Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Sorted by date Results 1339 - 1363 of 1899
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, Aug. 13: Davenport ambulance personnel assisted a 70-year-old woman who fell and may have broken an ankle. Burlington Northern Santa Fe personnel dealt with a malfunctioning railroad cro...
1 years ago The Odessa Record August 16, 1918 Merchant marine wants young men. Fred Thiel, local enrolling officer for the United States Merchant Marine recruiting service, has just received instructions from the U.S. shipping recruiting service at Seattle to enroll youths from 18 to 20 years of age, a new are limit having been established for men entering the merchant marine. Men between the ages of 32 and 35 will also be accepted for training for sailors, cooks and stewards. Prior to this, all the 3,000 men a month...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, Aug. 6: A deputy helped a Sprague woman retrieve items she had placed in someone’s care while she began moving her residence from the 300 block of East Walnut Street. A fallen tree blocked thr...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, July 30: A man working at a cell tower site asked dispatchers what to do after he discovered a snake at the door and expressed his concern about being bitten. Reardan firefighters res...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, July 23: A Davenport woman told dispatchers she received a scam call from someone identifying with Medicare who wanted to discuss knee and back braces. A 38-year-old woman sought hospital care...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, July 16: Sprague ambulance personnel assisted a 74-year-old woman with two artificial knees who fell in the shower and was unable to get up. Creston ambulance personnel joined a deputy in res...
Andy M. Rustemeyer (age 83) passed away peacefully at his home in Sprague on July 12, 2018. Andy was born January 14, 1935 at Asotin, Wash. to Peter and Ora Rustemeyer. He and his wife Edith have farmed in Sprague for the past 25 years. Andy belonged to numerous groups and organizations throughout the state and county. He is survived by his wife Edith, children, John (Annette) Rustemeyer, Bill (Kay) Rustemeyer and Beth (Mike) Finch. He is also survived by six grandchildren,...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, July 9: Meeting the patient who had started out for Lincoln Hospital in his own vehicle at a location along SR 25 about six miles north of the city, Davenport ambulance personnel assisted a 6...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, July 2: Harrington ambulance personnel assisted a 70-year-old man with a low pulse and shallow breathing. Checking a report that a resident of the 200 block of South Elm Street had heard two...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, June 25: A caller reported smelling smoke in the 200 block of Marshall Street in Davenport. A vehicle was wedged under a tree after its driver swerved to miss a deer and went off SR 25 abo...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, June 18: No one was reported hurt from a collision involving a vehicle and deer on Interstate 90 in Lincoln County. Davenport ambulance personnel and emergency responders from Reardan and Edw...
1 years ago The Odessa Record June 28, 1918 Auto accident takes two lives: A fatal automobile accident which took the life of one and seriously injured two other Ritzville young men, occurred Friday mornin gas Herbert Johnson, Lee Oestrich and Edward Seidel were returning to their homes at the close of the Pioneers picnic. While going at a high rate of speed near Kystone, in turning the corner the car turned over. It is claimed that the car's velocity on the turn was so...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, June 11: Old Coulee Road between Douglas and Bagdad roads was closed “until further notice,” the county Public Works Department reported. Responding to a residence on Starkel Road, Almira...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, June 4: Dispatchers transferred a caller’s report that someone might be breaking into the West Deep Creek Grange building to Spokane County authorities. Responding to the Sprague RV Park,...
1 years ago The Odessa Record June 7, 1918 Swamp fever kills horses: Henry and George Gettman, well known farmers residing south of Odessa, lost seven good work horses last week while in pasture north of Krupp. The dead horses were discovered Friday and a number of others were sick at the time. Dr. Fred Balmer, the local veterinarian called on Dr. MaWhinney of Harrington and the State Veterinarian, Otto Menig of Spokane, for assistance and in consultation later it was decided that the animals had died of swamp fever caused...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, May 28: Davenport ambulance personnel assisted a man who suffered cuts in a fall at the Davenport Retirement Village. Edwall firefighters were summoned to a fire near Tucker Prairie and Car...
Working toward Memorial Weekend In the month preceding Memorial Day, many people contact city hall and the library for information regarding their ancestors. Some of the recent inquiries resulted in the acquisition of the following biographies. Just prior to Cruizin’ Harrington, Jim Knapp asked for confirmation on the details of the purchase of the 1936 Plymouth coupe he entered in the car show and for which he won the “Participants Choice” award. Les LePere painted a lovely sign stating that the original owner had been...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, May 21: A caller report’s that a washout had occurred on Hawk Creek Road was forwarded to the county Public Works Department. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation personnel reported that buoys and l...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, May 14: A county jail inmate’s lunch was taken by another inmate who thought he was doing a third inmate a favor to hold the lunch for him. Corrections staff advised the inmate that he was t...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, May 7: An injured deer was found on SR 23 west of Rocklyn Road. A caller reported a suspicious package in the alley behind the 700 block of Ross Street in Davenport. A responding deputy det...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, April 30: A caller filed a complaint that a construction company started up operations in the 200 block of Park Street in violation of the Davenport city noise and work ordinance. A res...
Continued from the April 19, 2018 issues of the Odessa Record. 75 years ago The Odessa Record April 15, 1943 Club members hold judging practice: The Odessa 4-H beef club members held a meeting at the Mark Smith and Praetorious brothers ranches, where they had access to several groups of choice beef steers for practice judging and coaching on showmanship, as a warmup practice before the Odessa and Spokane junior livestock shows. Those taking part in the contest where Bud and...
Sheriff's Report INCIDENT LOG Editor’s note: Most items in this section reflect the starting point for response by local police and emergency agencies. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office does not release names of individuals who report possible criminal or suspicious activities to dispatchers or alleged victims for this column. Monday, April 23: State Department of Transportation personnel reported spray-painted graffiti at the U.S. 2 Telford rest area. A responding deputy was unable to find any tagging there. After rec...
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has released a free mobile app to connect with members of the Lincoln County community through their smartphones and tablets. The new app allows Lincoln County Sheriff personnel to quickly disseminate emergency alerts and post news about missing persons, traffic delays and weekly crime reports. In the event of an emergency, app users receive instant notification via their mobile devices. This does not replace the county emergency alert system, but enhances it for day-to-day c...
Spaghetti feed Cars began arriving at 5:30 p.m. Thursday for the benefit Spaghetti Feed for the family of Lorne Howe who recently lost his battle against cancer. Dinner was held at 6:30 with more than 70 in attendance. Lorne had been an active participant and supporter of the annual Cruizin’ Harrington events. Donations can be made by contacting petermad012@gmail.com . After-school program Twelve young ones aged 2 years to 13 met Thursday, April 19, at the Harrington Public Library with the Library Board in charge for a c...
