The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-06-17
New County
Starts Operation

Oiiu OiCIiiC SOuil'y, ouuSC SdiCy
of the Stevens-Pend Oreille su-
perior court swore in the county
commissioners, DR.. G. w. Suth-
erland of Newport, D. E. Ather-
ton of Cusick and L. L. Mathews
of lone. The commissioners
elected DR.. Sutherland chairman.
A. J. Montgomery of the audit
or's office of Stevens county
served as clerk for the board.
The appointment of county offic-
ers followed and these were
named: Auditor, H. H. Murray
of lone; treasurer, E. E. Reid of
Newport; clerk of the superior
court, E. K. Parks of Cusick;
prosecuting attorney, H.. W.
Reading of Metaline ls;sheriff,
B. F. Gardiner, Tiger; superin-
tendent of schools, Miss Hester
c. Soules of Calispel; engineer,
R. M. Vail Of lone; coroner, DR..
John Hiett of Metaline Falls;
county physician and health offic-
er, DR.. w. S. Wallace of New
port; assessor, E. D. Purchase of
Locke. The county commission
ers and all of the appointive offic-
ials are republicans except E. E.
Reid, the treasurer, a democrat.
The officials will be sworn in by
the county clerk and take office
as soon as their bonds are ap-
proved. Judge Carey held the
first session of the superior court
in and for Pend Oreille county
today. He appointed Clerk Parks
court commissioner.
Phebe Jane Hightower, whose
death occurred on June 8, was
born in Richmond, Va, in May,
1928, the daughter of Frank and
Mary King. At the age of 18
years she was married in her
home city to Thomas Kirk, and
with him went to Livingston
county, Missouri, where two sons,
Thomas Kirk and W. C. Kirk,
were born. In 1910 the elder
Kirk went to California, and in
1852 the wife and two children
crossed the plains to join him,
only to find that he had died the
year before. In 1854 she was
married to Richard Hightower,
at Stockton, California; and of
this union two children were
also born, Robert Hightower and
Ellen, now Mrs. Sullivan. In
1860 the second husband died,
and after rearing her family,
Mrs. Hightower moved to Wash
ington in 1880, making her home
first at Cheney, and in 1885,
coming to Marcus, which has
been her home until death.
Mrs. Hightower, during her life
time, had been an adherent Of
the Methodist church, and lived
a consistent Christian life. Sur
viving her are four children,
Thos. Kirk of Marcus, w. C.
Kirk of Marcus, Robert High
tower of Meteor and Mrs. Ellen
Sullivan of Cheney.
The Washington State Grange
now has 320 subordinate oranges,
26 Pomonas, and Is, 600 members.
An effort was made to secure the,
1912 state convention for Colville,
and it is quite probable that it
will come here in 1913. And by
the way, the state session of the
Grange at Snohomish last week
announced it's intention to work
for a prohibitory law hereafter.
Heretofore through the manipul-
ations of the republican politi-
clans, the Grange has advocated
local option, but it is all off
now." No more fooling with
the local option fake for the
grangers. They h a We had
enough, and enough is plenty
any time.
A four year old pure-bred
Holstein- Friesian cow, owned by
David Munroe of Spokane, is the
new worlds champion, having
nroduced "a. .95 pounds of butter