PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago October 11, 2001

Long-time Waitsburg Historical Society member Jan Zuger was honored with a bouquet of roses last Monday from the board. Board member Andy Winnett presented the roses to Jan who recently retired from the board. She was a charter member when the group first formed in the 1973 and began restoration of the Bruce Memorial Museum.

It seems to be a time of conflicting rights. Letters to the editor refer to the fact that a hunting license is not a license to trespass. Landowners ask that hunters observe property boundaries.

Observing National Newspaper Week, The Times entrepreneurship took this time to recognize and thank the community for their faithful support for 122 years. In the editorial, the publisher offers an explanation of the police notes and the right of victims and witnesses to have their name kept confidential.

Twenty-Five Years Ago October 9, 1986

Commercial club secretary Ivan Keve reported on a very successful Salmon Barbecue, which was held Sept. 18. There were 839 served, which represented a change from 1985 when only 722 were served.

A quick decision was the right one for John Kenney last Thursday, as he bailed out of a loaded wheat truck after the brakes failed. Kenney received cuts and scrapes when he jumped out of the truck, loaded with seat wheat, on Talbott Hill.

Fifty Years Ago October 13, 1961

The Commercial Club was treated to slides of America's Space Age World's Fair as Seattle changes it's skyline to accommodate the 74-acre event. The theme of the event is "Man in the Space Age," keyed to the U.S. Science Exhibit, a $9,000,000 program, the largest single appropriation ever made by the Federal Government to a domestic world's fair.

Gail Wheeler placed fourth in the state in 4-H garden judging at the State 4-H Fair in Yakima over the weekend. The Walla Walla county team placed third. Members of the team were Richard Czyhold and Pat Meiners of Walla Walla, and Gail Wheeler and John Kruchek of Waitsburg.

Seventy-Five Years Ago October 16, 1936

Clearly superior in all departments, Waitsburg's high school Cardinals repelled an invading Washtucna eleven 13-0 here Friday afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cushin and Billy Payne and Mrs. Wesley drove down to Portland last weekend to attend the Livestock Exposition. Milton Lloyd who is attending college at Corvallis, Ore., will meet his mother at Portland for a visit. Frances Zuger spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zuger. She attends Boise Junior College and returned there Sunday with six girlfriends from the college.

One Hundred Years Ago October 13, 1911

Josh Barnes got tired of turning the crank so he attached a gasoline engine to his windmill.

Dr. R.W. Loundagin purchased a fine team of draft mares at the Sharp sale last week. The animals are full-blood Belgian, 3 years old and weigh 2900 pounds. He will put the horses on his farm.

N.B. Atkinson, of Whiskey Creek, whose barn was recently destroyed by fire, has a fine new barn nearly completed at an expense of $900.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago October 8, 1886

One-half of the space in the news columns of the Walla Walla Union is taken up with attacks on the Waitsburg Times and "Brother Wheeler," and the other half in taking back and apologizing for Johnson's lies.

It is well known by Mr. Coone and the officers of the law who stole the picket rope and quirt off D.M. Coone's saddle in this city last Saturday night, and unless those articles are left at Sam Wilson's stable within a very few days, an arrest will be made.

The new railroad hotel at Wallula which is being built at a cost of $17,000 will be completed and ready for use about Oct. 25.

Water in the Snake River is lower than ever before known.