1925: Moonshiners roamed the hills outside Forest Grove. Oil in Buxton. Now-lost silent films played at the Star Theater. Step into Forest Grove and Banks-area history from the lens of newspaper archives of the day.
In this column, we take a look back one hundred years ago in Forest Grove, Banks, Gales Creek, and other rural communities in western Washington County. This week, the clips come from the Hillsboro Argus, published October 29, 1925. Tap on an image to bring it into focus.
These news clips are selected for news events in and around Forest Grove and Banks that I believe would have been of significance to readers of the time, or of interest to readers of today. They are presented as-is, and without comment. At the time, the newspapers of the day often expressed viewpoints that today would be considered racist, xenophobic, and sexist, frequently using slurs to describe ethnic groups and often stepping outside the norms of what we consider to be ethical journalism today.
Want more local history? Visit the Friends of Historic Forest Grove, online at www.fhfg.org or the Banks Historical Society at www.bankshistory.org.
Do you have access to historic photos, diaries, or other historic tidbits from the Forest Grove area? Email me at chas@newsinthegrove.com; we'd love to share the past with the present!
Toll road drama continues!
The news from Forest Grove
Logging and mill jobs were, like today, a dangerous line of work
C.H. Renne "had the time of his life" a little too hard at Balm Grove, a Gales creek-area dance hall that was the site of frequent booze-arrests in Prohibition-era Gales creek
Comings and goings of people from the communities in and around Banks
Ads, county news, and a dispatch from the Arcade community, now what we might call the Pumpkin Ridge area.
