Out of the Past: 08/06/2025

100 Years Ago—

A trained force of 35 fire fighters is being held in reserve to supplement the work of the 24 lookouts and patrolmen on duty for fire detection in Colville National Forest.

Nathan Andserson and wife of Spokane visited in Colville at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Quinn W. McCord on Tuesday. In the afternoon, they visited Kettle Falls and watched the salmon jumping.

After more than a month of fishing for salmon in the Columbia River, Al Miller of the R. E. Lee Company landed a 40 1/2 -pound salmon Thursday evening. He had fished all but five minutes before hooking the big fish.

The construction of a concrete brick and tile building on the lot adjoining the R. E. Lee Company building on the north, was announced this week by Chas. Oeck, proprietor of the Colville Bakery before the destructive fire of last month.

75 Years Ago—    

State timber brought half again as much as its appraised value at a public auction here Monday. Fred Draper paid $28,699 for two tracts of state timber appraised at $17,270. The state estimates that there were 2,283,000 board feet of Ponderosa pine, red fir, tamarack and white fir on the tracts.

Pick-up and delivery service for the American Railway Express Company has been discontinued in Colville. The service was stopped Thursday. Railroad officials said that all packages for delivery by Railway Express must be brought to the depot.

Ma and Pa Kettle, hilarious characters from “The Egg and I,” return to the screen at the Kettle Falls theater Friday and Saturday.     

50 Years Ago—  

Colville’s Southtown Shopping Center will be noting its 19^th anniversary serving Colville and the surrounding vicinity this weekend, with participating businesses offering refreshments and surprises during the annual event. 

Pacific Northwest Bell announced today that the Colville and Colfax business offices would be closed Nov. 1.

Plans for the third annual “Arden Days” celebration, set for Saturday, Aug. 30, are moving smoothly and will be finalized in the next two weeks, according to Rick Kroiss, advertising chairman.

25 Years Ago—

Colville was included in the Race Track Promotions Tour, a national monster truck tour. The

crowd was larger than expected, with late-comers choosing spots on the grass or fences, as

bleachers and grandstands were filled up. Many attendees even took the opportunity to ride in

the Monster Trucks.

The Moving Wall, the first traveling Vietnam Memorial replica, will visit Nespelem Aug. 17-23.

Stevens County Conservation District has received a $450,000 grant from the Washington Department of Ecology for Phase II and III of the Colville River Watershed Planning Project.  The project is a local effort to address water quality and water use needs in the Colville River Watershed under the directives of the 1998 Watershed Planning Act.