From the Files

 

Last updated 4/22/2021 at 9:27am

A photo from 25 years ago - New Bronco Head Emblem Tells Way to Spell It – RHS Miss Kim Schafer Is the Designer of Identification Mark. – Journal Times Photo

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.

 

Reader Comments(0)

 
 

Our Family of Publications Includes:

Cheney Free Press
Ritzville Adams County Journal
Whitman County Gazette
Odessa Record
Franklin Connection
Davenport Times
Spokane Valley News Herald
Colfax Daily Bulletin

Powered by ROAR Online Publication Software from Lions Light Corporation
© Copyright 2024