The Colville examiner., March 25, 1922, Image 1

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OFFICIAL NEWS OF CITY AND COUNTY
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Colville, Stevens County, Washington, Saturday, March 25, 1922
Former Colville Girl
Competes for Prize
A native daughter of Colville is
one of the 40 successful contestants
for the $30,000 in prizes being of
fered by the Chicago Daily News
for senario writing. Mrs. M. L.
Strauss of Chicago, known by early
Colville residents as Celeste Barman,
daughter of David Barman and niece
of Sig Dilsheimer, has entered the
contest, and the following article re
garding her appeared in the Chicago
Daily News March 18:
"When she was a girl in Portland,
Ore., Celeste Barman determined to
be a professional woman, a pianist,
an interior decorator, a painter, or a
linguist; many professions appealed.
But the highly specialized post of an
author did not occur to her.
"Nevertheless, when one of The
Daily News investigators, detailed to
get facts on the forty persons whose
stories are in the final running for
the thirty-one prizes offered in The
Daily News $30,000 scenario con
test, brought this same Celeste Bar
man an announcement today, she, as
a woman, found that the profession
of authorship was, after all, the one
nearest home. Her story is one of
the forty which the judges are now
re-reading.
"She is Mrs. M. L. Strauss now
and for the greater part of each day
she helps her husband direct his
cloak and suitmaking shop at 16
South Market street.
"When Mr. Strauss enlisted in the
army in June, 1917, his wife sat
down at his desk at the garment
factory and remained there until he
came back two years later. 'The
best managed years the firm ever
had,' says Mr. Strauss.
" 'I got my first desire to write
when I saw the announcement of the
$30,000 contest in The Daily frfews
late last summer,' says Mrs. Strauss,
whose writing name, however, will
be Celeste Barman. 'Until that mo
ment I had about given up all hopea
of professional life. I was not dis
contented. Far from it. I enjoy
keeping in touch with my husband's
business, but in the back of my mind
there rankled that old thought that'
I had wanted to be so many different
things and had turned out to be a
sort of professional Jack-of-AH-
Trades. So this news that my story
is being even considered among the
final forty is exceedingly exciting
to me.
" 'Today I start writing more
scenarios. I won't let it interfere
with my interest in the business.' She
smiled reassuringly at her husband
at this. 'Today I begin with some
real basis for confidence in the belief
that I can write. I followed the ad
vice given by D. W. Griffith in the
columns of The Daily News and
wrote about the life I know, the
people I saw and the actions I ob
served.'
"In other parts of the United
States other investigators are work
ing to establish the authenticity of
each claim for authorship as it is
made in the list of the forty best
manuscripts which the judges have
sent to the Daily News.
"As rapidly as they substantiate
the facts they send to the Daily
News their reports for publication.
"By this method the identities of
the thirty-one prize winners will be
available at the moment the judges
determine which stories have won.
This is likely to occur any day. It
is certain to be before March 31, ac
cording to the judges."
Alabama Minstrels
Staged Last Night
The minstrel show which was
staged at the Colville theater last
night under the auspices of the
Modern Woodmen was a success in
every respect. The show which has
been under the direction of Miss Eva
C. Mills, who spent considerable
time in drilling the participants in
the art of negro dialect.
The cast consisted of about 50
people and the rendition of the pro
gram was well relished by a large
and appreciative audience, and con
sisted of negro minstrels, dancing,
vaudeville, monologues, dialogues
and clogg dancing by Clark Peters,
who gave some of the real jig
dances.
Members of the show were: Misses
Virginia Noble, Cleo Scholes, Neva
Miller, Minnie Eager, Velma Foster,
Thees Johnson, Luella Droz, Emma
Hoffstetter, Gladys Casey, Florence
Ehmke, Edna Johnson, Eunice Set
zer, Irene Gammage, Harry
Eslick, Wilbur Copp, John Huggins,
L. Thurber, B. Casey, Jesse Casey,
Don H. Phillips, Merle Starr, Osee
Noble Jr., Clark Peters, Charles Wil
bur, Hubert Page, Fay Baker, Earl
Droz, Jones Tracy, Edwin Johnson,
Charles VanTuyle, Adolph Naff, Bob
Fay.
W. W. Campbell
New Postmaster
Recommended by Webster
to Succeed C. M. Durland
at Colville
Campbell postmaster
W. W. Campbell was this week
recommended by Congressman J.
Stanley Webster for the office of
postmaster at Colville. There were
only two applications for this office,
and both were certified by the civil
service commission as eligible, W. W.
Campbell being given first place, and
Will C. Spedden, county auditor being
given second place in the civil service
listing. Both had strong petitions
and recommendations for the office.
Tuesday Mr. Campbell received a
telegram from Congressman Webster
that the recommendation had been
ftiade for him. The recommendation
■will now go to the president for pre
sentation to the senate for confirma
tion, after which bond will have to
be filed before the commission is is
sued. The procedure will require
about two months.
Mr. Campbell was for nine years
with the Colville postoffice, most of
the time as assistant postmaster, tak
ing that position under Postmaster
P. R. Parks. C. M. Durland be
came postmaster Nov. 4, 1913, was
reappointed in 1918, and his term ex
pired Jan. 24, 1922. Mr. Campbell
resigned as assistant Jan. 1, 1918,
and has been engaged in business
under the name of Campbell Mercan
tile Co. For many years he was
secretary of the Colville Chamber of
Commerce, has been on the govern
ing board for several years, is secre
tary of the Stevens County Live
stock association, and ever since his
residence in Colville has been a live
wire in all community undertakings.
For many years he has been a
member of the Odd Fellows, Knights
of Pythias and Masonic lodges, and
is a Shriner and D. O. K. K. He
attends the Congregational church.
bis wife is a past matron of the
Eastern Star, and his eldest daughter
is a student at the University of
Washington.
C. M. Durland, who will have been
postmaster BV2 years by the time he
turns the office over to Mr. Camp
bell, has given a most efficient admin
istration and during his term of office
has seen the Colville postoftice rise
to an office of genuine responsibility.
He secured free city delivery Oct.
16, 1914, and several years ago put
on rural route No. 3 covering the
territory west and south of the city.
•As a result of increased business,
the salary of the office has risen to
$2600, and the salaries of employes
have all risen. When he took of
fice, the highest paid assistant re
ceived $1100. Now the assistant
receives $1950 and the second assist
ant 1800.
Congressman Webster, in making
the appointment, gave out the follow
ing statement Tuesday: "I today
recommended the appointment of W.
W. Campbell for postmaster at Col
ville. This has been the most per
plexing contest that I have yet had
to deal with. It is universally
agreed that both applicants are good
men and both are well qualified for
the position. After carefully can
vassing the whole situation, I came
to the conviction that the sentiment
of the patrons of the office favored
Mr. Campbell. Moreover, as the
result of the civil service examina
tion for the office, Mr. Campbell re
ceived the highest grade. Under
these circumstances, I deemed it my
duty to recommend his appointment."
New Dairy Business
Northwest of City
Mrs. Jean McCloud has purchased
the 80-acre tract of land known as
the Hanna place and added it to h«r
holdings north of town and has taken
as a partner Robt. Skeels who will
run a dairy farm upon the ranch.
Mr. Skeels will move upon the
Hanna place about the first of April
and will have about 20 purebred
Jersey cows and will start a dairy
route. Some of his cows are prize
winners and all are good milkers and
have obtained a high milk test.
Mr. SkeelH moved here about a
year ago from Addy and haw been
making good with his cows. Mrs.
McCloud, since adding the Hanna
ranch to her holdings, has about 350
acres of land suitable for this lint
of business. The name of the ranch
will be Jersey Maid Dairy Farms.
R. R. Coleman of Inchelium was
transacting business in Colville Fri
day.
To Cut Representation
of Smaller Counties
(By Fred L Wolf, editor Newport
Miner, stale representative from
lend Oieille county.)
The Palmer-Seattle initiative bill
which proposes to reduce the legis-
lative representation of eastern
Washington, exclusive of Yakiina,
but inclusive of Skamaniu county,
to exactly the same size as King
county would create a new sena
torial district composed of Adams,
Grant, one-third of Douglas county,
all of Lincoln, Ferry and Stevens
counties that would have no greater
voting strength than the compact
little district of two wards in the
city of Seattle that Palmer proposes
to erect for himself. This eastern
Washington territory covering 12,265
square miles, 50 times the area of
all of King county, would get one
senator and three representative! un
der the plan outlined by Palmer and
now being signed by Seattle voters
under the spur of the newspapers of
that city. And all of eastern Wash
ington, twenty counties having a to
tal area of 38,931 square miles,
would be given 6 senators and 18
senators, what the Palmer-Seattle
bill purposes to keep as King coun
ty's representation—and there are
but 2111 square miles in King coun
ty, or one-ninteenth the area in
eastern Washington whose legisla
tive representation is to be whittled
to the bone.
Ever since territorial days each
county has been accorded one mem
ber in the house on the same theory
that congress gives each state two
senatoi's: that territorial represen
tation is as necessary as population
to enable a legislative body to rep
resent the whole territory it gov
erns.
At present Adams, Grant, Ferry
counties havu one representative
each: Lincoln and Stevens have two
apiece. Douglas also has a repre
sentative. Palmer proposes to join
these counties in the third senatorial
district, but in alloting representa
tives he would give Adams, Grant
and the second commissioner dis
trict of Douglas county exclusive of
Trinidid, one representative between
them; he would give another to
Lincoln and Perry counties jointly
and a third to Stevens, thus cutting
the representatives from 7% to 11.
At present Lincoln has a senator;
Stevens and Pend Oreille have anoth
er; Adams is linked with Franklin
and a part of Walla Walla is a sena
torial district, while Grant, Douglas
and Ferry are linked with Okanogan
county in a senatorial district. The
Palmar bill would give these coun
ties approximately one-third the
present strength they have in the
senate.
Another striking example of what
the Palmer initiative bill would do
if enough Seattle voters sign the
petition to place the measure on the
ballot and it could be carried at the
November election is given on the
southern boundary of the state where
Palmer proposes to link Columbia,
Walla Walla, Henton, Franklin,
Klickitat and .Skamania counties in a
single district, again eliminating two
east side senators and cutting out
five representatives.
The Palmer bill was filed just af
ter an offieiul report made by L. D.
McArdle, director of efficiency, had
estimated that of the $116,000,000 of
tax-exempt property in this state
owned by the various dties and
towns, Seattle alone owned $108,000,
--000. About the time the Palmer bill
was filed another bill was initiated
from King county that would give
Seattle home rule and unlimited op
portunity to extend its tax-exempt
holdings by engaging in every pha.se
of business from farming, mining,
marketing to arrial transportation.
Seattle's relief from state tax bur
dens would be increased by holdings
inside or outside the city as it saw
fit; it would become largely self
governing and sieze a dominant
position in the legislature that
would enable it to make the laws
for the rest of the state.
Initial steps have been taken to
fight the Palmer bill through v .state
wide organization of the .smaller
counties in the "Cow County Defen.se
League." Preliminary conferences
have been held on both .sides of the
mountains and further organization
will be effected. In the meantime
the league in gathering all the data
that can be found at Olympia to
fight the Seattle legislative control
scheme.
The Ladies' Improvement club held
a card party at the home of Mrs. H.
O. Bair. There were 20 tables and
prizes were given, which were fur
nished by the members. Refresh
ments were served.
An Exponent for
Stevens County
$2.00 Year in Advance; 5c Copy
Game Season Fixed
for Stevens County
The Fishing Season Will
Open April 15 and Close
October 31
The Steveiu county game com
mission has established the following
open season on game animals, birds
and fi.<-h for the year 1922:
Deer, Oct. 1 to Nov. 15, limit one
male deer; bear, Sept. 1 to April
.'((); blue grouse and native pheasants,
Sept. 16 to Nov. 15; Chinese pheas
ants, Oct. to 15; Hungarian pheas
ants, Oct. 1 to Nov. 15. The season
is doled on all other upland birds.
Bajr limit is five birds per day,
either straight or mixed bag, and
possession limited to five birds at
any one time.
Ducks, ffeeie, brant, rail coot (mud
hen) Oct. 1 to Dec. 81. Daily bag;
limit of ducks (except wood ducks
or eider ducks), 20 in the aggregate
of all kinds. Daily bag limit of geese
or brant, eight in the aggregate.
Daily bag limit rail or coot, twenty
in aggregate. Hours of shooting are
one-half hour before sunrise to sun
set.
Trout, bass, perch, sunfish, catfish,
whitefish, crappie, bream, pike, April
15 to Oct. 31. Daily creel limit 50
fish, or 20 pounds and one game
fish. Weekly creel limit is fixed at
30 pounds and one game fish. The
closed season on game fish is Nov.
1 to April 14.
The Stevens county seasons have
been approved by J. W. Kinney, state
supervisor of game and fish, and
will be vigorously enforced, accord
ing to L. S. Harbison, county game
warden. The Stevens county game
commissioners are A. P. Strobe,
Chewolah; .1. C. Wilson, Kettle Falls;
M. T. Wentz, Colville.
Magazine Solicitors
Try the Back Doors
Quite a commotion was caused in
Colvillo tin's week ut some of the
homes, when magazine .solicitors who
hit town Wednesday or Thursday
used some very crude methods of
salesmanship dying to solicit sub
scriptions for some publication.
The solicitors, two In number, apply
to the back door of the home and in
a very imposing manner ask the lady
to vote for them in some kind of a
voting scheme to try to help put the
solicitor through school. In most
cases they have a way of trying to
force entrance in the house, generally
starting at the back door.
The sheriff's office was notified by
some of the ladies who were annoy
ed, and upon investigation found the
visitors had boarded the northbound
train Thursday noon. No doubt the
towns north nf hern are receiving
pleasant calls from the solicitors.
For the benefit of the public it
might be stated that most of these
schemes are fradulent, and a ruse
WOtksd out by .schemers to sell sub-
Bcriptioni to cheap magazines which
in most caiei are never filled. The
solicitor liuy.s what is called a sheet
writer* li.st of paid subscription re
ceipts at a very low figure and sel
dom pays more than 6 cents each
for them and then plays his "educa
tion" stunt to sell his six-cent sub
scription for a dollar, in most cases.
If Mrs. Housewife fails to fall for
the dollar idea he brings forth
another that he can sell for 36 cents
or a less figure. And in a great
many instances she feels that she
likes to help the youth toward gain
ing an education and produces the
amount asked for, and is duped, for
if she gets the magazine she has
been cheated, and many never re
ceive the magazine at all.
Thorc are many good things offer
ed to the housewife by courteous
sales people, but in most cases they
do not try to force an entrance into
the homes, and never try to gain an
entrance by way of the back door.
A real salesman who has a proposi
tion that he is proud to show will
call at the front door and tell you
what he has in a polite manner.
Patient 71 Years Old
Has Appendix Removed
E. Bi Xi'wland, residing on the
HetMBUUI place near Addy, who was
oj» intcd for appendicitis last week,
is getting along nicely, and was able
to leave Mt. Carmel hospital this
week. He (■ 71 years of age. Dr.
W. A. Olds, who performed the op
eration, reports Mr. Newland the old
est patient he ever had for such an
operation, and medical records indi
cate that few men of such age ever
have occasion to have an apepndix
removed.