Artists' Market event scheduled for next Saturday

Now here is a first-of-a-kind event: An Artists' Market is scheduled for next Saturday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 4843 Orchard Drive NE. Showing at the event will be Dream Tree Creations by Sharon, Garden Delights by Elissa, Restore Décor by Karyll, Kreatives by Kris and more.

Shoppers will find cards, fabric art, Garden art, Jewelry, Pottery, watercolors and more.

Directions: Head north on Stratford Road and turn right on Kinder Road, just past Grocery Outlet. Continue around the curve to the left. This is where Kinder Roads turns into Orchard Drive. Next continue to the end of Orchard Drive.

I will be stopping by to purchase my yearly supply of soap from Kris. She makes the best.

Grant County history

The Grant County Historical Society has compiled several volumes of Grant County history. The books are available for purchase at the Historical Society Museum gift shop in Ephrata.

I bought the series in 2009 and secured permission to relay some of the history through this column. Memories of Grant County, compiled from taped interviews by the Grant County Historical Society.

Today we continue the story of Wilson Creek by Cris Mordhorst, recorded Feb. 10, 1976:

The Dipper Ranch was owned by Tony Richardson and in 1906 he gave the largest horse sale ever made in this area to my knowledge.

He sold 3,000 head to England. The rounding up of these horses was a big operation. I have been told that the bulk of these horses were shipped out of Ephrata, however, many carloads were shipped out of Wilson Creek.

There were many cowboys and Indians used in this big roundup. Steve Osborn, Ralph Osborn's father, bought the remnants of the wild horses that the Dipper Ranch owned.

At that time the stockyards were just about where the Grange Supply auto tank sets now. After that they moved it out east of town and then west of town and now they have no stock yards for loading stock in Wilson Creek.

When we came, Frank, my brother, was the little shaver, two sisters, my mother and I came together. My father had already come ahead and was working in the harvest field with Timms north of Wilson Creek, and on September 10 my older brother came from Montana.

The following day he went to work on a concrete block building made of blocks about this long and twice that wide in a T-shape so it would tie across to the other wall. On the corners they were made more like a figure F so when you came to a corner there was a piece to meet the other wall. My father helped make those blocks.

They set up a block factory down by the creek and this was all done by hand. They had a flat platform there that was made with flooring boards on top but it was water tight and they would put on so many shovels of gravel and so many shovels of sand and then they had wide- square shovels and they would have to mix that.

When it was partially mixed then they would level it out and pour a sack of cement on it. I don't know whether it was a full sack but they just poured it out of the sack. Then they did quite a thorough job of mixing this dry with shovels again. Then they would throw on so much water and then thoroughly mix it and for some reason or other they dumped it in a pile in the center of this board.

E-mail from Cheryl

Facts from the past gleaned from the Moses Lake Herald, Columbia Basin Herald and The Neppel Record by Cheryl (Driggs) Elkins:

From the Columbia Basin Herald on Aug. 12, 1949:

Kiwanians and ladies entertained

Native Hawaiians and city-bred cowboys vied for attention Monday evening when the Kiwanis Club of Moses Lake entertained their wives and friends at a dinner dance. The Hawaiian group, composed of four airmen stationed at Moses Lake Air Force Base, were joined by Mrs. Roy Hirch of Othello, a Hawaiian war bride, in their after-dinner acts. The Melody Rangers, local cowboy orchestra, played for dancing.

Mayor C.M. McCosh was guest speaker at dinner. He stressed the need for providing parks and recreational areas near Moses Lake, as well as the problem of financing these services in a new, fast growing town.

Moses Lake golfers defeated by Ritzville team, 28 to 23

A 17-man Moses Lake golf team lost a match play tournament to members of the Ritzville Golf Club by a close score of 28 points to 23 at the Ritzville Municipal Course Sunday.

Players of similar handicaps were matched against each other. Three points were at stake in each match, one for low match play on each nine holes and one for aggregate score on the 18-hole route.

Wilson Creek area history

The Rev. David H. Crawford compiled and published a history of families in and surrounding Wilson Creek titled, "Family Memories of Wilson Creek Area." The book was printed in 1978, which was the 75th anniversary of the town. David's son, John Crawford, has given permission for those memories to be a part of this column.

Today we feature the story of the Murdo MacLennan Family by Jean Williams:

Murdo MacLennan came to Wilson Creek from Scotland in 1904, to work for his cousin, Mrs. Donald Urquhart, who with her husband, Donald Urquhart, came to Wilson Creek from Scotland in the late 1800's and bought "The Ranch."

Margaret Robertson came from Scotland in 1907 and married Murdo MacLennan. They lived in Wilson Creek several years before moving to a wheat ranch between Wilson Creek and Coulee City where they lived until 1924. They moved back to Wilson Creek for a couple years before moving to Wenatchee in 1926. Their family included Isabel, Jean, Mary, Catherene, June and Hugh, who live in California.