The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-10-02
cOURTH0USEAND
COUNTY news
Items of Interest in Stevens
County, Richest in the J
Northwest - :

Judge hugo OSWaiu VI opOkdne WAS
present at the hearing of naturaliza-
ton cases the first of the week in
Judge Carey's place.
Paul B. Phillips, U. S. Naturallza-
ton Examiner, was tere from Seattle
the first of the week conducting ex-
aminations of would-be citizens at
the court house.
Action to quiet title to the NEA
of the SEX, section "a, township
SO, range 38 E. w. M, has been in
stituted by J. C. Motor against John
Motor, ct al.
L. E. Joseph has started fore
closure on Dorr H. Carroll ct al,
doing business under the firm name
of Home Lumber Company, on a
mortgage amounting to $4,000, to-
gether with interest, costs and at
torney fees.
Appraisers have been appointed in
the estate of Maudie Wood, deceased.
Notice to creditors has also been filed.
Petition for probate of will has
been filed in the estate of Effie May
Erdman, deceased.
The county clerks office has in
stalled new fiat filing system. This
system will save space, time and
trouble. By the old system now liz
use, when a lawyer, abstractor or
clerk wants to find paper he has
to tumble through a bunch of dusty
envelopes, unite several strings or
rubbers and search through an enve-
lope and tie it all up again. In the
new system the papers are not folded.
but are filed fiat and each one is
kept in place by clamp and record
of the number of papers filed is kept
on the individual couer for the papers
in that case. This is another iin-
provement on the old system. County
Clerk Butler studied the flat filing
system in Seattle and believes it will
not only save time but money.
Marriage licenses since last week
are as follows; H. r. Wallace Of
Spokane and Constance Casey of Col
vile; Charles Bert johnson of Elk
and Anna c. SENEGAL of Newport;
Harry Stewart and Mrs. Cora Ely
of Occur d. Alene.
Kettle Falls residents won several
prizes at the state fair at Yakima.
w. B. Barger took first prize on
both Northern Spy and Wealthy
apples. A. Hofstad received first
prize on Wagner apples. P. l..
O'Brien received third prize on Grimes
Golden and J. N. Will third on North
ern Spy.
An increase in the lumber business
in the northwest is predicted by W
P. Kenney, vice president Of the
Great Northern railrtad. Mr.. Kenney
recently stated that the freight car
situation is better now than it has
been for several months. He bases
his prediction on the fact that the
middle west has had big grain crops
and the further fact that there is a
shortage of homes there.
The state fair at Yakima last
week was the most successful in the
history of the organization in respect
to attendance and receipts. Approx
imately $4,000 persons were in at
tendance. The management expended
| $4,000 in permanent improvements
| and banked $4,000 in addition.
A Marcus boy, Harvey P. Dunn.
age Is and son of d. w. Dunn, chief
dispatcher of the Great Northern rail-
road at Marcus, was killed by the
accidental discharge of a gun last
Saturday, while he and his brother
were duck hunting on the Kettle
river. The boy was, according to re-
port, just stepping into a boat,
dragging the gun in after him, when
it suddenly discharged and bullet
passed through his heart. The funeral
was held on Monday.
The Woman's club of Chewelah en-
tertained the teachers of the Che
welah schools at reception Sept. 26
with a reading and musical program.
Is teachers were present.
A special meeting of the Valley
school board is called for Oct. 2 to
consider voting a special levy of ten
mills to cover current expenses Of
the school for the present year. The
Valley school district is facing a
shortage of funds with which to OPP
crate during the coming year. The
school has a larger enrolment this
year than ever before and Ave
teachers are employed in the high
4 school and grades.
A big fish, yard long, weighing
about ten pounds was caught in
Waits lake two miles west of Valley
recently. This big fish grabbed a