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100 years ago
The Ritzville
Journal-Times
April 21, 1921
NEW RULES FOR AUTOS
OLYMPIA – The Department of Efficiency will not organize the highway protection force which will enforce road regulations after August 1 until about July 1. Though a wide spread impression prevails that a big force is to be recruited and several hundred applications for appointment have been received, Director L.D. McArdie estimates but 25 men will be appointed. Director McArdie emphasizes the fact that the men will not be mere "speed cops," but will be expected to prevent the misuse of the highways that lead to their destruction and to generally enforce the rules of the road adopted by the last legislature.
75 years ago
The Ritzville
Journal-Times
April 18, 1946
Place Order For Improving Theater
Roy C. Irvine, owner of the Ritz theater, has placed an order for complete reseating and redocorating the main auditorium. "But, like the ladies and their nylons," Irvine said, "we had to get in line and it will be midsummer before delivery of the chairs can be made."
50 years ago
The Ritzville
Journal-Times
April 15, 1971
Citizens Thwart Robbery Trio
An alert store proprietor and a 16-year-old girl foiled a "till tap" try here Monday afternoon. The principals, setting an example of cool-headed presence of mind, are Loren Schuoler of Ritzville Drug Co., and Miss Sonya Hamilton, a sophomore at Ritzville High School. Three men entered the store only shortly before it was closed. All the clerks had left, reported Proprietor Schuoler and he was in the store along with Miss Hamilton, a customer. As he rang up Miss Hamilton's purchase on the cash register he hastily scribbled her a note on the back of the sales tape, instructing her to get the sheriff, quick. Sonya ran all the way to the sheriff's office, two blocks. Out of breath she told Deputy Marvin Collier she'd seen such things on TV and "now it's happening to me." Schuoler said he'd learned of successful "till tap" operations, one in Colfax and four in Spokane, in recent weeks. The Ritzville visitors followed the reported procedure, the three spreading out in the store and appearing to be examining merchandise.
25 years ago
Ritzville Adams
County Journal
April 18, 1996
Fire season has started
Ritzville Volunteer Firemen responded to two fires in two days with Rural Chief Deni Atkinson reminding residents that things do burn at this time of year. Six trucks responded to a CRP fire April 14 on the Bill Curtis ranch. The fire, at Curtis' upper place, was started when a raven came in contact with an electrical transformer which ignited the capacitors causing some of the material to drop to the ground. Atkinson said approximately 50 to 60 acres were lost in the fire.
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