Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago-August 7, 2008

Nearly 30 volunteers gathered at Ye Town Hall to talk plans to “Paint the Town” and more volunteers will be needed, say project directors Leroy Cunningham and Jim German. The project entails giving every building in the business core of Waitsburg a fresh paint, Cunningham said. The informal organization has already procured a donation of paint from Columbia Paint in Walla Walla, he told the group.

Lydia Roberts, a member of the Waitsburg International Order of the Rainbow for Girs, journeyed to Chicago in July to attend Supreme Assembly. Roberts, 19, is the daughter of Ken and Dawn Roberts of Waitsburg. Roberts was one of the 35 girls from Washington State and the only Waitsburg member to travel there with a group from the Tri-Cities.

Harvest operations in the Touchet Valley and southeastern Washington are in full swing, and a better picture of the crop is coming into focus, reports J. E. McCaw, local manager of the Northwest Grain Growers Waitsburg office. The late heat may have helped protein levels in Dark Northern Spring Wheat crops locally, McCaw noted. He hasn’t heard any remarks about spring wheat yields as of early this week, but the general expectation is for some decline there.

Twenty-Five Years Ago-July 29, 1993

“Waitsburg Community Fun Day” is scheduled Saturday, July31 from 1-9pm. The day will be full of events such as free swimming and games for children. The event, sponsored by Waitsburg Community Network with assistance from other local groups is open to all Waitsburg area residents. “We hope this will be an annual thing” said Kay Wright of Community Network, a group formed to raise drug and alcohol awareness to the public and to promote alternative activities for youth.

Manholes on main street? This is what the phone company wants to put in. Bill Bloor, the city attorney for Waitsburg, told members of the mayor and council last week that Pacific Northwest Bell and U. S. West have proposed putting an underground phone cable thru Waitsburg, running south to north. The path of the cable,which was described a fiber optic line, would run down Main Street and then out Bolles Road

Fifty Years Ago-August 1, 1968

Photo caption: Bill Anderson to Waitsburg friends, Adam West to his fans, and BATMAN to millions of young TV enthusiasts, was in town this past weekend and posed for the Times.

Photo caption: Nature Notes reporter for the Times, Loyal Baker, had a once –in-a-lifetime thrill when he got to meet a boyhood hero, Batman, face to face. It was just a coincidence, but both the reporter and the movie star happened to have a bandaged finger at the time. Guess whose finer now has an autograph on it.

Photo caption: The Touchet Valley All-Star Teams: Back row, left to right, Coach Harold Russell, Bo Hannah, Mike Saranovich, Mitchell Payne, Carl Russell, Bob Hays, Leland Phillips, Wade Williams, Joe Ritcher, Coach Ray Hoon. Front row-left to right, Coach Wally Payne, Rob John, Brad Anderson, Tom Bassett, Marshall Maib, Steve Reddish, Shan Donnelly, and Kelly Mohney

Seventy-Five Years Ago-Aug 6, 1943

The starting dates for the garin harvest locally are the latest this season in about a third of a century.

Miss Pauline Evelyn Keiser became the bride of Serg. Willard Pollard at a double ring ceremony which took place at the First Christian Church in Greenville, N. C. on July 24.

Approximately 350 new railroad ties went up on smoke Tuesday afternoon when weed burning fire got out of control of the Union pacific section crew working near the lize warehouse in Huntsville, which in now owned by Homer Price of Dayton.

One Hundred Years Ago-Aug 9, 1918

Geo. McBoyle has purchased a Ford touring car and is attempting to tame the “critter” so it will stop when he yells, “Whoa”.

Don’t forget the 50th anniversary of D. G. Ingraham and wife on Monday next at their home on Main Street nor should you younger people forget that it is the anniversary also fo the daughter who grew up with you in the city of Waitsburg.

Capt. H. A. Mount received a wire Thursday morning ordering him to report at Fort Riley, Kansas for service in the Medical Department of the Army by August 2nd. The Doctor will leave this city on August 18th.

Millard Transewriter formerly of Huntsville and well know in this city, was instantly killed in the shipyards at Seattle Monday, July29th, as he fell from a scaffolding to the ground, a distance of about 15 feet and broke his neck.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

Aug 11, 1893

Fred Stencil, the rustler was in the city on Wednesday evening.

A.Saling is getting lumber on the ground for a new residence in Powell’s Park addition

Born, near this city Aug 7 to D. C. Eaton and wife, a daughter. May the new arrival be as good looking as her mother.

Miss Addie Denney has accepted a position in the school in Honolul and will depart for her new field of labor about Aug 30th.

On Thursday night of last week somebody went into Henry Bateman’s field and took away about 20 sacks of barley. Mr. H. says they are welcome to the barley, but he would like them to return the sacks-cause sacks cost money-cash money.