Pioneer Portraits - March 2, 2017

Ten Years Ago

March 8, 2007

Waylon and Willie and the boys recently included a Waitsburg boy, Bill Stonecipher, who not too long ago was seen perusing his Waitsburg Times on the boardwalk at the Luckenbach, Texas, post office. Stonecipher and his wife Linda recently visited San Antonio, Texas, and visited Luckenback, population 3, the subject of a Waylon Jennings song and now a site for music festivals.

Why are bank hours being cut at a profitable branch? is the question that seemed to hang in the air after a town hall meeting with an AmericanWest Bank vice president last Monday evening. Forty to fifty Waitsburg residents voiced their displeasure to Nicole Sherman, Executive Vice President and Director of Community Banking, at Ye Towne Hall, and left the meeting with unanswered question and conflicting information.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 5, 1992

Former Waitsburg City Councilman Morrie Kurth will head up the Days of Real Sport as parade marshal for 1992, DRS parade chairman Joe McCown, Jr. announced Tuesday. Kurth, of Waitsburg, has been active in the community for years and is perhaps best known for his work in the remodeling of Ye Towne Hall. “Morrie has done a lot of things for the folks in town,” Tom Baker, former Times publisher said. Kurth is the former owner of the Waitsburg hardware and is the past president of the Commercial Club and active in the annual Salmon bake.

Barbara Danforth was elected Worthy Matron of the local Eastern Star chapter at its regular meeting Monday evening. Tom Baker will again serve as Worthy Patron.

Todd Wood left Wednesday, Feb. 25 for San Francisco for a period of indoctrination prior to going to Thailand where he will serve in the Peace Corps.

Keith Carpenter has returned from Germany where he has been teaching in one of the W.S. schools. Reduction of armed forces overseas has caused the closure of schools in the area.

Fifty Years Ago

March 2, 1967

Paul Hofer called this week to tell us that Glen Hofer, new executive Secretary of the National Association of Wheat Growers, had an opportunity to talk with President Johnson during a recent luncheon held on farm and ag problems. Paul was understandably proud.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mantz Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Jack McCaw, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Patton, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sickles attended the Northwest Barbershp Ballad contest held at Forest Grove, OR. Saturday.

Mrs. James Young was honored at a stork shower Monday night at the home of Mrs. Marvin Langdon. Mrs. Langdon was assisted by Mrs. Jay Weeks and Mrs. Pat Miller. Gifts were delivered to the honoree by her daughter, Jamie, in a gaily decorated doll carriage. Dainty refreshments were served by the hostesss. Draw prizes were won by Mrs. Fay Krone and Mrs. Berger Chase.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

March 6, 1942

The outlook for wheat sacks for the 1942 harvest is not at all favorable at the present time, according to a survey made by the marketing committee of the Washington, Idaho Wheat League.

Shipment of scrap metal and other salvage materials is well started in Walla Walla County, leaders of the campaign have announced.

A most welcome telegram was received this week by Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Campbell from their son Walter, who notified them of his arrival in Bakersfield, Calif. after two years in the Philippines.

One Hundred Years Ago

March 9, 1917

A mass meeting of the ladies of the city, under the direction of the Ladies’ Progressive Club was held in the Commercial Club rooms Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of discussing ways and means of improving Preston Park.

The A B C Club met with Miss Freda Hosley Thursday evening. Those present were Misses Stella Warren, Mildred Dickeson, Ethel Free, Wilma Shaffer, Ella Beckley, Velma and Helen Keiseer, Eleanor Brockman, Berna Gibson and Mrs. Guy McLaughlin. he evening was spent sewing, after which light refreshments were served.

Fred Ogden has accepted a position with the Warren Transfer Co. to succeed Gail Samuel who has taken possession of the Old Homestead Dairy.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 11, 1892

Lloyd and Marvin of the Central Meat Market are getting a car load of ice from North Powder.

The Teacher’s Association in this city last Saturday was quite well attended, both by teachers and patrons, and the session was an interesting one. These associations will be held in the city once a month regularly hereafter.

Our water works came up before Judge Upton last Monday, and was decided in favor of the city. E. B. Whitman, A. S. Bowles and Frank Lowden, all able men and fair minded, were appointed to look over the ground and award damages to property owners between the city and the well site. They will be here for that purpose on Saturday of this week.