Out of the Past: 10/22/2025

100 Years Ago—

The Colville Parent-Teacher Association, by unanimous vote at its regular meeting Tuesday night, placed itself on record as in favor of a new high school building for Colville.

The Colville High School football team has been making a record this fall. The team held the strong North Central 11 to a scoreless tie, then defeated Hillyard 28-2, and last week cleaned up the Newport team by a score of 68-6.

The federal farm census for 1925 in Stevens County shows a total of 540,055 acres in farms, comprising 2,643 farms, a decrease of 84 since 1920. There are 300,000 acres in pasture lands and 208,000 woodlands.

75 Years Ago—    

Seventeen of Stevens County’s top talented young people will compete for $240 in prizes tonight in the final Civic League Talent Show in the city hall. The annual event, which was a complete sell-out last year, will start at 8 p.m. Steff members from radio station KXLY in Spokane will conduct the program this year.

Expected to get into operation in October is the new mill of the Pend Oreille Mines and Metals Company just north of Metaline Falls. This is one of the several large operations going on in the Metaline district.

KETTLE FALLS—A new 40x40 ft. burner, said to be the largest in Stevens County, has been installed at the Avey Brothers sawmill in Kettle Falls.

50 Years Ago—  

The county census board says they are nearing completion of the new official Stevens County population figure with only a few areas remaining to be counted. A spokesman for the board projected the county would go over the 19,000 mark and possibly over 20,000.

Tammy Stewart was crowned Colville High School Carnival Queen during ceremonies last Friday night. Her court included Sherry Busher, Cherisse Bastian and Tammy Anderson.

25 Years Ago—

Something for everybody could be the theme of this year’s Colville Moonlight Madness Sale, sponsored by the Main Street Promotions Committee. The annual sale will be Friday, Oct. 27.  Many activities have been added to this year’s event.

Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge is open for all state of Washington big game hunting seasons beginning Oct. 1, and extending through Dec. 31. This includes the popular modern firearm deer seasons.

The Colville Tribal Enterprise Corporation has announced that Barney’s Junction Restaurant, located at the junction of Highway 395 and SR-20, will close Oct. 28, for the season due to current weak market conditions.

10 Years Ago—

CHEWELAH—The town of Chewelah pulled off what a lot of people didn’t think was possible – establishing a new benchmark for the most lit Jack-O-Lanterns in one location. At last count, 1,951 of the glowing pumpkins were assembled at Chewelah City Park last weekend for the assault on the Guinness World Record for such attempts. Tom Bristol, president of the Chewelah Arts Guild, said Chewelah was able to prevail against a California community of 200,000 that was attempting to set the same record. At last count, Chewelah had significantly fewer residents than Irvine, Calif., who were able to assemble 1,510 glowing pumpkins for their part in the Guinness record attempt.