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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1920
Page
3
The Colville Examiner publishes Saturdays with second class matter status since 1907. Subscription is $2 annually in advance with 50 cent postage to foreign addresses. renewals due before label date. no issues sent after expiry without renewal. change of address requires old and new addresses.
Local notes report Gladys Emery departing Friday July 23 for a week in Walla Walla. Others visit lakes and towns including Violet Millikan in Spokane, Miss Anna Kimple in town, and families gathering at various cottages. Typhoid and appendicitis cases treated at Mt. Carmel hospital. several trips and social events noted.
At the halfway house of night two great cart horses wander the road under moonlight. They speak in soft sounds and pause to sniff a duck pond. one raises its head to gaze at the starry sky before they stroll away together into the night. Philpotts describes their quiet, shared moment.
A church collection story from Chicago Tribune describes a man giving his wife two quarters as “buttons for the heathens” to clothe Africans. His child, unaware of the money, asks the minister if heathens wear trousers, prompting a corrective explanation.
The piece argues that character is not fixed by birth but by opportunity and effort. It notes that luck and circumstance can raise a poor lad to wealth and that even pampered heirs may fail and fall. It ends by warning that money acts as a god-send or a curse, revealing personal values.
Popular Mechanics describes three stages of thunderstorm development. Moist air rises from the earth creating white cloud patches until the sky is fully covered. Strong upward currents push clouds into thunder heads, producing a thunderstorm.
An old advertisement touts oan's Ointment for itching bleeding or protruding piles and notes a 60 cent price at any drug store.
Sabbath school every Saturday and Christian Science services each Sunday at 1 p m and Wednesday at 8 p m. Catholic Mass times are 8 and 10 on first and third Sundays and 10 on second and fourth Sundays with Rev E Bell S J officiating. Sunday school at 10. Orin Evangelistic services each Wednesday. Prayer meeting Thursday. Women’s group sews for the poor each Wednesday. Free Methodist Church hosts Rev John LaDue of Greenville Illinois for 25 years Bible expositor with services Saturday 8 p m Sunday morning and evening and Monday evening.
Union services at the Baptist church at 8. Rev. Huggiins will preach. Fifteen minutes for a popular song service. Call for favorite hymn. Pastor attended Marcus Monday to arrange a carping out trip with the boys. Prayer meeting Wednesday. Ladies aid meet Friday afternoon. Rev. C. H. Alborn, pastor.
Morning worship at 11 led by Robert H. Allen with Bible school at 10. Communion and sermon on Thy Speech Betrayeth Thee. Afternoon preaching at Chewelah at 3. Union evening service at the Baptist church with Mr. Huggins speaking. Midweek prayer and Bible study Wednesday at 8. Public invited. T. A. Meredith, Minister.
Congregational Rev J M Huggins pastor notes high interest in Colville schools with likely record attendance. Families offering room and board for teachers or students or light housekeeping help are urged to contact Mr Grinstead or Mr Putnam promptly to ensure housing for pupils and avoid denial of attendance due to lodging.
Classified items include a demand for men with trucks to haul logs at Arrow Lumber Company Arden, a housework request for a woman or girl for non washing tasks next to the gymnasium, a lost bay horse and mare with rewards offered by G. A. Thompson Colville, plus Woodsmen jobs at Camp 2 near Springdale for team sters swampers canthook men hookers and railroad men with Deer Park Lumber Company offering steady work and best wages.
In Stevens County Washington the Superior Court sets a hearing for the final account of Andrew Engstrom administrator of Johanna Johnson deceased on August 26 1920 at 9 30 AM in Colville courthouse to review the petition for distribution and discharge of the estate residue to entitled persons.
Guardian of Merton Arnold Bohren, Arnold Bohren, and Roy Bohren will sell by private sale for cash the undivided three eighths interest in the NE quarter of the SW quarter of section 24, township 33 north, range 37 east, W.M. in Stevens County Washington. Sale after August 17 1920, bids in writing to guardian or attorney Wentz Bailey Colville. First publication July 31 1920. last August 14 1920.
Henry R. Spedden as administrator announces a public sale of the estate’s real property in Colville Washington on August 23 1920. The property is the west half of the northwest quarter and other portions in Section 17 Town 37 North Range 39 East Stevens County. The sale is subject to a mortgage of 2850 with interest due since April 20 1918. Sale runs 8 am to 5 pm and is cash to highest bidder, subject to court confirmation, with attorney L B Donley listed.
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