The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-01-03
COURTHOUSE AND
COUNTY news
Items of General Interest
to the Residents of
Stevens County

fault of payment of fine of 500
imposed for malicious destruction of
property in the breaking of 5000
worth of plate glass in the M. Kul-
ger store at Valley two weeks ago,
is now at liberty. His father, it is
said, came down from Curlew Mon
day and paid the unliquidated part
of the penalty. During his stay in
Jail it is said that he and his CO.
agitator, johnson, fell into combat
because the latter refused to divide
tobacco rations and they had prac-
tically settled their difference when
the jailer appeared and separated
them.
The Standard Oil Co. has brought
suit in the superior court to re-
cover the sum of $14884 alleged to
be due from C. R. Day Jr. for goods,
wares and merchandise sold and de-
livered during the year past. The
same plaintiff has brought an action
against Joe Day, Elwood Day and G.
r. Day Jr. as Day Bros. & Day, CO.
partners, doing business at Bossburg,
to recover the sum of $125.95 alleged
to be due on account of merchandise
sold during the past year.
H. A. Tilden has brought suit in
the superior court against j. l.. Tay-
lor and wife to recover the sum of
$3.50 alleged to be due on promis-
sorry note given by defendants July
81, 1918, with interest to time of
suit at 10 per cent per annum.
The case of Bresnahan & Droz VS..
Acorn & Son which was commenced
in the superior court last week has
been dismissed as settled.
j. B. Miller and F. E. Mark mer-
chants of Meyers Falls, have brought
suit in the superior court against G.
X. Knight for the sum of $43.78 al
legged to be due on a merchandise
accounty. An affidavit fild by the
defendants in the case in support of
an application for writ of attach
ment alleges that Knight is now a
nonresident in the state.
Mary C. Newell has been appoint
| ed administrator of the estate of
| Calvin L. Newell who died at Spo-
kane on November II. The deceas-
ed was a resident of Cedonia for
many years before his death.
C. H. Heuck has brought suit
against the American Onyx & Marble
Co., corporation, E. H. Ryan, c. H.
Heuck, John Schriker, Nathaniel
French and G. w. French, as trus-
tees for the American Onyx & Mar
BILE, to secure the payment of 1882.
The alleged Indebtedness, according
to the complaint, consists of % prom
issory notes given at different times
to as many different individuals and
assigned to the plaintiff.
The office of county clerk during
the month of December received in
| fees the sum of $349.
Marriage licenses have been issued
during the week by the county audi
tor to Roy Phillip McNearney of Col
vile and Nora Thelma Pero of
Northport; David A. Smith and
Martha B. Dickey of Kettle Falls;
William A. Means of Winona and
| Vera Dane of Colville; Edward Full
ner and Mrs. Ida Meyers of Lead
| point; Glade Kiffer of Grin and
| Naoma E. Cummings of Marcus.
Chapter 1872, Laws of 1919, pro-
vides that it shall be unlawful to
use the Washington state butter
brand or the words Washington
Creamery Butter" on butter or any
wrapper thereof. This section of the
law will be enforced on and after
January /, 1920. 1t has not been
enforced heretofore for the reason
that most of the creameries had on
hand supplies of printed wrappers
sufficient to last for six months.
Philip d. Armour and Louis d.
Swift of Chicago are among the big
| packing interest men, who will be
in Spokane for the annual conven-
ton of the American National Live
Stock association January 1929. A
special car has been chartered for
packing industry men from Omaha.
The convention promises to be the
most important event of its kind in
the history of the Inland Empire and
it comes at juncture when the live
stock industry of the country is
entering the list of premier interests.
L. C. Richardson, former county
1 clerk of Stevens county, who was
with the state industrial insurance
commission in Spokane for nearly
three years, has established an office
at 1922 Columbia building, Spokane,
! under the name of the Industrial