Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Ten Years Ago
August 24, 2000 The most intense wildland fire season in over 50 years has caused evacuations and health concerns. Project Impact urges firesafety procedures be observed. Locally, firefighters responded Friday afternoon to a residence in the 300 block of Coppei to extinguish a crawlspace fire.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
August 8, 1985 "Don't Blink, 1985 Harvest may be over" turned out to be a little premature. Rains late last week and heavier showers Sunday put harvest time on hold.
Honoring the anniversary of the second atomic bomb dropped that brought that war to an end on Aug. 15, 1945, Hubert Donohue of Dayton, who piloted B-17s over Europe, staged a 50th anniversary celebration for the workhorse at the Boeing Company in Seattle. Don Thomas demonstrated an early wheat harvest this weekend at their farm. Jay Thomas drove the 27-mule team while helpers attend to the tasks of leveling, steering and setting cutting height on the vintage John Deere 36B combine.
Stream flows in the Columbia River and its tributaries are at near record lows, according to the Bonneville Power Administration during the driest summer since 1977. BPA has begun purchasing power to conserve water and offset some of the impacts on recreation. Water levels have been lower than they are currently four times in the past 60 years.
Fifty Years Ago
August 12, 1960 A report from the Lewis and Clark Trail State Park on State Highway 410, three miles northeast of Waitsburg, shows that 3,000 tourists have camped overnight so far this summer, according to George Honey, superintendent. Mrs. Lillian Wills was honored on her 73rd birthday, Thursday, Aug. 4, at her home when Mrs. Allen Wills and Mrs. Don Wills planned a surprise dinner party.
Susan Lawrence and Katherine Hall flew to Seattle Monday to attend the Aqua Follies at the Green Lake Theatre. They enjoyed a boat trip around Seattle and returned home by Northern Pacific streamliner.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
August 9, 1935 Will Vollmer this week harvested a measured 1 ¼ acres of Rex wheat, a new variety which he put in last fall on a test plot. The yield was right at 70 bushels per acre. Students listed on the honor roll at W.S.C. for the second semester include Forrest Mock, Donald Schmitt, Miss Freda Vollmer and Firth Chew. Central School is being redecorated throughout after a lapse of many years and brand new floors upstairs and downstairs are being laid. Zo Atkinson, grain dealer, this week purchased the entire wheat crop of Mrs. Whitehouse and her tenant, Carl Penner, consisting of 65,000 bushels. For the higher protein content,78 cents was received, the balance at 70 cents.
One Hundred Years Ago
August 12, 1910 The Touchet Valley gives promise of becoming a vast orchard in a few years. The latest and most extensive venture in a sure thing is Frank Hoskins, one of the most extensive land owners in the valley. The Coppei school grounds were the scene of a very enjoyable picnic last Sunday. The party took the morning train over the Northern Pacific and returned in the evening. Samuel Bailey will send you a new steel range guaranteed for ten years and take your old stove in exchange. A jolly crowd composed of Misses Carrie Wright, Jennie Hale, Constance Mohr, Arlie Matloch and Mrsrs Ralph Singer and Lew Michaels spent Sunday at Thayers Mill. They report a very pleasant trip.
One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago
August 21, 1885 Feminine Beauty in Demand! In Garfield county there are 737 single men and only 68 unmarried women. The Glenwood Echo says: "We want girls in Garfield county - blondes, brunettes, tall, short, fat, lean, jolly girls. We are 669 girls short and we want all the girls to know it." Mr. and Mrs. Times will leave on this evening's train for Clatsop Beach, to be absent a period of 30 days in search of health and strength. During our absence the pencil, paste pot and scissors of this first class family journal will be in the skillful and experienced hands of J.V. Crawford. Be good to him.
During the storm Tuesday evening, lightning struck a hay cock in the field of J.E. Zumwalt near Huntsville, setting it on fire. As it was raining at the time, but little damage was done. Alex Stewart returned home from Montana last Friday. He reports the sheep market in Territory rather dull.
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