Colville Local News Highlights and Community Notes
Stevens County column covers rental changes, visits by Spokane figures, and school inspections. Reports on Hillyard Lumber mill expansion near Colville, new paper ownership, local deaths and funerals, a garden party with ages totaling 810 years, lectures, a county track meet with Colville dominance, and a public school emphasis on military drills and patriotism in Japan.
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Hillyard Lumber Company
Campbell’s Lake
Echo Valley
Colville
Orr
Spokane
Palmer’s Siding
Stevens County Teachers’ Association
Chewelah
A. D. Foster
F. W. Hoskins
Deer Park
W. L. Sax and Johnson
C. P. Lineau
South Central High School
Howard Cox
Fruitland
Lee Mantz
Robert Lee
Lloyd Hahn
Crawford
Washburn
John McCrane
Military School Exercises Highlight Spartan Cadet Training
In a Japanese military school the cadet drills with pikes rises and broadswords reflect a Spartan system of education. The intensity of the exercises is described as fierce and unlike anything seen in Europe.
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Europe
A Warship's Ram The Huge Steel Beak of battleships
A Philadelphia Record description explains the ram as a huge steel beak fitted to the prow. It weighs about forty tons, forged in one piece, and can crush and sink an opposing ship at full speed. Ramming ships are rigged with tight compartments and fixed beneath the hull to strike below armor.
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Philadelphia
Are marriages made In heaven in church courting
A brief wry remark from Peleg in the Louisville Courier Journal notes that much courting occurs in church, implying a human element in marriage decisions.
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Peleg
Louisville Courier-Journal
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the Roman Stone & Mfg. CO
Hotel Lee
The
Colville Examiner
Stevens County Publishing Company, Inc
Wash
Congress
J.C. Harrigan
D. Barman
T. A. Winter Cottage
John B. Slater
Slater
B. F. Hammond
Della
Leeds
North Dakota
G. H. Boardman
Washington and Alaska
Columbia River
Hall’s
B. F. Burns
Rockwell City
Iowa
C. H. Pierce
West
J. P. Taylor
Reveille
B. R. Coffman
Sound
Lydia Ellen Flint
Chicago
Ind
G. H. Wilbur
Clarence Riggs
Harry and
John Miller
Indiana
Daniel Poffenberger
Free Methodist Church
Evergreen Cemetery
Geo. Winhurst
D. Laury
R. E. Lee
Lee
Narcisse Grange
Emma Morrow
Old Bells Academy
Mr. King
Little Pend Oreille
Arden
W. P. Townsend
Rochester
Minn
Ed Beggs
Rathdrum
F. W. Heslewood
Kalispell, Mont
D. M. Hurt
Northport
R. A. Hull
A. B. Cook
Elizabeth Arnold
Mesdames Peck
Pryor
Stannus
Anderson
Hartman
Smith
Brouillet
Acorn
Harvey
Judson
Chrysler
Arnold
Charles C. Eaton
Tacoma
Hahn
Mantz
Gilson
Fullerton
McLean
Brownlow
DeGrief
Platts
de Grief
Sax
Lever Hall
Viola Ross
Herbert Thompson
May Ross
Clarence Gorlons
Miss Ross
Thompson
Cook
Steltz
Brown’s Pharmacy
Japan
MecClure
R. P. Samuels
Snapp
F. Thomas
R. Wright
Lynch
Fuller
N. Thomas
M. Wright
A.B. R. P. E. Jones
Carey
Jeffries
Lavender
See
Melin
Copson
Dellar
Calville
Cooks Gym
Samuels
Stelie
Balla
Bartlett
Phillips
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