100 year ago today in Spokane: Silver Jubilee for Mount St. Michael

The Silver Jubilee – 25th anniversary – of the Mount St. Michael scholasticate (a school for Catholic seminarians) was celebrated at this Hillyard institution.

The Spokane Daily Chronicle described Mount St. Michael’s history as follows: “The institution began in 1895, when a scholasticate was founded at St. Ignatius, Mont. In 1899, the school was moved to Gonzaga University here and in 1916, took up its present quarters on Mount St. Michael’s, Hillyard.”

The celebration included a “pontifical high mass,” followed by lectures and entertainment for the students and clergymen.

The Mount St. Michael institution still exists on its mountaintop above the city, but is now a traditional Roman Catholic parish, private academy and residence of the Marian Sisters.

From the bridge beat: The new concrete bridge over the Spokane River at Millwood was nearly complete and scheduled to open in November 1920.

The Chronicle ran a photo of the nearly finished bridge and said “it will be the largest bridge in Spokane County outside of the city of Spokane.”