Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
125 years ago
The Commoner
March 3, 1898
The Congregational church was crowded Monday evening on the occasion of an entertainment by the Peak sisters and an old-fashioned spelling match by everyone who felt like spelling.
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The substantial growth and well-grounded prosperity of Colfax is constantly attracting new capital hither to invest in paying enterprises. The latest news with reference to additions to our local industries is that the Tudor brick-making plant, which formerly did an immense business in Spokane, is to be removed from that city to Colfax. The plant will be shipped here and located as soon as the weather will permit.
100 years ago
The Colfax Commoner
March 1, 1918
The new ice plant will be in operation next week said Otto Hoefle, and orders are already in for ice from the lower part of the county. The mild winter has made it impossible for any ice to be put up and Mr. Hoefle expects to run the plant to its full capacity in order to supply the demand.
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A dance and benefit will be at Wilcox Friday evening, March 8, for the Red Cross. A Mother Hubbard dance will be given and a banquet is to be served late in the evening.
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Aurelia Schultz, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schultz of Tekoa, died Wednesday at St. Ignatius Hospital from an abscess of the lungs. A Tekoa funeral service will be Thursday.
75 years ago
The Colfax Gazette-Commoner
February 26, 1943
Rain of early February, which came on frozen ground, caused untold damage to Whitman County property. The most severe soil erosion ever experienced in the area centered around Dusty, LaCrosse and Endicott. Summer fallow fields were eroded severely, and much of the silt from these areas was deposited in the flat lands and clogged highway drainage ways, ditches and culverts. Flood waters were forced out of their natural channels by the silt deposits and washed gullies across county and state roads.
50 years ago
The Colfax Gazette
Feb. 29, 1968
Traffic inside Colfax has leaned more toward “stop and go” for the past several weeks after stop signs were placed at 50 new locations in the city. The signs have been located at previously unmarked intersections in most parts of town, according to Chief Cliff Nolan. Some of the signs were installed as replacements for others long since departed.
Councilman Lyle Alken, chairman of the street and water department, reported the city obtained the signs from the county. The signs were being “phased out” by newer county models, Alken said. Cost of painting the poles for the signs with the “barber pole” design was $84, Alken said.
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One of most thrilling “Dangerous Dan McGrew” barroom brawls ever to be witnessed by the public is being planned by the Colfax Elks for their “Gay Nineties Show,” according to the latest word from stage director Leonard Jones.
25 years ago
Whitman County Gazette
March 4, 1993
In Whitman County Superior Court Tuesday, Judge Wallis Friel ruled that Floyd the cockatoo, previously known as Patrick, would remain with Joshua Brock, a 23 year-old WSU Biology student. The decision came after a full day of deliberation, with testimony from Brock, his brother Aaron, and Chris Armes, stepson of the former owner of Floyd, Robert Dickson of Pacific Palisades, Calif.
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The road to Pomeroy, Dayton, Waitsburg and Walla Walla became a little less traveled this week when the Northwestern Stage Lines discontinued its Lewiston to Walla Walla route.
10 years ago
Whitman County Gazette
Feb. 28, 2008
Colfax Coach Sue Doering admits she has had a little difficulty with grasping the enormity of being named to a national honor by her peers. She knows she filled out an extensive application form, and she realizes she is the recipient of an honor which has gone to probably less than a half dozen coaches in all sports in the state of Washington.
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Don Kinnaman of Colfax Feb. 19 requested Colfax City Council members take action to remove the sight restriction at the intersection of S. Main and W. Cooper Streets. Kinnaman, who was involved in an accident at the intersection, described it as “one miserable corner.” Vision is limited at the corner by the concrete abutment on the S. Main bridge.
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