PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

December 14, 2000

The proposed tower on Buttercup Hill has been the talk of the town. According to the Waitsburg Planning Commis­sion, the 250-foot tower on 300-foot Buttercup Hill, "would be the single most visible feature throughout the city and all approaches to the City." A public hearing to gather comments has been postponed pending the gathering of more informa­tion. A nine-month fundraising project was realized this week when crews from Gillespie Roofing replaced the decades-old asphalt and tar roof with a high-tech rubber membrane roof on Ye Towne Hall. A grant from the Sherwood Trust in Walla Walla, as well as one from Pacific Power, helped substan­tially.

Numerous civic-minded individuals and businesses kicking in various amounts ranging from $100 to $1,000 made up the balance.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 28, 1985

The Lions Club inducted seven new club members Tues­day night. They are John Kenney, Dan Cole, Jim Langdon, Bob Abbey, Greg Zuger, Dan McKinley and Neil Henze.

Last Saturday 15 members of the 55 Plus Club Senior Swingers Kitchen Band played for patients at the Robison Nursing Home and the Booker Annex in Dayton. DeNova Club met at the home of Mrs. Wilt Poolman on Nov. 7. Mrs. Earl Miller presented the program and had ev­eryone make Christmas wreaths of yarn. The Christmas party will be a salad luncheon and the usual gift exchange.

Fifty Years Ago

December 2, 1960

Chas S. Mead and his brother Hal E. Mead together with Paul Nelson have purchased the Harvester Supply Co. Inc in Dayton from Melcher-Ray Machinery Co. The sale was ef­fective on Tuesday of this week. The American Legion Auxiliary sponsored a hospital party for the patients of the Walla Walla Veteran's Hospital on Nov. 22. Bingo was played for cigarettes and script books given as prizes.

A new 10,000-gallon bulk tank for the gas and oil depart­ment of the Touchet Valley Grain Growers is now being built by the Waitsburg Welding Works and is expected to be raised next week adjoining the other tank at the north end of Main Street.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 29, 1935

The W-Club met on Tuesday for reorganization and elected officers. Charles Sutton was chosen president, John Neace, vice-president, Willard Pollard, secretary-treasurer and Joe Buroker, sergeant-at-arms.

A musical, sponsored by the Kensington Club of the Pres­byterian Church, was given Friday evening. On the program were the Women's Choral Club, Mrs. Virginia Shufford, Miss Frances Samuels, Mrs. Donald Neace, Miss Iris Boone and Bud Stove.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 2, 1910

Roland Allen this week purchased the entire grocery stock of the C.A. Hales Company, and the store was opened Thurs­day morning for the first time this week, having been closed since Monday to permit invoicing. The name of the firm will be Allen's Cash Grocery.

Wednesday, Nov. 30, was the 40th anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. E.D. Mills of near this city, and the family and a few friends planned a surprise for them. Their five children, all residing here, are Mrs. Abby Mikkelsen, Frank, Charley, Harlan and Harvey Mills.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 11, 1885

A number of ladies of Dayton publish one G.W. Bermis, the man who is traveling through the country, anxious to teach his method of making silk ornaments, etc. They pro­nounce him a trickster and deceitful fabricator, and warn the unsuspecting to beware his glib tongue. Those ladies know whereof they speak. At the meeting of the city council on Thursday night of last week, Mayor Powell called the attention of that body to the numerous frog ponds on Main Street, but the frog ponds still remain. On the subject the council will probably report "progress" at its next regular meeting.

A fine $370 organ, one of Esty's finest chapel organs, ar­rived this week for the M.E. church. Boys are successfully trapping for beaver in the Touchet above Huntsville. Eight hundred tons of wheat a month is the contribution of Lewiston to the grain supply of the world. Judge Wingard is undecided as to whether or not he is any longer judge and declines to transact any more business till this matter is settled by one higher in authority than he.