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.

A Fir Creek resident heads to Timber to do some blacksmithing, a telephone company starts in Vernonia, and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

A barn collapses in Gales Creek, the community gossip, and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, the first of 1923.

Less murder, more community happenings in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, the last of 1922. Next week, a new year of the “Roaring Twenties” begins in 1923!

A 17-year-old Cedar Canyon resident, formerly of the Groveland community on Gales Creek, confesses to the murder of a Hayward hermit in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History.

A century ago in western Washington County: Snow inundates the region, the Nick C. Lilly store in Gales Creek sells, the Vernonia stagecoach through Timber can’t get through and more!

A 1922 murder rocks Banks, Hayward, and the Cedar Canyon neighborhood in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History.

This week a century ago in western Washington County: Two horses plunge over a bridge at the Gales Creek-area Clear Creek Fish Hatchery, a dance in Banks, and more from 1922.

This week a century ago in western Washington County: A Gales Creek resident bags a bear, a fire in Watts, and a man dies at a Timber-area hotel. This and more from 1922.

This week a century ago in western Washington County: A big black bear bounds by a Banks barbecue, twenty turkeys trot into Gaston, “little Byron Ranes” of Gales Creek bikes to Forest Grove and more from 1922.