Missing Palouse minutes book from 1915-20 surfaces

Palouse Clerk-Treasurer Mike Bagott looks through a long-missing volume of the town’s city council minutes from 1915-1920. A woman in Wichita, Kansas, called city hall earlier this month to say she had it.

It was the city’s one missing volume.

A Palouse City Council meeting minutes compilation for 1915-1920 had been missing for as long as anyone could remember. It was the one hole in the city records that go back to 1888.

Then, two weeks ago, the phone rang at city hall.

It was a woman in Wichita, Kansas, who said she had a bound records book from Palouse, Washington.

She told Deputy Clerk Ann...