News Files
COMPILED BY CAROL SCHMIDT
EARLY HISTORY
In 1900, C.M. Johnson was a Cedarhome school teacher who had to contend with a boy wanting to fight him because Johnson punished him for putting rubber on the wood stove.
100 YEARS AGO (1910)
Daisy Turk was the teacher at Utsaladdy school. The Lindses at Birmingham (Warm Beach) received machinery for their new shoe factory.
90 YEARS AGO (1920)
Gilbert and Olga (Leverson) Anderson celebrated one year of marriage.
80 YEARS AGO (1930)
C.T. Richardson, superintendent at Carnation Company of East Stanwood, and some young friends spied a large salmon swimming in the channel at Warm Beach at low tide, and chased him up and down the shallows until the fish tired and Richardson pulled out the 30 pounder.
70 YEARS AGO (1940)
Mr. Britten, vocational ag instructor at Lincoln High School of East Stanwood, was elected state vice president of the teachers association at a convention in Longview.
60 YEARS AGO (1950)
Rev. Carl Lucky has accepted the call to the pulpit of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Stanwood. Camano Lutheran Church installed a furnace.
50 YEARS AGO (1960)
Population of the new town of Stanwood (following consolidation of East Stanwood and Stanwood) was pegged at 1,117. Twin City Future Farmers of America judging team won third place in dairy competition at the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, B.C.
40 YEARS AGO (1970)
The highest attendance ever recorded at the annual fair last weekend was more than 6,200. Workmen raised the walls of the new Thrifty Foods building.
30 YEARS AGO (1980)
A recall movement against Is. Co. Commissioner Bob Christiansen was underway. County workers replaced the south approach to the Hatt Slough bridge on Marine Drive. A grand opening at Gilbertson Hardware building showed off new shops, and the public met new owners Joey and Tom Coughlin.
20 YEARS AGO (1990)
The first lady of Leque Island, Sara Leque, celebrated her 100th birthday. Lee’s Auto Repair celebrated 45 years in business. Dan Garrison Realtors teamed up with Windermere’s network of offices.
10 YEARS AGO (2000)
Planners reviewed a request to add 325 acres to the city. Three collisions shut down SR 532 all the way to I-5. Rocky Point Heights Community Club dedicated their new entry sign.
