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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1920
Page
6
Mrs. Myrtie Fish serves as Representative for Kettle Falls as the Upper Columbia River Valley enjoys a week of events and community notes in the garden spot of the great northwest.
The Daisy Enterprise notes R. E. Young and family leaving for Salem Oregon after an April 27 sale. Mrs. Young and their smaller children plan to join Mr. Young and make Salem their future home. The column also reports spring farming progress and a series of church and school activities in Daisy and nearby towns.
Mrs A J Swanson reports a well attended Grange meeting with five new members up for ballot and six new applications. The dance committee plans a dance on April 30. Hazel Phillips and Laura Ellis renew teaching contracts at Meyers Falls School as the district praises the board for funds to retain teachers.
In Tibet judges permit accused criminals to undergo an ordeal to prove innocence. A copper bowl with boiling oil holds two eggsized pebbles, black and white. The prisoner washes hands, a law tablet is read, then he draws a pebble. White and unscalded means innocence, black or scalded means guilt or partial guilt.
The excerpt describes certain warm sea and river creatures that rarely exceed two feet in length. They share the trait of inflating their bodies with air or water to become nearly spherical, storing the fill via a throat valve and releasing it rapidly when needed.
At Kandy Sri Lanka the entire grain process is a religious rite. Women carry sheaves on their heads, buffaloes thresh the paddy at dusk, straw is removed, winnowing is done by hand, and grain stored in bissa urns. Ground with large stones for cooking into breads or curry.
The piece notes city color contrasts from Street and Morgan's American Adventures and traces Antonio Moreno's rise in silent film from Northampton stock to a Vita graph contract. It mentions Chicago and New York hues, Paris and Naples tones, and Moreno’s early stage work with Carter, Collier, Storey, Castle, and White before Vita graph.
Quote heavy clipping on energy willpower and perseverance. It argues energy of will defines character and enables progress in life, citing Charles IX of Sweden and a Spartan saying about adding a step. Emphasizes courage, tenacity, and steadfast effort as keys to achievement and victory.
The canal commission says Caribbean Colon and Panama Bay share mean sea levels, but tides differ. Colon rises nine inches and falls nine inches. Panama sees high tides about ten feet and lows ten feet below, creating a nine-foot difference. Floods from the Chagres river have surged up to 25 feet in 24 hours, justifying an 85-foot elevation for the lock system.
A reflective excerpt compares loyal natures to sunward plants that faithfully turn toward the dawn and follow the sun across the sky, later facing west at night with dewdrops like tears, portraying enduring friendship through natural imagery.
A fragmented excerpt notes how puffer fish employ inflation as a natural defense mechanism. The text references multiple species existing across tropical regions and hints at evolutionary roles in predator deterrence and ecological adaptation.
The county board of equalization held sessions on April 19 and 20, 1920. Larilda McKeown was elected chairman and Wim Gillings served as clerk. Corrections were ordered including rejecting Belle Walston personal property exemption for Spokane county and denying D I Prentice a nonresident refund of 7.95. John Rickey was allowed a refund.
The record lists numerous tax cancellations and refunds for 1914 to 1919 across Stevens county with details of properties, districts, and double assessments. It also announces a public sale of delinquent property on May 15 1920 at the Colville courthouse with cash terms by Treasurer Sarilda McKeown, including Meyers Falls and Kettle Falls parcels and timber rights.
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