09/02/26 Out of the Past

100 Years Ago—

J.A. Love this week purchased the equipment of the Lunchette and took over the lease of the building on West First Avenue, remodeling the interior and changing the name to the Davenport Café.

Within the past two weeks, prospecting in the Gladstone Mine near Leadpoint has netted promising results. A description of the ore strike was contained in a letter sent to the Spokane office by Dan D. Dodd, superintendent. It read, “It seems to be a chimney and contains high grade and carbonate…”                                  

Colville’s August weather did not break any records. The average temperature for the month was 64.5, which is .1 less than normal, the average temperature for 25 years for the month being 64.6. The maximum temperature last month was 99 on the 24^th, minimum 40 on the 21^st.                   

75 Years Ago—

Colville football season tickets will go on sale following the annual merry-go-round game including Colville, Kettle Falls, Chewelah, and Newport. The tickets, a $3 value for $2.50, will be sold by members of the Lions Club. Buyers will be entitled to see all four of the Indians’ home games.

Roughly 42 rural families living in the Onion Mountain district north of Colville will have Pacific Telephone Service at about the end of the month when a Pacific Telephone project of extending telephone lines into the area is completed.

Colville Kiwanis Club will stage a free show for kids in Colville on Saturday. The free affair is being staged in conjunction with National Kids Day, sponsored by the 3,150 Kiwanis Clubs in the nation.

50 Years Ago—

It’s not the site that city fire department officials had originally requested, or even the secondary location chosen, but after months of “debate,” it looks as though a final site has been chosen for the new fire station. The site which the city council approved by a narrow margin is the Ivan Harlan property located on the corner of 1^st and Elm Streets.

Washington U.S. Senator Henry M. Jackson will be the grand marshal for Saturday’s Northeast Washington Fair parade, according to John Egger, parade chairman for the sponsoring chamber of commerce.

LeRoy Van Dyke, known as a pace-setting phenomenon of country music, will be the featured attraction at Saturday’s grandstand show at the Northeast Washington Fair in Colville.

25 Years Ago—

The Tri-County Economic Development District and the Colville Chamber of Commerce are collaborating on a Colville/Kettle Falls Business Directory. The directory is being funded through a grant from Key Bank.

The Statesman-Examiner will initiate a weekly Football Contest with this week’s first September edition.

The fourth annual Tri-County Veteran’s Stand Down will be held at the Northeast Washington Fairgrounds in Colville on Sept. 14-16.

10 Years Ago—

The Colville Confederated Tribes has been awarded nearly $8.3 million in costs related to its legal battle with Canadian Smelter Tech Metals, Ltd.

The Libraries of Stevens County soon will have the popular Ozobots Kits for youth patrons to use for a limited time this fall.