From the Files

100 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

Sept. 4, 1924

THOUSAND HEAR

KLAN LECTURER

A crowd estimated at a thousand

persons attended the meeting of the Ku

Klux Klan held at the Carl Lee place

adjoining town last Thursday night.

A goo man were here from other

towns. Autos were parked abou the

meeting place and the seats provided

were filled. Several klansmen in their

white robes had charge of the arrangement.

Rev. A. N. McDonald, formerly of

Ritzville, was the speaker of the evening.

He discussed the objects of the Ku Klux

Klan and claimed it hand nine million

members in this country.

75 years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

Sept. 1, 1949

NINE-YEAR-OLD FATALLY

INJURED IN RIDE MISHAP

OTHELLO - Othello's annual

rodeo was marred last weekend by the

death of a nine-year-old girl, Maxine

Kay Smith, who received fatal injuries

when she was thrown from a small airplane

ridge at the carnival accompanying

the rodeo.

Festivities were just getting underway

about 8:45 p.m. Friday when one

of four "legs" supporting the kiddie'

airplane ride sank about 8 inches into

the ground. The drop caused the airplane

containing Maxine and another small

girl, Judy Cox, to tip at a steep angle.

50 years ago

The Ritzville

Adams County Journal

Aug. 29, 1974

COUNCIL QUESTIONS

VALUES OF RODEO

Selection of a new city councilman

and the discussion of the probles caused

during the rodeo weekend took up much

of the time of a short city council meeting

Tuesday night. Named to the city

council post vacated by Don Wright was

Dennis Morgan, a law affiliate of Ed

Cross. Morgan will fill the seat until the

next election next year.

Councilman Jerry Crossler, owner

of Whisperin' Palms questioned whether

having the rodeo at Ritzville was enough

of a benefit to the community to offset

the trouble caused by the cowboys and

their followers.

25 years ago

The Ritzville

Adams County Journal

Sept. 2, 1999

47 ATHLETES TURN OUT

FOR BRONCO FOOTBALL

If sheer numbers were an assurance

of success, then the 1999 Bronco

football season already would be shining

as 47 athletes greeted the call to practice

during the first nine days.

"This is as many as we can remember

every having out and we think that

we have a couple more that are getting

their paperwork taken care of so they

can be out, too, said Bronco Coach Mike

Lynch.

The Broncos withstood the head

for three days of double practices then

single ones since school started...