A wounded war veteran from a Manning family, gassed in the trenches during WW1, falls outside the law and is jailed on moonshining charges, and the Hillsboro Argus wonders if the U.S. government is to blame.

A play in Roy, a dance in Kansas City, a mill in Mountaindale: Life on February 26, 1925 in the Banks region

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 and the Hillsboro Argus, published February 19, 1925.

Call statistics from January and a “save the date” for the pancake breakfast are in this month’s Banks Fire District log.

1925: Oil discovery in Buxton ‘to cause considerable activity in Washington County’

A decision on a route from western Washington County to the coast hit a roadblock (heh) in 1925. This and more in the news of a century ago.

A century ago, an early version of what we know as Highway 6 today was slowly taking shape, but first: debates over the route took place.

Roy store, post office, and train station destroyed by fire and more on January 1, 1925.

In 1924, you could buy gas in Timber, Verboort, Gales Creek, Cherry Grove, and more, and Banks had a great cow. This and more in the news of a century ago.

An 1864 Mountaindale pioneer celebrates her 81st birthday, a fox farm between Banks and Forest Grove is established and more in this week’s Dispatches from History