PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago January 25, 2011

The Waitsburg Lions Club members discussed building a bicycle motocross course for young people as a community project.

The roof project on Towne Hall is complete. Board members learned that Gillespie Roofing, Inc. of Walla Walla finished the reroofing of the72-yearold building at 121 Main.

Twenty-Five Years Ago January 16, 1986

The Waitsburg School Board accepted a bid from Jerry Smith for a bus garage; Smith construction got the bid at $17,560 for the building only.

The building on Main Street which housed the Secondhand store was declared unsafe this week after the fire which demolished Mrs. Ritter's living quarters. Mrs. Ritter is now in the Robison Nursing Home in Dayton.

Riddle from Pt Miller: Why did the farmer take a bale of hay to bed with him? Answer: To feed his nightmares? (bad joke)

Fifty Years Ago January 13, 1961

The annual Firemen's Benefit Dance held New Year's Eve in Waitsburg drew a good crowd and netted the firemen higher receipts than during the past two or three years.

A birthday dinner party was given in honor of Will Hawks by Mrs. Hollis Hawks and Mrs. Otto Nelson on Saturday, Jan. 7, in celebration of his 81st birthday.

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Leid of Huntsville returned Jan. 8 from a vacation trip that took them to Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Pasadena. They were in Pasadena for the Rose Parade and saw the Rose Bowl game.

Seventy-Five Years Ago January 10, 1936

Edgar Leonard Jr., who has been associated with the Preston-Shaffer Milling Company for some time, this week opened a grain office on Main Street in the north room of the Weintrab building.

Thus far about two tons of black locust seed have been collected in the Walla Walla district under the UPA program and have been sent to Pullman to be dried and threshed preparatory to being used by the soil conservation program.

Master Ellsworth Conover sang on the amateur program over KUJ Walla Walla at the Liberty Theatre Monday. He was the winner and was invited to sing at the midnight vaudeville performances New Year's Eve.

One Hundred Years Ago January 13, 1911

H.E Boynton this week sold the dray and transfer business of the Waitsburg Dray & Transfer Company, of which he was the sole proprietor, to Harry Hart, proprietor of the competitive dray line here.

Arthur Land is moving his family into town from the Wilson Hollow farm. He has rented the Sampson property in Pleasant View Addition. Mr. Land will have charge of the office work of the Waitsburg Trading Co., which was recently purchased by his brother, M.H. Land.

A very pleasant party is reported as being held at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Price last Thursday evening. Several back loads of young people left town early in the evening and returned at a late hour tired but happy.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago January 15, 1886

At Kahlotus, second station east of Palouse junction on the Palouse Branch, O.R&N., Saturday afternoon at 4:30, C. Mority, stock grower, discharged a pistol at a coyote running on the ice. The bullet, .45 caliber, glanced from the ice and struck a man a quarter of a mile away, in the left shoulder. The wounded man is now in a Walla Walla hospital under treatment of Dr. N.B. Blalock, and is in a fair way to improve.

J. Pettijohn, the sage of middle Touchet, was in the city yesterday and made us a pleasant call. For him, and such as he, our latch string is always out.

The Farnsworth farm of one hundred and twenty acres, was last Saturday sold to Martin Hauber for $1,710. The ranch is situated only a short distance from this city, is well watered and timbered, contains some fine meadow lands and is really a very desirable place. At the price, it is "dirt cheap."