Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . organization in Asotin City, dating to first Odd Fellow lodge was known as Riverside Lodge No. 41, and wasorganized in 1886. Other lodges followed, and at the present date we find thefollowing represented: L O. O. F.; Woodmen of the World; Women of Wood-craft; Grand Army of the Republic; Sons of Veterans; Womens Relief Corps;Modern Woodmen; Rebekahs; United Artisans; Stootki Tribe of Red Men;Masonic. In Clarkston the orders are the Knights of Pythias, Masons, Odd Fellows,Yeomen,
Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . organization in Asotin City, dating to first Odd Fellow lodge was known as Riverside Lodge No. 41, and wasorganized in 1886. Other lodges followed, and at the present date we find thefollowing represented: L O. O. F.; Woodmen of the World; Women of Wood-craft; Grand Army of the Republic; Sons of Veterans; Womens Relief Corps;Modern Woodmen; Rebekahs; United Artisans; Stootki Tribe of Red Men;Masonic. In Clarkston the orders are the Knights of Pythias, Masons, Odd Fellows,Yeomen, Woodmen of the World, and Modern Woodmen. Many more interesting and valuable details of the history and present statusof this youngest of our four counties might be given here, did space allow. Butwe must be content to close with further reference to that indispensable aid tothe historical writer, and that is the newspaper. We have already spoken of theSentinel of Asotin and have made our acknowledgments for much valuable dataderived from it. Qarkston also has a weekly paper, the Clarkston PAROCHIAL SCHOOL. CLAEKSTOK OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 425 The Vinclandcr, however, was the first paper at that point, appearing in iJpubhshed by Messrs. Leach, Henshaw and Lewis. The year following C. , now of Asotin, acquired the paper and published it for a year, chang-ing the name to the Vineland Journal. At the opening of 1900, Messrs. Lewisand Leach, having retired from their pioneer venture, undertook another by thepublication of the Clarkston Chronicle. This also was short lived, being sus-pended after only about five months. There was still another transient in thefield of journalism, the RiTcr Press, existing from July, 1903, to April, 1904,the publisher being at first Frank Barnes, followed by B. T. Warren, and he inturn by O. U. Hawkins. Meanwhile the Republican, the only permanent news-paper at Clarkston, had been launched in January, 1901, by L. A.
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