Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
Colfax Basketball Team Ready To Leave For State Tournament In Seattle Left to right: Coach Art Dawald, Howard Gyling, Bob McCall, Harold Johnson, bus driver; Lloyd Schmick, Richard (Wong) Wagner, Jack (Buck) Hallett, Jim Mahlik, Clair Stone, Stanley King, Bill Jeremiah, Roy Day, Principal Howard Moses, Ernie Scholz, Supt. R. E. Osborne, who did not continue on the trip to Seattle. Seated in front, Sam Brodie, team manager and property man. – Photo by Alden
125 Years Ago
From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, March 26, 1897
Kicked by a Horse.
Tuesday forenoon the 17-year-old son of James Small, living 11 miles south-east of Colfax on Spring Flat, was kicked by a horse and badly injured. The boy was in the barn and passing behind the horse, the animal lashed out with its hind feet, both hoofs striking the boy in the head, a deep three inch gash being cut in the forehead above the right eye, and another deep gash just above the point of the chin. Drs. Powell of Pullman, and Drs. Boswell and Sutherland of Colfax we called and attended to the hurts. It is not believed the boy's injuries will result seriously.
100 Years Ago
From the Colfax Commoner, Friday, March 24, 1922
Colfax TO HAVE BASE BALL TEAM
A number of base ball players and fans met at the Maple Tuesday evening and discussed the proposition of organizing a base ball team. It was decided that Colfax should be represented by a first class base ball team and that practice would start as soon as the grounds are in condition.
75 Years Ago
From the Colfax Gazette-Commoner, March 21, 1947
CAGERS UNINJURED AS BUS OVERTURNS
Colfax Team, Enroute To State Tournament, In Wreck Near Spokane
Miraculously escaping injury Monday evening were the 11 players on the Colfax high school basketball team, bound for the state B tournament in Seattle, when the school bus in which they were riding to catch a train out of Spokane turned over at the foot of Hangman Creek hill four miles south of the Spokane city limits because of faulty headlights.
50 Years Ago
From the Colfax Gazette, Thursday, March 23, 1972
Land sales near Albion, Moscow, Pampa pond total half million
Farm land sales totaling more than a half million dollars were recorded in real estate sales tax affidavits filed last week at the Whitman County treasurers office on transactions which occurred in the Albion, Moscow, and Pampa pond areas.
The school bus, wrecked later near Spokane without injury to anyone, was waiting in front of the high school to carry the Bulldogs to Spokane when this picture was taken early Monday evening. Despite the experience of a tipover on the Hangman Creek hill due to faulty lights, the team won its first B tournament game in Seattle Wednesday afternoon from Omak 41 to 29.
25 Years Ago
From the Whitman County Gazette, Thursday, March 20, 1997
A lengthy bridge order
Bridge crews from A&R Construction of Lewiston last Thursday converged on a site just north of Klemgard Park along the Palouse River to place these mammoth concrete girders for the new Dowling Bridge.
Five of the 125-foot-long, pre-stressed concrete were set by the crews, with each girder weighing in at a massive 136,000 pounds.
The Dowling Bridge, located near the Gerald Gilchrist place, is the second of three bridge replacement projects the county is working on this year.
10 Years Ago
From the Whitman County Gazette, Thursday, March 22, 2012
County okays trash deal over Empire's pleas
Whitman County commissioners unanimously signed a new waste disposal contract Monday despite pleas by a local trash hauler to reconsider.
Dave Patterson, district manager of Waste Connections which owns Empire Disposal, asked commissioners to delay their decision and review the three proposals submitted to the county.
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