Jim Kershner’s This day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

Two 3-year-old runaways – next-door neighbors and playmates – were found after an all-day search, “playing on the Boone Avenue Bridge, covered with tar and dust.”

So the detective took the little boy and girl to their respective homes – but the boy’s mother was not home. The girl’s grandmother refused to take responsibility for the boy, saying he would just run away again.

So the detective produced a 25-yard horse rope and tied the boy to the porch.

“The rope had enough play to allow him to stand or sit as he saw fit,” said the story.

When the boy’s mother returned, she called the police station, not to complain, but to thank the police.

From the matrimony beat: A Spokane Episcopal minister wrote an opinion piece expressing his strong disapproval of a new fad of “rooftop garden weddings” and other travesties.

He said the next thing you know, ministers will be offering “cut rates” with “kissing the bride thrown in.”

“Spokane seems to be the limit when it comes to novelties in church life,” he wrote.

He wished to remind readers that “marriage is not vaudeville, but an ordinance of God.”

Also on this date

(From the Associated Press)

1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles.