INCHELIUM, Aug. 30 - The fourth annual Ceaah Spatakum will be held at Inchelium on September 2, 3 and 4. In 1908 the first house was built in Inchelium in which Pauline Watt Sleuter and many family were residing until this spring. This house will soon be wrecked to make way for the backwater of the Coulee dam. At this early date the place was called Buffalo, but the name was changed shortly afterward to Troy. In 1910 it was given the Indian name, Inchelium, meaning where little waters meet big waters, or where Hall and Stensgar creeks join the Columbia River.
The town of Inchelium is now virtually a thing of the past, as it is below the 1310 flood area and all of the businessmen and virtually all of the residents have moved to the new town site or other locations.
This year's fair will be held in the same location and will prove a grand farewell to this former town and community center. Ceeah Spatakum are the Indian words for a large gathering or celebration with exhibits. There will be displays of Indian art, paintings, foods, handwork and curios, home economics, livestock, poultry, agriculture and 4-H club. The quality of the agriculture products will not be the same as in the past considering the unusual drought conditions.
Miss Fanny Morrill, home demonstration agent of Lincoln county, and A.K. Milley, county agent of Stevens county, will judge all the exhibits.
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