Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
A photo from 75 years ago – "Come on in, the water's fine," these youngsters seem to be saying when the city swimming pool opened last Wednesday, but actually it was a bit chilly on opening day. The pool has been growing in patronage with warmer weather and is probably the most popular spot in Ritzville at present.
100 years ago
The Ritzville
Journal-Times
June 29, 1922
Section Men Favor Strike
Ballots were received by the section men employed on the Northern Pacific at this point, as well as by others on all principal lines of the railroad. The men here voted to strike against recent wage cuts. The wages of the section men have been 40 cents an hour and are reduced to 36 cents after July 1. The majority vote in favor of a strike and one may take place, participated in by maintenance of way men and shop workers. Railroad officials doubt if the strike will be pulled off. If it is, they think the places of strikers can be filled because of the extent of unemployment at the present time.
75 years ago
The Ritzville
Journal-Times
June 26, 1947
New Packard Grain Elevator Gets First Grain Tues.
The first load of grain was delivered to the Odessa Union Warehouse Co. plant at Packard early Tuesday afternoon when "Speed" Weber, accompanied by his son Jerry, dumped a load of 1946 wheat at the newly-built plant.
When harvest starts, the new plant will be completely finished and "ready for business," the management stated. Work started March 2 on the site of the former Packard Farmers Warehouse Co. elevator, which was destroyed in a disastrous fire in the early evening of July 27, 1946.
50 years ago
The Ritzville
Journal-Times
June 29, 1972
Heartbeat Restored
A defibrillator at Ritzville Memorial Hospital, used for the first time, saved the life June 14 of Gene Eggleston, Coulee City.
Eggleston, a truck driver for Goodfellow Bros., walked into the hospital's emergency room and said he didn't feel well. Monday he told The Journal-Times that was the last he remembered. After he had safely reached the road to recovery hospital attendants told Gene he had suffered a heart attack and had actually been dead for three minutes.
25 years ago
Ritzville Adams
County Journal
June 12, 1997
Election certified, voters say 'no'
Adams County voters were in agreement with the rest of Eastern Washington when they voted "no" on Referendum Bill 48. The bill, however, is on its way to passing by a slim margin statewide and if approved will allow the construction of a new stadium in Seattle. The stadium will be the home of the Seattle Seahawks.
There are 6,588 registered voters in Adams County with 3,670 of them returning vote-by-mail ballots.
Yes votes were 1,445 for 39.37 percent and no votes were 2,225 percent. Election official Heidi Hunt said 663 ballots were returned to the auditor's office as undeliverable because voters had not supplied correct mailing addresses.
– The Journal
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