Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

125 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Friday October 29, 1897

HARVEST OF PLENTY

The Sun of Prosperity Has Kissed the Hills of Palouse

Its Genial Rays warm Every Home In a Land of Peace, Plenty and Good Prices.

The magnificent wheat crop of the Palouse coutnry is practically saved, and in prime condition. Everything south of the North Palouse river is in either the sack or warehouse; and but little remains to be threshed north of that stream until the vicinity of Oakesdale and Tekoa is reached. In the unfinished regions, where a scarcity of men and machinery prev...