Excerpts from "Hi Times" the Duvall High School newspaper
November 4, 1932
Lunch Menu
Hot Plate Lunch (Children) ____________________________ .15
Hot Plate Lunch (Adults) ______________________________ .25
Hot hamburger sandwich ______________________________ .05
Baked beans _______________________________________ .05
Waffles ___________________________________________ .05
Pie or Cake ________________________________________ .05
Milk______________________________________________ .05
Cocoa ____________________________________________ .05
Coffee_____________________________________________.05
January 20, 1933
Library Opening
The Women's Club announces the opening of its library to the public on this Saturday afternoon with hours from 2 to 5 p.m. Books may be borrowed at no cost with the exception of one shelf of nearly purchased volumes, for a charge of 5 cents will be made when the book is taken out. Magazines and newspapers may be read in the reading room or borrowed for home use.
April 28, 1933
Skip Day
Editor's Notes: To this day a long time tradition has stayed alive - SENIOR SKIP DAY
Thursday morning at 4:30, the Seniors left Duvall for a "Glorious Adventure".
Our only mishap was a "blow out" in starting, much to the joy of the Juniors, However, to their dismay, we left some of them upon the street corner awaiting their taxi.
We arrived in Burlington at 7:00 a.m., then to Anacortes and Rosario Beach where we had an early "feast". We enjoyed the beauty of the beach and then started for Seattle. Just outside of Silvania, we passed a Service station where we saw three of the Juniors. Never-the-less, we left them in a cloud of dust. We arrived in Everett where we stopped to fix a tire. We were about fifty feet from the Hi-Way on a side street when some of the Juniors drove up, stopped to examine their car and drove on without even seeing us.
We drove to Seattle via Edmonds. In Seattle we were separated. Both groups attended the same show, unknown to each other. From there we came home tired but well satisfied with our trip which totaled two hundred and thirty-five miles.
Juniors Catch Seniors
Article from the Valley Record
December 11, 1980
Famous Names In The Valley
By Allen Miller
Although many of the early pioneers who helped settle this Valley and build what is now Duvall have passed on, their names will live on, perhaps forever, because of certain landmarks named in their honor.
Stephens Street, for example, was named in honor of E. Milton Stephens, president of the Cherry Valley Townsite Company, which owned and founded the town of Duvall. Mr. Stephens also owned a half partnership in Stephens-Bird Logging Company at High Rock (near the Monroe Honor Farm), founded the Monroe National Bank, was president of the Cherry Valley Shingle Company mill at Duvall and the Cascade Lumber Company mill at Snohomish.
Bird Street, located one block north of Virginia, was named for John D. Bird, the man who actually founded Duvall. He comprised the other half of the Stephens-Bird partnership and was active in numerous promotional schemes to help boost the town. He foresaw a great economic future for Duvall in the construction of an electrically operated railroad system offering excursions for trourists through the Valley. This dream was almost realized twice. The first time was in 1910 when the Everett and Cherry Valley Traction Company began building what was to be an electrically operated railroad through the Valley. The plans for electrification were dropped, however, and the line was later taken over by the Great Northern. The second time was in November of 1912 when W.P. Perrigo announced plans to build a trolley line from Kirkland through Cherry Valley and into Monroe. This plan died out before a single spike was ever driven. Speaking of railroads, Stewart Street was name for Alex Stewart, assistant chief engineer of the Great Northern Railway. He was head of the men who surveyed the G.N. line from Monroe to Tolt. Carnation also has a Stewart Street.
It is believed that Virginia and Stella streets are named for the the wives of Stephens and Bird. Cherry and Valley streets, of course, speak for themselves.
Speaking of Cherry Valley, here's the story on that name: The first post office in the Valley was located on the east riverbank near the county line. This office was later moved to a home on the present Zylstra farm, because of flooding at its former site. A box fastened to a wall in the kitchen served as the official post office, and the owner of the home, Mr. Lucius Day, was appointed the postmaster. When asked by the postal department officials what name was to be applied to the location, Mr. Day looked out of the window at his two blooming cherry trees and replied, "Let's call it Cherry Valley."
Ring Street was name for Tom Ring, who operated the T. M. Ring Logging Company on the hillside west of town. The site of this logging operation also bears his name, commonly referred to as Ring Hill.
Tom arrived in the Valley in 1906 and began logging the hillside above the Rink DeVries farm. With a donkey engine located where Roy Lampaert's meat packing house now stands, the logs were yarded from a landing on the Tom Roorda farm, down the ditch just north of the slaughter house, to the river. About 1911, he moved his operations to the hillside west of town, establishing a camp at Alder Springs. The house with the stone fireplace, opposite the dump road, was Tom Ring's house. His superintendent, Mr. Richardson, for whom Richardson Street was name, lived in the other house. There was also a large bunkhouse, cookhouse, and blacksmithy and shop. the cookhouse contained a large wood-burning range with a 10-foot grill that was usually loaded with hot cakes, bacon, eggs and potatoes, enough to feed the 150 hungry loggers.
A railroad was built to haul the logs to the river. It followed the Duvall-Woodinville Road to the bottom of the hill and crossed the Valley on a long trestle. The pilings for this bridge can still be seen at Long Lake, partway across the valley. Part of the old log dump still remains, too, standing in the river in front of the James Wallace farm. When the logging operations were completed, the equipment was removed down the river by barge.
Another logger who left his name behind was bob Swan. The road above the rock quarry on Stillwater Hill, known as Swan's Mill Road, was named for the small sawmill run by the Swan and McKay Logging company. They operated a logging railroad from 1927 until 1947 utilizing the old Cherry Valley Logging Company grade down Stillwater Hill. A holding pond near the mill site, known as Swan's mill pond, still existed until a year or so ago when it was drained during logging operations in the area. If one looks hard enough, the pond site can still be found by traces if fine sediment and a couple of water-logged logs that had settled to its bottom.
Portions of the mill foundation are also still intact. Carloads of lumber and poles were cut at the mill and brought down the hill for shipment over the Milwaukee to points back east. In later years the the railroad was abandoned and trucks were used.
There are several bodies of water in the area named for early pioneers. One of these is Lake Margaret. In 1908, a group of young people were headed to Lake Hannah, which was a popular hiking and fishing spot. They caught a ride on a logging car to the end of the Cherry Valley Lumber Company tracks and set out on foot for their destination. Upon their return they stopped to take in some fishing at the then unnamed lake. One member of the group, Miss Margaret Johns, a schoolteacher in Cherry valley, decided to step aboard on old raft she found next to shore. She stepped one foot onto the raft when it suddenly departed. The result was that she fell into the water and ever since the lake has been known as Lake Margaret.
McCauley Falls is another favorite hiking and picnic spot. About two miles north of town, on the hillside behind the Eldon Neilson farm, there is a small stream known as Hanstead Creek. This stream breaks into a white waterfall which can be seen from the highway, especially during heavy runoff. The falls were named for Father McCauley, a Catholic circuit rider who homesteaded near the foot of the hill in 1892.
A favorite play site for Duvall's children over the years has been the creek down in the canyon below Taylor Park. This stream, Coe and Clement's Logging Company, which had a camp located just north of the Bill McCormick farm. A split-cedar barn, which housed the oxen, remained to mark the sight for many years afterwards.
Tuck Creek follows the highway down Ring Hill west of town and flows into Round Lake and Long Lake. It was named for the Tuck and Allen Logging Company. In the years 1889-91 they had a logging camp located along this creek at the foot of the hill, with barns for the oxen to Long lake, where they were floated to the river. A floodgate, located at the south end of the lake, was closed until the lake was filled with logs; then it was opened and the logs rushed forth to the river and on to the mills.
Bacus was once the name of a small community located near the King/Snohomish county line. It was named for H. Bacus, who operated a sawmill in back of the present Clarenve Zylstra home above the stream that crosses the road there.
Bacus logged off that whole hillside, running the logs through his mill and shipping the lumber by rail form spurs located on the Milwaukee and Great Northern railroads across the road. The lumber used to build the old warehouse, which stood on the riverbank below the bridge until a few years ago, was cut from this mill in 1912.
Stuart is a location sometimes seen on old maps of the area. It was established as a railroad spur on the Milwaukee Road about two miles north of Stillwater and across the river from Carnation Farms. Originally established as Carnation Spur in 1911, the name was changed to Stuart in June of 1917 when the town of Tolt changed its name to Carnation. The name was chosen in honor E. A. Stuart, founder of the Carnation Company.
Most of the original cattle used to build the Carnation herds were shipped into Stuart in special trains by Wells Fargo Express. There were cattle pens located alongside the spur and milk platform was provided for shipment of milk (about 200 cans a day) to the Pacific Coast Condensery at Monroe.
In addition to cattle, the farm also received shipments of hay, straw, beet pulp and other grains. Race horses and prizewinning cattle were shipped from this spur to points all over the United States. Now all there is to mark the site is a wide spot along the riverbank where the cattle pens and side of the river to mark the old county bridge; and an old weather beaten sign in this author's collection that reads simply..."Stuart."
Novelty Hill is one location that has lost its original name. For many years it was known as Finken Hill, named for Fred Finken an early Novelty resident who lived on the present Hiram Wallace farm. Mr. Finken planted fruit trees on his farm and, after the trees began to bear fruit, he built a kiln, dried the fruit and sold it in Seattle for three cents a pound. He took in a partner named Olson, who brought many of his friends from Sweden to work on the farm, known as Finken and Olson. The laborers were housed in a camp above the road across from the farm. Fred Finken and Alexander Adair Laid out and built the road up the hill now known as Novelty Hill.
There are many names connected with the history of this Valley. All contribute in some way to its growth an some, perhaps unintentionally, left behind their names as a reminder to present generations.
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