PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago February 28, 2002

The annual caucus for the city of Waitsburg, sponsored by Commercial Club, will be held at Ye Towne Hall on Tuesday, March 5.

While visiting friends in Salt Lake City, Jim and Liv Leid of Waitsburg, saw Austrian Fritz Strobl win the gold medal in the Olympic men's downhill.

An advertisement featured in this paper from Sunset Houseseekers Bureau of Information states that "The exact center of the greatest apple country in the world is the Touchet Valley, Washington."

Twenty-Five Years Ago March 5, 1987

Days of Real Sport, Inc., met Tuesday evening and elected two new board members, Dan McKinley and Neil Carpenter. Bill Payne was returned to his position on the board. Lee Pennell is president, Ken Smith, vice president, Terry Hofer, secretary and Betty Hover, treasurer.

Waitsburg's Larry Weir will be the voice of the State "B" Tournament on KHQ's Q-59 AM station. The tournament will be in Spokane.

"Emergency Response Driving" will be the subject of a workshop to be held Saturday, May 7, in the high school. Walt Gobel, state patrol trooper will conduct the workshop for firemen and ambulance personnel.

Fifty Years Ago March 2, 1962

A heavy snowfall Wednesday evening and Thursday brought the most white stuff of the winter with March coming in like a lion.

Albert Land, Ivan Keve and Harvey Estes were among the civic leaders who attended the 9607th Air Force Reserve Recovery Squadron exercise held Saturday at the City-County Airport in Walla Walla.

The Green Giant Company has announced that freezing operations will be installed in its Waitsburg plant in time to handle the 1962 crop.

Seventy-Five Years Ago March 5, 1937

The annual spring race meet, Days of Real Sport, is assured again this year. The American Legion will sponsor the event. The Alto Club met last Thursday at the home of Mrs. Argil Smith in Waitsburg for an all-day meeting with a covered dish luncheon.

Kenneth Zuger, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Zuger, who is attending school at Atascadero, Calif., is now pretty well recovered from his accident a few weeks ago when he slipped and fell down the side of a cliff.

One Hundred Years Ago March 1, 1912

Marcel Gagnon, aged 80 years, father of Marcel Gagnon, of this city, and a pioneer resident of the valley, passed away at Walla Walla Monday evening. Mr. Gagnon was born in Canada where he resided until 1850, when he moved to California. Two years later, he came to the Walla Walla Valley, later taking up a homestead near Frenchtown. Mrs. J.W. Bruce entertained the Aloha Club and their husbands and several special friends at a "500" party Saturday night. The party was given at the handsome new Bruce house on Main Street which has but recently been completed. Consolation prizes only were awarded to Mrs. W. E. McKinney and D.P. Bailey.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago February 25, 1887

The cattle-skinning business is said to be lively in Montana and Wyoming just now, and the demand for skinners is greater than the supply.

We insert death notice free, but for obituary notices we charge 5 cents a line-just half our rates for other local advertising. No deviation from this rule under any circumstances.

Frank McKinney is now stationed behind the counter of Boyer & Morrow's. Frank is a splendid young man and will doubtless succeed in his endeavor to become a retail salesman. He has our best wishes.

The following gentlemen from this community are selected to aid Judge Langford in dispensing justice at the next term of the district court in Walla Walla: Grand jurors: Wm. McKinney, W.W. Walters, W.H. Brunton, Al. Lloyd, T.S. Neely, E.H. Chapman and A.C. Dickinson. Petit jurors: Lewis Cox, E.D. Minnick, G.W. Loundagin, Frank McCown and R.S. Cantonwine.