The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-05-09
Annual Contests of County Schools


under the supervision of the Stevens County
Teachers association were held in Colville May
and 2. All schools in the county were entitled to
representation at this meet but as this is the first
year Of the teachers association, the work of the
officers did not produce the results which may be
expected another year.
The field events took place at the fair grounds
Friday afternoon. Following is the summary,
showing time, winner second and third:
50-yard dash, 5 seconds Charles Wright, Lee
Mantz Warren Lane.
1OO-yard dash, II seconds, Charles Wright, Lee
Mantz Warren Lane
22O-yard dash, 26A seconds, Charles Wright, Lee
Mantz Warren Lane
Running broad jump, 16 feet Robert Crawford,
Lee Mantz Is. 10, Roy Schweitzer AT.
Half-mile run, 2:22a, Lloyd Hahn, Robert Lee,
Ralph Jelison.
12O-yard hurdle 16 feet, Charles Wright, Lee
Mantz Warren Lane
Standing broad jump 81, Robert Crawford,
James Kanaley 96, Lee Mantz.
Shot put Robert Crawford 3Og Charles Wright
28a, Lee Mantz 284.
440-yard dash, Lloyd Hahn 1:O4, Robert Lee.
High jump Lee Mantz 3.6, Warren Lane 3.5
Robert Crawford 34
Running high jump, Warren Lane 4.3, Lee
| Mantz 49,
Mile run, Lloyd Hahn sos.
Pole vault Charles Wright g. Karl Sax q.
| Half-mile relay race, Colville 1:5O 4-5
Disc throw, Robert Crawford 84a, Warren Lane
| III, Robert Lee 639.
Hammer throw Robert Crawford 81, Roy
Schweitzer 63, Lloyd Hahn So.
The winner in each event was credited with
points, second with 3 points, and third with 1
point. This gave Charles Wright 27 points for
the entire contest, Robert Crawford &C. Lee Mantz
Is. Charles Wright lost one point for throwing
hurdle in the hurdle race. Judges were J. L. Hos
kin of Deer Park, E. E. Latson Of Kettle Falls and
A. D. Foster of Northport.
In the declamatory contest held at the opera
house in the evening, the contestants were Ed
ward Mckay, Daisy; Roy Schweitzer, Northport;
Rachael Mcmillan, Grace Stewart, Colville; Tina
Stalder, Kettle Falls; Viola Ross, Chewelah.
Tina Stalder was awarded the gold medal and Roy
Schweitzer the silver medal Judges were Rev. H.
A. Sheldon of Colville; Mrs. Stack of Republic
superintendent Of schools for Ferry county; j. L.
Hoskink of Deer Park, principal of schools. Music
was furnished by Prof. A. B. Mather and the
Misses Moxon, Hard and Cornwall, with the assist
ance of the orchestra.
In the baseball game between the CheWelah and
Coville high school teams, Colville won by score
of % to 9. In the game between the CheWelah
and Colville grammar school teams, Chewelah won
| to g.
Former residents of Massachusetts, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont Rhode Island and Connect
icut representing practically every county in the
six states and composing the New England club of
! Spokane, will entertain the officers of the Iowa.
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana Missouri, Mchi-
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and southern clubs and
New Englanders in general at an old-fashioned
patriotic celebration and banquet commemorating
the battle Of Bunker Hill, at Spokane, on the
evening of June II, the anniversary of the histor
cal event. The purpose of the New England club
is to boost for former residents of New England
in business and otherwise to give reliable informa-
ton about the northwest to prospective settlers.
They have nothing to sell and make no charge for
the information given in response to inquiries from
any part of New England They are not interested
in any colonization movement anything of SIM
liar character and are frank enough to tell the
truth about the country Men and women are COM
ing daily from New England states, and they are
all doing we'll out here. They have pluck and per-
servance and with the skill and brains that are so
natural to the Yankee they easily succeed in what
soever they undertake. The New Englanders of
the Spokane country plan to build fitting testi
monial to this spirit in the form of large club
house, capable of housing 20 or more other state
and sectional clubs, with ample accommodations
for the care and entertainment of all visitors
Engineer R. B. Thomas of Colville is spending
considerable of his time in Cheweah, where he is
employed by the city in engineering the construc-
ton of the new water system Wood pipe is being
used, and laid on an average of four feet deep 1t
ia presumed tn last about 20 wears gravity