Dispatches from history: Western Washington County February 1, 1923
A bear scratches a Gales Creek man, snow closes the mill in West Timber, an 80 acre farm in Buxton goes up for sale and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
Newspapers and other print jobs of the time would have been printed on this type of machine. Photo taken from April 28, 1921 edition of the Washington County News-Times.
In this column, we take a look back one hundred years ago in western Washington County. This week, the clips come from the Washington County News-Times edition published February 1, 1923. Want more local history? Visit the Banks Historical Society online at www.bankshistory.org for Banks-area history, and Friends of Historic Forest Grove, which often works in the Gales Creek area, online at www.fhfg.org.
After fire destroyed the Timber school, a $6,000, up to three room replacement was under consideration. This and more in the news of a century ago from 1925!
More than a hundred teachers and staff from Banks' three public schools gathered in the Banks Elementary School cafeteria Aug. 19 for a breakfast with their peers and school officials as another school year began. With construction, new security, and a cell phone ban looming, many changes await staf
A crash in Glenwood snarled Labor Day weekend traffic for up to three miles and resulted in minor injuries to at least four people, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said Saturday.
