Good old days - Dec. 30, 2010

100 years ago

December 30, 1910

Residents of the south end of town have raised a subscription and let the contract to O.H. Horton for the construction of a substantial foot bridge across Cooper Lake. It is being built on a line with the sidewalk on the east side of Main street. The present temporary bridge is dangerous for school children and the new steel bridge will probably not be finished for some time.

Since the September establishment of a grain agency at Colfax, the Farmer Union of Whitman County has sold 125,000 bushels of wheat through the terminal agencies of the Union at a price ranging from one and a half cents to 6 cents a bushel above the price offered by the Colfax agents of the old line companies.

W.B. Hargrave has resigned his position with the Whitman Abstract Co. and will devote his entire attention to pushing the sale of his card index invention.

50 years ago

December 29, 1960

Colfax lives may be saved by the county seat town’s biggest drive in history to get Scotch lite tapes on all bicycles. A jaycee team will be poised at Vern’s Richfield station and at the elementary school to apply the tapes for free to the front and rear of bicycles.

Thomas Wear, 19, Palouse, received head cuts and was taken to Pullman hospital when he went off a curve in his pickup, plunged 25 feet over an embankment and overturned south of Palouse.

The Rev. and Mrs. Dick Temple and family were guests at a surprise “pound” party given for them at the Lamont Community Church. A record crowd of 161 turned out to hear the Christmas program.

10 years ago

December 28, 2000

The Rose Bowl building in Rosalia, which was on the auction block in a county tax foreclosure sale, was sold by the county Dec. 18 and then unsold Tuesday. County commissioners accepted a letter from the Rosalia Chamber of Commerce, which advised the county a bid made in the organization’s name Dec. 18 was done so without its consent. President Kelly Messinger bid $12,000 in the letter on Chamber letterhead, though chamber members met two days later and voted down the purchase.

A horse which had fallen through the ice on Spring Creek near Oakesdale was pulled to safety Saturday afternoon by residents who responded to the scene. The horse was spotted by a young couple who were driving along Highway 27. He went to check it out while she continued into Oakesdale and called the sheriff’s office. The horse had apparently attempted to cross the creek on ice which had softened by warming temperatures. It was in water up to its back.