PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

October 19, 2000

Toga Day is just one of many events for Homecom­ing week at Waitsburg High. The week includes volley­ball against Touchet and football versus Pomeroy, con­cluding with the Homecoming Dance Saturday night. A flurry of donations from individuals has moved Ye Towne Hall Roof fund to within $500 of reaching its goal before the $15,000 project starts on Oct. 23.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 3, 1985 An attempted break-in was reported to the marshal on October 1 at a local tavern. Someone entered the grocery store in the early morning of October 1 by kicking a hole in the plate-glass front door. Missing was some $550 worth of beer, cigarettes, cheese and lunch meats.

Waitsburg Downtown Merchants will hold a special "Shop at Home" night on Tuesday, October 8, from 7 to 9 p.m. Smith Canning and Freezing Company ended the 1985 vegetable pack Sunday afternoon with the tradi­tional tooting of the steam whistle. The company was duped of the last 10 percent of their green bean pack by an unexpected frost in the Walla Walla and Columbia Basin bean-growing areas.

Fifty Years Ago

October 7, 1960 Attending Pioneer District Boy Scout Jubilee Day Oct. 1 at the fairgrounds in Walla Walla were Dick Baker, Dan Butler, Jeff Broom, Jack Cyr, Dan Ginch, Mike Hubbard, Jim Langdon, Wes Leid, Tom Mock, Lewis Neace, John Payne, Gary Segraves, Bob Stew­art, John Towers and James Wills. Waitsburg 4-H Livestock Club met at the Double M Club House Saturday morning when Donna Harris was elected president; Freda Kay Harris, vice-president; Carl Peck, treasurer; Charlie McCown, reporter; and Gail Wheeler, parliamentarian.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 4, 1935 The Pendleton Buckaroos, with a display of power that left Waitsburg helpless, took the game last Satur­day afternoon by a score of 43-0. The third in a series of community dancing parties was given Saturday night at Legion Hall. The dance was sponsored by the American Legion and business­men.

There was no charge for the dancers, and some 150 couples availed themselves of the unusually pleas­ant evening. E.M. Duckworth, who has farmed on the South Fork of the Coppei for several years, has leased his farm and expects to move to Lewiston, Idaho, where he will as­sist a brother, who is in the auto-freighting business.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 7, 1910 Mr. E.H. Denny and Miss Ethel Gilbreath, two prominent young people of Huntsville, were married in this city Wednesday morning. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Chas. McCaughey at the M.E. Parsonage. The bridal couple left on the 9 o'clock train for a short trip to Spokane.

Born - at the Walla Walla Hospital Wednesday eve­ning, Oct. 5, to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Walters, a daughter. Mrs. Walter is probably better known in this city as Miss Alberta Gerking.

The fact that Mr. Codd, owner of the electric light plants at Colfax, Pomeroy and Dayton, was in the city a few days ago on business has received the talk of an electric power line through this valley in the near future.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 16, 1885 Last Tuesday evening while Miss Laura Preston was coming home from her school in Wilson Hollow, and when near the Simons place, her horse became sud­denly frightened, throwing her off and rendering her insensible for a short time. As a consequence she has not been able to attend school since. A little three-year-old boy of Mr. Robert Hawks, while visiting at N.B. Denney's yesterday, fell down stairs breaking one of his arms just below the elbow. Our friend Alex Stewart, who is usually a very quiet, peaceable man, got on his muscle last Saturday and "went for" the old building in the rear of the engine house, formerly occupied by Chinese as a wash house, and deliberately knocked it down.

Last Monday night some person or persons feloni­ously inclined entered the warehouse of E.L. Powell and Preston Bros. Parton, taking from the former nine and the latter six sacks of wheat which they piled on the outside after which it is supposed they retired for the purpose of getting a team to haul off their booty. During their absence, however, the night watchman, Mr. Lewis Davis, appeared on the scene with a lantern which deterred them from carrying out their designs.