Column, History, Washington County

Dispatches from history: Western Washington County October 4, 1923

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 published October 4, 1923.
Want more local history? Visit the Banks Historical Society online at www.bankshistory.org for Banks-area history, and Friends of Historic Forest Grove, which often works in the Gales Creek area, online at www.fhfg.org.

Newspaper editors had absolutely no chill in 1923.
And they sometimes made mistakes, too.
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Chas Hundley is the editor of the Gales Creek Journal and sister news publications the Banks Post and the Salmonberry Magazine. He grew up in Gales Creek and has a cat.

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