PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

December 7, 2000

Everyone enjoyed the Waitsburg Hometown Christ­mas last Sunday, from parade watchers to youngsters on Santa's lap. Over 70 drawing winners took home prizes. Charlee Long, daughter of Jake and Michelle Lon, carried the flag to lead the Hometown Christmas Parade, termed by many as the best yet. The air is alive with expectations as town folk prepare for their annual concerts, Contata and/or other celebrations.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 21, 1985

Construction is underway at the BM Grocery in Waitsburg's Eastgate. Work crews recently poured the foundation for an addition to the grocery store part of the business.

Waitsburg Grange will be hosting the first Thanks­giving Carnival at Ye Towne Hall on Nov. 24. This event will provide something for everyone in the fam­ily, including bingo, money drop, cakewalk and eight others.

Lloyd Smith, Toastmaster, received a plaque an­nouncing his Presidential Citation honoring him for outstanding contribution to Toastmaster International. Smith's was one of six awarded annually nationwide.

Fifty Years Ago

November 25, 1960

Waitsburg firemen met last Friday night and re-elected Elmer Hazelbaker as fire chief; Byron Gusse, assistant; Sam Wills, first captain, Emory Krucheck, second captain; Walt Harris, secretary; and Bob Sea­graves, president. Roger Hillis was crowned Twirp King at the annual dance held Friday night. Princes Jerry Harshman, Mike Vennum and Bobby Butler.

The Sonoita Club will hold their annual winter semi-formal on Dec. 3 at the Legion Hall. Mrs. John Wood, Mrs. Howard Smith, Mrs. Roy McKinney, Mrs. Wallace Winnett and Mrs. Gale Piersol have charge of decorations. The Corps of Army Engineers is holding to their prediction of putting the first power on the line from Ice Harbor Lock and Dam in December 1961. Ice Harbor Lock and Dam is the first of a series of four dams on the lower Snake river to be built to produce power.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 22, 1935

Ernest Moors has been recently appointed foreman of Road District No. 2 by Commissioner M.W. Mc­Cown to succeed the late George Dose. Rev. Lloyd Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Smith of Bolles, preached in Prescott last Sunday evening in the Community Church.

The girls of the 4-H Club of this city under the lead­ership of Mrs. Walter Wonser will receive their pins Saturday. Those eligible are Joan Hamilton, Virginia Rinehart, Georgiana and Harriet Kozisek, Gwendola and Theresa Wonser, Mary and Bertha Nilong, Shirley and Marjorie Mays and Helen Brunson.

One Hundred Years Ago

November 25, 1910

A story from Walla Walla says that W.H. Case, su­pervisor of the road district No. 4 of this county, has made 148 miles of straw road this season. The straw holds down the dust and prevents wheels from sinking into the mud in wet seasons.

Miss Mae Shaffer of Dayton and Mr. William Vollmer of this city are to be married Thursday, Nov. 24 at high noon.

Born at the farm home near this city, Monday morn­ing, Nov. 21, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. Will Harris, a son. Grandpa Gustav Vollmer is as proud as a boy with a new toy.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 4, 1885

An incipient fire in Mrs. Clark's residence at 7 this morning caused the sounding of the fire bell. The boys responded promptly, but a few well-directed buckets of water had extinguished the flames before they arrived. No further damage than the spoiling of what might have been a first-class item.

The trial of James Close for the killing of two Indi­ans held the attention of the court all day Saturday and was given to the jury until 6 o'clock in the evening. After a number of ballots, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of assault and battery. Among thinking people the verdict is a strange one as it makes killing an Indian a misdemeanor and not a crime.

Last Monday morning the lifeless body of J.A. Keats was discovered hanging to an impoverished gallows-two rails and a cross bar-the road side between Pendleton and Adams, Oregon, the work of questionable vigilianties.

Saturday evening at the billiard hall of J.H. Mor­row, E.L. Powell and D.W. Kaup will play a game of billiards of 300 points for the champion cue. As these gentlemen are both crack players, it will be an interest­ing game. The exhibition will be public.