RESEARCH--LINCOLN COUNTY CEMETERIES

     To be included in this listing there must be a known or strongly suspected family or historical connection.  These are partial listings.

 LINCOLN COUNTY OBITUARIES 
http://wagenweb.org/lincoln/obits.html

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Wilbur Cemetery:

Dumas, Bessie, b. 1882, d. 1970, B-12/L-2
Dumas, Charles B., b. 1878, d. 1946, B-12/L-2

Rinker, Calidonia, b. Jun 12, 1853, d. 1932 Apr 13, w/o Samuel C., B-170/L-8
Rinker, Cora Lee, b. 1879, d. 1977, B-170/L-7
Rinker, Dale W., b. 1934, d. 1952, "Our son""A place is vacant in our home, which never can be filled", B-68/L-3, B-B
Rinker, Edith D., b. 1905, d. 1988, B-68/L-3
Rinker, Garnet A., b. 1898, d. 1987, s/w Wesley, B-52/L-12
Rinker, Helen E., b. 1913, d. 1986, s/w Sam C., B-170/L-4
Rinker, Royal E., b. 1905, d. 1994, B-68/L-3
Rinker, Sam C., b. 1908, d. 1992, B-"Together forever", B-170/L-4
Rinker, Samuel C., b. Jun 01, 1844, d. 1912 Oct 11, @68y 4m 4d, B-170/L-8
Rinker, Vallie, b. 1891, d. 1970, s/w Vera, B-170/L-6
Rinker, Vera, b. 1895, d. 1982, B-170/L-6
Rinker, Washington, b. 1872, d. 1922, B-170/L-7
Rinker, Wesley, b. 1896, d. 1989, B-52/L-12

Vansickle, Charles S., b. 1894, d. 1937, B-199/L-12
Vansickle, Faye M., b. 1915, d. 1995, B-199/L-10
Vansickle, Robert B., b. 1864, d. 1944, B-199/L-12
Vansickle, Robert Lee, b. 1911, d. 1974, B-199/L-7
Vansickle, Vallie L., b. 1914, d. 1983, B-199/L-10
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     The name Aldridge occurs in the family tree; further research will be required to determine if these are related.

ALDRIDGE, D. W.               1849-1914                        35/3
ALDRIDGE, NELLIE L.           1858-1915        s/w Alvin       35/4
                                                      7/30/1915
           Died: MRS. D. W. ALDRIDGE: MR. & MRS. D. W. ALDRIDGE came
          here  in 1899 & a son filed a homestead down near the Columbia
          River.

ALDRIDGE, J. A. MRS.           No information                   35/10
ALDRIDGE, J. A.                ( -1929 @70y)                    35/10 

                                                      11/21/1929
          Died: JACK ALDRIDGE, Pioneer, found dead in Cabin: Body
          found by neighbor, OTIS MARTIN in his little ranch house
          in Grand Coulee, near Steamboat Rock.  A victim of an
          accidental shooting. The entire top of his head having
          been blown off from a rifle shot. He was a pioneer
          having lived in Wilbur, Keller, & Coulee at intervals of
          over 40 years. His nephew SHORTY ALDRIDGE was in Wilbur
          making arrangements today. His only daughter is expected
          to arrive tonight from her home in Oregon. He was
          70 years old.  Brother to D. W. ALDRIDGE who was employed
          several years with The Wilbur Register.

Keller, Claude; ( b. Nov 3, 1913, d. Apr 17, 1956)  55/1                                                                                                        “Funeral services were held Thursday at Wilbur for Claude Keller, 42, former Sprague youth and manager of the Wilbur Grange supply firm. He had died suddenly the Tuesday previous. Keller was born at Uniontown, WA, on Nov 3, 1913. He was married to Alma Melcher, April 14, 1941, at Ritzville. He moved to Wilbur in March of 1943.  He is survived by his wife, Alma; two daughters, Faye and Claudine; and son, Gary, all at the home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Keller, Sprague; two sisters, Mrs. Robert Doerschlag, Sprague; Mrs. Alfred Keehner, Spokane; several nieces and nephews.” (Odessa Record: 4-26-1956)

 Died: MRS. CALEDONIA RINKER: Pioneer; She came here with
       her husband SAMUEL C. RINKER in 1883 locating at Broadax.
       Born June 12,1853 in Arkansas. Survived by three sons:
       PHILLIP RINKER, near Seattle; HARVEY RINKER, Alberta Can.;
       VALLEE RINKER, a Broadax farmer. Eight grandchildren & Five
       great grandchildren. Two children passed away; a son & daughter.

Rinker, Caledonia  “An order admitting the will of Mrs Caledonia Rinker, Wilbur, to probate and naming her son, Valley Rinker, as executrix, has been signed. The estate consists of residence property in Wilbur.” (Edit: original used spelling of Ringer for Mrs Rinker; Odessa Record: 12-13-1935)  “A petition for probate of the will of Mrs Caledonia Rinker, Wilbur pioneer, who died April 14, 1932, and the naming of her son, Valley Rinker, executor, was filed. The estate consists of residence property at Wilbur.” (Odessa Record: 11-15-1935)*

RINKER, SAMUEL C.      Jun 01,1844-1912 Oct 11 @68y 4m 4d  170/8
RINKER, WASHINGTON       1872-1922                           170/7
                                                    5/12/1922
        Died at Wenatchee: Pioneer - WASHINGTON RINKER an early
        pioneer of Broadax region. His father S. C. RINKER & family
        came to the region in 1883 from Kansas locating near the old
        Hesseltine P.O. His grandfather WASHINGTON RINKER, who was
        born in Tennessee, but lived in Kansas during the bloody
        days preceding & throughout the civil war. MRS. S. C. RINKER,
        mother of the deceased, makes her home in Wilbur.  Survived
        by other members of his fathers family as well as his own
       immediate family.
RINKER, CORA LEE         1879-1977                          170/7

SEATON, M(ARY)E.              1851-1900   age 49               7/7
SEATON, THOMAS B.             1843-1920                        7/7
                                                     11/19/1920
        Died: THOMAS B. SEATON: Born in Feb 19,1841 at Hopwood, Penn
        & moved to Missouri at age 29 years. He married MINERVA,
        ALDRIDGE on July 3,1877. One child was born to them CORA
        LEE RINKER. MRS. ALDRIDGE SEATON died Mar 7,1879. MR. SEATON
        married again to MARY ELLEN LONGACRE. There were six
        children to this union, five sons & one daughter. Sons;
        BALIS, SAMUEL, HALLEY, CLEVELAND, ELMER, & daughter is
        BESSIE DUMAS.

VanSickle, Chas; ( b. 1894, d. 1937) 199/12   

“An order appointing Mrs. Myra V. Van Sickle, Creston, as administratrix of the estate of her husband, Charles S. VanSickle, was signed in superior court at Davenport. The estate is valued at $8,000. Heirs are the widow, two sons and a daughter.” (Odessa Record: 2-04-1937; Burial in Wilbur)

VanSickle, Robert L           2-21-1974

“Funeral services for Robert Lee VanSickle were held from the Wilbur Lutheran Church on Wednesday, Feb 20, 1974. The Rev Roland Wuest of Pasco and the Rev A F Gerstmann officiated. Music was by the congregation and a solo by Frank Hanson, accompanied by Mrs Roy Sassman on the organ. Masonic rites were conducted at the Wilbur Cemetery by Lee’s brother Masons of the Tuscan Masonic Lodge of Wilbur. They also served as pall bearers. The Robertson Funeral Home was in charge of the funeral arrangements. Honorary pall bearers: Wally Meyer, Ing Hansen, Norman Houger, Fred Haydon, Ben Johnson, Phil Gardner, Ralph Starzman, Jim Rosman, Lorin Simons,  Vern Nate, Tony Brown and Richard Hedrick. Robert Lee VanSickle was born Feb 13, 1917 near Almira and entered into rest during his sleep on Feb 14, 1974 at his daughter’s home in Long Beach , CA .  The VanSickle family moved to Creston when Lee was five years old and he has been a resident there since that time. After his graduation from Creston High School , Lee operated the family business upon the death of his father, Charles VanSickle. His mother, Myra V nee Buchanan, also preceded him in death. Lee married Alice Schafer on Jan 1, 1939 in Spokane and to this union were born two daughters, Mrs Roy ( Nancy ) Todd of  Ventura, CA, and Mrs H E (Kay) McGuinness, Long Beach , CA . In addition to his wife at the home, and his daughters, he is survived by two grandsons, Ricky Todd and Shawn McGuinness and two granddaughters, Kristina Todd and Kathleen McGuinness; one sister, Mrs Ivan (Eva) Hansen of Livermore, CA and a brother, Vallie VanSickle, Kettle Falls, and numerous other relatives.  Lee was widely known for the VanSickle sub-soiler and was reputed to be one of the best welders in the county. He was very active in the business until Oct 13, 1966 when he suffered a severe coronary occlusion and had been disabled since that time. Lee was a member of the Wilbur Lutheran Church and Tuscan Lodge No. 81, F & AM. Also he was a former member of the Creston Town

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Almira Cemetery:

Washington :  “Nat W Washington, prosecuting attorney of Grant County , residing at Ephrata, his sister, Peachy, and brother James Washington, were drowned in the Columbia River while in bathing Saturday. The body of James has been recovered but dynamite was used without success in an endeavor to raise the other brother and sister and ferrymen down the river have been notified to be on the look out for their bodies...James and Peachy Washington were operating a stock ranch north of Almira.” (Excerpt: Odessa Record: 7-16-1926)  “The bodies of N W Washington and his sister, Peachy who were drowned in the Columbia River near Seaton Ferry, July 10 were found Saturday morning near Bridgeport in Douglas County , 75 miles below the scene of their death.  They were taken to Almira where a triple funeral service was held for James, Peachy and Nat Washington last Wednesday and their remains were laid beside those of their father and brother in the Almira Cemetery .” (Odessa Record: 7-23-1926) Jacob Oster took Chris Musselman to Soap Lake Sunday. Mr Oster brought back the news to Ruff that N W Washington had drowned in the Columbia River .”  (Odessa Record: Ruff Column: 7-16-1926) {Edit: Placements of burials in Almira Cemetery for the Washington family members was taken from a list provided by Pat Rice while she was researching the burials of the north portion of Lincoln County and surrounding cemeteries beyond the county burials.}

Washington , Nathanial W; d. 7-16-1926, age 45, drowning; burial in S-29.

Washington, Peachy Ryland; d. 7-10-1926, age 42, drowning; burial S-61.

Washington, James C; d. 7-10-1926, age 43, drowning; burial S-61.

Washington, Gladys F; d. 6-17-1969, age 79; burial S-29.

Washington, Janet Fairleigh; d. 1911, age 43; burial S-61.

Washington, Hanna Lee; d. 1917; age 46; burial S-61.

Washington, Emma W; d. 1930, age 87; burial S-61.

Washington, Bushrod C;  d. 2-24-1919, age 80, influenza; burial S-61.

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County Pioneer Obituaries
 DROWNS IN CRAB CREEK  

The Davenport Times-Tribune,  January 3, 1935

   MISS CLARA KEINHOLZ, age 43, who has been ill mentally for about 10 years, was found drowned in Crab Creek near her home 1 miles southeast of Harrington, Wednesday of last week.  The funerals was held at the Sassin church south of Edwall, Friday, with the REV. DAVID  REINS officiating.  Miss Keinholz graduated from the Harrington high school and Cheney normal school and taught several years in this county.  She is survived by her parents, five brothers and sisters. *

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County Miscellaneous Obituaries 1908 through present...File 1 * 

Kienholz, George, Mar 14, 1913

George, the 7 month old baby of Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Kienholz, died Saturday morning, March 8, and was buried Sunday morning the 2^nd inst, the funeral being held from the German ME Church. The little one contracted pneumonia last fall and never seemed to fully recover. It took the gripp and was unable to withstand the effects. The sorrowing family have the sympathy of their many friends. (Citizen)  

County Miscellaneous Obituaries 1908 through present... File 2 *

[the name Ahern does occur in the tree, three girls who came west with the Postons, but if the following is realated, it is very distant]

Ahern, Lester M.,  4-05-1973

“Funeral services were held Friday at the First Presbyterian Church, Reardan, for Lester M. Ahern, a long-time area resident, who died in Spokane March 26, 1973.  He was born at Medical Lake in 1900, and spent his early childhood in Downs; at the age of 10, he moved with his parents to homestead at Deep Creek.  Ahern continued to live there, operating a farm until his retirement in 1970, when he and his wife moved to Reardan.  He was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Reardan, a charter member of the Reardan Lions Club; past master and member of the Reardan Lodge No 146, F & AM; past patron of Starlight Chapter No. 90, Order of Eastern Star; Spokane Consistory of Scottish Rite Bodies; El Katif Shrine; 50-year member , Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Davenport; and a charter member of West Deep Creek Grange.  Officiating at the funeral services were the Rev Forrest C. Travaille and the Rev C. C. Saunders. Soloist was Mrs. Bob Zwainz , with Paul Lillengreen at the organ. Burial services followed at Spokane Memorial Gardens with Reardan Lodge No. 146, F & AM participating. Casket bearers were Donald Sullivan, John Porter, Jr., Dave Franklin, Tom Sipp, Zene (Pepper) Stillar, Larry Sullivan, Billy Sullivan, Robert Porter and Lloyd Pilant. Honorary bearers were Leonard Humphrey, Glenn Humphrey, Herman Wagner, Bill Colville, Ralph Frisk, John Hampton, Robert Anderson, George Reinbold, Ray Stevenson, Jerry Stevenson, Thomas Landreth, Joe McLaughlin, Clinton Landreth and William Meyer.  Survivors include the widow, Loreen, at the home; daughters, Phyllis Sullivan, Spokane and Connie Hayden, Spokane Valley; step-daughters, Norleen Stillar, Montgomery Ala. , and Norma Porter, Spokane; 13 grandchildren; one great granddaughter; a sister, Mae Beattie, Medical Lake; and several nieces and nephews.” (Davenport Times:  4-05-1973) 

Ahern, Loreen W.,   10-25-1984

“Loreen M Ahern died last Sunday, Oct 21, 1984 at the Southcrest Convalescent Home in Spokane. She had lived in Reardan for 70 years.  Ahern was born on July 30, 1905 to Lee and Myrtle Worthy in Alberton,WA.  Survivors include two daughters, Noreen Stillar and Norma Porter, both of Spokane; one step daughter, Connie Hayden of Spokane; six sisters, Erma Morrison, of Spokane, Evoril Brodersen of Pasco, Iris Jauntis of Tacoma, Joan Opendack of Spokane, Doris Earl of Newport and Lola Hall of Colfax; one brother, Marvin Worthy of Spokane; 15 grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.  Ahern participated as member of the Reardan Presbyterian Church, the West Deep Creek Grange 880, the Rebecca Lodge, the Reardan Chapter of OES, El Karnak and Chapter 6, Daughters of the Nile. Funeral services took place yesterday, Wednesday, Oct 24, at the Reardan Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m. with Rev John Thomas officiating the service.  Interment took place at the Spokane Memorial Gardens Cemetery.” (Davenport Times:  10-25-1984) 

County Miscellaneous Obituaries 1908 through present... File 3* 

Aldridge, Steven M.,        2-04-1987

“Steven McAdore Aldridge. Died: 2-04-1987, Davenport, WA.  Spouse: Grace Yarwood. Father: Steven Russell Aldridge. Mother: Elizabeth VanSlyke. Buried: Inland Evergreen Crematory, Spokane,  WA.” (Lincoln Co Health death card) 

Rinker, Samuel C.,         est. 4-15-1927

“The Oregon Mortgage company filed suit against George Bandy, administrator of the estate of Samuel C. Rinker, seeking to recover $2,595 on a foreclosure action and $300 attorney fee.” (Odessa Record: 4-15-1927)

Edwall Cemetery Obituaries

Kienholz, Cordelia Myrtle  (Apr 21, 1897-Apr 9, 1902; d/o EE & Anna)

Kienholz, George (added: d. 1913)  “George, the seven months old baby of Mr and Mrs E E Kienholz, died Saturday morning, March 8^th and was buried Sunday morning the 2^nd inst, the funeral being held from the German ME church. The little one contracted pneumonia last fall and never seemed to fully recover. It took the gripp and was unable to withstand the effects. The sorrowing family have the sympathy of their many friends.” (Citizen: Edwall Section: March 14, 1913) “The infant child of Mr and Mrs E E Kienholz is sick with pneumonia.” (Nov 1, 1912 of Harrington Citizen) 

Hartline Cemetery Obituaries

Gilman, Cecil Harvey, b. 1/8/1909, d. 8/15/1985, 202/4, vet Cox US Navy WW II

Kelley, Daniel Duane, b. 8/23/1951, d. 8/27/1989

Kelley, Daniel Lee, not marked, RB, 243/3

Kelley, Edward Donald, b. 9/19/1947, d. 8/10/1968, 195/1

Kelley, Infant boy, b., d. 5/28/1954, 177/1

Seaton, Gladys E., b. 1912, d. 1978, 140/5

Seiler, Vesta Mae, b. 10/15/1919, d. 4/3/2002, 227/2

Vance, Baby, 1913, 86/2

Vance, Orval Eugene, b. 1919, d. 1922, 86/1

SAMUEL C. RINKER

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     SAMUEL C. RINKER lives about one mile east from Hesseltine where he owns an estate of one-half section.  It is good land and in a high state of cultivation.  Mr. Rinker has a good residence, buildings and all other improvements needed on the farm. He is one of the earliest settlers in this section and he has labored incessantly for the improvement and upbuilding of the country and stands now a man of influence in the community.  He is well respected by all and has gained this by a life of straightforwardness and industry.
     Samuel C. Rinker was born in Indiana on June 1, 1844.  His father, Washington Rinker, ** was born in Tennessee and a worthy farmer.  He was a pioneer to Indiana, and later moved to Iowa and finally journeyed west to Kansas where he died.  The mother, Mary (Haselton) Rinker, was born in Missouri.  Her brother, William C. Haselton was a noted orator.  Our subject was educated in Iowa and Kansas.  He remained with his parents until the death of his father, and then conducted his mother's farm.  During the Civil War he saw considerable service in the state militia.  After the war, his mother sold the property and they returned to Missouri, where he farmed for some years.  In 1876, he returned to Kansas and took land.  It was 1883, when Mr. Rinker came to his present location, took a homestead and later bought a quarter section.  Since coming here, he has devoted himself entirely to farming and the result of his labors are the well tilled and valuable estate that he now owns.  When first settling here, Mr. Rinker was obliged to meet the hardships of the real pioneer and each summer had to go to Walla Walla to earn money for the support of his family.  He began to raise wheat as soon as possible and threshed it out by the horses treading it and winnowed it in the old fashioned way by throwing it against the wind.
     In 1867, Mr. Rinker married Miss Caledonia, the daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Keys) Askins, natives of Tennessee and Indiana, respectively.  The father was a well-to-do farmer before losing his property in the Civil War.  Mrs. Rinker was born in Arkansas, June 12, 1853.  She received her education in Missouri.  To Mr. and Mrs. Rinker the following children have been born, Washington, * a farmer at Hesseltine; Philip, a farmer in Douglas county; Mrs. Ida Tucker, on a farm near Hesseltine; Harvey and Valley.

* This Washington Rinker married Cora Seaton, oldest daughter of Thomas B. Seaton, great grandfather of Cousin Sam.

** Research link for Washington Rinker 1805-1866:
http://records.ancestry.com/Washington_Rinker_records.ashx?pid=5352764
caution: the information at this link can be unreliable.

HANS KIENHOLZ=FLUCK

The following notice includes mention of one of my great grandmothers (mother's mother's mother), Anna Bertossa (1858-1936), who married Clement F. Bertossa (1856-1948).  They are buried in the Almira, Washington Cemetery.  It is written in German, which I do not speak: If someone can provide a good translation, I would greatly appreciate it.  I do not know how most of the people mentioned are related, except that they are.

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update:

On July 29, 2013, I received the following email from Patrick Berger:

Hello,

Here’s a translation of the text you have blogged on July 10, 2011. I’ve come across this because I have found some old letters of Hans Kienholz-Flück’s son. To me it looks that your great-grandmother was a sister of Hans Kienholz-Flück. He was the head of a famous school for wood carving in Brienz that still exists: http://www.holzbildhauerei.ch/

Best regards,

Patrick Berger



BRIENZ, August 7, 1934.

                                        (at Stadel)


                    P. P.

                                                           Ps. 37, 5.

This morning, after a life full of devotional love and work, our faithful husband, father, grandfather, brother and next of kin,     

                                        Mister           Hans Kienholz=Flück

                         former Head of the School for wood-carving

could go to rest in peace in his 79^th year, after a long suffering, borne with endurance.
     Those who knew the departed, will always keep a loving memory of him together with us.

                                       Mrs. Anna Kienholz-Flück, Stadel, Brienz
                                       The families :
                                       Paul Schild-Kienholz, Baden (Aargau)
                                       M. Kienholz-Moser, Brienz
                                       Mrs. Kienholz-Lehmann, Brienz
                                       Ernst Kienholz-Bruck, Stettlen
                                       Menk Wyss-Kienholz, Brienz
                                       Werner Kienholz-Klopfer, Guttannen
                                       Max Kienholz-Moser, Munsingen
                                       Sister Gretli Kienholz, Zurich
                                       Sister Leni Kienholz, Brienz
                                       Ms. Wwe. El. Schild-Kienholz, Basel
                                       Ms. Anna Bertossa-Kienholz, U.S.A.
                                                           and next of kin.

     You are kindly invited to the funeral, that takes place: Friday,
August 10, 12 p.m.

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                                        BRIENZ, den 7. August 1934.
                                        (am Stadel)


                    P. P.

                                                           Ps. 37, 5.

     Nach einem Laben voll hingebender Liebe und Arbeit durfte heute fruh,
in seinem 79.  Lebensjahr, unser teurer Gatte, Vater, Grossvater, Bruder und
Verwandter

                                        Herr

           Hans Kienholz=Fluck

                         a.  Vorsteher der Schnitzlerschule

nach langerem, mit Ergebung getragenem Leiden zur ewigen Rurhe eingehen.
     Wer den Entschlafenem kannte, wird mit uns seiner allzeit in herzlicher
Liebe gedenken.

                                       Frau Anna Kienholz-Fluck, Stadel, Brienz
                                       Die Familien :
                                       Paul Schild-Kienholz, Baden (Aargau)
                                       H. Kienholz-Moser, Brienz
                                       Fr. Kienholz-Lehmann, Brienz
                                       Ernst Kienholz-Bruck, Stettlen
                                       Menk Wyss-Kienholz, Brienz
                                       Werner Kienholz-Klopfer, Guttannen
                                       Max Kienholz-Moser, Munsingen
                                       Schwester Gretli Kienholz, Zurich
                                       Schwester Leni Kienholz, Brienz
                                       Frau Wwe. El. Schild-Kienholz, Basel
                                       Frau Anna Bertossa-Kienholz, U.S.A.
                                                           und Verwandte.

     Die Beerdigung, zu der freundlich eingeladen wird, findet statt: Freitag,
den 10. August, 12 Uhr.

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from Microsoft translator:

BRIENZ, the 7 August 1934.
(at the barn)

                    P. P.

PS. 37, 5.

Could this morning, after a full ambient towards love and work here
in his 79 years of age, our more expensive husband, father, grandfather, brother and
Relative

Mr

Hans Kienholz = Fluck

a. head of the Schnitzlerschule

comment after some time, its registered with submission to eternal rest.
Who knew the Entschlafenem, is his all time in warm us
Love remember.

Mrs Anna Kienholz Fluck, Stadel, Brienz
The families:
Paul shield Kienholz, Baden (Aargau)
H. Reddin-Moser, Brienz
Fr. Reddin-Lehmann, Brienz
Ernst Kienholz Bruck, Stettlen
Menk Wyss Kienholz, Brienz
Werner Kienholz Thumper, guttannen
Max Reddin-Moser, Munsingen
Sister Gretli Reddin, Zurich
Sister Leni Kienholz, Brienz
Mrs WWE. El. Shield Kienholz, Basel
Mrs Anna Bertossa Kienholz, U.S.A.
and relatives.

The funeral, to which friendly will be invited takes place: Friday,.
the August 10, noon.

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GRAND COULEE DAM ARTICLES 1933-1934

     This appeared in the Spokane Chronicle under a photograph in July 1933.

Here Is Where Coulee Dam Will Be Constructed

     This isn't an elaborate house, and it isn't located in the most beautiful spot in Washington, but it is home to Mr. and Mrs. Sam J. Seaton and their family of three girls and one boy.  And even now the family is expecting to see the home give way to the mammoth Columbia basin development.
     There are no more enthusiastic supporters of the Grand Coulee power dam across the Columbia river at Seaton's ferry* than the Seaton family, through whose home and farm will pass the giant dam.  The site is shown in the photograph, taken by the Chronicle Friday while Senator C.C. Dill investigated the project.  ** It is the first picture published in Spokane of the dam site.  The white arrow on the north rock wall of the river is the mark of government reclamation engineers, and indicates where the 4290-foot dam will be hung.  Along the top of the dam will be a highway that will replace the ferry.  A white engineering stake behind the cameraman indicates the south end of the dam.
     Under the present plan of development for which Senator Dill proposes to secure $60,000,000 from President Roosevelt's public works program, the dam will be 145 feet high, 4290 feet long, and sunk 50 feet in the bed of the Columbia river.  It is in this vicinity reclamation service engineers are expected soon to start borings to determine finally information necessary to construction of the dam.  Many borings have been made already in the river, and a granite ledge has been found on which to rest the dam and hold back the river.

*  The Grant County ferry, operated by Sam Seaton.--CousinSam

**  See "Owners of Coulee Dam Site Visited by Senator Dill" in the July 1 post, THINGS HAPPENING AT GRAND COULEE!.--CousinSam
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     Also from the Spokane Chronicle under a photograph in July 1933.

Ferry to Yield Place to Grand Coulee Dam

     "Ferryman, hold the boat."
     For more than 12 years this has been the familiar cry as thousands of motorists worked their way down 1500 feet to Seaton's ferry, the location of the proposed Grand Coulee power dam in the Columbia river.  On the occasion of the inspection of the dam site Friday by Senator C. C. Dill and party, the ferryman was 17-year-old "Charlie" A. Seaton, to whom the arrow is pointing as he tugs at the ferry chains.  The other arrow indicates Senator Dill.
     "Yes, father built the ferry about 12 years ago, and she's still running," the boy related.  Young Seaton is looking forward to plenty of activity in the backyard of the Seaton ranch, which will be covered by the huge dam.  Incidentally, he expects "business will pick up with the ferry as a result of President Roosevelt's intention to build the dam."
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     From the Wenatchee World, Jan. 9, 1934.

Indians, Fearing Flood, Once Started Work On Keller Ark

     OKNOGAN, (sic)  Jan. 9.--This region was threatened with a flood designed to drown all its wicked inhabitants about the beginning of the century, Judge William C. Brown, noted authority on Indian lore, recalls.  An ark, to save the regenerate portion of the race, was actually started near Keller at about that time, and only for skepticism of the federal government it might have come much closer to completion.
     Gloomy foreteller of the coming deluge was Skolaskin, an old Indian medicine man.  A master of the art of prophecy, Skolaskin had been scratched slightly by the white man's religion and apparently the story of the flood impressed him most.
     Apparently he had not been told the entire story of the flood, or else he discounted the value of the rainbow set in the heavens as a promise that the waters would never again cover the earth, for he conceived the idea that the world was in a bad way and was in for a storm.  He had a considerable following, Judge Brown recalls.  He had been a staunch enemy of Chief Moses, declaring that leader had no business in this part of the country, and a good many of his people agreed with him.
     So when Skolaskin, whom it seems had developed something more than an ordinary reputation as a prophet, began to warn other Indians about the imminent wetness of things they pricked up their ears.  They, too, had heard the story of the Biblical flood from missionaries and they reasoned with homely philosophy that what happened once might happen again, so many of them started hauling timbers to the site of the proposed ark near Keller.
     Just how much progress was made on the boat is not known, but its construction kept many people from the regular pursuits of the reservation, Judge Brown says, and one day agents of the federal government appeared and took Prophet Skolaskin out to Spokane where he was kept until fear of the flood "blew" over.
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GRAND COULEE TOUR IS JOURNEY TO WONDERLAND

    [This appeared in the Spokane Chronicle in 1933 or 1934, exact date missing from clipping.]

     A trip that takes one through the green wheat fields of the Big Bend country and into one of the northwest's scenic wonderlands is that to the Grand Coulee.

     As logged by David C. Guilbert, assistant manager of the Inland Automobile association, for this week's Chronicle travelogue the distance going by way of Sunset highway [now U. S. Highway 2] and returning by the North Central highway [now state highway 28] is 257 miles, although by using the Sunset highway both ways the distance is somewhat less.  Going three miles off this circle tour, Dry Falls state park, another scenic spot, is reached.

          Country Now Green.

     "The motor trip to the coulee is best made at this time of year when the countryside is green and the weather is cool," Mr. Guilbert said.  "I have been in the coulee when the temperature ranged up altogether too many degrees above the hundred and I can testify that it is not at its most pleasant, though even then it was interesting.  So plan to make the trip within the next few weeks to get the fullest enjoyment.
     "In making the trip to the coulee, travel west on the Sunset highway, U. S Highway 10 [now 2], through Davenport and Wilbur to Almira.  At Almira turn north and run across the prairie toward the north end of the coulee.  Be sure to take the side trip into the Almira rim of the coulee and look down on Northrup canyon and the famous Steamboat rock.  Then continue to the head of the coulee, where a view of the Columbia river and the coulee is to be had.

          Think of "Wild Goose" Bill.

     "Here it is easy to visualize the dammed Columbia spilling over its banks and running down the coulee to form this great rock-walled canyon and the gigantic dry falls.  Then drive carefully down the crooked grade to the coulee bottom--the old bed of the mighty Columbia river--and follow its course over a good gravel highway by Steamboat rock.  Examine Steamboat rock and think of 'Wild Goose' Bill who, legend has it, homesteaded the top of the rock.
     "Continue to Coulee City and to the Dry Falls state park.  See the fossil waterfall which, when filled with water, equaled many Niagaras.  Sign your name in the register, if you like, and run back to Coulee City.

          Have Choice of Routes.

     "Here you have the choice of returning the way you came or of turning south across the country to join the North Central highway near Stratford.  This will lead to Spokane through a different country, touching Odessa, Harrington and Davenport."
     The Sunset highway is paved and oiled most of the way excepting where realignment work is being done between Wilbur and Almira.  Going through the construction work is not difficult, although slow driving is recommended.  All of the route is now in good condition, latest reports show.

AREA IS INDUSTRIAL BEEHIVE [1933]

          [This appeared in The Spokesman-Review in the fall of 1933, the exact date missing from the clipping.  With it were some pictures, including one of "Sam Seaton's landing. . . . The rigging is above a test pit, such as is being dug on the shore of the Columbia to determine the depth of the river bed's granit base. . . . " *]

Test Pits and Core Drilling Are Under Way--Vast Excavation Job Will Be Going Soon--New Towns by Dam Site Spring Up--Size Amazes.

          By MARGARET BEAN.

     You probably have heard that construction has been begun on the Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia, after years of waiting and working.  It has been mentioned a few times in the newspapers.
     Nobody seems to know who is paying the bills, whether the state of Washington, the federal government or both.  And the dam hardly knows where to send the bills the first of the month, but, nevertheless, they are working.  And we motored down to see how hard.
     We left sometime in the early dawn of the morning following the record fog when not only people but buses became lost in its blackness.  It was still hugging the earth when we departed, but we found what we thought should be the Sunset highway and it seems it was, for several hours later we arrived at Almira.

          COULDN'T LOSE SAILOR.

     You can't fool a sailor on a foggy morning any more than you can on a dark and stormy night and a sailor was at the the wheel of our "ship"--otherwise Herman F. Edwards, staff photographer of The Spokesman-Review and gob of the high seas during the World war.  Either heaven or a sailor's instinct guided him, probably a sailor's instinct.
     Driving through our tunnel of fog, with all cars using their headlights, we eventually surmised we had reached country stretches, for we could hear winter wheat growing on each side of the road and the cows chewing their cuds.  Something like that, and early birds were gathering up foolish worms that thought they were safe in the fog.  We didn't see a farmer during the 100-mile trip to the dam.  They must have been indoors, trying to figure a way to get into the new deal.
     The highway was in excellent condition all the way to Wilbur, where the building of a new link of road forces a detour between Wilbur and Almira, but it is a good road.  Big signs at Wilbur urge you to visit the dam over its highway.  Almira counters with other signs to boast of its highway to the dam.  And Coulee City would like you to include it in your swing around the Grand Coulee in inspecting the dam site.

          NEW TOWNS SPRING UP.

     All the little towns that fringe the Columbia have developed a most paternal attitude toward the dam.  And, as long as the dam must have a name, each town would like to be a godfather and have the dam for a namesake.
     They accord all honor to Senator Dill for what he has accomplished in bringing the dam project to a head, but they don't want it to be known as the Dill dam.  The United States is so dill pickle conscious, what with a slice of the famed pickle given away with every sandwich, that Almira, for one, thinks it would be too difficult to wrest the name of Dill from its association with the pickle and transfer it to the dam, although it signifies the name of a United States senator as well as a pickle.  And in its place, it suggests the dam be called Almira dam.
     At this point, Wilbur gets to its feet and struggles to get the floor.  But i refuse to be drawn into the argument.
     At Almira, we picked up Joseph B. Mehan, representative of the Columbia basin commission, a genial host, who was to be our guide over the project.  Mr. Mehan is a walking information bureau and withstood a days barrage of questions without growing impatient.

          HEADQUARTERS AT ALMIRA.

     Almira is headquarters at present for Frank A. Banks, federal engineer in charge of construction, and his engineering staff which numbers, to date, some 45 engineers.  As a result, Almira has become a boom town.  Old buildings bursting at the elbows to hold occupants.  New houses.  New eating places.  No wonder Almira loves the dam.
     From Almira, it is 21 miles to the dam site through a level wheat country, which suddenly stops against the horizon and drops hundreds of feet to the Columbia.  As the scenic road, and a fine road, winds down the wall of this vast canyon to the Columbia, I scattered the way with superlatives, trying to express something of my impression of the grandeur of the view, inspired by elevation and space, but it can't be done--it gives a sense of vastness that can't be described.
     The huge canyon.  Its steep walls.  The view beyond the coulee walls over rolling hills covered with the soft green of sagebrush.  Undoubtedly, the Columbia demanded a lot of elbow room and got it.  It made you think that Paul Bunyan and his blue ox had done a bit of work on the Columbia, before he took over his job to plow out Puget sound.

          LIVE IN CARAVAN HOMES.

     As we dropped closer to the dam site, we could see the fringe of frontier civilization in town sites, above the Columbia and along its shores, and weird traveling caravan homes of people in search of work.  In the immensity of the canyon, they seemed like child playhouses.
     Mr. Mehan pointed out a white mark on the side of the opposite canyon wall under the scar of loosened rock of a test trench, where men were at work.  It was so distant the men looked like ants on the hillside.  That marked the top of the low dam, Mr. Mehan explained.  It is 145 feet above low water.
     We followed the pointing of his finger as he traced the top of the dam, which will reach almost two-thirds of a mile to the side on which we stood, and back up the Columbia in a lake 50 miles long.  He explained that it would take four years to build.  We didn't wonder at the fact, or that it will cost $63,000,000.

          IMAGINATION GIVES UP.

     And when he told us that the high dam, a future project, will be 376 feet high and 4872 feet long, with a base 400 feet wide, and take 10 years to build and back up the Columbia to the Canadian border in a lake 150 miles long, and pump overflow water into the Grand Coulee, hundreds of  feet above, to make another lake 30 miles long and from one to seven miles wide and from 30 to 165 feet deep, our imagination quit working.
     As if the canyon hole were not deep enough bids for excavation of 2,040,000 yards of material were called for November 20.  This is but part of the 11,000,000 yards which will eventually be removed above the dam site to arrive at bedrock or about one fifth of the whole amount.
     The gravel to be excavated is an area about 400 feet wide and a mile long and varies in depth, according to its position.  On the side of the river bed, the depth of the gravel and earth and other deposits is about 250 feet; on the shore of the river in the center of the area approximately 60 feet in depth.  The last 10 feet of material, before reaching bedrock, is said to be composed of clay which is like rubber.  Beneath this is pure granite which constitutes the bedrock of the dam.  It is the job of the excavation contractors to scrape solid granite.

          EXCAVATION JOB HUGE.

     If you would like this put in the form of a picture--the amount of overburden, otherwise all the material above bedrock, to be removed will cover a block 200 feet square to a height of 1300 feet.
     Numerous red and white flags were stuck at different points in the canyon walls--survey markings, which mean things to Mr. Banks and his engineers.  If we looked carefully, especially with glasses, we could see telephone linemen high on the walls bringing their lines into the dam site.
     Railroad surveyors were picking their way along the topmost ridges.  Below we could see men at work on the test pits and drilling core holes and hear the exhaust of engines and the metallic sound of drills.  With the Columbia flowing peacefully through its vast canyon and the distant men fussing about its shores and canyon walls, it made me think of a lot of pygmies working on the supine form of a great giant.

          TOWN HUGS PRECIPICE.

     We came to the unnamed town, one of the numerous town sites that crop up overnight.  it hangs by its eyebrows on the outside of the road, with its front doors opening on the road and its back doors opening into the wide open spaces, the first step hundreds of feet below.  It won't be bothered with any lawns to cut or back yards to clean up.  However, its city fathers ought to urge sleep-walkers to sleep in parachutes, as well as pajamas.  The parachutes might match the pajamas, if the sleep-walkers are fussy.
     Opposite and up a short road is the Grand Coulee town site--it looks more comfortable, with something beside air to sit on.
     At the dam site proper there is a thriving community, but orders have been issued by the basin commission, telling everybody to vacate by midnight November 16, unless connected with construction work of the dam.  They aren't so happy there, but everybody lives on wheels, so it won't be difficult to bedroom and bath and walk.

          "HOT DOGS" EVERYWHERE.

     In covered wagon days, towns clustered about the corner saloon.  In the Coulee they cluster about "hot dog" parlors.  From all the hot dog emporiums we saw I have a notion it will take as many hot dogs as sacks of cement to build the dam.  However, to my knowledge there is no mention of a hot dog in the dam specifications.
     Mr. Mehan introduced us to Al Meyers, the dam site's pioneer and its mayor.  He is proprietor of "Al's Dam" cafe and has a house on wheels with a doorbell.  Either Al made the dam famous or the dam made Al famous.  At any rate, Al and the dam are synonymous.  Everybody who knows the dam, knows Al.
     Within a distance of four miles of the dam site there are probably 500 people living, hoping to make a living out of the work at the dam site.  But 150 of these are engaged in actual construction work on the dam.  Ramsey & Co., digging the core pits, have about 72 men on the job and Lynch Brothers, contractors, have the rest.  Mr. Mehan introduced us to E. D. Rhoades, foreman for Lynch Brothers.

          SINKING CORE HOLES.

     "Last summer, when the roads were deep in dust, they called him 'Dusty' Rhoades," Mr. Mehan explained, "but now that he has got his drills into solid granite, they call him 'Rocky' Rhoades."  The diamond drillers have dug 27 core holes of the 52 they are to do.
     Mr. Rhoades took us into the "jewelry shop" where his men handle the drill diamonds and set them in the bits.  He poured a vial of black diamonds into his hand.
     "These diamonds are valued as high as $175 a carat and cost about $3700," Mr. Rhoades explained.  He didn't offer to let me hold them, although his legs were longer than mine and he could run faster.
     Diamond drill "jewelers" set these diamonds in the bits that are used.  Mr. Rhoades has put one of his drills to a depth of 800 feet, with 650 of these feet driven through solid granite.
     Once drilled, these cores are brought to the surface, some in lengths as long as five feet and about two inches in diameter and the entire contents of the core hole placed in boxes, especially made.

          TEST PITS HIT GRANITE.  *

     The test pits, being dug by Rumsey & Co., are like wells, timbered as they are sunk and driven in some cases, to a depth of 238 feet.
     From the core specimens and test pits, Mr. Banks is able to determine the geological formation of the base of the river bed on which he will anchor the dam.  To date, no evidence has been unearthed to indicate that the formation underlying the Columbia is anything but solid granite.
     Work never stops at the dam.  In shifts, work goes on day and night.  Nor does the ferry ever stop.  Charon never had such a busy time on the River Styx ferry as Sam Seaton on his ferry.  Fortune has come to Sam Seaton's door.
     We met Mr. Rumsey at a most opportune time.  It was just before the dinner gong of his camp rang--we didn't plan it but we might have.

          COOK IS RESOURCEFUL.

     "Won't you have dinner with us?" he asked.  He was out of luck, we would.  There were a dozen contractors there that day, getting ready to bid on excavation work, and Mr. Rumsey acted as their host also.
     McKee, the cook, only smiled when Mr. Rumsey brought in a dozen extra for dinner.  There ought to be medals for cooks like McKee.  Nobody will ever forget his bountiful table.
     When we came out of the Columbia canyon and climbed back up the hill, we drove down the Grand Coulee, one of the world's geological marvels, 25 miles to the Dry Falls.  Once upon a time--
     "When you were a tadpole and I was a fish,
          In the Paleozoic times * * * "
nature is supposed to have shoved a great pack of ice across the channel of the Columbia, as it flowed down the Grand Coulee and to have hurled it over the hill into its present river bed.

          MIGHTIER THAN NIAGARA. **

     And now, looking up at the great black walls of sheer basaltic rock, 1000 feet high, carved by the waters of time, we ride down this prehistoric river bed on a fine highway to the Dry falls that were mightier than those that thunder over Niagara falls, before the Columbia met up with an exasperating glacier that refused to be turned from its course.
     It seems rather too bad.  Think of the business we could have done in honeymooners had the Columbia continued to thunder over the Dry falls and outdo Niagara 40 to one!  We probably would never have heard of Niagara, any more than Niagara has heard of the Dry falls.
     And when the high dam is completed once again the old river bed will be under water, with Steamboat rock, midway down the coulee, a mass of basalt more than 700 feet high and almost a mile long, once again an island.
     Undoubtedly the world has changed a bit since, as I said before, "When you were a tadpole and i was a fish."  And seems to continue to change.  Man is doing fairly well since he learned to use his stone hammer.

  * The ferry was the Grant County ferry, operated by Sam Seaton.--CousinSam

** More recent geological discoveries have shown that the Grand Coulee was not carved out over a long period by the Columbia, but rather in a fairly short time by floods from the collapse of Lake Missoula during the ice age.--CousinSam

THE DAMSITE EXPRESS

     [This appeared in The Wilbur Register on Thursday, August 31, 1933.  Some of it is humorous, though perhaps not what we might find acceptable today; but some of it is actual (with a twist), including the mention of my grandfather, Sam Seaton and Robert Van Sickle, whom I had not been aware of being in the area of Lincoln County until I came across this clipping.  Further research will be required.]

tHe DamSitE eXpreSs
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VOL. 1--No. 2          Sunday, August 27, 1933          Price 5c (Inflated
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     M. O. R. Bull   Publisher
       C. L. McNown, Editor
       Al Meyers, Circulator
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          EDITORIAL NOTE

     Now is the time to subscribe to this up-to-date family weekly.  We offer no apologies for its miniature size.  Just bear in mind that the dam isn't very big yet, either, and as the dam grows in stature and importance, so will we.  The time is not distant when the metropolitan dailies of the country will be wondering how we do it, and, if you subscribe now you'll be convinced later on that you are getting the best dam paper by a damsite you ever read.  Bring in the dough or gold-dust, or what have you? while you can get in the ground floor.  The subscription price will move up along with the dam.
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Savage Animals Cause Woe Around Damsite

     Hank Berger, popular French chef at Al's Casino, was forced to send out an S. O. S. Friday morning.  After reading about Walter Barr's encounter with a large badger, Hank has been treading around pretty carefully, but on entering the Casino Friday morning a scene of confusion greeted him.  Investigation disclosed that the seat of his trousers, hung up for the night, was conspicuous by its absence.
     Quietly retreating from the desolate scene, he sent out a cry for help through the north end of the city.  Bravely, his friends responded to the call.  Entering the cafe, a hundred or more strong, armed to the teeth, they soon brought the pants-eating miscreant to an end.  It was a large pack rat.
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Laundry Changes Hands

     Fat Hung Low, rotund little gentlemen from the Orient, has taken over the Damsite Steam Laundry.  The consideration was not given out, but it is learned that he almost repented of the bargain when he discovered that he had to furnish his own steam.
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Casino Brings 'Em In From All Quarters

     Nearly 500 people visited the editorial offices of the Damsite Express Sunday, several states being represented, with one entry from New York.
     Among the visitors during the week were Senator C. C. Dill, Mrs. Rosalie Jones Dill and E. F. Banker.  John Duff, district highway engineer, paid a flying visit to the site one day, but would not be interviewed by the discerning reporter.
     While here Senator Dill sampled Hank Berger's new "Damsite Sandwich," pronouncing it good, especially when flavored wit ha "Dill" pickle.
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New Townsite to Be Called East Damsite

     Sam Seaton, captain of the ferryboat, has decided that so long as there is no limit to the number of townsites to be built in the vicinity, that he may as well start one on the east side of the river.  It is understood that in order that his town will get off to a "clean" start, he has been making overtures tot he management of the Damsite Steam laundry here, offering a location free on Main street of East Damsite, if the laundry will change its base of operations.
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Indian Celebration to Be a Colorful Affair

     Indians in full tribal regalia will go through the ceremonies incidental to inducting Senator C. C. Dill, Governor Clarence martin and Jas. O'Sullivan into the tribe on Labor Day, September 4.  Chief Willie Andrews and his followers will perform all the secret rites that make these ceremonies so spectacular.  The celebration will take place in Nespelem, "closest town to Damsite."  The day will start with a frontier days' parade, followed by a free barbecue, dancing and a general good time.
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Mrs. Vic Matson is Pinochle Champion

     Mrs. Vic Matson, winner of the pinochle tournament, is looking for new fields to conquer.  If a suitable opponent cannot be found at Damsite, it hoped that some of the pinochle hounds from nearby towns will come forward.  Failing at that, she will be matched at seven-up with Chas. Osborn--or Dave Thomson, checker champion of the Big Bend.  The latter match would be something like these wrestling-boxing affairs--each to play his and her own style of game.
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Old-Timer Is Visitor

     Robert Van Sickle, old-time resident of the Wilbur section and cousin of Sam Seaton, is visiting at East Damsite.  He brought in our first light-globe, but as he failed to bring in any wire or juice, the electric globe has been hung up as an ornament until the dam is completed, when it can be used.
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"Too Many Pappoose"

     One of the tribe of noble Red Men and his family, journeying to Yakima from the Reservation Sunday, stopped at the Casino and purchased refreshment for the children.  When Al Meyers, courtly proprietor, rendered him his bill for the red pop, he dug down deep in his poke and remarked: "Ugh!  Too many pappoose."
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Has a New Name for a Mountain Canary

     "Champ" Matson, who, some day, will be able to point to the fact that he was the first white child at Damsite, and son of the mayor, calls all quadrupeds "Bow-wow."  Saturday, when he say his dad, clad only in shorts and shoes, bending over the wash-tub, he yelled an enthusiastic, "Bow-wow," and the populace is at a loss to figure out just what sort of an animal he had in mind.

THINGS HAPPENING AT GRAND COULEE! [1933]

     [From the Wenatchee World, 1933]

     GRAND COULEE, Oct. 4. -- Let's start off with something good.  Monday was pay day in Lynch brother camp.  To the boys who "reef and tug" at the steel casings being driven into the ground to protect "cave-ins" for the diamond core drilling, it was a true "ghost walk" and, at least some 38 or 40 of Washington's former unemployed were made happy again.
     Al Myers, local restaurant keeper, has completed additional floored space for his estaablishment and in honor of the occasion gave a dance Sunday evening.  It is reported that four ladies and something like 40 gentlemen attended.  "Girls, this will never do!" say the sages here.
     The Fender Lumber and Box company of Twisp has negotiated for space for a lumber yard in the A. A. Elmore townsite and has erected two small buildings for living quarters and offices.  Yes, they are really selling lumber.
     A. A. Elmore shattered all previous records for gas sales Sunday.
     Lynch Brothers are building a huge log raft on the Grant county side of the river at the proposed bridge site.  The raft will support diamond drill equipment for the first test drilling in the river bed.
     Robbins Lumber company of Colville Tuesday unloaded 8,500 feet of lumber by the Elmore gas station and announces that part of this already has been sold.
     Charles Gibbs, pioneer Wenatchee building contractor, is planning the immediate erection of an office and headquarters.  They will engage in the business of building and general contracting.
     J. G. O'Neil, right-of-way engineer for the Pacific Telephone company, reports that his company is already building a fourwire line from Wilbur to the damsite.
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     WASHINGTON, D. C.,  Oct. 4. (AP) -- Public Works Administrator Ickes today made formal allotment of $1,000,000 in cash to the reclamation service for use on the Grand Coulee dam project in Eastern Washington.  This is one of a periodic allotment of funds until the total of $63,000,000 has been spent.

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     [The following headline and caption appeared in the Spokane Chronicle in July, 1933, with a picture of my grandmother, my mother, and her two sisters, and Senator C. C. Dill.  In the caption, the ferry is referred to as "the Seaton ferry", a common error.  This ferry was the Grant County ferry, operated by Sam Seaton.  The son's name was Clair, not Charlie.  The actual Seaton ferry, located a few miles upstream, was established by Thomas B. Seaton, and after he died in 1920, was operated first by son-in-law Charlie Dumas, and then by son Elmer Seaton until his death in June of 1933.  At this time Elmer's widdow, Eunice, was operating that ferry.]

Owners of Coulee Dam Site Visited by Senator Dill

     The quiet of the Sam J. Seaton home on the site of the Grand Coulee dam in the Columbia river is soon to be broken by the activities of engineers from the government reclamation bureau.  Today a contract was signed between the federal government and the state, whereby surveys and engineering studies will start almost immediately.  On his inspection of the project, Senator C. C. Dill visited the home of mr. and Mrs. Seaton, on whose farm the north end of the big dam is planned.  The senator is shown talking with Mrs. Seaton and her three daughters.  Little Patsy Ann Seaton is standing in front of her mother, with the older daughters on either side.  Mr. Seaton was "down the river" when the picture was taken, and Charlie [Clair], the son, was running the Seaton ferry.

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     [The following appeared in the Spokesman-Review in November, 1933.]

FERRY CHARGES UNDER ATTACK

O'Sullivan to Propose Free Operation at Dam Site -- Builders Concerned.

     GRAND COULEE DAM SITE, Wash.,  Nov. 17. -- James O'Sullivan, secretary of the Columbia basin commission, here yesterday said that steps probably would have to be taken soon to provide quicker and faster ferry service across the river.
     Workmen, most of whom are now on the east side, find it expensive to travel back and forth, as they are charged 10 cents each one way, 25 cents if a special trip has to be made.  Sam Seaton, who runs the ferry for Grant county, has no authority to reduce fares.
     Mr. O'Sullivan said he would take the matter up with the commissioners, and, failing there, that the contractors doing the excavation undoubtedly would make some arrangements for taking over the ferry or provide one of their own.
     The engineers and contractors feel that the operation of the ferry should be one of service rather than profit from now on.