50 years ago (1961)
Chaffee’s was celebrating 40 years of business in Everett. Lifelong Everett resident Clare Dobler, owner of the women’s apparel shop, was taken under C.C. Chaffee’s wing in 1928 and started as advertising manager. The store presently had 40 employees, including Fanna Shaw
who had been with the shop since 1921.
In observation of the Centennial year of Snohomish County, members of the Boys Club of Mukilteo were spending Saturday afternoons restoring the town’s pioneer cemetery that was older than the county itself. Philip Baker was in charge of the cleanup, assisted by town marshal John Nunnally.
25 years ago (1986)
On behalf of the officers and crew of the USS Fox, W.W. Mathis, Captain, U.S. Navy, wrote a letter to The Herald thanking Everett for the warm reception they all received during their visit earlier this month. He said they’d never been treated better than they were in Everett.
The state was to spend $2.7 million to improve the Mukilteo Speedway as a benefit to Honeywell and other businesses. A 1.5 mile stretch between Old Mill Road and Harbour Pointe Boulevard would be widened with traffic signals installed at both intersections.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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