Good Ol' Days

125 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, March 4, 1898

Balance of Trade Our Way

The agricultural exports for 1897 amounted to nearly seventy per cent of the total exports, being in amount $689, 755,193, and showing a gain over those of 1896 of $115,356,929, or about twenty per cent. The agricultural imports for 1897 were also large, due to a considerable extent to the excessive importation of foreign wools and sugars just prior to the enactment of the Dingley law, the importation of these two articles alone being nearly thirty million dollars greater than usual. Notwithstanding this fact, however, the excess of exportations over importations for the year is very large, being far ahead of the figures for last year and other previous years.

100 Years Ago

From the Colfax Commoner, Friday, March 2, 1923

Bargains in Real Estate

80acres, 6 miles north of Colfax, on county road, fair buildings, family orchard, 2 miles from Inland station. 55 acres in cultivation, has spring water, all in cultivation, fair Terms easy.

240 acres, all in cultivation, 8 miles north Colfax, on county road, has spring water, all-in cultivation. Fair buildings, fenced with hog wire, 2 miles from railroad station, 1-2 mile to school, the very best land in a swell home and a dandy investment. $4000 will handle. Price $82.50 per acre.

If you want to buy, sell or exchange it will pay you to see, or write us. If you want a farm loan at lowest rates of interest, if you want to buy, or sell a lease, if you want to exchange your real estate, we have the system that will serve you. Exchanges everywhere for everybody. Come or write to headquarters, and send for our list of sales and exchanges.

G.W. LaRue and Co. Colfax.

75 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette-Commoner, Friday, March 5, 1948

St. John Wins Basketball Championship Trophy

Rollin Schauble, captain of the St. John Eagles who won the Whitman County high school basketball championship on their home floor Monday night by defeating Pine City29-16, is shown accepting from Roy Glaser, Colfax, the traveling first place trophy awarded by Wilson, Kincaid & Glaser. St. John also was presented the Colfax Kiwanis club's permanent trophy by Victor Casebolt. Pine City received the second place trophy from Harold Healy who represented the Colfax chamber of commerce. The W.C.E.A. good sportsmanship award went to Oakesdale, the presentation being made by Bob Jones, executive committeeman. County contestants in the district tournament which opening at W.S.C Wednesday are St. John, Pine City, Endicott and Tekoa. –Photo by Merle Merry

50 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Thursday, March 1, 1973

Bulldogs take home Dayton net

The district trophy, hoop nets and the game ball went with the Colfax Bulldogs Friday after they wrapped up the district tournament at Dayton. Dave Entenmann, Bulldog senior, does the honors with the help of Matt Hall and Manger Bob Rudy.

25 Years Ago

From the Whitman County Gazette, Thursday, March 5, 1998

Junior high band bags festival prize

GARFIELD

WANDA ROPER

Gazette-Correspondent

Garfield-Palouse Middle School jazz band has been listed as a runner up in the competitions for the Outstanding junior High band during the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival at the University of Idaho in Moscow. The band, directed by Ruth Vertrees, competed Wednesday during junior high day.

Top band honor went to the Horizon Junior High Band from Spokane.

Stew and Pat Pfaff, Garfield and Ron and Carol Brown, Oakesdale, returned home last week after spending give weeks in their travel trailers camping mostly in the Sonora Desert while El Nino showered them with rain and snow. In the Valley of Fire, they found the wild horse range deteriorating due to overstocking. The BLM now has 6,000 head of horses confined, mostly unadoptable.

10 Years Ago

From the Whitman County Gazette, Thursday, March 7, 2013

Booker breaks world record bull sale

BY SALLY OUSLEY

Local auctioneer Butch Booker made the sale of a lifetime last week.

He auctioned off a young Hereford bull that set a world record Feb. 25 when it sold for $600,000 at a sale in Idaho, according to a national Hereford organization.

Booker said he had no idea that the bull, only a little more than a year old, would sell for that amount.

"I was excited and in the back of your mind, you want to just celebrate, but I had 274 more lots to sell," he said.

Booker has been auctioneer at the Colyer Herefords and Angus Show for close to 25 years.

"It's not about the record," Booker said. "It's being able to be involved in it. I feel like I made two customers happy, the buyer and seller."

The bull, with its registered name as C 88X Notice Me 2103 ET and renamed C Miles McKee, was sold by Colyer Herefords at its 33rd annual production sale in Burneau, Idaho, and was purchased by a group known as the Miles McKee Syndicate of Dunlap, Iowa.

The bull was the grand champion Herford bull at the Fort Worth Stock Show earlier this year.