PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago October 4, 2001

Celebrating the seventh annual Freedom From Discrimination Month (October), Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center spoke on "Hope and Tolerance in the New Millennium" at Cordiner Hall. This talk is part of an educational program created to raise awareness about diversity and respect.

Five old journals Mark and Roseanne Cooper of St. Helens, Ore. picked up at a yard sale and sent to the library has been a windfall to the Penrose library. The 1903-1924 diaries of William M. Nutthall tell of the family's farm on Cottonwood Creek, just outside the city and their various ventures.

W "Bill" Zuger, former Waitsburg mayor was appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Roy Leid on the Board of Directors of the Waitsburg Coppei Flood Control District this week by the Walla Walla County commissioners.

Washington's wheat production is ranked number three in the nation, behind Kansas and North Dakota. This year's crop totaled 132.6 million bushels, 20 percent less than the 2000 crop but 7 percent more than the 1999 crop, according to the Washington Agricultural Statistics Service. The 2001 wheat crop yield at 55.7 bushels per acre is 12.4 bushels per acres less than 2000.

Twenty-Five Years Ago October 2, 1986

Waitsburg soccer team No. 2 is composed of Eric Wyatt, Andy Furrow, Richard Epp, Ellis Erickson, Dawn Mertens, Ben Yoder, Tom Duckworth, Shawn Smith, Dara Roberts and Ethan Carpenter, Josh Largent and Carl Smith, Jr. are the coaches.

Soccer team No. 1 fields Jim Pearson, Jon Abbey, Michael Murphy, Dian Conover, Stacy Thomas, Jenny Maners, Josh Maners, Philo Murphy, Greg Reser, John McCaw. Their coach is J.E. McCaw.

Roy Leid reported on a recent Emergency Medical Services meeting in Wenatchee which he attended as an EMS member. The meeting Tuesday night was held in Walla Walla.

Fifty Years Ago October 6, 1961

Chet Stonecipher has been named to the board as vice president of the board as vice president of the newly-formed Washington State 4-H Foundation.

A petition to the Department of Agriculture on forests to examine the closure order of all isolated cabins in the Umatilla National forest is being circulated this week and is gaining many signatures.

Seventy-Five Years Ago October 9, 1936

Mrs. W.E. Watt, Camp Fire advisor, entertained her group and Miss Inez Danielson's group on Tuesday evening at a 6:30 o'clock dinner. This was their first meeting after the summer vacation.

W.T. Hamilton of Hamilton's General Store arrived home from a trip to Havana, Cuba, made with some 600 Kelvinator representatives from all parts of the United States.

Jim Hamby of Waitsburg, freshman at Whitman College is a member of the Missionary grid squad. Hamby is out for the tackle position. R.V. "Nig" Borleske is the coach.

One Hundred Years Ago October 6, 1911

J.D. Laidlaw has been confined to his home most of the week with numerous severe bruises as the result of a mixup with a 2-year old Jersey bull, in which J.D. Came out second best.

Ed R. Butler and Ray C. Steele returned home Tuesday from a very successful duck hunt in Washtucna Lake near Kahlotus. They enjoyed some fine shooting and b rough home about fifty birds to show for their day's work.

Miss Mary Frazier and Mr. George McClure were quietly married Monday, Oct. 25th, at Asotin, Wash. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Paul Little, pastor of the Methodist Church, of that place.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago October 1, 1886

Born near this city Sept 18, to the wife of William Bruce, a son. Mother and child doing well, but father's condition considered critical.

Married-At the residence of the bride's parent, Sept. 19, 1886 James H. Fudge and Miss Frances E. Kirby, both of Huntsville.

We understand that a little bad blood was aroused at the Democratic primaries at Starbuck last week: a bowie knife in the hands of one of our young bloods was flourished conspicuously.

Wm. McKinney is making some improvements to his farm residence just below town.

The flour for the Snake River boars is all supplied by Washington mills of this city and given perfect satisfaction.

The new court house in Dayton begins to loom up. The walls are already completed, and the roof is being put on.

T.S. Neely is putting up a new building on the east side of Main Street to be used by Miss Emma Neely as a millinery and dress making establishment.

Wilson & Agatz have turned over the Dayton Chronicle to White and Rainwater, the new proprietors. Mr. Wilson will probably locate and engage in the newspaper business in Portland.