PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago May 23, 2002

Voters give City M&O levy an overwhelming thumbs down. Sixty-seven percent of the voters in Waitsburg appear to have resoundingly turned down a one-year taxation request by the city of Waitsburg. Of the ballots received by mail or delivered to the Walla Walla County Auditors's office as of 8 p.m.

Twenty-Five Years Ago May 28, 1987

A drug raid nets two from Waitsburg. Travis Weedman is placed under arrest early Friday morning as the result of the cooperative drug enforcement program in Walla Walla, Columbia and Umatilla counties. Weedman was charged with four counts under the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, two of delivering cocaine and two of delivering marijuana.

Fifty Years Ago May 25, 1962

Eighteen seniors at Waitsburg High School will receive their diplomas May 28. Susan Lawrence with straight-A grades will be valedictorian and Lynn Mantz, salutatorian.

Miss Nancee Clodius was installed as worthy advisor of Waitsburg Assembly No. 68 Sunday afternoon.

Seventy-Five Years Ago May 28, 1937

Denzel Piercy, an experienced theater man of Prineville, Ore., has purchased the equipment of the Neace Theatre from Mr. and Mrs. Donald Neace, and has leased the beautiful little show house for a period of five years. The name will be changed to the Plaza and a neon sign erected.

John Neace, Bob Rhay, Bob Hillis, Paul Hofer and Bob Hastings competed in the state track meet held at Pullman Saturday.

One Hundred Years Ago May 24, 1912

The Waitsburg Camels of the Touchet Valley League lost their game with Starbuck on the City Park grounds last Friday by a score of 12-5. The Camels lost to Prescott Sunday, 10-9.

The Perrine-Jonas Co. had several dozen lights wired along the front of their building for the Horse Show. The lights will be left on the building permanently, to be used on special occasions.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago May 20, 1887

Heppner Gazette: Tom D'Arcy, a sheepherder by "profession" and a blowhard by instinct, wants to correspond this summer with some bright, accomplished and wealthy young lady, with a view to matrimony. Correspondent should send along a supply of stamps and white paper and will do well to fumigate Tom's end of the correspondence.

Many immigrants are now arriving in this country, and a majority of them have money and want to buy land. It would pay farmers who want to sell out to make their desires known by advertising some in the Times