Looking Back

100 Years Ago

The Lincoln County game commissioners, Senator Charles E. Myers and C. A. Pettijohn of Davenport and P. Faldbord of Wilbur, met here last week and decided to offer a bounty of 10 cents a head for magpies killed during January and February 1926. Members of the game commission say that a resident of a neighboring county killed 5,000 magpies last year by poisoning the birds.

PRICE OF WHEAT: Hard White, $1.47. Soft White, $1.47. Forty Fold, $1.47. Club, $1.47. Federation, $1.47. Dark Northern Spring $1.50.

The Reardan Telephone Company has been purchased by the Interstate Utilities Company. The Reardan Company has approximately 400 subscribers and will be incorporated into the Interstate Utilities system by the end of the week. The company owns the Davenport and Hunters system. It is reported that the Interstate Utilies company will expend about $5,000 in Reardan during the coming year to improve the telephone lines.

Three men who have been helf for two weeks in the county jail as suspects in the murder of James Quinn, laborer, whose body was found in the ruins of a bunkhouse at Irby, November 28, were released from the county jail here during the last few days, one having been released on Christmas day and two this morning.

75 Years Ago

The Rev. Allen Brinley and Jim Meadows are now operating in Davenport. The station was formerly run by I. P. Pease, who passed away about a month ago. The gas station is open 24 hours a day.

Gold footballs were awarded Friday to all members of the Davenport High School football squad, winners of the Bi-County championship this year. The miniature footballs were provided by the Davenport businessmen and townspeople in recognition of the team’s showing in winning the Bi-county crown.

Crime, of a minor variety, was on the upswing in the county during the past year. Sheriff Frank C. Rambo reports that 138 arrests were made to date in 1950. Last year 112 arrests were made. Only two persons were arrested over the long holiday weekend.

Gingerale 2 for $0.29 “A” Large Eggs $0.62 per dozen.

50 Years Ago

What sounded like mice at a quarter after four on Monday morning proved to be a little bit larger, Double Tree Inn owner Dick Banks found out when he investigated the noise. What Banks found was that someone was busy sawing their way into the Double Tree by cutting away at the ceiling. What originally had awakened Banks was probably the sound of the rood being sawn to allow entry to the space between the ceiling and the roof.

Reardan’s Indian basketball team polished up the 1975 Christmas Invitational tournament last weekend, winning against Ritzville and Oakesdale to accomplish the feat.

In the first night of tournament play at Harrington, the Harrington Panthers polished off the cougars of Warden in a close 53-52 game. The Panthers, down 30-26 at the half came back by scoring 16 points in the third quarter to pull ahead by two points.

Saurkraut 2lbs for $0.55 Round steak $1.39/lb

25 Years Ago

The crew employed by dentists Doug Teel and Knute Hernas accompanied their employees to a “Christmas Gala” event at Spokane’s Inn at the Park, and retiring office manager Marciel Cronrath came away a prize winner. Cronrath, whose cancer is in its final stages, won a trip for two to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, along with $1,000, in spending money, various items of furniture and gift certificates.

School board members adopted a resolution on Dec. 20 which officially places a $2.7 million remodeling bond on the Feb. 6 ballot. If approved, the 10-year bond would finance renovation of Reardan’s elementary and junior high facilities, move school offices there and at the high school closer to entrances, and construct a cafeterium between the two campuses and a new high school commons area,

Enough noise has been generated from the fans in operation at the Odessa Union Warehouse to spur an outcry from Harrington residents and a pledge from the city to take action. At its Dec. 13 meeting, the council heard in person frmo two residents, Ron Moeller and Michelle Parker, and reviewed a complaint file produced by Mayor Paul Gilliand, then determined the grain elevators were in violation of state law and an agreement with the city when it allowed fans to run past 8 p.m. on at least two occasions.

10 Years Ago

First white Christmas for Odessa in several years: After several years of no or very little snow for Christmas, Odessa has finally had a white one. Much welcome snow began coming down in mid-December.

At the close of last Wednesday’s city council meeting, Brad Sweet took the oath of office to become Davenport’s next mayor from city clerk Dave Leath and three councilmen, Patrick Katz, Nathan Hansen and Scott Liebing, were sworn in as well.

Davenport’s law enforcement will continue with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office as provider from 2017 through 2020 after Mayor Karen Carruth broke a 3-3 tie at her final council meeting on Dec. 23 to make sure the city did’nt reinstate its own police department.