The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-11-15
GETS THE BIG APPLES
Miss Katherine RidgeWay Ho-
gan Lets Boston See Them.
Box Sent From CoIfax Put on Ex-
hibition at Food Fair-Boston
Herald Tells About 1t.

hC DoA vi dpptts W hiIrT MAIN
crime Ridgeway Hogan at Boston the
| last OF October has borne fruit. 1t was
fruit par excellence and has borne fruit
| OF the kind that will add to the renOwn
and greatness of Whitman county. The
idea was conceived by Charles n. Hinch
Tiff and l. B. Harris. Box after box oI
the finest apples that ever blest a com
munity were being hauled to town every
| day, why not send to the noted enter
| tainer at her home in Boston to show to
the people of the far east what could be
done in the way of raising apples in this
| comparatively new section OF Uncle Sans
| domains? ? 1t seemed TO be an inspira-
| ton Each fruit raiser, when told OF the
plan, enthused and asked permission to
contribute of his best to help fill the box
| Possibly OF the total number Of apples
which filled the box no one raiser gave
more than two or three, it being the pur-
| pose to have the contribution as general
as possible. Mr.. Hinchliff saw to the
| selection and packing Of the box, and
with the sanction of the Colfax Com
mercial Club shipped it to Boston as
coming from the club.
Last Sunday morning the Boston
Herald Of November was received in
| Colfax, and with it a half column oi
reading matter telling of the receipt oil
the box of apples, besides two pictures,
one two column picture of Miss Hogan,
the other a three column cut of six
apples, a watch in the center with the
hands on the dial pointing between the
figures ? and 3, meaning that the six
apples weigh 2A pounds each. 1t is an
attractive feature of the great paper
The headlines, in big letters, read as
follows
"Miss Ridgeway gets big apples.
Boston woman remembered by old
friends in town of Colfax, Wash. Send
her bouncing beauties from trees. She
owns ranch there and plans to some day
return to life in the Open"
Then follows the reading matter, which
will be of interest, and which we give in
full. Probably no simple act will do
more to let Whitman county be known
abroad as a great apple country than
this-an act which carries with it as well
the best wishes of all for gifted
daughter who spent her girhOod day
here and looks upon this as her future
home. This is what the Herald has to
say:
Remarks of Boston Herald.
sample OF what they can do in the
line of apples in Whitman county, Wash
ington, a group of apples that weigh
from two to two and half pounds
apiece, aud measure six inches in diane
ter and 16 and II inches in circumfer
ence, was on exhibition at the Food fair.
They belong to Miss Katherine Ridge
way Of this city and are tribute sent
her from the chamber of commerce in
her old home town of Colfax, Whitman
county, Wash.
Miss Ridgeway is herself ranch owner
in " hitman county, and some day she
will return to her old western home and
begin to raise big apples and peaches
friends keep her supplied with the editions
de luxe that are called fruit in Whitman
county.
Miss Ridgeway is a parsonage in Col
fax. The Katherine Ridgeway Theatre
adorns the main street Of the town.
Each year the chamber OF commerce
and private individuals as we'll send
"rrbutes of fruit" and hearty invita-
tions to her to come back to "God's g
country" Apples, peaches and fruit OF
all kinds of enormous size form curiOsi
ties in the East, but they are the normal
every day crop in Colfax.
Miss Ridgeway, who is tall brunette
OF striking beauty and vivacity, was
born in Atlanta, Ga, but early in her
girlhood moved to Washington. Then
Colfax had just been founded. It's rapid
growth has made it today one OF the
leading communities OF Washington.
She grew up there on a ranch which is
now her own. In spite OF her education
at Spokane College and the Boston Col
lege OF Oratory and her II years in the
lyceum field, there is still fascination
for her OF the times when she was break
ing in wild cayuses and swinging lariats
at grazing steers.
"I'll return to Colfax," she says, "when
have attained my ideal OF being able to
set forth to my audiences the best in lit
erature and making people link the i'm
agination ard the reality.
"When the chamber of commerce oi
Colfax sends me apples like these-some
years they send peaches, some years even
| onions-I have strong yearning to
leave the lyceum field for my ranch.
81 certainly should advise any one
ont in lifo n ua tn WaahinptO on