Jim Kershner’s This day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

Passengers on a regular Great Northern railroad route were being escorted to Whitefish every day by not just one but two candidates for Hillyard mayor.

The engineer was H.W. Morrill, running on the Non-Partisan ticket.

The conductor was Charles W. Williams, running on the Independent ticket.

“At the end of the run to Whitefish, both men stop at the same hotel and their friendliness is in no manner strained,” said the Spokane Daily Chronicle.

Two other candidates were also on the ballot. Both Morrill and Williams said that they wished each other well.

From the art beat: The Spokane Library superintendent said a room would soon be set aside for “a permanent display of art works” at the library, using several valuable works of art already in the library’s possession.

The hope, said superintendent George W. Fuller, was that the exhibit “will become the nucleus of a future art institute in Spokane.”

Fuller issued a call for “additional gifts of statuary, casts from master carvings and copies of good pictures.”

Also on this date

(From the Associated Press)

1969: The children’s educational program “Sesame Street” made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS).