Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

125 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, May 13, 1898

WITH TEARS AND JOY

Decoration Day Will Be Observed Appropriately.

Then Comes the Red Fire of the Glorious Fourth and the County Fair.

With the customary enterprise and patriotism of the citizzens of Colfax Decoration day will be appropriately observed, with tears and flowers for the sleeping soldiers under the cemetery's sod; the Fourth of July will be celebrated as it never has been before with newly awakened patriotic fire, and the greatest county fair in the history of great and growing Whitman will b...