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

A century ago, a young man was killed when a log rolled over him. This and more in a very short dispatches from history.

Scarlet fever in Buxton. Surplus explosives from the Great War in Hayward. Banks’ Banks is on the fair board. This and more in this week’s history column. No subscription required – Happy Thanksgiving!

A century ago, Timber had a hotel, and it lit on fire. “Bridge gang is heroic,” read the headline, crediting the heroic work of a small crew using fire extinguishers for keeping the fire from spreading to the rest of the town.