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 By ARLENE WEBER    Community    May 24, 2023 

Our Town 125 and 100 Years ago: May, Part II

May, Part II As of now, the Kentucky Derby was a big event in 1897. Typhoon II won the 23rd running followed by Ornament. Second place received a tidy sum of $700. A San Francisco millionaire made the...

 
 By ARLENE WEBER    Community    May 10, 2023

Our Town 125 and 100 Years Ago...May, Part I

MAY: Part I By May in 1897, the long cold, snowy winter had finally receded and allowed spring to arrive. While the rest of the country and the world were embroiled in war, natural disasters, and...

 

Our Town 125 and 100 Years Ago: April, Part II

April, Part II In 1897, April was ending with similarities and some definite differences to events in the current day. Macedonia was being invaded by Grecian insurgents; Theodore Roosevelt was nominat...

 

Our Town 125 and 100 Years Ago...April, Part I

April, Part I By April 1897, people in our Jefferson Valley were ready for spring. It had been a long snowy winter. Around the USA and the world, the weather was just one concern. Politics, war, and...

 
 By ARLENE WEBER    News    March 29, 2023

JV Museum Annual Program April 6 at Star

The annual meeting and program for the Jefferson Valley Museum will be held on Thursday, April 6th at the Star Theater. The short meeting will start at 6:45 PM with the program at 7 PM. During the meeting, there will be a short review of the past...

 

Our Town 125 and 100 Years Ago...March Part II

March Part 2 The March weather "lion" was roaring in 1897 very much like now. The U. S. House of Representatives had just elected a new Speaker of the House, Republican Tom Reed; the U. S. supreme...

 
 By ARLENE WEBER    News    March 15, 2023

Last Oral History Program of JVM Winter Season on March 21st

The Jefferson Valley Museum will offer a second opportunity to hear the oral history program of Carrie "Bunny" Leyson Wall on Tuesday, March 21st at 6:30 PM. The program will be held at the museum...

 

Our Town 125 and 100 Years Ago...March, Part I

MARCH, Part I Like March 2023, in March 1897 the U. S. Congress was in session and discussing controversial issues. Two hot issues were the boundaries of the Alaska territory with Canada and a bill...

 

Our Town 125 and 100 Years Ago: February Part II

The second half of February 1897 had plenty of news events. National headlines in Whitehall's Jefferson Valley Zephyr included turmoil in the senate and a bill in the house to appropriate money for...

 

Free Program at Jefferson Valley Museum February 22

The Jefferson Valley Museum will hold its third and final winter oral history program for this season on Wednesday, February 22nd at 6:30 PM in the museum at 303 South Division. The featured history is the interview done in 1989 by Roy Millegan, Sr....

 

Our Town 125 and 100 Years Ago: February Part I

FEBRUARY, PART I 1897 was starting out with turmoil and political division. There were calls in Washington D. C. for major bank reforms to help curb the financial problems in the country; a bill...

 

Our Town 125 and 100 Years Ago - January Part II

JANUARY PART II As January moved toward February, politics, and science were clashing. In Boston, a woman was removed from the courtroom because the defense council said she might hypnotize the...

 

Jefferson Valley Museum Hosting Free History Talk

The Jefferson Valley Museum will be hosting its second oral history program at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, January 18th at the museum barn. It will feature an interview recorded in 1989 by Roy Millegan...

 

Our Town 125 and 100 Years Ago: January, Part I

JANUARY, Part I, 125 YEARS AGO: As 1897 dawned, it was a new year with new tragedies and many of the same old problems. Sabotage to a railroad bridge in Tennessee caused the deaths of dozens of...

 

Our Town 100 Years Ago: December, Part II

December, Part 2 Those living in December 1896 would be amazed at how things seem to be repeating in 2022. Wheat crops were failing in the "old world" causing famine; four banks in the eastern U. S....

 

Our Town 100 Years Ago...December Part I

In December 1896, the entire United States was in the grip of a strong winter. The Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads were struggling to keep their lines open due to heavy snowfall and a...

 

Our Town 100 Years Ago: November Part II

NOVEMBER, PART II In November 1896, the elections were over, and people were able to focus on other concerns. In the West, flooding in the Coeur d'Alene area was of great concern with 100 cords of...

 
 By ARLENE WEBER    News    November 16, 2022

Fishpond Celebrates Centennial

The Whitehall Fishpond is celebrating its 100-year anniversary in 2022. This artifact symbolizes the patriotic community it was built for, Whitehall, which has always been a patriotic township. During...

 
 By ARLENE WEBER    News    November 9, 2022

Fishpond Centennial Celebration Friday

The Whitehall Rotary Club and the local VFW and American Legion will hold a joint celebration of the 100th anniversary of the historic fishpond on November 11th starting at 12:30 PM at the fishpond. The program of approximately 30 minutes will...

 

Our Town 100 Years Ago...November Part I

NOVEMBER PART I November 1896 was significant with the presidential election being fought between McKinley and Bryan. McKinley was declared the winner. The battleship Texas sunk in the Brooklyn Navy...

 

Fishpond Centennial on Veteran's Day

The Whitehall Rotary Club and the local VFW and American Legion will hold a joint celebration of the 100th anniversary of the historic fishpond on November 11th starting at 12:30 PM at the fishpond. The program of approximately 30 minutes will...

 

Our Town 100 Years Ago: October Part II

In late October 1896, the focus was on the upcoming November election. But there was plenty of other news on the front page. A hurricane caused severe damage to resorts at Coney Island, a Brit beat...

 

Third Graders Receive Dictionaries

The Whitehall Rotary Club completed their annual distribution in October of dictionary/reference books to local third graders. Third grade students in Harrison, Cardwell and Whitehall receive the...

 
 By ARLENE WEBER    News    October 12, 2022

A Tribute to Roy Millegan

Editor's Note: The Whitehall Ledger received notice that former Whitehall resident Roy Millegan had passed last week. His obituary is forthcoming; Jefferson Valley Museum curator Arlene Weber was...

 

Our Town 100 Years Ago: October Part I

1896 was winding down but not without turmoil in October of that year. A miners' strike was continuing in Colorado, a child is killed by rats in a Baltimore home, the upcoming presidential election...

 

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