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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1922
Page
6
Mrs. Myrtie Fish serves as Representative of Kettle Falls in a weekly digest highlighting events in the Upper Columbia River Valley and the garden spot of the great northwest.
Mrs Karen Fogh advertises cabbage and tomato plants for sale and a spring millinery line with new stock and hats. Weather report notes May mean temps and precipitation. Local items include weddings births travel and community notes from Davenport Colville Kettle Falls and Greenwood with social and business updates.
Mrs A Hopson traveled to Spokane on doctor’s orders for daughter Eva Bogal. The D O K Ks met with 200 members and a 3 30 parade with Colville band. A serious accident on Main Street involved Robert L Neale and Ernest Sites. Neale sustained head injuries. George Ody drowned in the Columbia while near the bridge. Cleanup crews prepared State Street for July races and Miss Sarah Flansbury left for Missoula. House rehab underway for Howe of East Marcus.
Meyers Falls Pomona No 17 held a June 1 picnic at the big falls on the Columbia above Kettle Falls. About 300 attendees shared lunch, heard Fred Chamberlain speak, and enjoyed a 1 pm to 1 am program including talks and a 5th degree initiation for four candidates.
The Colville Valley Grange met last Saturday night with forty two members present. The program featured readings recitations and a pantomime And the Lamp Went Out. D Ulrich was chosen as delegate to Yakima for the state grange meeting.
Spokesman for Monday reports S B Kohlstaedt visiting Spokane. Mrs Jack Miller and family plan Walla Walla relocation with their husband. A group including C A Barton Eugene Barton Gleason Walsh and Margaret Walsh visited N C Gleason’s Addy area. Ledyard of US Smelting Co bought W H Mills 160 acre ranch to settle nearby. Pratt assists Husted with well work. Crawford Myers brothers and N C Gleason were Colville visitors for business. Town residents traveled between Colville and Douglas Falls during the week.
The Tulare Mining Co starts extensive work at the Dolomite site on June 1 with Superintendent Bartlett of California arriving for the summer. Nearby, Elmer Gilbert of the Tulare Co moves his family into a Diehl Lumber Co. house. A broad local social scene follows with multiple family visits, birthday celebrations, funerals, and fishing trips around White Lake and nearby areas.
West Side figures Addy Toepel and Anton Klement head to Nebraska for a visit with Klement possibly relocating there after renting his ranch to son Victor. Addy baseball beats Valley Sunday 28 to 4. Local visits include G Young E F Toepel and families from Spokane with A S Toepel. Colville camp M A W adoptions Friday night. Colville camp to meet Addy camp Saturday night June 17. Frank Hoegerl leaves for Bavaria with Wisconsin relatives. alfalfa cutting begins amid hot weather.
Among the fishing parties at the lake during the past week were A. M. Wood and Carl Jacobson of Deer Park, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bowles, Stanley Jarvis and Theodore Bowles of Spokane, R. D. Gifford and Gus Gies of Spokane.
A marriage license was granted Tuesday to Elmer H. Jellison and Martha Morehouse, both of Addy. Also listed are a Colville business for sale with car as part payment, a lost fish basket, and a want ad for cooks willing to work anywhere. Inquiries at Examiner Nos 28 and 29.
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