"This may save someone else from being killed." A century ago, a Gales Creek man was hunting near Timber when he saw what he thought were the eyes of a cougar gleaming in the darkness. He fired his gun, and World War 1 veteran Arthur Weston, holding a small flashlight, was struck.
A Killen pioneer (namesake of the Killen Wetlands) of near Banks passes, a young Gales Creek woman is robbed of a $65 watch and more in the news of a century ago.
Demolishment of the Wilkes House, a roughly 150-year-old home believed to be among the oldest homes in Banks and Washington County began Friday morning.
The Banks Historical Society has launched a fundraiser in an attempt to save a historic house —possibly the oldest site-built pioneer home in town — and an acre of very old trees in Banks that's threatened by a planned development.
