Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

About 27 faculty and students from Columbia University in New York took an excursion through the Grand Coulee. The professors and students subjected the geological formations “to the closest scrutiny, and many specimens were carried away for further investigation.”

Coulee City businessmen provided autos for the group, and “the whole party was carried the entire length of the coulee, a round trip of 75 miles.”

Professor Douglas W. Johnson, conductor of the party, stated that a tour of the Grand Coulee would hereafter be included in the itinerary of all such excursions from Columbia University.

From the lodge beat: Police raided Spokane’s Moose Lodge after they received information that it was serving alcohol on Sundays in defiance of the law. 

Sure enough, when police Officer Joseph Hoffman shoved the door open, he and the other officers saw 15 men sitting in the club room drinking beer. Those men were sent home without a disturbance, but the lodge’s janitor was arrested after an altercation with officers at the door. 

Also on this date

(From the Associated Press)

2005: America’s manned space program roared back to life with the launch of Discovery, 2 1/2 years after the Columbia shuttle disaster.