Looking Back

10 years ago

• More than 150 attended a celebration of the 125th anniversary of the families of August and Dorothea Timm coming to America (Harrington) from Holdenstedt, Germany.

• Another opportunity to wish Donna McDowell all the best. Pioneer Days Honored Citizen and parade grand marshal engages her hometown with positive energy.

• “Preliminary” approval to continue work toward redeveloping a 9-hole golf course at Deer Meadows, along with a 145-site recreational vehicle park, was granted to applicant Bruce Garner by the Lincoln County Board of Adjustment.

25 years ago

• The Davenport Volunteer Fire Department received a shiny new addition to its fleet. The long-awaited and much-needed new fire truck, which retired an old 1936 Ford, arrived.

• Officers in a high-speed chase in pursuit of a motorcyclist raced through Reardan and Davenport.

• Deputy Prosecutor Clark Colwell confirmed the trial for former Almira restaurant owner Thomas Ben Biss, who was accused of burning down his establishment, was on the docket to start jury selection.

50 years ago

• Debate on whether to hire a second city policeman and a discussion on the installation of several warning lights on Morgan Street dominated Davenport city council meeting.

• Pop bottles caught under a brake caused Chuck Plumb, Davenport, to drive through the window of the Davenport Safeway store.

• Preparation of the Fish Trap Lake Road near Sprague went underway for oiling.

75 years ago

• Resolutions appropriating $37,075.00 for the repair of roads and bridges damaged by floods during May and June in the three road districts of Lincoln County were passed by County Commissioners

• Four weeks of swimming instruction, given at the Davenport city pool, ended with a water carnival with a large attendance.

• Twenty-eight Davenport Boy Scouts left for Camp Cowles on Diamond Lake, to spend a week at the Boy Scout camp there.

100 years ago

• Fire thought to have originated from spontaneous combustion in the P.C. Hansen dry goods store on Morgan Street was extinguished before any considerable damage had been done.

• Contractor James Scott and his assistant, Harry Stang, engaged in constructing a cement sidewalk on the east side of Harker Street, just west of the courthouse.

• Statements of the sixteen banks of Lincoln County, made for a call to show grain deposits of $32,590 while a call in April showed a decrease of $90,395.