Good old days - March 24, 2011

8 years ago, March 26, 1886

A private letter informs us that the surveyors on the Spokane & Palouse railroad have about completed cross-sectioning and locating their line as far south as Rosalia. Grading will commence and a contract for forty miles of the road will be let within a week.

Almost every town in Whitman and Spokane counties is having a railroad boom.

Our enterprising druggist, G.W. Sutherland, has prepared a lot of squirrel poison at home which he sells cheaper than the imported article. Good scheme, keep the money at home.

An epidemic of whooping cough prevails at Uniontown now....