PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

August 31, 2000

Enhanced 911 Mapping and Addressing Project has completed its address assignments. The focus of the Enhanced 911 project is to ensure that each telephone line in the telephone company's database has a corre­sponding Enhanced 911 address. Walla Walla Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a Waitsburg man, Clarence Stearns, and put a warrant out for another after investigating a methamphetamine lab on the North Fork of the Coppei.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 15, 1985 The City Council approved a recommendation from the planning commission that approval be granted for Tom Klevgaard to operate a used car lot on 2nd Street. Delbert Hansen, the driver of a combine that rolled on a hillside Friday, escaped injury and ended up in the pile of wheat that came out of the bulk tank. He was ap­parently thrown from the cab of the International 1470 machine, which is part of Hansen Harvesting. The ma­chine rolled two or three times down steep terrain in a North Coppei field. The Lions Club will be serving a beef barbecue at the Pioneer Fall Festival this year instead of buffalo.

Fifty Years Ago

August 19, 1960 Expected enrollment in the Waitsburg School will be higher by 65 students than the past nine years aver­age according to figures compiled by Superintendent Gerald Maib. Rev. J. Raymond Fate has accepted the pastorate of the Christian Church and will begin his duties here on Sept. 4.

Misses Mary Liebermann and Judy Wright were honored at a buffet Tuesday evening at the Kenneth Gilman home with Miss Cheri Gilman and Miss Sonia Pierson as hostesses. Judy and Mary who left this week for Europe were presented gifts by the hostesses.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

August 16, 1935 The mountains were lined with huckleberry pickers Sunday, many of whom had been out for several days. Some parties brought in eight or 10 gallon after several days of picking.

J.W. Sweazy and Robert Collins have purchased a combine to replace the one destroyed by fire Sunday. Mr. Sweazy will resume harvesting immediately.

Mr. and Mrs. G.M. Sprague and Mr. And Mrs. Clif­ford Light drove to Troy, Ore., Wednesday and spent a couple of days fishing.

One Hundred Years Ago

August 19, 1910

With two months of unbroken dry weather ,all re­cords of the Walla Walla weather bureau have been broken. The last precipitation being on June 16.

The Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church spent Wednesday at the home of Dr. Hill in Huntsville. They report a very enjoyable day and a dinner fit for a king.

Dr. Robert Loundagin of the Hospital Barn had the misfortune to get kicked on the leg by a horse he was treating Monday. On examination it was found neces­sary to put a plaster cast on the leg. Doctor is able to hobble about with a cane.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 28, 1885 Smith and Armstrong have the contract of putting in a cistern in Main Street on the south side of Third near the City Hotel. It is to be walled with brick, cemented and covered with plank, cost $250. They are putting the work rapidly forward to completion.

Emil Bories, the hero of the smallpox epidemic at Dayton some three years ago, has returned from the East a full-fledged physician. Large quantities of wheat are now being brought to the warehouses in this city for shipment. The family of P.A. Preston last Sunday returned from their summer residence in the Blue Mountains in good health. The mountain air was good for them. Born in the hills north of Also, August 25, 1885, to the wife of Charles Jobe, a son.