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Ten Years Ago

December 23, 2004

Gabe Kiefel, senior fullback for the Waitsburg Cardinals in 2004 and a Blue Mountain League All Conference runningback, has been named one of the top 11 Scholar-Athletesfor 2004 by the Inland Northwest Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. Keifel and a player from Ritzville were the only B league players named.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 21, 1989

Waitsburg Commercial Club hosted a Christmas party for spouses Tuesday night, and everyone enjoyed a traditional dinner prepared by members and wives. Given credit for the fine meal were Patty and Gene Horney, Ivan Keve, Don Wills and A.S. "Doc" Pearons. The groups was given a round of applause.

A scene from The Nutcracker was set up for The Times camera during rehearsals last week for the Christmas production. Included in the cast are Leiha Wendfeldt, Lucas Mohney, Jonathan Abbey, Eric Wyatt and Stacey Thomas.

Fifty Years Ago

December 18, 1964

Next week's Commercial Club program will feature the Annual Christmas Gift exchange. Members are asked to bring gifts not to exceed $1.00, which will be opened at the meeting and then distributed to needy families by the Boy Scouts.

Waitsburg retail stores will close next week for the Christmas weekend from December 25 through December 27.

There are those people in Waitsburg who give lip service to ingenuity and resourcefulness - and yet when the real thing comes along they lash out at it. A case in point: The local TV Cable owner given the job of baby-sitting little Sam. Sam said winsomely, "Lay down on couch with me, Daddy." Daddy did, and sleep overtook him. Sam climbed down off the couch and went next door to visit Nan Thames. Now most of us would admit that it was pretty sharp thinking on the part of a twoyear old to fake Dad out with such finesse. But alas, what did Sam receive for his inventive leanings - a paddling!! Sometimes no one appreciates a good plan.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 22, 1939

Sacked wheat here Tuesday was quoted at 80 cents.

Most of our young people who are attending higher institutions of learning are home for the Christmas vacation period. Among them are Lee Hamby, Virgil Bode, Kenneth Zuger, John Neace, James Stonecipher, Barbara Freeman and Phyllis Danielson, all of Pullman, and Jim Hamby from Whitman.

Mr. C. N. Eaton brought to this office Wednesday several large branches from a flowering quince covered with bright pink flowers.

The Camp Fire Girls of the seventh grade had a Christmas party at the home of Harriet Nilsson on Monday after school. Harriet Nilsson and Ruth Perry were in charge of the party assisted by the guardian, Mrs. Fred Wilson.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 18, 1914

The Trustees of Commercial Club have appointed C. H. Kingman secretary of the club and that gentleman assumed his duties the 15th.

O.B. Smith and Joe Miller motored over on the Flat the later part of last week on a goose hunt. They each brought back a couple of big ones.

A. E. Balch of the Whetstone came to Waitsburg Saturday for his step-son Donald Bickelhaupt who has just recovered from the typhoid fever.

The state quarry at Dixie has been close for the winter and the 25 convicts who have been stationed there have been brought to the penitentiary.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 20, 1889

On Wednesday afternoon about 4 o'clock, J. W. Fields, of Fields Gulch, started to lead his fine Holstine bull to water. On the way they passed a place where the evening before a beef had been killed and dressed. The smell of blood enraged the bull and he at once cornered Mr. Fields against the fence and before help could reach him, gored him so bad that he died in about four hours.

From the tasty manner in which George Lloyd is fixing and furnishing a residence in the west part of the city we imagine something is going to happen.

Huntsville is now ten years old, and though several fires have started, yet no building has ever burned. I this our town has been strangely fortunate.

Frank Parton informs us that slush ice was running considerably in their mill flume this morning, and that if the weather gets much colder, they will have to shut down. Then up goes the price on bran and shorts.

The break of day this morning disclosed a carpet of snow one inch thick, and it has been thicking all day until as we go to press, it is fully four inches and the sleighing is good.