PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago April 19, 2001

The area gets a new locally owned Internet Service Provider (ISP). Touchet Valley Communications is gearing up to provide dial-up service to users on May 1.

Firefighters and ambulance personnel completed the Emergency Vehicle Accident Prevention course. Upon completing an extensive driver-training course, nearly three dozen people commenced with a "rodeo." Saturday's fire-truck rodeo included a 20-minute road test, a cone course, parallel parking, a three-point turn and other challenges.

Vance Orchard highlights Walla Walla resident Merna Young's donation to Penrose Library, a packet of papers. The papers document a first-person account of a Nez Perce raid in the Grande Rhonde Valley during the Nez Perce battles of 1876-77.

Twenty-Five Years Ago April 10, 1986

Ralph Rankin, Orin Walker, Raselle Collins, James D. Stonecipher, Mae and Madison Weaver are all localities who saw Halley's Comet in 1910. They were also able to review it again last week.

Washington Governor Booth Gardner stopped by the "The Times" office Tuesday to talk politics. Gov. Gardner also visited with a few citizens on Main Street and stopped in City Hall.

Fifty Years Ago May 14, 1961

The sign "Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets" will no longer be viewed by travelers on Highway 410 between Dayton and Waitsburg since the old warehouse has recently been purchased and torn down by Claud Brodhead of Dayton.

Walt Hodgen was the recipient of the Sportsmanship trophy and the Inspirational Award for football at the W Club banquet held in the grade school Tuesday evening. Jim Wood received the tackling award and Bill Donley the Inspirational Award for basketball. Jim Hodgen was voted an honorary membership and presented a crimson and gray blanket.

Seventy-Five Years Ago April 17, 1936

The two young Helmick brothers, Clarence and Jimmy, who live at Bolles, stand high this week in the county predatory drive. Tuesday they dug out eleven coyote pups in one cave on the Morris Woods' ranch below town.

The Progressive Club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Will Hawks. The Sorotus Club members were invited guests. Mrs. Gene Ray was in charge of the program.

Mr. and Mrs. Mike Brunton entertained the Presbyweds at a party on Friday evening.

One Hundred Years Ago April 21, 1911

An aviation meet will be held at the fairgrounds in Walla Walla, April 27, 28 and 29. According to the contract there will be flights by at least five aero planes including monoplanes and biplanes. This will be the first event of this kind in the state of Washington.

Chas Lindberg, a mail carrier on one of the Rural Free Delivery routes out of this city, was arrested Friday afternoon on complaint of Humane Officer Richard H. Ormsbee for driving a horse unfit for duty.

Easter morning Miss Anna Kimmel gave a treat to her Sunday school class of young men by inviting them all to breakfast. Twenty-four guests partook of Miss Kimmel's hospitality. Breakfast was served at 7:30 that all might be in time for 10 o'clock Sunday School at the Methodist Church.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago April 16, 1886

When E. Meeker was appointed Washington Territory's commissioner to the Exposition at New Orleans, the Times was of the opinion that Gov. Squire had made a wise appointment, and our predictions were correct. Mr. Meeker so ably represented the virtues of the entire Territory as to give universal satisfaction to its entire people.

Plenty of April showers to sustain vegetation and lay the dust for the traveler.

The bill admitting Washington Territory into the Union passed the Senate last Saturday. This was no surprise to anyone. But it will not pass the House, at this session of Congress, nor will the inhabitants of the present Territory have the privilege of voting for presidential electors in 1888.

A big mass meeting was held at Lewiston last week at which strongly worded resolutions asking annexation of North Idaho to Washington Territory were adopted.

Mr. E. Lobenstein of Pendleton requests the Weston Leader to state that he is a candidate for Sheriff-not that he wants the office, but simply because he feels lonesome at being almost the only man in Pendleton who is not a candidate-hence the announcement.