FROM THE FILES

Last updated Feb 08, 2022 10:1am0

– Journal-Times photo, Feb. 6, 1947 count

A photo from 75 years ago – The newly organized Ritzville girls team ran into tough competition in their first game Saturday night, but will travel to Spokane tonight for a return game with the Marine Club lassies. Back row: Ann Lucas, Lucille Danekas, Josey Schafer, Ruth Dietrich, Amelia Haight and Dorothy Miller. Second row: Elma Heimbigner, Frances Thaut, Mae Telecky and Esther Wellsandt. Front row: Elsie Schroll, Opal Rowe and Celia Ann Streeter.

100 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

Feb. 9, 1922

General Goethals gets first

view of Columbia Basin

General G.W. Goethals, in company with engineers of the Columbia Basin project, has spent the past week in going over the project and getting a first hand view of it.

From Spokane, the party first went to Albany Falls, Idaho, above Newport, where the damsite on the Pend Oreille river was viewed. The route of the canal from Newort down to the Little Spokane River across the Spokane River, tunneling under the city of Spokane to Hangman Creek, which would be converted into a great storage basin, was examined. This week, the party went south to Rock Lake, which is proposed as the principal storage basin.

75 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

Feb. 6, 1947

Sportsmen hear new plan

for pheasant aid

Members of the Adams County Sporstman Association met Monday evening in the Lions Club hall to discuss various problems of interest to outdoor men.

A subject which created considerable interest was the proposal by the game department that certain ares be set aside as watering and cover areas for pheasants.

The department is considering the feasibility of fencing in a few acres near springs and seeding the ground to sweet clover to help make up for the lack of natural cover on the wheat farms of the Big Bend.

50 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

Feb. 10, 1972

Firemen halt flames in apartment

A fire Sunday morning in the Arneson apartment house at 310 West Main Ave. damaged the kitchen and bathroom of a downstairs apartment.

Tom Johnson, manager for the owner, said Wednesday no accurate estimate of the loss was available yet. Volunteer firemen, handicapped when they arrived by thick smoke throughout the building's interior, brought the fire to a halt, apparently before any major structural damage was done.

Johnson was the only person in the building when about 10 a.m. he discovered the fire. Evidently it started in the bathroom in the wall next to a wall heater of the downstairs apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Pearson. Flames apparently traveled up the wall into an area enclosed by a falls ceiling, and crossed over above the kitchen area, also with a false ceiling.

25 years ago

Ritzville Adams

County Journal

Feb. 6, 1997

Boards award contracts

for courthouse upkeep

Two contractors will now handle the work that one used to due under a new system implemented by the Adams County Commissioners.

Locating a single individual to perform groundskeeping, janitorial work and light maintenance at the Adams County Courthouse for a reasonable price has recently met with obstacles prompting the board to offer three positions.

– Journal-Times