Earliest Apple Trees in North West Claim Contested
J A Meyers of Colville Examiner disputes a tale of seeds brought to the Columbia River region. He chronicles early plantings by Probell and Pellisier near Pingston Creek and Meyers ranch, notes Smith’s orchard date, and records inland fruit progress from 1860s to 1870s while detailing local sawmill and fort roof timber facts.
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Columbia River
London
Hudson Bay Company
Rockies
George Simpson
John McLoughlin
Fort Vancouver
Washington
Astoria
Fort George
John A. Hofstetter
Walla Walla
John Probell
Probell
Michael Pellisier
Lake Colville
Meyers
Meyers Ranch
Rickey
Pellisier
Joseph Roberts
Addy
Stevens County
Rickey’s
Hiram F
Okanogan) Smith
Smith
Rock Creek
Osooyoos Lake
Snake River
Cascade Mountains
Probell Ranch
California
Fort Colvile
Smith Ranch
J. A. Meyers
Mr. Meyers
Colvile
Andrew Colvile
Colville
United States
Fort Colville
City of
Starving Folks to Receive Aid Campaign Speech
Rev. E. F. Spicer leads a county drive for a $3000 share of Near East relief amid World War I famine. The piece quotes Hoover Taft Wilson and others urging immediate aid as Armenians, Syrians, Jews, Greeks and Persians face mass starvation and death across the Near East.
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E. F. Spicer
Western
Asia
Hoover
Near East
William H. Taft
Henry Morgenthau
Herbert Hoover
Charles E. Hughes
Elihu Root
Cleveland H. Dodge
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
America
United States
Armenia
Col
William N. Haskill
U. S. Army
Caucasus
Col. Haskell
William Jennings Bryan
Josephus Daniels
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Tragic Self-Inflicted Death Near Rice
William Farance 24 of Pomeroy Garfield county died Tuesday afternoon at his brother in law Charles Hanson’s home two miles southeast of Rice. He shot himself in the head with a .22 rifle after expressing intention to return home. Sheriff W. Graham ordered an inquest. it was ruled death by own action. Body taken to Colville for burial. wife present at the time.
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Burton William Farance
Pomeroy
Garfield County
Charles Hanson
Rice
Farance
Colville
Hanson
Goodby
W. Graham
Mr. Graham
Quinn W. McCord
D. W. Farance
Former Colville Girl Returns From India
Miss Julian J. Morrow on furlough from missionary work in India spoke at the M. B. E. church, detailing her service with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and her years of nursing, Deaconess and rescue work in Newark and New York. She plans to return to India next fall and will aid missionary efforts in the Columbia River area this summer while collecting data and preparing for further assignments.
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Julian J. Morrow
India
M. BE
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Miss Morrow
California
Washington
Mill Creek
Eells Academy
Colville
Troy
New York
Leonan's Hospital
Newark
N. J
International Purity Federation
W. F. M. Board
M. E. Church
Kolar
South India
Bihar
America
Boston
County Board Faces Purgatorial Week Of Exams
The Occasional Visitor notes a county board of education is bogged by endless grade papers piling up. A long upcoming meeting runs from Friday to Sunday with little rest, as officials recheck and verify exams and grades.
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County Board of Education
County Board
Coming events schedule lists dances and conventions
Schedule of the coming events lists a Jan. 31 M W A dance at Colville I O O F hall Feb. 7 Leap Year dance by Pythian Sisters at Marcus Feb. 12 Lincoln's birthday Feb. 14 Valentine day Feb. 16 24 Northwest Mining Convention Spokane Feb. 22 Washington's birthday June 8 Republican national convention Chicago June 28 Democratic national convention San Francisco
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I. O. O. F. Hall
Colville
Marcus
Lincoln
Spokane
Washington
Chicago
San Francisco
Also Mentioned on This Page
RICHS
Jeweler and
Opticia
Colville Abstract CO
Frank Kostka
Colville, Washington
Stevens County Power and Light Co
TopNoch Flour . Mills
TopNoch Flour Mills
Northwest
West Pocket
Meyers Falls
Wash
Examiner
the County Board
Frank B. Goetter
Col Willa Wabh
L. H. Rothlisberger
D. Vv. M
Smiths Photo Studio
First National Bank
Colville, Wash
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