Looking Back

100 years ago

• Oscar Luchs of Odessa won the Lincoln-Adams County oratorical contest. Elsie Gibson of Davenport took second, while Violet Stolph of Sprague was third.

• The Harrington Manufacturing Company sued W.L. Talkington while seeking to recover $1,575 for a note executed by the defendants in return for a harvester sold to the company.

• A delegation of Egypt farmers asked the County Commissioners to construct a road from State Road No. 22 near Inkster Lake to the Jim Bell Corner.

75 years ago

• Judge Robert P. Hunter of Ephrata was the chosen speaker for a “patriotic rally” held in Davenport.

• A two-year-old Reardan boy was injured when he fell out of a car near Springdale.

• Citizens began to wonder what the costs could be of a potential third World War, three years removed from the end of World War II.

50 years ago

• Davenport City Council purchased a two-way radio system for the City Clerk and Public Works Crew.

• Tolstoy Farm residents received a hulk hauling business license in efforts to show people they were a “more stable community” amidst talk it was a “hippie commune.”

• Winners of prized eggs in the Harrington Easter Egg hunt were Pat Talkington, Janine Hoffman, Clyde Johnson, Jacque Thorne, Luke Wilks, Shannon Baggett, Robin Paulicheck, Aaron Carruth and Matthew Talkington.

25 years ago

• An untimely spring snowfall meant Easter Egg hunts around Lincoln County were held with snow on the ground.

• Dorothy Dunaway represented Lincoln Hospital at the Celebrate Life Pageant in Spokane.

• Longtime music teacher Ruth Nelson was named Citizen of the Year.

10 years ago

• Sarah Vesneske was named Davenport’s Distinguished Young Woman.

• Gov. Jay Inslee’s office considered including Lincoln County on an emergency designation list being development in the wake of stormy weather that caused major damage to county roads.

• Mackenzie Pratt was named Miss Reardan-Edwall.