Pioneer Portraits - April 21, 2016

Ten Years Ago

April 27, 2006

Bill Warren, manager of Warren Orchards and co-owner of Warren Farms, was selected from a nationwide field of applicants at the recipient of the 2006 Eisenhower Agricultural Fellowship.

Without a program, you don’t know the players. Tom Baker, a long-time volunteer for the Days of Real Sport and the man that runs the press that prints the race programs, will be the 2006 DRS Parade Marshal.

A new addition to Waitsburg’s Main Street scene this week is a metal silhouette representation of the well-known Lewis and Clark Trail highway sign, rendered in iron by Dick Largent. The image was placed near the Main Street bridge, a stone’s throw from the 1806 Corps of Discovery’s actual trail.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 25, 1991

Waitsburg Rainbow Girls accompanied by their Mother Advisor, Nancy Otterson, and Lois Stephenson, attended the District meeting in Pasco Saturday, April 20th, which honored Mrs. Alice Yoder, Supreme Inspector. Serving as officers from Waitsburg were Stefanie Miller, Charity; Micki McCoy, Hope; Stacy Thomas, Patriotism; Heather Stephenson, Confidential Observer.

Renee Scott and Jamie Hogberg from Waitsburg Elementary will participate in the eighth annual District Speech Finalists Contest at the high school auditorium in Dayton on April 26.

Dike beautification committee threatens to swing into action; Lions balk at rake/shovel talk. John Lindsey, newly-appointed dike beautification chairLion, told Lions Tuesday he had gotten some advice from Ralph Rankin, local greenery expert, who at first suggested that the club get the discarded Cougar Astroturf and cover everything in sight.

Fifty Years Ago

April 28, 1966

Clean-up day at the race track will be this Sunday, May 1 according to DRS secretary, Herman Gohlman. The grandstand and grounds will be put in order for the three-day race meet on May 28-29-30.

The largest class to ever graduate from Waitsburg High School will be receiving their diplomas at the seventy-first Commencement on Friday evening, May 27. The class is composed of 18 girls and 23 boys.

A lot of credit must go to the 4-H Saddles and Spurs who worked all day Saturday on the Legion Hall in preparation for the Queen’s Dance which was held there that evening. It was a first class job, and I understand they did it all for $8 cash.

Sixty Years Ago

May 4, 1956

Robert Leid, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Leid, place first in the fitting division and second in the showing division of Science – Sr. boards, at the Little International stock show of WSC.

Nancee Clodius was honored at a birthday party Saturday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Clodius when 17 guests enjoyed a weiner roast and treasure hunt. Birthday gifts, cake and ice cream added to the pleasure of the children.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 2, 1941

Miss Doris Katterman and Wayne Bateman were married Thursday evening in Lewiston.

Mrs. Jake Smith entertained the Sorotus Club and their husbands Wednesday evening April 30 at a buffet supper at her home.

Mrs. Jack Cockburn, Mrs. Glen Howard, Mrs. Henry Conover and Mrs. Joe Grote entertained at a two-day dessert luncheon on Friday and Saturday at the country hoe of Mrs. Grote.

One Hundred Years Ago

May 5, 1916

The annual May Day Festival of our public schools on Friday will include the school exhibition, tennis tournament, grade track meet, and the May Pole and folk dances at Central School lawn.

Bathing caps make the best auto caps. They are cool and keep out all the dust. Get them at Morgans Drug Store.

Local nimrods have received a report to the effect that the State Game Warden had overseen the blowing out of part of the dam at Lamar to permit fish to get up the Touchet.

The finals of the first annual spelling contest of the Waitsburg schools were held Wednesday afternoon. The result; Herschel Piatt, junior, 1st; Mabel Loundagin, freshman, 2nd; Dorothy Adams, freshman, 3rd.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 1, 1891

C. B. Richardson informs us that it will be in the neighborhood of six weeks before work will be commenced on the new school house, as it will consume about that time to burn the brick.

While at work last Tuesday, J. W. Cole met with quite an accident. The axe he was using suddenly and unexpectedly came off the handle, and the back of it hit him just above the left eye, bruising it badly. Moral – Let your wife do all such work, and preserve your health.

Owners of brood mares should not forget that Abel White has the finest lot of fine imported horses in the state of Washington.