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A Weekly Journal of Democracy Fifteenth Year GIFTS THAT GIVE PLEASURE Not Every Gift Gives Pleasure to the Recipient. "He" or "She" May Say It Does But There Are Many Considerations That Have to Be Looked To in Making a Gift. Our Experience in These Matters Will Help You. Come In and Let Us Talk It Over " IF ITS FROM RICH'S ITS RIGHT" COLVILLE ABSTRACT CO. Abstracts of title to Stevens county lands, mines and water rights Frank Kosftka Merchant Tailor Colville, Washington YEARS OF HAPPINESS , ■ IN ONE CHRISTMAS IBjH^ii ' ■"¥f|g§\ff lhillk "'' this Christmas gift as a "MBBJBfIBHM'Bfff"' MiJt ol year-round Christmas ehrer JSSpp'? I You and your family and friends J^H^B^HHJ jjj h ■'*<*! * can on joy all the music of all the •—p ' "hJImB-- world for a lifetime when you give a |||> COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA. f*^. A small first payment delivers any o , f^/' of the latest models GRAFONOLAS. :SSp. Then you can Pay for it as you on if COLVILLE SONG SHOP Hazel Emery, Prop. LOOSE LEAF SYSTEMS—RING AND POST BINDERS RULED FORMS—BLANK FILLERS AT EXAMINER I Use TopNoch Flour I I 1 TopNoch Flour Mills I I COLVILLE. WASHINGTON | Che £olville examiner [_«=?_ High class tailoring (or men and women Dry cleaning, pressing, repairing, altering OFFICIAL NEWS OF CITY AND COUNTY Colville, Stevens County, Washington. Saturday, December 10, 1921 Some Experiences of Pioneer Days 0. N. Bell Spent Christinas in Inland Empire Forty- Five Years Ago HW y *• BF O. N. BELL, of Colville Member Inland Empire Historical Society, Spokane Pioneer Association, Stevens County Pioneer Association. My father and I came to the l'alouse country from Salem, Oregon, in the winter of 1876-77. We arrived at Spokane Falls on February 14, 187 V. In the fall of 1876 I made the trip across the Cascade mountains on what is known as the Santiam route. 1 rode a cayuse pony over the moun tains, and by the way, it was in the same fall, about one month later, that my old time friend John B. Slater made the same trip ove» this self-same trail from Lebanon, Ore gon. I stopped on Birch creek be tween Pilot Rock and Pendleton un til my father arrived from Salem. My father had started for Spokane Falls and insisted that I join him on this trip, and I consented to do so. We went over the territorial route via Walla Walla from Colfax to Spo kane Falls, arriving there February 14, 1876. The winter of 1876 and 1877 was a beautiful one, only about two inches of snow at any one time, the ground never frozen and with a lot of beautiful days. We stopped on Union Flat and stayed there a day or two with my father's friend Chauncey Gutches, he having known him back in lowa. Mr. Crutches was living there on a rented ranch, he having not yet located. The place he had rented was near Cap tain Ewert's on Union Flat. We then went to Colfax and stop ped a few hours there. Only a few settlers were there at that time, Judge Perkins, John C. Davenport, Clem King and a few others. The Terrance family lived down below Colfax, and the Loomis family arriv ed that fall. The first night out of Colfax we spent with Cash-Up Davis. Mr. Davis treated us fine and called our attention to the black Palouse land and told us that the land was vacant for twenty-five miles around his place and insisted on my father locating a homestead there. He told us that he was going to build a wagon road up to the top of Steptoe butte, a hotel, dance hall and observa tory. In after years he did thit.. I remember Barney O'Neil, who now lives at Seattle, and Charles Hinch cliff, who lives at Elberton, and I attended the dance after Cash-Up Davis finished his hotel and dance hall. Mr. Davis also told us where Col. Steptoe fought the Indians on the top of Steptoe butte some years before. From here we continued our jour ney to Whitman station. Whitman station was where Rosalia now is. We went on from there and stayed over night with Gum Hardman and from there to Spangle. There were a few pioneers at Spangle and a postoffice kept by William Spangle. Mr. Span gle had two sons, George and Henry, and a brother-in-law, William Tiffin. We also stopped with the Blame Brothers, their names being Winfleld, Lucian, Byron, Charles and Edward. The Spokane county poor farm now stands on the Blame homestead. We also met Doc Philio, D. F. Percival, W. A. Sanders and old man Stuttler. These were about the only inhabi tants at Spangle at that time. These people also insisted on our homestead ing there, as the land around there was all vacant. We told them that we were going to Spokane Fans, and they told us we would ffttrt nothing there but rock and that the Spokane 'Continued on next ■>■>«.) Baker-Langley Wedding in Spokane Wednesday C. L. Baker, cashier of the Bank of Colville, and Mrs. Gertrude H. Langley of Spokane were united in marriage Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Bacon. E. 710 24th street, Spokane. They expect to arrive in Colville today, and will make their home at 139 north Elm. The bride has been a resident of Spokane for several years, and in v fnbrr of visits to Colville has made By warm friends who will be high pleased to welcome her as a Col ville resident. The groom has been with the Bank of Colville since 1907, with the ex ception of 19 months spent at Springdale in charge of the Farm ers and Merchants bank there. Ho became cashier of the bank of Col ville in 1916, following the depart ure of his brother W. R. Baker to California. The heartiest congratulations of many sincere friends are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Baker. Farmer at Inchelium Arrested for Forgery James P. Reed of Inchelium was arrested Saturday by Deputy Sheriff D. F. Ham on instruction from Sher iff Clarence Long of Spokane county. Keed was brought to Colville, and taken to Spokane Sunday afternoon by a Spokane county deputy sheriff. The warrant was issued on a for gery charge. Reed is a brother of Mike Foley, who was recently convicted in federal court on a charge of passing counter feit money. Reed was one of the witnesses in the case against Clarence Hyland in the Stevens county court, when Hyland was convicted, and later confessed, on the charge of robbing the Addy State Bank in June. It was at Reed's house that Mrs. Hy land and little daughter lived last summer. Reed claims that the forgery charge against him has no founda tion. . "I was not surprised when I was otrested," said Reed to an Examiner representative, "for Harr Btob. of the International hotel in Spokane had threatened to have me arrested. I stop at the International hotel when in Spokane. A few weeks ago, while there, I met Ira Snyder, who was in Inchelium last summer selling Com mercial Oil Co. stock, and for whom 1 had cashed checks during the sum mer. Snyder said he wanted to go to Boise, and wanted me to cash a $75 check. I did so, and left the check in the hotel office. I told the office to phone to Colville and see if the check was good. This was not done, and I drew $50 on the check from the hotel office. Two weekfl ago I got word from Harr Bros, that 1 must make the check good or they would have me arrested. I did nut have enough funds just at that time to make the check good, but sent word that I would straighten it out. I put the check in the hands of a Spokane lawyer for collection. There was no forgery about the transac tion. Three men saw Snyder sign the check, and I indorsed it." Reed declared at Spokane that he would immediately put up the $2000 bond under which he is held. The prosecuting attorney's office in Spo kane is authority for the statement that the check charge against Reed was a strong case. The sheriff's office in Stevens county had no con nection with the case except to make the arrest at the request of Spokane county. Miss Mildred Scherette Is Married in Spokane Miss Mildred Scherette and H. W. Pletke were united in marriage at Spokane on Wednesday by the Rev. W. C. Hicks, at the home of the bride's sister Mrs. V. R. Roberts. The bride carried a bouquet of white ronen and wore a gown of silver lace over pink satin. The ceremony was witnessed by Mrs. G. H. Pletke, Mrs. V. R. Roberts and Walter Harr. A four-course dinner was nerved at 6:30. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Scherette Sr., pioneer residents of Colville, and for several years has been one of the popular salesladies at the 5-&-10 store. The groom is manager of the parts de partment of the Oldsmobile Co. in Spokane, but for a number of years was with the Great Northern Ex press Co. in Spokane. Mr. and Mrs. Pletke will make their home in Spokane, and the con gratulation)) of Colville friends go with them. The Production of Effffs to Increase Poultry Project Leaders Meet and Lay Plans for Work of 1922 Tha Poultry Project Loaders of the Farm Bureau met in Colville on Dec. 5 for the purpose of planning; the poultry program for 1922. The meeting opened with Mrs. J. F. Colder, county project leader, as chairman. Report of the 1921 work done and the results obtained was given by the county agent. W. D. Buchanan, specialist from the Washington state college, out lined tentative work for the 1922 program, and with the assistance of the project leader* the program was made. Mr. Buchanan stated that an average of 38.6';.' of all chicks hatch ed were raised, over the United states at large, and that the goal for the work in Washington in brooding would be to raise this percentage to 40 c/r. Record sheets will be fur nished the community project leaders which will have blank entry spaces pertaining to mortality among the chicks and the cause of loss, ho that definite check can be made through the cooperating farmers in ascertain ing whether this percentage has been raised or not. Attention will be giv en this year to better breeding, bet ter brooding, better feeding and man agement, rather than the culling. Culling demonstrations will be put on in six communities only, where mem bers are more in the beginners' stage as poultrymen. Mr. Buchanan gave home general facts relative to the number of chickens in the state of Washington, stating that the chicken census of Washington showed ,'5,540,000 chick ens in the state, with over 3,000,000 of these as hens and that half of this number of fowls has to be pro duced or replaced each year, which fact is ample proof of the impor tance of the question of better brood ing, feeding and management of young chick». The averago egg pro duction per hen wns also definitely fixed as 83.i eggs per hen for the whole United States. For Washing ton, which is a poultry state of the higher rank, 120 to 130 eggs per hen per year was the figure quoted. The work to be undertaken by the poultry committee for the coming year will also look to the raising of the aver uge egg production. The final goal set for the work in 1922 was to raise the egg produc tion from around 120 to 130 eggs average per hen to 156 eggs. In the poultry work the Koal set was 40 pullets raised per 100 chickens hatched. The work charged to the project leaders was :is follows: First, find place for demonstration and makn arrangements for the demon stration; second, to advertise meet ings; third, to distribute report blanks to cooperators; fourth, to get reports and mail in to the county project leader or to the county agent. A motion carried naming Mis. J. F. (ioldei chairman of the poultry project leaders' committee, and nomi nating her to the executive com mittee of Stevens County Farm Bureau, to represent poultry inter ests. Among the out-of-town poultrymen present was ft. R. Lumberg of Hpringdale, a very active and nflfi cirnt poultry man. NEW GAS STATION ESTABLISHED IN COLVILLE A new gag station is to be opened in Colville, within a few weeks, and preparations are almost completed for handling an independent oil in the Colville territory. Willett Bros., proprietors of the Ford garage, have completed a 10, --000 gallon tank west of the depot, which will store more than an aver age carload of oil. The tank at the garage will hold an additional !<<»i> Dillon,. A tank wagon has been secured for use in distributing the gas throughout the territory. It is the plan of Willett Bros to wholesale and rotail the new oil, which is intended to be a better grade for motor use than the gas now in ordinary use, although cost ing no more. Details of the character and test of the new oil will probably be made public in a short time. It comes from an independent refinery, and users in other parts of the country are said to be highly pleased with its character. Loose Leaf outfits at the Examiner. $2.00 Year in Advance; 5c Copy GREAT NORTHERN TRAFFIC AM) PASSENGER NOTES The perfect package campaign that is being carried on throughout the United States through letters from the head office and through news paper publicity, has been noticed in local shipment* that have gone out through the Great Northern express office. Twenty thousand bushels of wheat will have been shipped from here by May first, from the farmers through the Farm Bureau and through the mills to coast points. S. B. Kohlstedt and Harris load ed a car of cattle for shipment, to the Union stock yards at Spokane on Wednesday. Colville Feed company received a oar of mixed feed from Spokane this week. .F. Schreiber shipped a car of fuel to Spokane Thursday. Frank Wines .shipped 1(100 pounds of poultry. (Jreat Northern reports that this will be the weekly average during the holiday season. Wilson Produce Co. shippt-v' this week 4,500 pounds of veal and 1,150 pounds of hogs. TopNoch Mill* are not shipping much out now; local markets have kept them running twelve hours a day for the past three months. Ex cept for northern markets, Toroda being the most northern, distribution is local. ('roam shipped to the Kairmont creamery at Spokane averages $250 a week. THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. Much has been said in the public press recently regarding profiteering. The average American considers a ten, or fifteen, or twenty per cent, profit as a fairly legitimate otic, but beyond that he is apt to find fault. While the tuberculosis Christmas seal .-■ale inaugurated in 1908 has not oxactly profiteered, it has set a .-bining example to American business of how a few pennies may be trans lated into millions of dollars. The Christinas seal sale that started in 190H with a little over $100,000 at tained a magnitude last year of over $8,060,000, but in spite of its growth the total returns from the sale of Christmas seals since 1908 have been only about $16,000,000. This money has for the most part been invested in oducution and organization. The tuberculosis movement today, which is one of the greatest voluntary so cial work movements in the world, is B monument to the development of the tuberculosis Christmas seal. Hut if the Christmas seal had merely built an organization, the $16,000,000 would hardly have given the millions of contributors a suffi cient return on their money. The Christmas .seal has done more than that. Hy community organization and education it has stimulated the development of hospitals, sanatoria, open-air schools, dispensaries and other agencies for Anding tuberculo sis until today there is invested in machinery of this character over SI50,000,001» and tfaa annual expendi ture of these various agencies ll over $30,0110,000. Most of this money is being spent from public funds—city, county, state or federal. The, Christmas seal has made this development, and one may rightly therefore say that the $16,000,000 that the American public has invested in Christmas seals in the last thir teen years has been multiplied, not once nor twice, but nearly ten times and the multiplication is going on every day. A dollar invested in Christmas seals is not a static dollar. It keeps moving, multiplying and growing into many, many dollars and into renew ed health and strength.