Good Ol' Days

125 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Friday October 22, 1897

Wheat Shipments Small

The railroad officials report that much less grain than usual is moving from Palouse country points for this senson of the year. October is usually the busy month with the railroads in this section of the state, but the business now is not much greater than during the ordinary months. This comes from the fact that the farmers, for the most part, are holding their wheat for higher prices, the boom that occurred in wheat early in the season having given them confidence that the price is to go higher. Then, too, the great crop has so steadily employed all the men and teams obtainable that it has been almost impossible to haul the grain to the railroad stations.

100 Years Ago

From the Colfax Commoner, Friday October 20, 1922

WHAT WE NEED.

Citizens of Colfax and vicinity are no different from those of other communities when it comes to wondering what the world needs to put it back in the groove it ought to be running in. But usually in seeking the cause for conditions we complain about we go too far from home. An ordinary St. Paul newspaperman has co discovered this, and we believe our people will agree with him when he says that most of the things this country needs can be found and applied at home. Listen to the wayhe sizes up the nation’s needs.

What this country needs is not a new birth of freedom, but the old-fashioned $2 lower berth.

What this country needs isn’t more liberty, but less people who take liberties with our liberty.

What this country needs isn’t to get more taxes from the people, but for the people to get more from their taxes.

What this country needs is not more miles of territory, but more miles to the gallon.

What this country needs is more tractors and less detractors.

What this country needs isn’t more young men making speed, but more young men planting the right kind of seeds.

What this country needs is more paint on the old place and less paint on the young face.

What this country needs isn’t a lower rate of interest on money, but a higher interest in work.

50 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Thursday October 19, 1972

Return from national FFA confab

Kendall Babbitt, Craig Cloaninger (kneeling) and Susie Bird returned this week from the national FFA convention in Kansas City, Mo. Susie is the first female FFA member, to attend the national convention from Colfax.

25 Years Ago

From the Whitman County Gazette, Thursday, October 23, 1997

Fund sign found after hiatus

Karen Johnson, left, and Gail Webster stand in front of an old sign made by Webster’s son, Noel, for an Eagle Scout project. The sign had been lost for a few years before it was found again att Sterling Savings in Colfax in their public meeting room.

10 Years Ago

From the Whitman County Gazette, Thursday, October 18, 2012

Thornton Cemetery named Historic Place

Thornton Cemetery was added to the Washington State Register of Historic Places last week.

Members of t he state’s council on historic preservation voted last Thursday, Oct. 11, to grant a request from the Thornton Cemetery Preservation Association to put the graveyard on the state list of historic places.

Listing means the cemetery will be maintained and marked as one of the distinctive landmarks of the Thornton community, according to Diane Easstep, a member of the association.

“We’re just so thrilled they put us on the list,” she said Monday.

Eastep said the group aimed for the listing in order to have a cornerstone around which civic improvement efforts can be organized.

Thornton Cemetery Preservaation Association is a non-profit group formed earlier this year.