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Good Old Days: Oct. 11, 2018

8 years ago

The Commoner, Sept. 29, 1893

Members of the Colfax Wheelmen's Club have in contemplation the holding a grand bicycle tournament during the Whitman County race meeting at Colfax Trotting Park about the middle of next month. The bicycle program will embrace contests for substantial prizes in races from one-half mile to 20 miles, and contestants will be from Whitman County alone.

100 years ago

The Colfax Commoner, Sept. 27, 1918

R.E. Prater, who has run a threshing machine in this county for the last ten years, stated that this is the poorest year of machine men that he has ever exp...

 

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