Colville Firm Expands Marble Quarrying and Processing
The Colville Marble and Granite Company expands in Colville occupying the Fry church building on North Main. An 830 by 100 foot addition is planned with modern machinery including a stone cutting machine and polishing mill. Seven workers are expected as output grows with local granite promoted for monuments mausoleums and cemetery work. Local deposits near Colville include light and dark gray granite praised for finish quality.
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Colville
Colville Marble and Granite Company
Spokane
United States
Agricultural Department At Colville High Shows Strong Work
The Colville high school agricultural department reports 23 students across two classes taught by Prof. E E Elliott. First year studies focus on animal husbandry dairying and milk testing with free patron tests. Second year includes horticulture and spring outdoor work planning pruning grafting and landscape gardening. Each student has a home project and new library resources have been added. G B Ide and Mrs Kathrine S Ide open new offices on Main Street in Colville forming a combined real estate and land commission venture.
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Colville High School
E. E. Elliott
G. B. Ide
Kathrine S. Ide
U. S. Land Commissioner
Main Street
City Transfer Company
Colville
The Revised Version By the Overseas Soldier
Poem satire in which a World War II serviceman prays for back pay and release from occupation duties. It lampoons military life and questions authority while invoking a providential deliverance to return home. The piece reflects wartime mood and humor from a serviceman’s perspective.
Stevens County Displays Home Products and Honors at Fairs
Interior redecorated in brown tones features a show window displaying Stevens county grasses grains fruits metals and clay products. Mr Ide notes county products win awards at fairs including nine gold twelve silver and sixteen bronze medals at the A Y P exposition in Seattle. He predicts active real estate markets as veterans seek homesteads and timber land.
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Stevens ‘County
Ide
Stevens County
Minneapolis
Spokane
Colville
Seattle
Iowa
West
Mrs. Ide
Lane Building
Colville Man Weds Spokane Bride in Davenport Hotel
Miss Reine Grinsfelder daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Grinsfelder of Spokane wed Louis Strauss of Colville in the Elizabethan room at the Davenport Spokane Rabbi Jerome Rosen officiated at five o clock The ceremony featured a Mendelssohn march and Geraldine Lillie sang a solo The couple planned a California trip then home to Colville after mid April
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Reine Grinsfelder
Joseph Grinsfelder
Spokane
Louis Strauss
Colville
Davenport
Jerome Rosen
Geraldine Lillie
Lillian Gordon
Charming
Caroline Strauss
Carrie Heller
Kalispell
Montana
Lee Strauss
Strauss
California
Stannus
Adolph Strauss
Siegfried Strauss
L. Dannheiser
Rose
Sig. Dilsheimer
Barmans, Inc
Pastor Sykes Urges League of Nations Debate in Colville
Rev. Gabriel Sykes of the Methodist Episcopal church in Colville spoke on the League of Nations. He argued for resolving conflicts with ideas and reason, cautioned against abolishing nationalism, and praised the league as a civilizational experiment. He reviewed its preamble and key provisions, urged sane liberalism, and warned about reactionary forces and labor unrest.
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Gabriel Sykes
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Colville
League of Nations
Sykes
Rey
United States
Larios family settles on Oregon farm near Yamhill
E F Larios who spent two years at Astoria shipyards now lives with his family on a farm near Yamhill Oregon. They plan to make their future home there and continue farming in the region.
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E. F. Larios
Astoria
Yamhill
Oregon
Legislature Finalizes New Auto License Rates
The legislature completed overhaul of annual auto taxes, now sent to County Auditor W C Spedden. Rates apply to private autos, for hire vehicles, auto stages, auto stage trailers, motor trucks, and dealers with fees based on weight and passenger capacity.
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W. C. Spedden
Albert Loiselle Died of Heart Failure in Colville
Albert Loiselle, sixty, of Quebec birth, died of heart failure in Colville Saturday morning. He lived in Stevens county twenty two years, mainly in Aladdin and Deep Creek. He is survived by a widow and five children. Funeral services were held at McCord parlors with Rev. Gabriel Sykes officiating. Pallbearers: Dale Jones, W H Graham, W H Jackson, R E Lee, W F E MacBoyle, Thomas Aspend. Burial in Highland Cemetery Tuesday afternoon.
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Albert Loiselle
Colville
Highland Cemetery
McCord
Gabriel Sykes
M. E. Church
Dale Jones
W. H. Graham
W. H. Jackson
R. E. Lee
W. F E. MacBoyle
Thomas Aspend
Mr. Loiselle
Stevens County
Aladdin
Deep Creek
St. Philome
Quebec
Northport
Loiselle
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Rich
Jeweler and
Opticia
Stevens County Power & Light Co
P. E. Dingle
Colville. Abstract CO
Frank Kostka
Colville, Washington
TopNoch Flour Mills
Colville Marble & Granite Company
Agricultural Department
Washington
Kingdom Come
States
Frank B. Goetter
Colville Wash
Home Sweet Home
Smith
First National Bank
Colville, Wash
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