From the Files

100 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

Oct. 25, 1920

LOCAL HOSPITAL WILL BE CLOSED

The Ritzville Hospital which has been maintained for several years will be closed. Miss C.L. Stegman, who has been the superintendent, is just getting over an attack of typhoid fever she contracted while nursing a patient. She does not feel strong enough to continue the work through the coming winter. "I had planned to continue the hospital another year," said Miss Stegman yesterday, "but I do not feel physically equal to the task. The building is so poorly adapted to hospital purposes that one must be in the best of health in order to conduct the work."

75 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

Oct. 25, 1945

Only Two of Six Adams County Youths Taken on Corregidor Return

Sgt. Rudy Thaut is home! The husky Ritzville youth who left more than five years ago to join the army is back with far more tales to tell than he ever anticipated – back with the bitter memories of nearly 42 months in Japanese prison camps. He and only one other of the six Adams County youths captured by the Japanese have returned. The other, Herbert Kent, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Kent of Benge, arrived Wednesday morning. Sgt. Thaut brought with him the tragic news that Walter Koch of Ritzville died in a Japanese prison hospital in December 1943. Walter Giese of Lind and Jasper Holliday of Washtucna has been reported dead by the Japanese and Robert Kent of Benge was reported killed when a Japanese prison ship was bombed and sunk.

50 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

Nov. 5, 1970

Hunters Kill Three Coyotes

RURAL LIND – Donald Lutz and Richard Wigen count their Sunday hunt a success, though they didn't get the pheasants they went after. The men bagged three coyotes. They are the same ones that have been killing several young calves each year, getting so bold last winter they went into the lighted corrals after livestock at the Lutz place.

25 years ago

Ritzville Adams

County Journal

Oct. 26, 1995

Broncos win tight game over Sprague

"A touch of the Homecoming spirit was with the Bronco football team last Friday as they put on a goal line stand as the clock ran out to preserve a 23-22 victory over the Sprague-Harrington Falcons," said Bronco Coach Mike Lynch. "Brett Bly did a magician's work at QB and backs Travis Wagner and Damien Putney ran the ball as well as anyone has run it against us. They never quit and it was a ballgame that was not for the weak of heart."