50 years ago (1954)
A banquet and a dance concluded the three-day convention of the Washington-Oregon Council of Shingleweavers. Some 40 visiting delegates attended the banquet in the Monte Cristo Hotel and dance at the Everett Labor Temple. The delegates, representing more than 2,000 shingleweavers in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Northern California, acted on 18 resolutions mostly about wages and working conditions.
A porcupine visited the back yard of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. “Tiny” Holtum of 5907 Highway 99. First to see it was their 11-year-old daughter, Lois. Neighbor Robert Hoffman dispatched the critter to porcupine heaven with his rifle.
25 years ago (1979)
Frontier Bank was to celebrate the grand opening of its new office at 6623 Evergreen Way with a weeklong open house. Since opening in temporary quarters in September 1978, it had established the fastest growth rate for any new commercial bank in the state, President Bob Dickson said.
The hardest part of being mother, godmother and midwife to a book about Darrington was learning to do the bookkeeping, Elizabeth Poehlman said. She had just completed writing “Darrington Mining Town/Timber Town.”
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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