Out of the Past 07/29/26

80 Years Ago

Fanny Simington was an overnight visitor at the Chas. Evans home. She is Charles’ sister and has been visiting her father, Art Simington, near Colville. She left Monday for Oregon to visit her mother. 

Present indications point to crowded classrooms in the Deer Park grade school this fall. A steady population increase in the town and surrounding rural areas is responsible for the trend to larger classes. 

Following participation in a Spokane radio station broadcast last Sunday morning, in which he was featured as a vocalist, K. Perrins, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.S. Perrins of Deer Park, was awarded a $150 scholarship at Whitworth College by Louis Wasmer, owner of the station. 

40 Years Ago

A 77-year-old Deer Park man died Sunday evening at Sacred Heart Medical Center from injuries he sustained in an accident Saturday afternoon at the intersection of U.S. Highway 395 and Short Road. Earl P. Stanford was taken to the hospital after the station wagon he and his wife, Bertha E. Stanford, 78, were riding in collided with a truck driven by Charles P. Crowder, 29, of Ellensburg, Wash. 

Crowds were big, parade entries were impressive, and, as usual, the weather cooperated for the 65^th edition of Deer Park’s Settlers Day festivities. Best of all, the whole thing went smoothly, according to chairman Bev Ahrens, who this year had a corps of volunteers to coordinate Saturday’s parade and picnic at Mix Park. 

A new recipe book, compiled from the favorite recipes of 12 Elk-area women, went on sale last week as part of a fundraising effort by its creators, the Paint Party Gals. The book, which contains over 195 recipes in nine chapters, also has handy sections for jotting down your own favorite recipes, notes, terms used in cooking, and household hints. 

20 Years Ago

The Spokane County Library Board of Trustees voted unanimously to recommend that the levy rate remain at 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation. The levy lid proposal will now go to voters for formal approval. 

Weary travelers Karma and Holly Nelson have come home. The pair of vizslas, the inspiration for Erin Nelson’s “Too Dumb Dogs” greeting card business, have been placed in various, and sometimes mischievous, settings statewide. Karma and Holly’s latest adventure finds them as part of Nelson’s creation of a large-scale mural at Ruffn It, a dog day camp on West South Avenue in Deer Park.  

Despite temperatures heading in the 100-degree range, large crowds turned out for the annual Tri-County Settlers parade and picnic on Saturday. “It was a little warm today, but we made it,” Settlers President Julie Prufer told the crowd at Mix Park. According to National Weather Services’ station in Deer Park, the temperature had climbed past 90 degrees soon after the parade started at 10 a.m. and topped 100 degrees by late afternoon.