Four Lakes
1907-10-14 The township of Meadow Lake is platted. Meadow Lake township forms through the advertising of Spokane Realty firm Hanauer-Graves in anticipation of the electric train service. Advertise area as great orchard land. In 1910 the Post Office is renamed Four Lakes, and the area becomes generally known as such.
1910-06-18: Meadow Lake Post Office renamed Four Lakes due to confusion with similarity with name Medical Lake.
1930-05: The R.D. Millay store at Four Lakes was completely destroyed by fire Thursday morning. [CFP]
1933-The “new” Four Lakes Grange Hall opens.
1935-03-01: Four Lakes Purity Store - Groceries, meats, fresh fruits, vegetables, drugs, notions, and Standard oil products. Service at all hours, residence 1st door north. J.A. Snyder, owner, successor to RD Millay.
Four Lakes Trading Company. OH Jones, owner. General merchandise. We are now under NRA regulations and can handle relief bills.
1939-09-15: Pat's Meat Market, Morning Glory Nursery School Mrs. Mell West, Purity Store at 4Lks which had been operated by Mrs. Elmer Harness sold to Bill Buscher.
1944-07-24ish: Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Williams who have operated the Four Lakes store the past four years, have leased the business to Mr. and Mrs. R.S. McCormick of Longview. The Williams have purchased the W.C. Robb place.
1947-03-07: After six years at Four Lakes, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Williams have sold their store and residence there and last week moved to their new home in Spokane Valley. Purchaser of the Four Lakes store and home is William P. Harmon, World War II veteran, who, with his wife and child have just moved here from Kansas City.
1954-07-10ish: The Saddle Inn Tavern has been sold by James Gray to Jules Maujet.
1957-08-30 - Partners Form New Firm at Four Lakes
An electrical contracting company, the Empire Electric company, has been formed by Jules J. Mauget, Four Lakes, and William J. Casey, Spokane, and is now operating in this district.
The firm handles all types of electrical installations, repairs and contracting as well as appliance repairs. Both men have an impressive background in the electrical engineering field.
Mauget, who owns the Saddle Inn at Four Lakes, was in electrical work for 16 years and Casey for 10 years. Mauget was electrical superintendent on the last two atomic reactors built at Hanford and was employed by the Kaiser engineers for five years.
Casey formerly owned an electrical business in Spokane for three years and has worked for Kaiser engineers also.
1958-04-11 Ad
1965-11-19: Goodner's Body Shop advertises Kawasaki motorcycles
1979-06-14:
1972 - Goodner’s Body Shop also sold 10-speed bikes
The city consisted of a large, two-story hotel, located one block south of the present post office; a real estate office adjoining the hotel; the grocery store mentioned earlier was located just across the street from the hotel where Mrs. Gray's house now is located. Next to this was a barbershop, that a hardware store, small cigar store, which also house the post office, a butcher shop and the store building on the site of the present post office, and residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schulz, completing the frontage of the block.
At the back of these buildings were the barns and corrals of the Hanauer Graves company, and the city well, which was operated by electricity.
West of this block of buildings and across the street were located the Electric Interurban Train depot and warehouse, and further down the Medical Lake Highway was located the
Lumberyard owned and operated by Frank K. Eddy.
Incidentally, all those buildings have long since burned except the Electric depot which was moved across the street and now faces the present post office, which has been remodeled for other use.
A board sidewalk extended from the present post office building and southward along the full block and across the street in front of the hotel and real estate office. The present post office building is about the third building to occupy that location.
This made Street was known as Electric Avenue west of the Electric depot and warehouse and extending in front of the Medical Lake Road to the road past the Grange Hall was another parallel road.
It might be of interest to know that the streets were plainly marked with neat white posts at the intersections and even had electric lights and a few of the intersections.
The Medical Lake Road comes into Four Lakes on First Street, numbered southward. The school building is on Fifth Street. Extending eastward up the hill are Electric Avenue, Cheney Avenue, and Spokane Avenue.