The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1922-07-15
Editor Gives Ideas
Gained in TriO
Finds Former COlville
People Now Living at
San Francisco
(By j. C. Harrigan)

Occasionally | take a trip some
where to try to forget some of the
things | know, and to acquire a smat-
tering of the many things l don't
know. Last month | went to San
Francisco, the city of the Francis
cans, the New York and Kansas City
of the west so far as immigration
goes, but a city unique in the world
in many respects. My reason for
picking San Francisco in the sum-
mer was not for its fine climate, for
its climate is perfectly rotten ac-
cording to my crude Washington
standard of climate. But the city
and its people are fine. The after
noon and evening fogs and winds
would generally cool my ardor for
its attractions, but the forenoon sun
shine, when there happened to be
any, helped to give a good start to
another attempt at enjoyment in the
face of the western gales.
There are handbooks of the city
which give much better description
of the city than | would dare to
chronicle, so | refer those who have
and those who have not visited
the city of the Gate to those
descriptions. But I did see
some things which will never be
IF that,o thn
wondrous Shrine parade-in the
rain-when Market street was one
riotous stream of colorful Shrine
pageant. Miles of parade, all made
up of Shrine bands, patrols, chanters,
drum corps, passed before throngs
which filled every nook and Granny
Of the walks and curbs, windows and
doorways, tops of buildings, and
grandstands seating $4,000 people.
Market street was awakened, and it
may be said that it takes consid-
cradle show to wake up Market
street so that the street will ad-
nit it,
There were two other parades,
similar only in the crowds that We'd
in watching them, but they were at
night, and my medium weight clothes
and overcoat were not heavy enough
to permit me to thoroughly enjoy
them-cither the clothes or the pa
rade.
When away from home, the most
interesting things are those relating
10 home. | was pretty mad because
! did not receive the Examiner the
next week. | know how a subscriber
feels who doesn't get his paper, and
| did the same as most subscribers
do. ! blamed the office. But the
office said the paper was mailed
and there you are! The last week
! again failed to get the Examiner.
When | got home, there was no ex-
planation. The papers had been
mailed. didn't get them. Down
with the p. o. department! Some
body must be to blame.
At Portland we found Sig Dill
shcimcr and Lee Strauss giving the
gang the once over at the Multno-
NAH You know the special Shrine
trains are entertained at every stop,
and at Portland the hotels were full
of Shriners, bands, patrols and chan
tiers. We'll, Sig spied the red fez |
was wearing, and underneath it the
red fez which | have worn more or
less for some years. He took US
(my wife, you know as dinner
guests to the hotel where he was
stopping, and where his aunt Mrs.
Clara Kaufman lives. Lee Strauss
went with us, and the five gathered
GROUND the dinner table made a
pleasant reunion of old time Colville
friends. Miss Sadie Ettelson is liv-
ing at the Multnomah.
There are a number of Colville
people living in Portland, and when