Good Old Days

125 years ago

The Commoner

May 26, 1893

Arthur Hooper, the 17-year-old son of Miles T. Hooper of Johnson, was brought before Justice of the Peace Dillon Tuesday to answer the grave charge of committing a criminal assault on the 12-year-old daughter of Joel C. Jones at Johnson on Sunday evening. The young girl was waylaid, it is alleged, on her pathway home from church, and Hooper desisted from his maltreatment only when compelled by parties who arrived in time to prevent him accomplishing his designs.

100 years ago

The Colfax Commoner

May 24, 1918

The jury which heard the testimony in the William Kelly condemnation road case allowed Mr. Kelly damages in the sum of $1,450 against the county for land taken for road purposes.

75 years ago

The Colfax Gazette-Commoner

May 21, 1943

Four days, almost to the hour, after he had fallen into the South Palouse river, the body of _________________, son of Mr. and Mrs. ___________, Cram apartments, who would have been three years old in August, was found at 3:15 o'clock Wednesday afternoon under the courthouse bridge. The body was still beneath the surface, nearly a quarter-of-a-mile below the springy two-plank bridge at the foot of Rock Street, from which the little boy is to believed to have fallen.

50 years ago

The Colfax Gazette

May 23, 1968

Te Hinderer and his sons, Kenneth and Blaine, Ewartsville, have been named as the 1968 Whitman County cattlemen of the year. Their Blackout Farms operation, which is located about a half mile from the Ewartsville grange hall, now has 460 head of cattle, including 175 cows and five herd bulls.

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All the elements of a fun celebration, from a parade to an old car demolition derby, are on the schedule for the Garfield Community Festival Saturday.

25 years ago

Whitman County Gazette

May 27, 1993

A semi truck struck a power pole five miles south of Colfax off Highway 95 Tuesday night causing a minor power outage in the Colfax area.

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A routine lock down at Lower Granite Dam turned into a major mishap last Thursday night when a log lodged between a wood chip-laden barge and the lock wall, tipping the barge and wedging it against a container barge, damaging both hulls and causing them to eventually spill their cargo and capsize. No one was injured in the mishap.

10 years ago

Whitman County Gazette

May 22, 2008

Two home-schooled Colfax brothers received the audience choice award at WSU Imagine Tomorrow contest, May 10. Eighty-nine teams participated in the competition, which challenged students to find ways to solve energy problems. Darren and Wayne Miller, sons of Dean and Freda Miller, were approached by Kirby Dailey, World Class Education Coalition, about being on an engineering team. After some discussion, they decided to tackle the project of converting a vehicle to electric power.

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Whitman County's jail reverted to a wild west mode last week, with jail Captain Bob Ingalls carrying around a big ring of keys to open doors throughout the complex. As of Monday, though, the jail resumed its modern operations. The jail's electronic controls were down as workers from Engineered Control Systems of Spokane installed a new touch-screen controlled surveillance system.