Looking Back

10 years ago

- Rookie principals Chad Prewitt and Courtney Strozyk of Davenport and Reardan completed their first school years as local administrators.

- Organizers prepared for Sprague Hay Days to celebrate the city’s 130 years.

- The Legislature approved $74.5 million for the next stage of the Odessa Subarea aquiferproject.

25 years ago

- Travis G. Homer of Davenport was sentenced to 55 months in prison on each count of two second-degree assault charges for assaulting two Davenport police officers.

- Fort Spokane hosted the Spokane-based Frontier Regulars, who modeled life in the 1890s.

- Davenport city council debated the steps necessary to correct the community’s “crippling sidewalk problems.”

50 years ago

- Bob Weller was named school superintendent in Davenport.

- Troopers finally picked up a 17-year-old boy who led police on a 40-mile chase three miles north of Davenport on State Highway 25.

- Third-grader Jim Gunning of Davenport won a bicycle in a drawing at Jerry Van Pevenage’s Davenport Rexall Pharmacy.

75 years ago

- Dorothy Guhlke was named Princess Davenport at the Rainbow Girls Assembly.

- 98 Lincoln County members and leaders attended a 4-day 4-H camp on Lake Chatcolet, Idaho.

- The Harrington Boy Scout drum and bugle corps won first place in the historical division of the parade during the Miss Washington ceremonies in Ephrata.

100 years ago

- 12 cars loaded up with Davenport residents to transport the locals to an agricultural field day in Waterville, with locals including E.N. Imus and N. Russell Hill.

- Owens Brothers of Reardan was awarded a contract for grading and draining 2.6 miles of county road south of Edwall.

- Many Davenport people traveled to Hunters to celebrate the Fourth of July, where lake activities, a pastoral address and “a program of sports” were held.