Good old days - Feb. 25, 2010

8 years ago

February 27, 1885

Last Sunday some eighteen converts were baptized in Cooper’s Lake by Rev. E.T. Trimble of the Baptist Church. Most of the people of town witnessed the ceremony.

Last Monday night about 1 o’clock in the residence of Mrs. E.W. Hull, in the south end, took fire from a defective flue and burned to the ground. Very little of the household effects were saved. The loss is about two thousand dollars, and the property was insured for one thousand in the Washington Company of Tacoma.

The proprietor of the Gazette has purchased from the Northwestern Telegraph & Telephone c...