Roosevelt's tour will be Tekoa topic

Tekoa residents gather to listen to speech by Teddy Roosevelt, May 26, 1903. For more pictures of Tekoa and President Roosevelt’s Whistle Stop Tour, please visit the Whitman County Rural Heritage website at

www.whitco.lib.wa.us.

President Teddy Roosevelt's Whistle Stop Tour of 1903 will be the topic of a presentation by Scott Woodward on Saturday, June 18, at 5 p.m. in the Tekoa Library. President Roosevelt visited Tekoa May 26, 1903, as part of his inaugural reception and tour.

The tour began in the spring 1903, as the 26th president traveled Washington on a five-day, 17-stop train junket, as...