Good Ol' Days

125 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, Sept. 10, 1897

DIVIDED INTO DISTRICTS.

Sub-Institutes for Teachers to Be Held on Oct, 2.

In compliance with an expressed wish of the teachers of Whitman County, and believing that the best interests of education demand and the code of public in instruction fully justifies it, I have this d

day (Sept. 7th, 1897) divided Whitman County into six sub-institute districts and designated the officers and arranged a program as follows:

District No. 1 includes Tekoa, Rosalia and Thornton, with E. R. Jones, president; Geo. E. Craig, vice president; Miss Emily Sullivan, secretary.

District No. 2 includes Garfield, Farmington, Elberton and Belmont, with J.

0. Mattoon, president; principal at Farmington, vice president; H. T. Irion, secretary.

District No. 3 includes Colfax, Palouse and Guy, with F. A. Sikes, president; S.M. McCroskey, vice president and C. E. Hoover, secretary.

District No. 4 includes Pullman, Uniontown, Colton, Johnson, Chambers and Staley, with E. R. McCory, president; F. P. Green, vice president; W. M. Savage, secretary.

District No. 5 includes Eudicott, Diamond, Winona, Almota, Pampa and Penawawa, with Clark Brown, president; H. C. Fisher, vice president; Miss Fanny Irwin, secretary.

District No. 6 includes St. John, Pine City and Alki, with Frank B. Babcock, president; Miss Charlotte White, secretary.

100 Years Ago

From the Colfax Commoner, Friday, Sept. 8, 1922

WILD WEST SHOW DRAWS GOOD CROWD

MANAGER JOHN M. KLEMGARD PUTS ON REAL EXHIBITION-ROY TROUB IS CHAMPION

Roy Troub won first prize t the La La Palouser in the bucking contest and the judges made no mistake in awarding him this honor. Roy Troub is a Whitman County boy and lives at Winona. Doc Tibbets of Enterprise, Oregon, won second money and Lent Stewart of Lewiston won third.

The three men went through the preliminaries and in the final contest Troub drew Buddy Boy Tibbetts drew U-bet and Stewart drew Lady Colfax. Troub made a spendid ride and his horse did some good bucking. The Friday afternoon crowd filled about half of the seats in the grandstand and bleachers and the Saturday crowd took up the full seating capacity of the arena.

There were several accidents Saqturday and the crowd that came out to be thrilled went home satisfied. Alice Wilson one of the lady riders, was out from under a horse that turned a complete handspring landing on its side. The woman was not injured but she received a nervous shock she will never forget and the crowd got its thrill. Her husban and a dozen other riders rushed to her assistance and pulled her from her dangerous position.

75 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette-Commoner, Friday, Sept. 5, 1947

Responding to the request that pupils enrolling in the first grade this year bring their birth certificates to school on opening day, Tuesday, are Tonia Kae, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morrison, and Richard Paul Raugust, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Raugust, who are about to be enrolled at the Hamilton school by their teacher, Miss Ruth Olson. Supt. R. E. Osborne excused Tonia Kae's tardiness in arriving in this world at 2:20 a. m. November 1, 1941 and allowed her to start to school with youngsters who have or will become 6 years of age before November 1 this year. Richard Paul was 6 last June 3. From the certificate the teacher records the day, month and year of birth. This becomes the school's record which can be referred to years later in the pupil's life when the information may be of importance to prospective employers or various agencies who more and more are coming to accept school records of age as official.

25 Years Ago

From the Whitman County Gazette, Thursday, Sept. 11, 1997

Big block springs SJE's Siler

John Stoner, 21, lays a lick on a Reardan rusher to give SJE quarterback Josh Siler time to cut the corner at Friday's football jamboree in Colfax. St. John-Endicott's re-entry into 11-man appeared to be a smooth one despite several errors on both sides of the line. The Eagles had a lot of mental errors, but Coach Frank Watson said he was pleased.

10 Years Ago

From the Whitman County Gazette, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012

Palouse COUNCIL APPROVES PURCHASE OF AMBULANCE

BY GARTH MEYER

Gazette Reporter

A former Colfax ambulance will find new use in Palouse after the Palouse city council approved the purchase Aug. 28. Palouse Assistant Fire Chief Marv Pillars told the council the 2007 Ford 450 diesel powered ambulance was offered to Palouse EMS for $11,000, the trade-in value. It will replace the Palouse's 1987 ambuleance, which was in service for 10 years.

"We stole that at 3,000," Pillars recalled.

Palouse EMS plans to turn into a rescue rig.

Palouse Fire and EMS join board previously approved the purchase of the 2007 Ford ambulance. The city council was asked to ratify the decision, because it involves city funds.

The ambulance was offered to Palouse after Colfax took delivery of a new International ambulance this summer.

"There is no motivation not to ratify it," said Palouse Councilman Tim Jones. "The money is set aside for it."