Dispatches from history: Western Washington County June 14, 1923
Pox sweeps through the lower Gales Creek Valley and it's strawberry season in Hayward: This and much more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
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 edition published June 14, 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.
Forest Grove purse snatchers, a full-page ad from Marble's Cabinet Shop, a tale of a couple wed after meeting at a rehabilitation center and more in the news from the 1970s!
The year is 1976. Hagg Lake is brand new, and the water is rising. In Forest Grove, Poppio's is still slinging slices, and over in Banks, the newly remodeled Brown Derby is serving breakfast until 2 a.m.
Almost the entire edition of the Washington County News-Times in 1926 was devoted to all things automobile as a huge car show rolled into town in 1926. Plus, take a road trip through rural western Washington County with the help of a 1926 route!
A proposed toll road linking Forest Grove and Tillamook faced opposition, but Gales Creek residents would take any road they could get, according to a 1925 newspaper article.
"County Jail Filled to Overflow With Arrests Made" including Ernest Narver, Frank Kearns, Thomas Young, and Roy Kearns, all arrested at Balm Grove on liquor possession charges in Prohibition-era Gales Creek.
People are shooting exploding targets and firing hot lead into dry vegetation in the Tillamook Forest with predictable results: Five wildfires since May. These fires are all preventable, said Acting Forest Grove District Forester Stephanie Beall.
