PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago April 12, 2001

As soon as the weather breaks, the Waitsburg Lions will complete their service project of constructing a BMX track in Waitsburg. The project was initiated at the Lions January 23 meeting and hopes to draw racers and families to Waitsburg for sanctioned events.

Touchet Ramblings author Vance Orchard writes of his quest to find the Old Hudson's Bay Company farm marker west of Umapine this week.

Twenty-Five Years Ago April 3, 1986

Brenda Gales exhibited her fearless attitude so important to successful donkey basketball play. Brenda was one of a team of Student Body members who faced the Waitsburg Faculty at the gym.

Responding to a quip in Pioneer Portraits, Dorthe Mount Hall tells the rest of the story about her father replacing his Buick with an Overland "30" torpedo roadster in 1911. The story goes: "After making a morning call, (Dr. H.A. Mount) drove back to his offi ce and parked. Bill (Dickeson, the Town policeman) then arrested him for speeding at 14 miles per hour down Main Street. Dad was taken to court for an immediate hearing." After a time, Doc learned it was a set up and everyone laughed it off.

Fifty Years Ago April 7, 1961

Queen candidates for the Days of Real Sport are Barbara Gaudie of Prescott, Judy Duckworth and Sandy Henze of Waitsburg.

Asparagus packing by the Green Giant Company in Dayton got off to an early start Thursday as the factory began processing operations.

Don Gagnon and Don Hermanns left Monday accompanied by Mr. Pool and several other men from Dayton to Springfield, Ohio, to drive out some trucks. They plan to spend a day in Chicago before returning home next week.

Seventy-Five Years Ago April 10, 1936

Walla Walla County is erecting a large sheet metal building just off Main Street on the site of the old livery barn which was torn down a few weeks ago.

On Tuesday evening the young people of the Presbytery of Walla Walla met as guests of the Waitsburg church for a dinner and rally. Two Waitsburg young people, Dennis Stanley and Corwin Porter, appeared as speakers on the program. Bob Butler of Waitsburg is vice-president of the council.

E.H. Leonard is driving a new "Zepher" car, the first to be seen in this city. It is a 12-cylinder car manufactured by the Ford Corporation.

One Hundred Years Ago April 7, 1911

Saturday afternoon, April 1, Miss Clara Weatherford at her home in Dayton, gave a shower party for Miss Mabel Morgan, whose engagement was announced on Thursday evening.

Harvey Stonecipher has been moving hogs from his vacated farm. He raises them by the hundreds.

Last Sunday night, the pastor of the Methodist Church spoke on the "Blemishes of Waitsburg Young Women," reading the opinions of the young men as expressed in their letters. Next week the subject will be "And Their Beauty also."

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago April 9, 1886

Married at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Loundagin, near this city, April 1, 1886, H.M. Hoover and Miss Eva Loundagin.

Born in this city, April 2, 1886, to the wife of J.C. Arnold, a son.

No less than fifty stallions were exhibited at the horse show at Dayton last Saturday, and it is safe to say that no finer lot of horses could be found gathered together in any part of the Northwest. While there were not judges and no prizes awarded, Hon A.G. Lloyd's "Gray Eagle" had more admirers than any other horse and was generally pronounced the best animal on the ground.

The Odd Fellows of this city will celebrate the 67th anniversary of Odd Fellowship in America by a grand ball on the evening of April 26. A grand time is anticipated.

Camp meeting on Shiloh Campground near Huntsville will begin on June 10.

Two new churches will be erected in the city this summer. This city should henceforth be known as the "city of churches" as it has one church for each one hundred and fifty of its population.