In 1921, Asa E. Westcott represented Banks in the Oregon Legislature. Three years later, he was dead, with a jury ruling his death by a gun was accidental. Just two months earlier, Westcott had vanished after driving his vehicle into the Willamette River before he returned home amid speculation that he had been met with foul play. This and more in the news of 1924.

A former Banks legislator dies by gun accident just months after his car was found in the river, a dance held in Timber and more in news from a century ago.

Watts Community Club has chicken dinner, and other comings and goings from April 10, 1924 in Banks and Gales Creek.

A century ago: The namesake of the community of Roy dies, and a man is arrested for a Manning chicken theft. This and more in the news of 1924.

A private fish hatchery near Mountaindale provides 5,000 trout to a Gales Creek man, and an accused moonshiner takes his own life in this week’s dispatches from history.

A century ago, the Banks American Legion had a membership drive, and the Gales Creek Stage meant there were better mass transit options in the valley than there are today.

Three men in the Washington County Jail on various charges related to moonshine and Prohibition escaped via the roof, “swinging to trees” in 1924. This and more in the news of a century ago.

Forest Grove solves a problem with the help of Gales Creek, a Banks man establishes a hospital in Forest Grove and more from a century ago in the news.

Before Highway 6 existed as it does today, leaders in Washington, Tillamook, and Yamhill County debated two routes for a connection to Tillamook, one along the Wilson River, and one along the Trask River. This and more in the news of 1924.

An oil well in Buxton? A century ago, there were hopes that the next oil rush was in Buxton and Manning. This and more in this week’s Dispatched from History.