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Newspaper clippings re: Dr. Lee Clanton of Rockford WA were found in an old
photo album:
First two articles presumed to be from a Rockford, Washinton newspaper.
HIS BIG "FISH" SLOT MACHINE
Honors for the most unusual catch of the week-end probably go to Dr.
Clanton, retired Rockford physician, who found a stolen slot machine on the end of
his line while fishing in Chatcolet lake Saturday night.
According to L.O. Hartman, Oswego, Ore., who was fishing near Dr. Clanton,
the doctor inadvertently cast his plug on the shore while fishing in the dark.
Going ashore, the doctor found the line entangled in the handles of one
slot machine, while another lay near by.
The machines had been stolen only a half hour previously from a grocery
store a quarter of a mile down the lake, it was reported. Alarmed by Dr.
Clanton, the thieves fled. The machines were returned by boat to the store.
DR. L. CLANTON HAS PATENT ON HANDY NEEDLE-WORK KIT
Dr. L. Clanton of Rockford received a patent this week on a needle-work kit,
which is designed to save the housewife a great deal of time.
The model is about five inches in diameter and three inches high. Ten
spindles around the outer side will hold 20 spools of thread. From each spool the
thread is passed around a wire and then through a raised hole in the top or
cover of the kit. It is designed so that the spool will not climb the
spindle and the raised hole aids in getting the end of the thread. The operator
turns a dial to the number and color of thread wanted, pulls the thread to the
desired length and a flip of the thread over the end of the dial clips it
with a knife concealed in such a way that it cannot injure the fingers of
housewife or children. At the center of the cover is a pin cushion and upon
raising the cover will be found a needle cushion, a container for buttons and space
for darning yarn, small shears, etc.
Dr. Clanton hopes to interest some manufacturer in the kit and have it made
in this and also a 12-spool size.
As our word picture is a very meager description, the kit should be seen to
be appreciated.
>From a Seattle newspaper:
DOCTOR IS DEAD, DOG ON GUARD
Dr. Lee Clanton, 63, who for 35 years served the Rockford area, was found
dead yesterday in his car on a farm road near Freeman.
Beside him in the car sat his dog, which had been bird hunting with the
doctor only a short while before. In the back seat were a pheasant and a
shotgun, evidence of Dr. Clanton's hunting trip.
Coroner Collins, who with Deputy Sheriffs Vecchio and Reilly investigated,
said death was due to a heart attack. The officers said they learned the
physician had been ailing the last five or six years.
Apparently seized while driving, Dr. Clanton was found in the car in a
roadside ditch by a passerby, who notified the sheriff's office.
Dr. Clanton is survived by his widow, Cora, at Rockford, and two sons,
Captain Ed Clanton with the army at Fort Lewis and Frederick Clanton, Seattle
attorney. The body is at Smith's funeral home.
....and a little different story from the Rockford newspaper:
DR. LEE CLANTON DIES SUDDENLY OF A HEART ATTACK
The people of this community were greatly shocked Wednesday evening by the
passing of Dr. Lee Clanton.
Although not well for the past few years he had kept on serving his patients
of 35 years because of the present shortage of doctors. He had put in a
strenuous day Wednesday with three hospital cases in Spokane during the forenoon
and was busy with office work in the afternoon. Toward evening he started
out to make profesional calls at Mt. Hope and Freeman. He was evidently
stricken with a heart attack when about a mile south of Freeman on the Mt. Hope
road where his body was found in his car about six o'clock. He apparently felt
the attack coming on as the ignition of his car was turned off and the fact
that the car did not upset would indicate that it was going very slowly when
it went off the grade. Funeral arrangements had not been completed at the
time of going to press.
>From the American Medical Journal:
DR. CLANTON DIES
Dr. Lee Clanton, who for 35 years served the Rockford area and was well
known in Spokane, was found dead on October 22. Death was due to a heart attack.
Dr. Clanton had been hunting, and was in his car with his dog, his gun and
a pheasant when he was found. He is survived by his widow, Cora, at
Rockford, and two sons, Captain Ed Clanton and Frederick Clanton.
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR DR. LEE CLANTON, OCT. 28
Dr. Lee Clanton was born at Andersonville, Tenn., Oct 20, 1876, and passed
away Oct. 21, 1942.
When he was six years of age his parents moved to The Dalles, Oregon, and
two years later to Centerille, Washington, where they lived until he was 17,
and then moved to Oklahoma. After attending the Oklahoma University, he
enrolled in the Ensworth-Central Medical College at St. Joseph, Missouri,
graduating in 1906.
Dr. Clanton spent the next three years as a railroad doctor and in 1909
settled in Rockford.
In the sudden passing of Dr. Clanton, this section suffered a loss that will
be realized more and more as time passes. When a person lives in one
community for 33 years and then passes on, he is missed, but when taht person is a
doctor, who has entered practically every home at various times during those
years to relieve suffering, his passing is more than that of a friend or
acquaintance.
Dr. Clanton was a doctor who took his calling seriously. No matter the hour
of day or night, weather conditions or how badly he needed sleep and
rest...a call must be answered. It was that devotion to his profession which caused
a break in his health. It was that devotion to his patients which caused
him to carry on to the very end.
Deceased is survived by his wife at the home; two sons, Attorney Fred
Clanton of Seattle, and Dr. Edward Clanton, captain in the U.S. Army at Fort Lewis,
Wash.; one granddaughter, Janis Leigh Clanton. Two sisters, Miss Emma
Clanton, Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Nellie Dempsey, Yakima, Wash.; one brother, R.E.
Clanton, Portland, Oregon.
Funeral services were conducted from the Smith Funeral Home in Spokane,
Saturday afternoon, the Rev. William Macintosh officiating. Interment was in
Riverside park cemetery, Spokane.
Note that one article gives his death date as Oct 21 and another on Oct 22.
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