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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1920
Page
2
The speaker calls for a food producing campaign to match calls from government and industry during shortages. He argues necessity will push producers, likening it to wartime mobilization and past Kansas responses to coal and railroad strikes. A tonic of work and forbearance could curb famine and redeem labor and capital.
Gifford hosted the annual Rebekahs district convention on May 25 with delegates from Chewelah Kettle Falls Addy Rice and Colville absent. A banquet followed the business session and a rich program of recitations duets and readings. Officers were elected and installed including Lottie Smith Rice as chairwoman and Mary Jamieson Rice as vice chairwoman. The gathering praised Gifford hospitality and planned to meet Chewelah next year with a tired but happy crowd departing for home.
Miss Nathalie Noble and Rep George Hagie visited Colville on Saturday on business. Memorial Day kept the Johnson mill idle. Arthur Goff completed a barbed wire fence around his quarter section. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Brooks spent Sunday at the Colburn home. Mrs. Lawrence made a Chewelah trip Saturday returning Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brooks visited Chewelah Monday. M C Garthe hauls wood to Addy for George Hague. Seventh grade will present a play Saturday night Romantic Molly with Belva Raber as Mrs Plummer and a large cast. Gene Holford injured by a rolling log at Pearson mill will be out two weeks. Students attended a Friday dance at Gifford. Summit School closed yesterday. Miss Nora E Darlington chosen principal for next year at 125 dollars per month. About thirty people cleaned and decorated the cemetery Saturday. High school to present The Poor Married Men Saturday with cast led by Zelia McDaniel and Vance McDaniel. Admission 20 and 35 cents.
Rev J K Mumau delivered his final summer sermon here on Sunday evening. He and his family plan a three months tour through the eastern states once gasoline shortages ease. A heavy hailstorm struck the valley Sunday with frosts every night last week. Mrs Maud Johnson sold her place on the state road to Ernest Benner.
An old advertisement proclaims Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney ills Doan's Ointment for skin itching and Doan's Regulats as a mild laxative Sold at all drug stores the ad asserts confidence in the Doan's brand with promotional wording
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