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- A Frugal Man's Fortune Builds a Home for Widows and Orphans
In its Thanksgiving editorial the Statesman counts the city's blessings and buries the biggest news in the middle: Joseph Stubblefield's lifetime savings will endow a home for indigent widows and orphans to the tune of about $135,000.
- A Public Scrutiny of the Relief Home
A club woman challenges the management and endowment of the Ladies' Relief Society home, questioning its financial transparency and restrictive admissions.
- Walla Walla's Seven-Day Push for Stubblefield Home
Walla Walla scrambles to raise a $10,000 bonus to secure a major charity endowment after county commissioners decline funding.
- The Price of Philanthropy
Walla Walla taxpayers worry that the proposed Stubblefield home for widows and orphans might become a public burden.
- Four Wooden Buildings to a Quarter-Million: Whitman College Counts Its Decade of Growth
President Penrose's tenth-year report to the trustees charts enrollment rising from 93 to more than 320, an endowment grown from $4,500 to $236,652.92 — and a debt that prompts a demand for half a million dollars and a new academy building.
- University Regents Sue State Over Missing Endowment
A legal fight breaks out over 200,000 acres intended to fund the University of Washington's future.
- The Fight for the Stubblefield Legacy
Walla Walla struggles to secure a $100,000 endowment for an orphans' home while debating the city's future.
- Will Walla Walla's Women Save the Stubblefield Home?
While men offer only 'moral support,' the Woman's Reading Club and Ladies' Relief Society lead the charge to secure a new home for widows and orphans.
- The Trial of the $12,000 Yellow Dog
A vicious canine’s habit of biting pedestrians leads to a massive civil lawsuit that leaves a judge weighing the legal definition of a trespasser.