Good Old Days

8 years ago

August 26, 1887

Last Saturday, the county commissioners decided on the location of the new court house and adopted the plans of the county building at Dayton, Columbia County, one of the prettiest and most substantial in the territory. Lots have a total frontage of 175 feet and extend back 154 feet. They were purchased from O.L. Wolford and Livingstone and Kuhn.

Charley Hubbard has sixty-five men employed on his thousand acre farm north of town. Two headers and a steam thresher are used in cutting and threshing the grain.

Some fine trout have been caught in the North Palouse of l...