PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago May 30, 2002

Waitsburg is pot of gold for 500 Rainbow girls honoring Menino here Saturday. Waitsburg will be a funfilled day from the crack of dawn to the dance, as five hundred - count 'em- five hundred Rainbow Girls and advisers, led by Grand Worthy Adviser Holly Menino, come to meet and play.

Twenty-Five Years Ago June 4, 1987

School Board discusses teacher's arrest in executive session. The Waitsburg School Board reviewed and approved several funding programs, made a change in the Kindergarten schedule and then went into executive session for the consideration of personnel matters. Board Attorney John Biggs was present for the executive session which considered , among other items, the procedures to follow relative to teacher and school Librarian Allen Mattison who was arrested on May 22 under the charge: investigation of possession of a controlled substance, amphetamines.

Fifty Years Ago June 8, 1962

Miss Sally Chase is arriving home this evening from WSC after completing her freshman year studying English and literature. She will be employed at The Times office this summer.

Larry Conover tied for second place in the Soil and Water Conservation Poster Contest for sixth graders. Blue ribbon winners were Jim Christensen, Mary Leid, Julie Stonecipher, Diane Wills, Larry Buton and Sherry Donnelly. Red ribbon winners were Lisa Samson, Janice Towers, Gwyn Ferguson, Joyce Nix, Nancy Gagnon, Ray Mohney, Robert Maib and Wallace Bennett.

Seventy-Five Years Ago June 4, 1937

The 34th annual reunion and banquet of the Waitsburg High School Alumni Association was held Wednesday evening at the K of P Hall with one hundred sixty in attendance- the largest ever.

Despite cold, windy weather, Waitsburg's 28 annual Days of Real Sports drew fair-sized crowds. The festivities opened Thursday with a free street dance. The curtain-raiser to the races was a snappy parade at 11 a.m. Friday morning.

One Hundred Years Ago May 31, 1912

Len Neal and crew of Dayton, has just completed what is thought to be the largest barn in Garfield County. The barn is 78x116 feet and is on the H.F. Clodius Jr. farm near Mayview.

Cards have been issued this week by Mrs. A.M. McCall announcing the approaching marriage of her daughter Katherine Matilda to Mr. John Zenry Vollmer on Wednesday evening, June 12, at the Christian Church at 8 p.m.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago May 27, 1887

Moses Wright last week sold his farm of 320 acres on Wilson Hollow, three miles from this city, to Alexander Stewart for $8,000. It is a splendid farm.

The street sprinkler started on Wednesday and the terrible dust of Main Street is no more.

The school directors of this district are advertising for 25 cords of wood. A good cash job for somebody.

Robert Loundagin now drives one of the finest movers in the country. A young, gray mare, as pretty as a picture.