Pioneer Portraits - June 22, 2017

Ten Years Ago

June 28, 2007

Aryn Davis, 18, the daughter of Kevin and Rene Davis of Klickitat, Wash., granddaughter of Glynn Davis of Waitsburg, and the late Donna Davis, has received an appointment to be a member of the Class of 2011 at The Military Academy at West Point.

The 55 Plus Club is pleased to invite the public to a potluck luncheon at Preston Park on July 6, beginning at noon. The Blue Mountain Troublemakers will be entertaining during the events.

A development that will add 29 residential lots on the eastern edge of Waitsburg was approved during a marathon meeting lasting 3 ½ hours, of which 2 ½ hours entailed discussion of a 7.6-acre subdivision. When the dust had settled, the Waitsburg City Council approved the preliminary plat by a 3-1 vote.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 25, 1992

Dorothy Donnelly, City Dispatcher, will soon be retiring from a job she has held for 13 years. Mrs. Donnelly, 65, has served as nighttime and weekend dispatcher of police, ambulance, and other emergency services since the autumn of 1979. She works out of her home on East Seventh Street where scanner, telephone, and microphone are part of the furniture.

Nancy Otterson, past Mother Advisor of the Waitsburg Assembly #68, Rainbow for Girls, was honored at the June 3 meeting of the group.

Bertha Poirer celebrated her 90th birthday, June 16, at a surprise party on board the Regal Princess cruise ship at Skagway Alaska. She traveled with a group of 20 Americana passengers including her sister, Clina Sargent, from Walla Walla; and neighbors Jim and Geraine Hansen and William and Eleanor Hughes.

Fifty Years Ago

June 22, 1967

At a special communion service held Sunday morning, June 18 in the Waitsburg Presbyterian Church, thirty-two members of the Waitsburg Methodist Church transferred membership to the Presbyterian Church. The historic service was the result of over two years of discussions between the two churches which covered the details of such a merger.

Photo caption: These four boys represented Waitsburg and Prescott at Evergreen Boys State held last week on the Gonzaga campus in Spokane. Pictured here with Dr. A. S. Pearson, chairman for the American Legion, one of the sponsoring organizations, are Steve Hoffman, Randy Pearson, Terry Hiatt and Joe Thomas.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 26, 1941

Ben Bloor and Jim Hamby had a “gabfest” at the San Diego Naval Training Station recently. Jim is stationed there now as an instructor in physical training and Ben is enlisted for Navy training.

The Bozeman Cannery will produce 20,000 cases of peas a day. The official run started Monday at 4 p.m.

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Jones are the parents of a daughter, Sharon Rebecca, born June 15 in Portland. That makes Mrs. W.W. Beckley a great-grandmother.

One Hundred Years Ago

June 29, 1917

Messrs. J. C. Weatherford, W. S. Jackson, Edgar Barclay and George Price recently bought a 5-year-old imported Belgian stallion of C. W. Brown of Moscow, Id., paying $4,000 for the animal.

John Neace, president of the Union Stock Yards at Pasco and Geo. M. Lloyd, stockman, drove to Pasco Monday to attend the formal opening of the new yards.

Waitsburg theatre goesrs were exceptionally well-represented in large numbers at the musical comedy “Robinson Crusoe, Jr.” at the Keylar Grand in Walla Walla, Friday night.

We trust it is only co-incidence but you know, this state goes “bone dry” July 1st and Montana remains damp for a few months longer. A lot of our citizens seem to have a hankerin’ for Montana just now.

Dell Keiser has a few days more of plowing summerfallow.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Year Ago

July 1, 1892

Herman Meyer called last Friday and put some oil in our lamp. It needed it, you bet.

B. F. Simmons who owns a very fine fruit farm on Snake River, sent a box of very fine peaches to Walla Walla on Tuesday. He says he will have oceans of them by the Fourth.

The Sunday School convention in this city this week, was quite well attended considering the extremely hot weather, and the exercises were quite interesting.

Amont the latest attractions is the merry-go-round with steam propelling power, in the west part of town. You pay your money and take your choice of animals.

A. Saling started his header on Wednesday – the first header to be put into operation in this neck of the woods, this season.