral prompts local sympathy from P I club ladies. Ben Mathis and family stay with his mother through the holidays. Ellen Shelton visits relatives. A sleigh load from the Persson party attended the North Basin grange hall school program Friday evening. It featured North Basin and Basin Mill schools with drills tableaux plays and declamations under teachers Mrs Wright and Miss Itasca Leithead.
Miss Nathalie Noble represents Summit Valley News after visiting relatives for three weeks. Students Christina Habura and others plan holidays. school begins December 380. A Christmas program ended with a pie auction raising about 46 dollars for the school. Local creamery activity increases with shipments and egg prices hold at 70 cents a dozen in Addy.
Colville Manager presents Margery Wilson in The Hard Rockie and Mack Sennett’s Camping Out with Fatty Arbuckle. Prices 15 and 30 cents. Dec 27 Triangle program features Beyond the Shadows and The Danger Girls with Gloria Swanson, 15 or 26 cents. Dec 29-30 Metro screens Viola Dana in Please Get Married plus Pathe News and a 2 reel L Ko comedy. 10 reels, 20 to 40 cents. Dec 31 Paramount Vive La France with Dorothy Dalton. 15 and 25 cents. Jan 1 space ad. Jan 2 Doug Fairbanks in He Comes Up Smiling, Pathe News, Cupid's Day Off. 15 and 30 cents. Jan 3 Vitagraph Corrine Griffith in The Girl Problem with two-reel comedies. 9 reels, 15 and 30 cents. Jan 5 Alma Reubens in The Ghost Flower with Keystone comedy A Lover's Might. 15 and 25 cents.
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