Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Ten Years Ago
September 7, 2000
The 2000 small grains crop will be long remembered for its yields and quality as "best-ever." Some farmers reported yields of 110, 120 or 130 acres, leading to yields over 20 percent above average. Many local youth show stock in the Walla Walla fair, and gear up for the Columbia County fair this weekend.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
August 22, 1985 Bobby N. Pettichord Post No. 7021, Veterans of Foreign Wars, is the name selected for the newly organized
post here in Waitsburg. Pettichord, a graduate of Waitsburg High School in the Class of 1945, lost his life June 13, 1945, on Luzon in the Philippines.
Thomas Baker, publisher of The Times, was recently elected president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. He will formally take officeduring the September convention.
Several friends got together for a quadruple birthday party Wednesday. Francis Wood was 78 and Orin Walker was 85 on Aug. 12; Madison Weaver was 88 on Aug. 14 and Fern Weeks was 29 on Aug. 16.
Fifty Years Ago
August 25, 1960
Kermit Jones is building new hangars for the Waitsburg Helicopter at his new location, south of this city on Highway 410, which he purchased recently from Roy Leid. The 1960 census figures show that Waitsburg is the only city in the state with exactly the same census of 1,015 people registered in 1960 as in 1950. Clarence Bice, 67, of Raymond owes his life to Art Danielson of Waitsburg who plucked him from the Columbia River after he had fallen overboard Tuesday afternoon. The accident occurred about a half-mile below jetty A near Ilwaco.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
August 23, 1935
A fire started on the Andy Hermann ranch in a stubble field Saturday morning while men were hauling grain and spread across the fence into standing grain of King Witt's. Mr. and Mrs. G.J. Burgund of Spokane this week purchased the Quality Bakery from Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Mays, and have taken possession. Lolita Trichler entertained 11 of her little friends at a lawn party Thursday afternoon. Those present were Betty Jean Mays, Janice Roberts, Monte and Mary Ann Shaffer, Muriel Roberts, Barbara Cockburn, June, Joan and Lavada Smith, Betty and Allen Baim.
One Hundred Years Ago
August 26, 1910 Herbert Beckley came home from Lowden last week with the typhoid fever. He is reported to be getting along nicely. F.E. Vinning, O.B. Smith and Ralph Lloyd who have been spending the last week on a fishing trip on the Tucannon, returned home Monday night. They report fishing only fair.
J.L. Harper has bred unusually hardy wheat that may prove to be a new variety. Henry Watrous boasts a yield of 63 bushels to the acre of the new Pullman hybrid 143, and cutting and threshing 700 sacks in a single day.
One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago
September 4, 1885
Rev. N.E. Parsons informs us that a two-days "basket meeting" will be held at the Shiloh campgrounds near Huntsville on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12 and 13, to which everybody is most cordially invited. The down train Wednesday, when near Huntsville, ran over and killed a valuable horse belonging to Rev. N.E. Parsons of that city. Dick Caldwell of Dayton was in the city this week proposing to deliver good common lumber on board the cars at Dayton for $10 per thousand feet. We are patiently anticipating a large amount of amusement when Frank Booth's two-wheeled horse arrives from the east. Miss Ruth Arnold will teach the school in the Frank Keiser neighborhood the coming fall and winter, we understand. The Powell and Hudgin excursion party returned yesterday from Hayden Lake looking fat and dusty enough for any use. G.W. Loundagin has left at this office a cucumber of the "Snake" variety which measures 36 inches in length. Pickled it would make an entire meal for any man of ordinary capacity.
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