Good Old Days: Jan. 3, 2019

125 years ago

The Commoner, Dec. 22, 1893

Justice of the Peace Truax Tuesday sent Daniel McDonald to the county jail for 40 days for selling a pint of whisky to two Indians.

100 years ago

The Colfax Commoner, Dec. 20, 1918

The influenza epidemic which has been raging throughout the county for the last two months is slowly subsiding, is the statement that was made by Dr. John Benson before the members of the city council at their meeting at the city hall Monday night.

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J.K. Mullaly and Jack Smith were on the public road between Colfax and Endicott Friday when they were charged with having an undue amount of whiskey in their possession. The men were traveling in an automobile and it is said there was a considerable quantity of whiskey concealed in sacks in the car.

75 years ago

The Colfax Gazette-Commoner, Dec. 17, 1943

The last dairy in the Colfax community to produce and distribute its own products will go out of business next Tuesday when Wm. T. Smith auctions off his herd of 38 milk cows.

50 years ago

The Colfax Gazette, Dec. 19, 1968

Influenza is paying a pre-holiday visit to Whitman County, reducing school enrollment and causing special medical precautions. School superintendents in the county report absences between 10 and 25 percent in the nine districts surveyed.

25 years ago

Whitman County Gazette, Dec. 23, 1993

A request by the city of Colfax to be considered for new state prison went over the wall Monday night after council members heard residents’ objections. The city reversed its earlier decision with a 5-1 vote.

10 years ago

Whitman County Gazette, Dec. 25, 2008

Colfax and Albion crews were called out at 7 p.m. last Friday by a report of a car fire south of the Parvin Road intersection with Highway 195.