PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

August 29, 2002

The Walla Walla Fair will be a Maiden family affair. This year's Queen of the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days, Haley Maiden, and the Parade Marshall, County Commissioner Chuck Maiden, are living proof that the roots of the fair family tree go deep. Haley is Chuck's granddaughter, making her a fourth generation Maiden family participant in the fair. Haley's aunt Pam (Maiden) Hannah was a fair queen in 1975, and her aunt Linda (Maiden) Schmidt was the queen in 1985. Chuck served on the fair board for nine years. This marks the first time the Queen is also the granddaughter of the parade marshal.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 27, 1987

The Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days will begin on Sept. 2. Kicking off the event will be a concert featuring The Judds, and the parade with Don Thomas of Waitsburg as the parade marshal. The parade will be Saturday morning at 10 a.m. through downtown Walla Walla. There will be gen- eral exhibits and livestock, and a carnival. There will be a rodeo on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, starting at 7:45 p.m. This year's queen is Kelli Kimball of Walla Walla.

Fifty Years Ago

August 31, 1962

Four FFA members will be entering exhibits in the S.E Washington Fair this week. Joe McCown will enter a welding table. Gary Thomas will have an Angus steer. Jim Tuttle will have a Hereford cow and steer. Gail Bennett will enter a Chevioy ewe and a Hampshire fat lamb.

Miss Deanna Land and Douglas Ross Anderson were married Aug. 25 in the Christian church.

Miss Mary Lee Thomas of Prescott and David Lee Sandberg were married Aug. 25 in the Prescott Christian church.

Miss JoAnne Katsel and Frank Perry were mar- ried Aug. 18 in Walla Walla First Church of the Nazarene.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

September 3, 1937

About one hundred people were in attendance at the picnic given at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stonecipher on Friday. The party was in honor of Miss Virginia Bloor who was elected Grand Confidential Observer at the Grand Assem- bly of Rainbow Girls in Bellingham.

The goodwill booster group of the Overall Brigade carried the message of the Southeastern Washington Fair to Waitsburg Tuesday afternoon. The Overall Brigade the Drum and Bugle Corps and Fairest Farmerette candidate Henrietta Vollmer of Columbia County comprised the delegation.

One Hundred Years Ago

August 30, 1912

Only the prompt response of the volunteer fire department last Friday afternoon prevented the total destruction of the Veterinary Hospital Barn on Warren Street, owned by Dr. R.W. Loundagin.

George Stimmel and Miss Lottie Stimmel of Oklahoma, nephew and niece of D.B. Stimmel, arrived last Monday, and will locate here. Their father, who is a large land owner in Oklahoma, had his crops, buildings and considerable stock dam- age from a cyclone a few months ago.

The wheat sacks are a poor lot, ripping and tear- ing easily. They came from a short crop of the best jute in India.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 26, 1887

Starbuck was completely destroyed by fire last Sunday morning. Cause of the fire is unknown.

The Methodist Church at Huntsville is being pushed up as rapidly as possible. The flue for the furnace will be nearly enclosed this week. It is to be pushed to completion.

The wheat fields of David Roberts near this city made an average of 45 bushels per acre. It is of ex- cellent quality and entirely free of smut. This is the best we have heard of so far this season.

Lewis Cox shipped 88,000 pounds of brewing barley in bulk on Saturday. It goes to Milwaukee and is probably the first grain ever sent from here in bulk.

Dr. H.W. Allen this week purchased the Ma- son residence property, corner Main and Seventh streets, where E. S. Burgan now lives, and he and his estimable wife will soon live at home and board at the same place.