€ 99 years ago (March 4, 1905, Weekly Coast Mail) - The upcoming centennial Lewis & Clark Exposition in Portland was eagerly anticipated. In addition to meetings of delegations from cities around the state, there also would be numerous displays. One was of the first locomotive used in the state which was much smaller than current engines and used to run daily on wooden tracks along the Columbia River. Australia also would have an exhibit. The "land of gold and the kangaroo's" $50,000 display would demonstrate the commercial value of the gugong fish ("whose hide was three-inches thick") and the platypus, among other things.

€ 87 years ago (March 5, 1917, Coos Bay Times) - Beginning March 11, an extra passenger train was expected to be put on the run through the Coquille Valley. The train would arrive ahead of the morning train from Marshfield and leave after the evening train from Portland. All the cities on the routes stood to benefit, except Powers, which would only have one "mixed" (passengers and freight) train running to Myrtle Point. Also in Coquille, the deal for purchasing the Patterson Grove Tract, which had been delayed for four years, was practically completed. The old city hall would be traded for the 10-acre parcel of land.

€ 54 years ago (March 4, 1950, Coos Bay Times) - A groundbreaking ceremony for Coquille's new community swimming pool was held. Dirt from the 75-by-45-foot pool was being hauled to the new high school grounds and the pool was anticipated to have a diving board, 10-foot walkways around the edge and grandstands. In Delake, about 200 people testified they saw a 22-foot sea monster wash up on the beach before it was washed back out to sea. The "monster" was said to have had the body of a cow with a multi-pronged 18-foot-long tail, weigh up to a ton and have feathers on its underside. A U.S. Coast Guard officer said it may have been a "blanket fish."

€ 31 years ago (March 7, 1973, The World) - Georgia-Pacific Corp. announced 48 new manufacturing plants, distribution facilities and plant expansions were in the works. One of the projects would be a new stud lumber mill in Coquille. For an eighth day, the standoff between the federal government and the Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation continued in the armed occupation at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. A spokesman for the government said it had come as far as it could in trying to reach an agreement. Novelist Pearl S. Buck, Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning author, died at the age of 80 with 29 novels, three collections of short stories and an autobiography to her credit.