Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Ten Years Ago
November 9, 2000 The Flour Mill Bakery, at 120 Main, opened its doors to the public this Sunday. Owners Micheaelle and Scott Huxoll endured months of planning, labor, expense and frustration to make this endeavor a reality. This turn-of-the-century building has been the location of Shuham Harness Shop, Bailey Funeral Home, Ray Funeral Home and DeWitt Funeral Home at different times. Republican Mike Hewitt unseats Sen. Valoria Loveland in the 2000 general election.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
October 24, 1985 Louis Donnelly, son of Richard and Rita Donnelly of Waitsburg, has returned to the United States after a year abroad working in a Saudi Arabia hospital. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not. A new athletic scholarship fund in the amount of $350,000 was presented to Washington State University as a gift from the estate of Marvin R. Hales, Waitsburg High and WSU graduate. The money will provide scholarships in football, basketball, baseball and track.
Fifty Years Ago
October 28, 1960 Windows on Main Street took on a sparkle Monday afternoon when the football team came to town armed with brushes, hoses, towels and all other items necessary for window washing. Ed Lawrence, Larry Broom, Maurice Witt, Paul Hofer, Jim Stonecipher, Maurice Ganguet and Ken Zuger returned Wednesday from a two-day fishing trip to Twin Lakes, Wash. Electric lights first brightened the night in Waitsburg in 1896 when water from the Touchet River turned a small water wheel in the town's first commercial electric light plant. The plant was established by Arthur T. Roberts, a wheat farmer who saw a promising future in this commodity.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
October 25, 1935
Harold Roberts this week purchased the W.P. Williams wheat ranch of 800 acres, located in the Whetstone about seven miles northwest of this city.
Some eighty steel lockers are this week being installed in the high school building for the use of students and teachers. The football game at Athena will be called at three o'clock Friday afternoon. Prices of admission is fifteen cents for all school children and thirty-five cents for adults. The Homemakers Economics Club met with Mrs. Mae McGibbons Monday afternoon, this being their "Jolly Jo Ann" party. Assisting the hostess was Mrs. Vernon Bains, Mrs. Harry Gruver and Mrs. Dow Wright.
One Hundred Years Ago
October 28, 1910 Harry Kennedy of Dayton returned yesterday from Butte, Mont., where he sold a carload of 40,000 pounds of onions for $900.
Dr. Elmer Hill of this city left last week for Troy, Kansas, where on Wednesday of this week he was married to Miss Bertha Dinsmore. Dr. and Mrs. Hill are expected to arrive here within a few days.
The 1910 Frankly "G" belonging to Walter J. Woods of the Waitsburg Garage caught fire Sunday and was practically destroyed. There may be a salvage of '150 in the engine of the machine but otherwise the auto is a total loss.
One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago
November 6, 1885
Mr. Curtis and Miss Alice Bateman and Miss Minnie Hastings are attending school at Whitman College.
Last Tuesday a son of J.M. Denney's was dispatched for an M.D. to attend Sherman Hunt. Denney rode one of BJ Hunt's old farm horses. When within a short distance of home, and while on level grounds, the old farm horse fell-and so did young Denney. Neither of them was hurt, but the boy was frightened-
as was clearly indicated by his color. But when he ascertained to a certainty that he was not dead, he remounted in hot haste, socked his spurs into the ribs of the trembling steed and rode off in purely western style, simply remarking, "That's just the way with an old United Brethren horse."
Next Tuesday, J.H. Hudgin, John Cheatham and George Kellicut will leave for the mouth of the Grand Ronde river on a hunting expedition of two or three weeks. They will leave under a solemn pledge to return laden with venison of the finest quality. We wish them the greatest success-we are hungry. The much talked of prize fight between Jack Dempsey and Dave Campbell at Portland last Monday was won by Dempsey in the third round. Campbell proved to be badly overmatched.
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