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From our archives, 100 years ago

The wedding night didn’t exactly go as planned for a young Colville couple. They were settling into their room at the Lee Hotel in Colville when “an irate mob” of Italians, led by the bride’s mother, stormed the hotel and demanded entrance to the room.

The crowd rushed the stairway but was halted by hotel employees.

The sheriff arrived and interviewed all parties. The mother claimed that the bride was only 17 and had married without her consent. The bride replied that she was over 18 and didn’t need their consent.

The bride said her Italian passport would prove it, but she didn’t have it with her. The sheriff ordered the couple to “live apart” until the next day, when she could produce the passport.

From the student prank beat: The junior student nurses at Sacred Heart Hospital were enjoying a banquet in celebration of the issuance of their class pins. When they went back to their rooms, they found salt and pepper sprinkled in their sheets and bedding tied into knots.

It was all the work of the senior student nurses. The seniors and juniors had been “having a good-natured controversy” over whose class pins were prettier. The juniors had made fun of the seniors’ pins, so while the juniors were at their banquet, the seniors took revenge.