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Ten Years Ago July 4, 2002 Pool to open on Monday! With around $27,000 in dona- tions paving the way, preparations to ready the Waitsburg City Pool for operation are underway and the facility is expected to open Monday, July 8. Officials expect operation to be from four to six weeks, depending on staffing, utiliza- tion of volunteers and availability of funds. Some $27,000 has been donated or pledged, said Tom Baker, Friends of the Pool chairman. There is a $16,000 in the bank account, Baker said, mainly from donations in memory of Pat Leid and from other donors. Two more donors have pledged an additional $11,000, he said. Work is underway by city employees, said Councilman David Philbrook. The donations will fund labor, heat, chemicals and other expenses, he said. If funding holds, six weeks will carry swimmers through the middle of August, Philbrook said. Memorial donations were made by 30 donors, and other monetary gifts were given by 64 other donors.

Twenty-Five Years Ago July 2, 1987 The County Committee will meet in the high school auditorium at 8 p.m. on Monday, July 20, to consider the re-drawing of the director districts of the Waitsburg School Board. The meeting was moved up at the request of some pa- trons, so the new districts, if re-drawn, will be ready for filing time this fall. Other discussions include contract recommen- dations, an increase in teacher's salaries, the budget for the upcoming school year and various projects that are underway at the school, including new fences around the athletic fields, paving the new parking lot, new sheet rock in the ceiling of Preston Hall, and the possibility of a co-op sports program.

Fifty Years Ago July 6, 1962 The Waitsburg Motel has changed ownership. Theodore Newton having purchased the motel from the Harold Grow- ers. Margaret Daniel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Daniel, has been awarded a state PTA Scholarship to Central Wash- ington College. Waitsburg's women's bowling team sponsored by the American Legion Club placed second in the Washington State Women's Bowling Association. Members of the team are Lenora Gammon, Carol Huwe, Dallas Huwe, Carol Swanger, Lorene Wright and Dorothy Gullecksom.

Seventy-Five Years Ago July 9, 1937 The country home of Mr. and Mrs. John Clodius was the scene of a very pretty wedding Saturday afternoon when Miss Margaret Clodius and John Bach, Jr., of Longview wed. A party of 15 Waitsburg and Walla Walla people spent Sunday and Monday at Wallowa Lake, including Paul Ray and wife and son, Wilma Waggoner, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Waggoner, Mr. and Mrs. John McRae marvel McRae, Hilda McRae, Orma Flauhr, Clifford Aden and Lee Jensen. Robert McCoy is stationed at a forest ranger look-out near Bear Wallow in the Blue Mountains this summer.

One Hundred years Ago July 5, 1912 The Commercial Club will visit the Kelley Ranch on Jasper Mountain next Sunday, July 7. The people of this city-men and women-have been invited by Mr. Eugene Kelley to visit his place on the mountain Sunday and eat all the strawberries they desire. The Sunday School (Alto) will give an ice cream social at the home of John Jones; the proceeds to be donated to the minister, who has so ably preached this season. Everyone is cordially invited. The Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. has a force of men at work making a number of changes the mill. The office rooms are being greatly enlarged and the general arrangement im- proved.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago July 1, 1887 Week before last, J. S. Davis (better known as Cash-up Davis) bought Steptoe Butte in Whitman County, W.T.. and will forth-with erect a $500 mansion on the summit. He thinks he can get a nice road to the summit in a circuit of 3.5 miles. Mr. Davis has sent east for a $250 glass, and when he gets it located, he will be able to look right into the City of Walla Walla. Miss Minnie Davis has been engaged to teach at Winnett School on Hog Eye, beginning in September, at $40 a month. Miss Minnie is an exceptionally fine young lady, and those people are to be congratulated on securing her to teach their children. Last Sunday night was quite cool for this season of the year. At the foot of the mountain, nine miles east of this city there was sufficient frost to materially damage beans and other tender garden truck. At a meeting of the school directors last Tuesday, the clerk was instructed to see that no stock of any kind be allowed in the school yard. At 1:30 last Friday morning, a fire broke out in the Opera House, Dayton, and before it could be brought under subjection, two blocks, one on each side of Main Street, were reduced to ashes. A crazy tea party was given in the Opera House the night before, and from that the fire is supposed to have originated.