Out Of The Past 6/20/26

100 Years Ago—

Active work is to be started immediately at the Daisy Mine, one of the oldest

properties in the county. The Daisy Mine contains much arsenic, and an arsenic

plant has been installed to save the arsenic for separate shipment.

The class of 1926 is the last to graduate from the present high school building

and the last class to use any part of the old brick school building which was demolished this spring. Next year’s graduates will have the use of the new central

high school building now under construction. The present high school building will be used for junior high work, which will also accommodate the manual

training department and the sixth grade. The frame building in east Colville will

house grades one to five.

75 Years Ago—

For the first time in history, Stevens County will be visited by its state Supreme Court over Saturday and Sunday. Seven of the nine appellate judges and

their wives will make the trip. They will be entertained in this section by the

members of the Stevens County Bar Association.

Anaconda Copper Mining Company, a major world copper producer, and its

subsidiaries, reported a net income of $12,166,605 or $1.40 a share for the first

quarter this year. The company operates the former Bonanza Lead Mine here.

Additional headway was made this week in the new Mt. Carmel Hospital

fund drive when several individual donations were turned in. The Fred Draper Lumber Company crews in the woods and mill worked on Memorial Day of

this week, with the entire proceeds of their day’s labor to go toward the hospital

fund. This is expected to swell the fund several hundred dollars.

50 Years Ago—

The “go-ahead” to build an $8.3 million sawmill by Arden Lumber Company,

just south of their present mill, was given last week by Fred A. Winegar, president, Plum Creek Lumber Co., of which Arden is a subsidiary. Construction will

start in the middle of June, with completion expected next summer.

A gala celebration is planned this weekend at Gary Douvia Chevrolet-Buick in

Colville featuring Chevrolet’s “American A’s” hot dogs, baseball, apple pie, and

Chevrolet. According to new owner Gary Douvia, the dealership at 380 S. Main,

will be offering on Friday and Saturday, free hot dogs, coffee, Pepsi-Cola, apple

pie, toy baseballs, and souvenirs.

25 Years Ago—

KETTLE FALLS – Kettle Falls Elementary School has joined the list of Washington schools receiving a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The school learned in mid-April that their grant application had earned them

$124,000 from the foundation to become a “High Achievement School” model, with the end result being improved teaching and learning, and enhanced access to technology.

Motorists may have noticed a couple of changes around Colville. At their May

8 meeting, the Colville City Council approved three requests from the Traffic

Safety Committee. The stop signs at the intersection of 5th Avenue and Lincoln

Street have been reversed. Now, motorists traveling north and south must stop

for east/west travelers.

10 Years Ago—

The city of Colville, in conjunction with the Colville Rotary Club, paid for a

“Shape Downtown Colville” workshop on May 19. Throughout the four-hour

workshop, each person present was able to speak their mind on the vision they

saw for Heritage Court. Last comment: “Heritage Court could be the catalyst

for a larger city revitalization project.”