The mill starts up again near Glenwood, prune trees are dedicated in Hillside, and the coming and goings of regular folks in Banks, Buxton, and Gales Creek in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

A dance at Balm Grove, almost two feet of snow are melting, and a horse dies of the staggers. This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

Dynamite in Gales Creek, the mumps and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

Bert Pixler kills a sick cow and Bill Hundley kills his riding pony on the same day in Fir Creek: “An unlucky day,” writes a 1923 journalist. This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

A bear scratches a Gales Creek man, snow closes the mill in West Timber, an 80 acre farm in Buxton goes up for sale and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

A Fir Creek resident heads to Timber to do some blacksmithing, a telephone company starts in Vernonia, and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

A barn collapses in Gales Creek, the community gossip, and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, the first of 1923.

Less murder, more community happenings in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, the last of 1922. Next week, a new year of the “Roaring Twenties” begins in 1923!

A 17-year-old Cedar Canyon resident, formerly of the Groveland community on Gales Creek, confesses to the murder of a Hayward hermit in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History.