Serving Whitman County since 1877

Good Old Days

8 years ago

April 29, 1887

It is rumored that the Farmington branch of the O.R. & N. will be extended to Spokane Falls immediately. If present plans are carried out, the Palouse country will soon be covered with a network of railways.

A post office has been opened at Oaksdale, with Sol. Kaminsky as postmaster.

Election of the justice of the peace in precinct No. 9, north Colfax, resulted in favor of C.P. Edmonds, who received 44 of the 52 votes cast.

Dr. Butler has rented the Sensinger building at Uniontown and put in a stock of drugs.

This week, Mrs. Burt Smith, who lives in the mountainous...

 

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