06/29/2026
Thanks to everyone involved with this project! The Independent (Chewelah, WA), The Heritage Network and Lynn Wells' family for providing the funding. And to the Digital Newspaper Program through the Washington State Library, part of the WA Secretary of State services. We appreciate it!
The Independent (Chewelah, WA), Chewelah Historical Society, The Heritage Network, Clayton & Deer Park Historical Society, Valley Historical Society, and Northeast Washington Genealogical Society will soon have digital copies of The Independent. They were digitized under contract with the Washington State Library with permission of Jared Arnold, publisher of The Independent. They will go online at the State Library's historical newspaper collection late this year, but in a month or two, each of these The Heritage Network members will receive JPGs and PDFs of the newspaper. The Independent and SCHS will additionally have the TIFs. A 4TB external drive is needed to include the TIFs. I will identify each folder by year, since A60000838407 isn't particularly descriptive. I will also OCR the PDFs for searching. Looking at the 1907-08 images, I suspect little will OCR, but a human will be able to figure some of it out. Special thanks go to the family of Lynn Fackenthall Wells, who allowed Lynn's donation to The Heritage Network to be used to pay for the digitization. The image is a December 25th, 1908, edition of the paper showing the Yale Hotel is open. www.facebook.com/SETYSACE/
