From the Files

100 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

May 12, 1921

MAY LOCATE

COLLEGE HERE

That Ritzville is being very favorably considered as a possible site for the location of the new Lutheran College to be erected by the Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church is the word which was brought to the Commercial Club last Monday evening. The club named a committee to act for the community in an aggressive way with the aim of offering suitable inducements to the governing body of the church to locate the institution here.

75 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

May 9, 1946

Search Still Continues For Don Schwerin War Dept. Trying To Trace B-24 Missing Over Year

Don Schwerin has been declared dead by the war department but the search still continues for some trace of his plane or the fate of the crew which disappeared near Bacclod, Negros, April 2, 1945. Don's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Schwerin of Ralston have received a letter from the war department transferring 2nd Lieut. Don C. Schwerin from the list of missing to those officially dead in the line of duty. The war department is working with natives in the Phillipines to trace every clue to American flyers who have disappeared in that area.

50 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

May 6, 1971

City's Policy Canceled Over Dumpground Fires

Councilmen refused just now to pick up something that sounded suspiciously like a delayed-action bomb, thrown out at the opening of Tuesday's meeting by Clerk Richard Miller: "Our public liability policy expiring June 6 will not be renewed," Miller told Mayor Lawrence Kramer and the seven council members. The reason given, in a letter to the city, was the fires at the city's dumpground last year. Several large claims were made to the city by property owners adjoining the dumpgrounds. Each was turned over to the insurance carrier.

25 years ago

Ritzville Adams

County Journal

May 9, 1996

Lind Alumni will gather for

31st annual banquet

Graduates of Lind High School will gather this Saturday, May 11, for the 31st annual Alumni Banquet. The honored classes will be introduced beginning with the golden grads. Members of the 50-year honor class of 1946 are Victor Borth, Maxine Stroud Cook, Eldon Cozine, Marigene Phillips Flesner, Adele Branson Harlan, Alvin Heider, Gladys Rott Nagamitsu, Melvin Schrader, Mary Ellen Ellis Smith, Clarence Strohmaier, Carol Watkins Tenneson and Percy Rinker. Two of the classmates, Nora Dyck Whiteside and Dick Scheeler, are deceased.