Wednesday January 23, 2013
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1913 - 2013
Happy Birthday Enumclaw! And the band plays on....
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an. 27, 1913, was the day the city of Enumclaw incorporated. According to local historian Louise Poppleton, incorporation went before voters twice and passed by a “slim majority” on the second try. According to Poppleton, the City Council members were R. S. Miles, N. C. Christiansen, Lou Dibley, Anton Johansen, Robert Taylor and Archie Smith. The mayor was John Blake. During those first years after incorporation The Enumclaw Herald reported on the “town council” meet-
ings on Tuesdays at the town hall. The Jan. 12, 1917 edition reported the “new town officials, chosen in the December election, took their oath of office.” Samuel Lafromboise was re-elected as mayor and J.O. Johnson was re-elected as councilman. At the regular meeting the council passed ordinances “regulating the traffic on the streets” and setting a penalty for putting garbage in sewers. Perry Early asked for a street light at Fell Street and Marshall Avenue for the farmers who hitched their horses in the school barn at night. Check out this month’s Centennial section beginning at page 15.