This week in 2000 Mayor Arbeiter had announced that January 8, 2001 would be Susan Owens Day. The Soroptimists’ Festival of Trees had raised $6,100. Dave Robinson had served as the auctioneer (photo). Megan Suslick had brought her cat to see Santa (photo).

Fifty years ago this week continued stormy, rainy weather had continued to cause damage to roads including the road to Rialto, flooding on Whitcomb-Diimmel and a home on the Hoh had been swept down the river. The Forks Lions had purchased $1,300 worth of Christmas decorations to be placed on downtown light poles. The rains had also filled up Spartan Lake and Forks teacher Ron Thompson had created shark fins that were placed in the water ( photo).

In 1968 the Little League Banquet was front page news. The Packers and the Giants had played to a tie …so the two teams were sharing the revolving trophy (photo). It was reported that Forks High School had been burglarized. The burglars took change from the pop machine and the library. Santa was due to arrive at the Forks Airport for his appearance at the Variety Store. Alice had held a style show at the Vagabond. Newly remodeled Olympic Pharmacy was holding a grand re-0pening …on special …transistor radios for $3.59.

In 1953, in Lost and Found ads Mary Clark was offering a reward for her missing collie named Scotty.

This week in 1939, a lot was going on ….The Oct. 4, 1937, murder of Mora resident Lynwood Sproul had culminated in the conviction of 53-year-old Ralph Carson. Acting Governor Victor Meyer had refused to commute Carson’s death sentence and Carson was hanged at the Washington State Penitentiary; the first Clallam County resident to ever have this fate. Carson had first signed a confession saying he shot Sproul and made it look like an accident, then changed his plea to not guilty. It was confirmed this week that the skeleton found at Lake Ozette was that of Alfred Nylund, who disappeared in 1928. Sheriff Kemp stated it appeared the 30-year-old Nylund had died of natural causes, saying he was known to have heart issues. Two former Clallam County Deputy Treasurers had plead guilty to misappropriations of funds by a public official. They joined two other former Clallam County employees in committing other crimes, which included grand larceny and forgery. In La Push News, Max Hudson, a member of the Quileute Tribe, had died in a Tacoma hospital. He was just 39 years old. The Hoh River Drilling Company was planning to drill for oil at the mouth of the Hoh River.