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Sharing and reflecting on the history of Medical Lake, Washington!

06/20/2025

100 years ago in Medical Lake, the city council was still fighting as WR Bartholomew sued Stanley Hallett. Also, a kid in Oakesdale found a giant mushroom! (The Spokane Chronicle, June 19th, 1925, page 11)

06/19/2025

100 years ago and a day in Medical Lake, Major Jack Fancher took off in a plane from Hoisington Field (later renamed Felts Field) and landed at his ranch in Fancher Prairie so that he could check in on the farm. (The Spokane Chronicle, June 18th, 1925)

06/18/2025

The front page of the Spokane Press on June 18th, 1925 was a dandy--dope fiends near Lewis and Clark High School! Adventurer Raold Amundsen returned safe from the Arctic, but a farmer near Cheney named Frank Craigo took his own life after he became depressed over the death of cave explorer Floyd Collins. Fighting Bob La Follette, the progressive senator of Wisconsin, died at the age of 70, and J.P. Morgan's wife was also not long for the world.

(And there, in the middle of the page, the Swedes were getting ready to have a picnic at Medical Lake)

06/17/2025

100 years ago in Medical Lake, the town baseball team beat the Spokane Moose Lodge by a 4-3 margin. (The Medical Lake Register, June 18th, 1925, page 1)

06/14/2025

100 years ago in Pullman, George Meneninger was found insane because of an obsession with making gasoline from sunflower seeds; also, he liked to peep in windows on College Hill. He was promptly sent off to the hospital at Medical Lake. (The Spokane Chronicle, June 13th, 1925).

If you're wondering if George may have just been a man ahead of his time, maybe! https://farm-energy.extension.org/sunflowers-for-biofuel-production/

06/11/2025

"Bathing at Camp Comfort, Medical Lake, WA", postcard dated October 18th, 1897.

06/10/2025

100 Years ago in Medical Lake, A.F. Hunts (owner of the dance hall at Camp Comfort) and the City Council came to an agreement to end dancing on Sundays. If I was a better liar I would tell you this was the basis for the movie Footloose, but no such luck. (The Spokane Daily Chronicle, June 9th, 1925, page 11)

06/09/2025

100 years ago in Medical Lake, the Danish Brothers and Sisters came to town for their yearly picnic. 150 people came to town to celebrate! (The Spokesman-Review, June 8th, 1925)

06/06/2025

100 years ago in Medical Lake, the City Council meeting was running hot because they said the former City Attorney owed them the remainder of his contract, $16.64. Read on for a quote from Stanley Hallett, who was on the City Council then. (The Spokane Chronicle, June 6th, 1925)

06/05/2025

100 years ago in Spokane, they finally got around to our story from last week about the booze being seized. Here, the paper adds a little detail about the Medical Lake leaders saying that the liquor belonged to Spokane folks, not us. (The Spokane Chronicle, June 5th, 1925)

06/04/2025

In a follow-up from Monday, the Governor took a look at things at the hospitals and said, "Eh, they seem fine."

Also, Jack Dempsey was gearing up to potentially face Gene Tunney for the World Heavyweight Championship.

(The Peninsula Daily News, June 4th, 1925).

06/03/2025

There was high drama to be found on the City Council, as the former city attorney was refusing to recognize the seating of the new council members and no one was really sure who was in charge. (The Spokane Chronicle, June 3rd, 1925)

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