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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1922
Page
3
The Colville Examiner issued Saturdays with second class matter status. Subscriptions are $2 a year in advance, less than a year 50 cents per copy, postage to B C and foreign 50 cents extra. Renewals keep the subscription through the date on the label. Address changes require both old and new addresses. Advertising rate card available on request.
Colville residents host and visit relatives this week. Notable names include Dan Smith of Pomeroy visiting his son Claude, and J D Casey from Spokane on business. Lodges hold a joint session with five Colville candidates and a Kettle Falls degree team.
Mrs A B Lansburn returned from Spokane visiting her son George. Whitman college awarded BA to Harry Jesseph and BS to Donald Sherwood. both plan return to Colville. Junior chautauqua parade leads pets and blues versus reds. pageant Sunday. Dr W A Olds resigns county health officer post. new appointee July 3. B M Blakeslee injured by pitchfork. Edwin Rogers earned University of Washington degree. other local notes on visitors, illness, and a licensing wedding in Spokane.
Nearly 60 guests attended a midweek party hosted by Mr and Mrs L G Keller at their home in honor of Miss Mary Mantz and Dr Ralph Goetter. The evening featured flowers lanterns and outdoor seating with ice cream cake and punch served. dancing prevailed throughout the night.
Sabbath school sessions occur every Saturday. Catholic Mass times are eight and ten o'clock on first and third Sundays and ten o'clock on second and fourth Sundays. Rev. E Bell SJ officiates.
The chapel offers services every Sunday morning at 11 with a Sunday message titled Christian Science. The program emphasizes weekly worship and study aligned with church practice.
Reverend G. E. Whitten leads Sunday morning service at the Methodist Episcopal Church with the sermon titled The Man Who Fought Against the Stars. No evening service will be held.
Congregational Rev. J. M. Huggins pastor. Free Methodist Sunday school at 10. Preaching at 11 and 7 30. Prayer meeting Thursday evenings. Evangelistic services at Orin each Wednesday evening.
Church of Christ led by Rev. Fred A. Thomas with services alternating Sundays at 10 30 and 7 80 and a Sunday school at 11 30. St John s Episcopal listing G H Severance Archdeacon Agnes D Roberts and W A Worker. Joseph Reed reports Marble apple crop strong. Amanda Harris of Rice and Harold F Clinton of Creosote receive a marriage license. J D Jones of Inchelium and Mrs C J Igo of Ford receive a marriage license.
The article traces motion picture origins from early optical persistence to modern cameras. It notes the rotograph and kinetograph precursors, the shift from drawings to filmed sequences, and early London horse footage. Stevens County sees growing studio use and favorable locations for filming including Nell Shipman’s Alaska project.
Promotion offers readers a combined rate of two dollars and fifty cents for both publications. Examiner subscribers can add the Commoner for sixty five cents. For a one year Examiner payment add fifty cents for the Commoner. Also: Wanted log cutters and contractors for logging at Marble Timber Co. Need apple thinners and blankets. apply to Upper Columbia Co. at Marble.
A. E. Bains of London announces a six inch hardened carbon rod that, held for five minutes, purportedly recharges the human system with nerve energy for 12 hours. He links the discovery to an ancient Egyptian figure and to improvements in microphones using carbon pencils.
The article explains cutworms hide by day and feed at night harming garden crops. It describes poisoned bait mixtures using arsenical poisons with shorts bran or alfalfa meal plus molasses or lemons, and suggests spreading near tree bases and avoiding bark. It also recommends Bordeaux spray to deter and kill cutworms, detailing preparation and application.
Judge Oscar Hallam quoted a South Dakota Bar address recounting an assault case involving the Koltski family and their dog Caesar. On the stand Mrs. Koltski denied instigating the dog, and the attorney pressed for what she told the animal, eliciting her remark that she warned it not to sic Caesar.
Louise, a poised young graduate, hides her business edge behind blue eyes and brown curls. Miss Isabel, the chief's stenographer, rushes in seeking the meaning of an unfamiliar term. Louise replies simply, Method of procedure, leaving Isabel dazed.
Ronald Gurd of London Ontario demonstrates a wireless concert setup in his bedroom. He uses bed springs as antenna connections and grounds one end while the other end bears the receiver and sound amplifier, eliminating outdoor aerials.
A 25 inch high shrunken body, preserved by a secret Peruvian pickling method, is identified as Chief Karruba who led his people against the Spaniards in 1535. Beads found with the warrior accompany the mummy brought by engineer Jaan Kratiel from Peru.
A London jeweler notes emeralds are rarely defect free unlike pearls and rubies and that Princess Mary’s ring features an exceptionally rare specimen emerald. The stone is described as a specimen vem and set in plage inun.
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