Pioneer Portraits - November 16, 2017

Ten Years Ago

November 22, 2007

Following the discovery of an underground storage tank and a week’s delay while the tank was removed and soil checked, contractors began working in earnest on the new Waitsburg Clinic at the corner of Third and Main. W.C. Construction of Elgin, Ore., is the general contractor, and in no time the lot was excavated down about three feet. Soil samples taken showed no contamination around the tank, said Bruce Grimshaw, CEO of the hospital district.

The 12th annual Tour of Walla Walla bike race is schedule fro April 18-20, 2008, and it will stage numerous events from our fair city. The Tour is a three-day, four-stage race for Pro 1-2 men; a two-day, three stage, plus optional Road Race for Cat 3 men and Pro-1-2/3 women and two-day, three-stage races for the rest of the categories.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 19, 1992

Photo caption: Waitsburg football Cardinals raise hands after win in Southeast B-8 playoff in Kibbie Dome at the University of Idaho, in Moscow, Nov. 14. It was the Cards’ first trip to post-season play in 16 years. Cardinals take on second-ranked Pateros in Easst Wenatchee Friday, No. 20, in next round of playoff.

Waitsburg’s 55+ members and guests will be celebrating Thanksgiving a few days early when they have a third Friday regular meeting on the 20th. Dorothy and Walt Harris will be cooking and carving the club’s turkey. This is a job they have done for several years. Louise Smith and Mabel Wood will bring a supply of mashed potatoes.

Fifty people jammed the Dayton School District board meeting Tuesday to protest a proposed ban on prayer at the high school graduation in May.

Fifty Years Ago

November 16, 1967

The Waitsburg Commercial Club voted Tuesday night to buy a full-color print of the 1967 Waitsburg Football team for each of the players. The pictures should be available some time in the next two weeks.

Gwyn Ferguson daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Ferguson was crowned FFA Sweetheart at the Harvest Ball on Nov. 4th. Other members of the court were Ann Payne and Tracy Harper.

An unusual rack of horns was found on a mule deer taken Friday, November 3 in the Jasper Mountain area by Larry Mayer of Dayton. The deer, which field dressed at 195 pounds, had 13 points on one side and seven point on the other.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

November 20, 1942

The Quality Bakery owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Gil Burgund will be open again this weekend after being closed for the past two months.

The FFA unit in the high school has been given five sheep for the project by Sears Roebuck & Co. Delbert Mock has taken over this work and the unit as a whole will benefit by the girt.

Ten out of a class of fifteen students taking the pre-flight course in aviation went to Pullman Saturday to inspect the aeronautics unit at the State College.

Joan Hamilton, a Waitsburg Sophomore in home economics was elected to the coveted honor of Queen of the Harvest Ball Nov. 14 on the Washington State College Campus.

One Hundred Years Ago

November 23, 1917

The Bradley Hotel has elegant clean outside rooms to let at the low rental of $5.00 per month and up. Hotel accommodations go with this offer.

Miss May Eaton and Mr. Harry P. S. Hofer were quietly married in Walla Walla Saturday evening Nov. 17 by Rev. Chas. A. Bowen.

Elmer Stonecipher, H. A. Mount, and H. M. Hoover of this city, and Arthur Erwin left Tuesday morning for a trip into Montana to look over the land situation in that state.

Dr. F. H. Carver reports the arrival of a daughter at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sanders. The young lady arrived Wednesday morning, Nov. 21st.

Julius Gumpenberg, who has been working at his trade as a tailor at Tekoa for the past few months, is home for a few days suffering with blood poison in his hand.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

November 25, 1892

While everybody else in our town was feasting on Thanksgiving turkey the “phat” man of the Times and his little family would have been compelled to partake of their usual diet of crackers and water but for the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. A. Mikkelsen.

Mrs. A. Vining, a few days ago brought to this office a bunch of peanuts grown on her own garden in this city. They were large, fully matured and thoroughly ripe.

Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Willard came down from Oakesdale on Tuesday, and were with their mother when she closed her eyes in death.

The Old Main Street bridge is moved away and work on the new one commenced. At least most of the material is on the ground.