Good Old Days 6/16/11

Good old days

125 years ago

One day last week a plot to rotten-egg a certain male of Endicott for telling something he had heard concerning a young lady came to his attention just in time for him to “skip.”

The unfinished structure at the corner of Main and Canyon, originally intended for a skating rink, was demolished this week by Palmer Bros. for the lumber.

Present warm weather is in no way connected to the disappearances at the public school.

F.M. Young of bakery fame has opened a restaurant in connection with his establishment and proposes feeding hungry people at any hour, day or night.

The spacious and well-lighted “Delta” club room and billiard hall was opened to the public Monday. It will be found a pleasant place of resort.

Lee One, a legal light of some renown in San Francisco Chinatown, is in this city in the role of a peacemaker between some of his “cousins” who are in imminent danger of going to the pen. The case is the Jim and Kong affair, the latter being charged with highway robbery and perjury being laid to the door of the former. They are endeavoring to adjust the matter amongst themselves.

100 years ago

June 16, 1911

The new brick M.E. Church is nearing completion and will be dedicated on the 6th of August. A two manual pipe organ has been bought and will be shipped from Boston in time for dedication day.

O.O. Coker, while working in Barth’s sawmill near Rosalia last Saturday, had his left hand cut off at the wrist by coming in contact with the edger saw, the hand simply hanging by the flesh after he was rescued.

The clan McCroskey gathered some 75 strong Tuesday at the home of George H. McCroskey in Pullman, the occasion being the 50th anniversary of his birth.

One of the prettiest parties of the season was that of Tuesday afternoon when Madames A.J. Davis, I.J. Davis and E.B. Smith entertained a large number of their friends at a card party. Five hundred and flinch were played.

75 years ago

A verdict giving Mrs. William Genero $350 for personal injuries against the city of Colfax, was returned Tuesday by a superior court jury. Mrs. Genero alleged her teeth and nose were injured in a fall over ice cream tubs on the sidewalk near the Spring street entrance to the Grady Drug store when the old street lights were extinguished in November 1934 prior to the dedication of new curb lights.

A road roller belonging to the Norris Brothers contracting firm and driven by J. Murphy went through the guardrail on the Fairview Street fill Sunday when a nut jarred off the brake band. Murphy escaped injury by jumping. The roller landed in the yard of Bill Gantz.

A statement protesting the sale of beer and wine in Colfax on Sundays was prepared at a meeting of the ministerial association here Monday afternoon and will be presented to the city council.

Fun and prizes await the boys of Colfax in the Soap Box Derby which will be here in the middle of July by J. P. Moller and R.H. Morgan of the local Chevrolet agency.

50 years ago

A lost swarm of honeybees winged its way down Main Street Colfax last Friday, settling on a car near Burns Auto Parts. Beemaster James Welch enticed most of the swarm into a coffee can by first scraping bees off the car with a piece of cardboard until he got the queen bee in the can. The remaining bees then gradually surrounded the queen bee and Welch transferred the swarming bunch into a waiting hive, provided by Wayne Jeffries.

The Stanly-Bledsoe Corp., which welded and wrapped 720 cars of gas pipe are all but moved back to Madras, Ore. They are now cleaning up the yards and will soon be all moved.

Field men for the Army Engineers recently completed final survey of the Colfax flood control project, placing markers to indicate the right-of-way needed for construction in some places and the permanent right-of-way in others.

Approximately 200 delegates from Washington, California, Oregon and Idaho attended the Pacific district conference of the Mennonite church hosted by the Onecho church last Thursday through Sunday.

25 years ago

St. John Telephone Co. has purchased Colfax Cable TV from Don Stine. The company will retain the Colfax Cable name and offer the same services with one probable addition, a cable channel for local announcements and information.

A move into the state’s new $1.3 million highway shop and office quarters north of Colfax at Hubbard has been delayed because of a change order on pressure tanks in the water system. The tanks which have been installed failed to meet requirements of the State Department of Labor and Industries.

Whitman County commissioners will hold a hearing on the boundaries of a proposed Whitman Community Hospital district. After 483 signatures were gathered on petitions, the proposal was brought forth.

10 years ago

Frederick D. Russell, 22, Pullman, pleaded not guilty in Superior Court Friday morning to six charges filed against him after a triple fatality accident on the Moscow-Pullman Highway near the state line.

Uniontown received $72,688 in this cycle of .08 sales and use tax funds to renovate the downtown “Palm” building for the purpose of recruiting Clarkston’s Sage Bakery and to provide potential business incubator spaces.

Debris and mud washed across Old Highway 195 from Thornton to the Rest Stop on Highway 195 late Friday when a cloudburst washed out the area.