Out of the Past: 03/25/2026

80 Years Ago

Seniors are busy working on the final rehearsal of “Tiger House” which is to be given April 5. K. Perrins as Arthur Hale takes the supporting role while Tommy Reiter (Mac) acts as the sweetheart of the newly-rich Erma Lowry. Other characters are Yami (Chuck Yoke), the Hindu house boy; Aunt Sophia (Evelyn Kincaid), the good-natured but superstitious maiden aunt; Mrs. Murdock (Betty Lu Wright), an old country woman; Oswald Kerins (Robert Wilson), the “bug chaser” who is much annoyed by Peg Van Ess (Doris Welch), who is boy crazy to say the least; the mystery woman (Dorothy Brill), who warns everyone; Thompson (Robert Peterson), a crook, and the Tiger –?

We regret that the pressure of business and our resolution to try to get the paper out on time has forced us to omit a number of items and the news from several correspondents this week. We especially regret that we have had to omit Mrs. P.S. Christiansen’s Big Foot news for two weeks. We’ll try to make it up to everybody.

Walter L. White, who has been with the Farm Security administration for over 10 years, has been appointed county supervisor for the Deer Park FHA (Farmers Home Administration) office. He succeeds Harold H. Lenhard whose resignation from the position becomes effective April 1. 

40 Years Ago

Riverside, Mead, Deer Park, and Mary Walker school districts all passed their maintenance and operations levies last week while Loon Lake, a non-high school district, failed by a whisker. The five districts, part of a virtual state-wide effort on the part of school districts, fire districts, and water districts to stage their elections on the same day, had each sought maintenance and operations levies to fund transportation, extracurricular activities, and hot lunch programs. 

A horse is more than a horse, of course, in north Spokane County. The area is becoming a bedroom community not only for people, but also for horses – some for casual riding and others boasting bigshot lineages and top laurels in racing and show. The Beeson Farm, located about three miles north of Deer Park, last weekend introduced its latest star: Slewdledo, son of famous Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. 

The Deer Park Airport Board, which was put to rest last September, will not be resurrected in the near future. The Deer Park City Council voted 4-1 (Councilman Mike Burdeette in the minority) to keep the airport’s operation under the direction of the city’s administration until April 1, 1987. The administration’s mandate was to run out at the end of this month. 

20 Years Ago

Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies, who were investigating an alleged sexual assault earlier this month, were called back to the West Brophy Road home last Wednesday after receiving a telephone call of a shooting. Deputy David Morris, who was the first on the scene at around 1:45 p.m., found the 52-year-old woman in the kitchen with a bullet wound in her right thigh. The woman was taken to a Spokane hospital with a non-life threatening injury. 

The newly remodeled Clayton School is one of this year’s State Historic Preservation award winners in the stewardship category. The Department of Archeology and Historic Preservation award, to be presented to the Deer Park School District on May 2 in Olympia, recognizes its efforts to rehab the long-abandoned building. 

Longtime Deer Park resident Susan Cooper has opened the Quilt Lounge, Knittery, Etc. at W. 110 Crawford in Suite B. The store carries a variety of fabrics for quilting such as Kona Bay, Michaelo Miler, Elm Creek by author Jennifer Chiaverini, and Northcott with more lines coming. Brights, batiks, and orientals are hot now.