We welcome Mrs. Eula Bowreath, formerly in the directory department in Los Angeles, who has been transferred to the same department in Portland. Our Kenwood office, Seattle, has two very happy operators - Miss Ruby Miller and Miss Hall. Why? Because each has acquired a brand new Ford coupe'. Edna Hurley, traffic employee, Eugene, is in a local hospital. Through magazines, fruit, and flowers the girls are attempting to help her to a speedy recovery. Cupid has secured two victims in the Vancouver operating force: Fern Cole is now known as Mrs. Thomas Honan, and Edna DuBois as Mrs. Julian Hart. Marion Callantine, Seattle RX operator, left for an extended trip to California. If the little old "Chev" hold out, Marion will have lots to tell us when she returns. Gertrude Barkley, stenographer of the division commercial department at Seattle, has returned to Oregon Agricultural College and has been succeeded by Helen Case. Cupid is still kept busy at Tabor office, Portland. Miss Bertha Flatt answers to the name of Mrs. Littell, and Miss Rosa Beck has changed her name to Mrs. Gray. Among the new members of the Salem operating force is Miss Marie Tremlily, who was formerly employed by the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company at Concordia, Kan. The following girls from long distance, Spokane, are enjoying time off: Effie Crerar, Marion Johnson, Connie Gannon, Aileen Reed, Josephine Filiatrault, and Alene Wilson. Miss O'Kelley, manager at Grangeville, has just returned from a three weeks' vacation spent in San Francisco. During her absence Miss Helen O'Kelley was acting manager. John Pullen, foreman, has a crew of men in Lewiston placing underground cable to connect with the new telephone building. It is planned the cutover will be sometime in December. During the three months' period from July 1 to October 1 1425 extension telephones were sold in the Oregon Division due to the efforts being made in the extension sales campaign. Miss Irene Collins, Miss Leonora Miller, and Mrs. Hildegarde Brokaw of our Beacon office at Seattle have returned to work again after their vacations. They report having had a wonderful time. Word has been received from Seattle of the birth of a baby boy to Mrs. Nelsen, formerly Miss Elsie Werley of the sales department in Tacoma. Congratulations are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Nelsen. The girls at our Beacon office, Seattle, are very sorry to lose their chief operator, Miss Alice Daley, who has been transferred to Glendale office, and Miss Julia Lyncy, who has been transferred to East office. Miss Louise Van Fleet of the Portland toll office became the bride of E. R. Hayden at a quiet home wedding on October 3 (1926). The girls of the Portland office wish the young couple a long and happy married life. Mrs. Percy Godfrey, nee Peterson, formerly a long-distance operator at Centralia, is the proud mother of a baby girl. The girls of Centralia office extend their heartiest congratulations in honor of the new arrival. Five offices in Spokane are now 100 per cent in stock subscriptions under the employees' plan. They are Walnut, Main, Lakeview, Broadway, and Glenwood. The other two Spokane offices are above 90 per cent. The many friends of Miss Mildred R. Larson, formerly sales clerk in Unit No. 1 of our Seattle business office, are glad to hear that she is now on the road to rapid recovery. We appreciated her recent visit. Katherine Reid, long-distance operator of San Pedro and formerly of Seattle, surprised us with too short a visit recently. Katherine came up on the H.F. Alexander for a two weeks' vacation in the "Charmed Land." A pretty wedding was recently solemnized at the home of Florence Wolke, when she became the bride of Donald Barbour. The girls of Sunset office, Seattle, all join in wishing the young couple great happiness.

Miss Ellen E. Anderson has been transferred to the Salem exchange from Tillamook. Leone Hohl is our new traffic representative on the employees' committee from the St. Helens office. Mrs. Esther Ullfers and Mrs. Elizabeth Edison were elected district representatives for the Astoria district. Emelia Ralkowski, directory clerk of Seattle, has returned from a very enjoyable vacation spent in Chicago. Miss Elizabeth Hastings, formerly of Pasco, Wash., has been added to the operating force at Longview-Kelso. C.A. Matt, outside salesman at Portland, has gone to Salem for several weeks to assist the manager in his sales work. With the opening of the university for the fall term, we lose Miss Julia Jackson, evening telegraph operator in Seattle. Miss Esther Mortenson has been transferred from Proctor to Main office, Tacoma. We are sorry to lose Miss Mortenson. Miss Loretta Schillinger, supervisor at East Office, Portland, has been promoted to evening chief operator, Atwater office. Our recent visitors at The Dalles are J. F. Lowrie of Seattle, R.F. Woodard, W.D. Moore, and C.E. Jordan of Portland. Seattle long-distance office misses the smiling face of Mary Rollins, who was transferred to Bremerton. Good luck, Mary. Miss Marion Johnson, acting long-distance chief operator in Spokane, was a recent visitor to our Seattle long-distance office. Mrs. Olive B. DeSart, long-distance operator, Salem, has recently been transferred to the long-distance office in Portland. Miss Francise Caldwell, stenographer in the Lewiston business office, is spending her vacation in Aberdeen, Seattle, and Spokane. The girls at Sunset office, Seattle, will miss Mabel Scofield, who recently left to take up home duties in her own little home. Miss Warnock, who was until recently employed as a local operator at Salem, Ore., will become the bride of Carl W. Holcomb. Miss Ella M. Hitchcock, Salem long-distance operator, resigned on October 4 to become the bride of Frank Starr of Dallas. Cupid is still hanging around Glendale office, at Seattle. Miss Ella Clausen has changed her name to Mrs. L. Howard. Congratulations! Friends of Mrs. Charlotte Gross, formerly of Sunset office at Seattle, will be interested in knowing that she is the mother of a baby girl. Miss Bernice Freeman, evening supervisor at East office, Portland, has been added to the list of brides. The girls wish her much happiness. Eight people have been added to the operating force at Eugene to help handle the increase in traffic due to the opening of the university. Manager Oscar Tinkle of Baker recently addressed the Baker Kiwanis Club on the subject, "The History and Development of the Telephone." Our long-distance office at Seattle welcomes Agnes Moe, Esther Hendrickson, Ruth Eaton, and Ellen Gordon as new ticket distributors. Miss Marion Zepakowski of the Walla Walla operating force is spending a delightful vacation in Oakland as the guest of friends and relatives. We are glad to welcome Stuart G. Fotheringham among the employees of the Seattle business office, who is acting as a salesman at the counter. The following girls have resigned at Tabor office, Portland, to continue their college studies; Misses M. Hartzell, A. Taylor, C. Rands, and Mabel Stone. Mrs. Elizabeth Miner Sharpe of the Portland toll office is confined to her home as the result of an operation. Miss Lena Netzer of the Portland toll office is back again after several months' illness.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Haynes Horsfall Gray Craven Dimock Coombs Colkett Piper Scott Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3945 Message Board Post: September 5 1905 Seattle Post Intelligencer Church Vindicates Rev. M. B. Haynes. Baptist Majority Adopts Resolutions of Confidence in Blacklisted Minister. Minority is Obdurate. Refuses to Make Vote Unanimous After the Secret Ballot is Announced. By a vote of seventy-four to twenty three the members of the First Baptist Church, in secret session, last night ratified the action of the Belden Avenue Baptist Church in vindicating Rev. Myron B. Haynes of any dishonorable conduct in securing half-rate transportation for John R Gray, his wife and sister to this city. The meeting was enlivened by a dramatic appeal on the part of Dr. F. L. Horsfall and Hermon W. Craven to the minority to make the vindication unanimous, but without avail. After the vote, which was a secret ballot, had been announced resolutions were adopted indorsing the action of the board of deacons in exonerating Dr. Haynes and expressing confidence in his integrity and Christian character. These will be forwarded to the Chicago minister today. A. H. Dimock, in reply to the charge that, as secretary of the board of trustees, he refrained from sending out notices of the meeting to any members save those known to be in sympathy with the pro-Haynes faction, states that cards were mailed to the heads of all families, regardless of their known or supposed leanings. Last night’s proceedings were based wholly on records furnished the local church by the trustees of the Belden Avenue institution, which last week examined into the charges preferred by the Western Passenger Association, by whom Dr. Haynes was blacklisted, and passed resolutions exonerating him from the fraudulent acts charged against him incident to the securing of the half-rate tickets for persons not members of his family nor dependent on him for support. Among the minority members present who voted against the adoption of the resolutions were P. Coombs and Assistant Postmaster W. J. Colkett. The latter did not attempt to conceal his opposition to the adoption of the resolution, intimating that the action of the majority would in no way affect his opinion. After the meeting A. H. Dimock and A. L. Piper called at the Post-Intelligencer office and made the following statement: “We wish it understood that the minority who cast their votes in opposition to ratifying Dr. Haynes’ call to this church did not oppose it because they did not have faith in his integrity, but because, in their opinion, the publicity which has been given the matter would make it inadvisable to call him. Everyone was friendly after the meeting, and Dr. Haynes will have a united congregation when he arrives.” The meeting, which was called for 8 o’clock, found many of the congregation on hand. It was determined in a caucus prior to the calling of the secret session to refrain from introducing testimony or making reference to any subject involving Dr. Haynes and Miss Gray. It was first determined to hold the secret session in the auditorium of the church, but the deacons and trustees decided that the basement room offered better protection from newspaper reporters. Following a brief address by the chairman the letters from Dr. Haynes, of the Belden Avenue church, to the trustees and deacons were read aloud by A. H. Dimock, secretary of the joint boards, each being received in silence. The divided state of the attending members of the church body and the anxiety as to the outcome of the balloting shortened the brief addresses of the members, and when the ballot was ordered silence reigned. When the result was announced, it was found that seventy-four favored the exoneration of Dr. Haynes against all charges and his acceptance of the pulpit; twenty three or practically a third of the attending congregation, voting against the resolution. Following is the text of the resolution: “Resolved, That the action of the board of deacons of the Baptist church in exonerating Dr. Haynes from recent charges is worthy of our confidence and we recommend that this church hereby express its confidence in the integrity and Christian character of Dr. Haynes.” It was at this point that the climax of the meeting took place. Hermon W. Craven, a former deputy prosecuting attorney under the regime of W. T. Scott, jumped to his feet and in an emphatic manner urged the minority to make the ballot unanimous. “The papers of Chicago and Seattle of the Hearst syndicate have maligned and vilified Dr. Haynes and indirectly the First Baptist Church, and we have been sitting calmly in our chairs without moving a hand,” said Mr. Craven, who added: “Dr. Haynes has for the past twenty years filled an honorable position in the ministry of Jesus Christ and his exoneration by the trustees of the Belden Avenue Church should be complete enough to include the body of the First Baptist Church. The congregation of his eastern church has placed implicit confidence in his integrity and Godly spirit, and the vast majority of this congregation assembled here this evening have echoed those sentiments. “I think it would be eminently fitting and proper for the minority to step in and make the call and exoneration unanimous. This church stands for Jesus Christ and we should follow His teachings. “We have now reached a stage where we have placed confidence in our pastor-elect, and we should conduct ourselves accordingly. When we speak of the matter in our homes, let the proceedings of this meeting remain silent after adjournment. Dr. F. L. Horsfall spoke along similar lines.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Libby Collins Cookingham Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3944 Message Board Post: Seattle Post Intelligencer Sept 5 1905: Capt. John Libby Dies at Portland. Had Been Ill for Year But Death Was Due to Stroke of Apoplexy. Pioneer Steamboat Man. Operated in Puget Sound Waters for More Than Twenty-Five Years. Capt. John B. Libby, for a number of years at the head of the Puget Sound Tugboat Company and one of the most prominent figures in steamboating on Puget Sound, died Monday at the Crystal Springs private sanitarium, Portland, Oregon, where he had been for nearly a year past. The immediate cause of death was apoplexy. Capt. Libby was one of the best known men that ever engaged in the steamboat business on Puget Sound. For many years a resident of Seattle, he numbered his close personal friends in this city and all over the Sound country by the hundreds. He had a wide acquaintance. He was taken ill December 25, 1904 and after being under the care of physicians in this city for a short time was removed to the private sanitarium at Portland. He kept gradually failing until Monday when he was stricken with apoplexy and died in a short time. On Coast Many Years: Capt. Libby came to the Pacific Coast fifty years ago, and after a few years in San Francisco came to Seattle. He was identified with many enterprises on the Sound, mostly connected with the steamboating business. He was born in Virginia fifty-four years ago, and at the age of four years came to the Pacific coast with his parents. Shortly after arriving in San Francisco his parents died and he was adopted by Capt. And Mrs. S. D. Libby. Shortly afterward they moved to Seattle and which a mere boy, Capt. Libby began to follow the sea on deep water ships. At the age of 19 he was a captain on a steamer plying the waters of Puget Sound and was master of several of the vessels that operated between the different points on the Sound in early days. In 1889 he took the management of the Tacoma Mill Company and remained in that capacity for about three years, temporarily leaving the steamboating business. While engaged in the management of this company he conceived the idea of consolidating the tugboat interests of the different mill companies of the Sound, and as a result the Puget Sound Tugboat Company was organized in 1892, with Capt. Libby as manager. Head of Tug Company: He continued as active manager of the company until a year ago, when he was taken ill. Capt Libby was married in 1875 (could be 1878 or 1873) to Miss Mary Collins, daughter of John Collins of this city. Mrs. Libby died in 1884. Two children survive Capt. Libby. Mrs. Albert Cookingham and F. Libby. Both are residents of Seattle and the son is an engineer on one of the tugboats of the Puget Sound Tugboat Company. The body will be cremated and brought to this city for interment. The funeral arrangements have not been made at this time, but will be announced later.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Soiner Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3943 Message Board Post: September 5, 1905 Seattle Post Intelligencer Addison Smith Dead. Pioneer Passes Away Just Before Daughter Reaches His Bedside. Addison Smith, at one time a leading business man among the pioneers who built up Seattle, died last night at his home 506 Eleventh Avenue North, from a complication of kidney and heart trouble which has rendered him helpless for about three weeks. For a considerably longer time he had complained that he was not as well as usual but had kept at his work as bailiff in Judge Albertson’s department of the superior court until the close of the last term. A sad thing about the death was the fact that it happened just as the steamer Oregon reached Seattle, bringing from Nome Mrs. N. B. Soiner, the only surviving daughter of the deceased, returning from the north with her husband, who is cashier of the Union Savings and Trust Company of this city. Another daughter, Miss Amy Smith who was very popular in social circles, died several years ago. Mr. Smith leaves a widow, who has been for a long time an invalid. Addison Smith came to Seattle from Deer Lodge Montana about twenty years ago and founded the grocery firm of Smith & Foster, which for many years conducted a store on the southeast corner of First Avenue and Madison Street. When he retired from business he was appointed assistant warden at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, a position which he held for six years. At the time of his death he was one of the bailiffs under Judge Albertson.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3942 Message Board Post: I'm looking for any information on Joseph Emmett Downes. He was born in Oklahoma about 1898/1900 to James Emmett and Tennie Louise (Foster) Downes. He died in 1918 from a car accident in Seattle. Where can I find information about the accident, as I'm sure there wasn't many cars in Seattle. Not sure about the month, but believed he died in April. Also, a younger brother died the same year, but died as a newborn and was (per family story) is buried on top of Joseph.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shoffner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3941 Message Board Post: I am trying to find information about these two brothers. Lester lived in Seattle, WA in the 1960's. His brother, Martin E. Shoffner and his wife, Thelma Glassey Shoffner, lived in Hamilton, MT until the time of their death in an automobile accident on 28 Mar. 1965 in Cle Elum, Washington. Please contact me with any information.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3940 Message Board Post: Looking for an obit or any info. on Robert Leroy Carmichael who died May 1985 Belleview, King Co., Washington

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3935.1 Message Board Post: Hi Susan, I'm going to be doing directory look ups this saturday. I'll look for your Wesley Langley and let you know what I find. **sheila

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Balder, Kampa Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3939 Message Board Post: Mrs. Gust Balder, her sister Mrs. William Balder, and Mrs. William Balder's two young children weere killed in a snowslide in North Bend, King Co, Washington, in 1932. I am looking for more information about this snowslide including obituaries. Any help will be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BAKER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3938 Message Board Post: I am inquiring whether a lookup in Maple Valley/Seattle, WA White pages for mailing address and telephone for G L Baker/Gloria L Baker reply by southwinds311@hotmail.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Winkler Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3937 Message Board Post: Re: Census of time about 1934/1940 help

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Winkler Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3936 Message Board Post: Info. Mother 'Ruth W (unk) 1932/33/34 Married to Clifford B. Winkler and Divoced about 1937 Need Help

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LANGLEY, POTTS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3935 Message Board Post: Does anyone on the list have access to Seattle City Directories, around 1920? Maybe they are in the local library?? If so, I am looking for the following person: Wesley LANGLEY He could also be living with his sister--Thomas and Jane POTTS. I am looking because the Washington State Death Index seems to have his death in Seattle in 1920, but is very hard to read. (Also, one report says he got divorced in Spokane in 1922.) So I am trying to find out whether the Seattle city directories even indicate he was there, and, if so, when. Any help would be VERY much appreciated. I hate to send off the $17 for a death certificate with this degree of uncertainty! Thank you in advance! Susan in New York State

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3934 Message Board Post: Did he have any family members here? He was my dad's cousin from Alaska. Howard's dad was Henry Imhoff - my great grandpa. Working on a familytree need what ever information i can get. Thanks, Karla

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3859.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for your help,I have gotten the answer to my Question. Again Thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3860.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the obit Carol

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3933 Message Board Post: Does anyone have Net Detective or anything of this sort they could help me do a search? I'm trying to find my sister.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3854.1 Message Board Post: No obituary found for Michael Dakovich. A death notice was printed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper on December 12, 2003: DAKOVICH: Michael G, 59, of Bonney Lake. Died December 4, 2003.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/3859.1 Message Board Post: No obituary for Opal Bina found. A death notice was printed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper on December 27, 2003: BINA: Opal Bernice, 76, of Burien. Died December 16, 2003.