Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago-August 28, 2008

Organizers of the first Huntsville School Reunion held last weekend at Lewis & Clark State Park were ecstatic with the response to and attendance at the event. Photo caption: Front row: Kay Huwe Baker, Peggy Fisk Lightfoot, Carol Coy Dill, Seated: Larry Huwe, Hazel Allmon Brown, Carolyn Shanander Spalinger, Jo Mays Polumsky, Zeller Fuller Powers. Front standing row: Jeannie Huwe Fuhr, Betsy Hunt Samson, Carol Nick Sexton, Mary Liebermann Phillips, Virginia hunt Travers, Marion Allmon Anderson, Mona Groom Waliser, Aggie Polumsky Von Cadow, Earl “Bud” Groom, Jr, John Liebermann, Jaunita Samson Huxoll, Bill Kendall, Ray Leroue, Lee Fisk, Dell Groom, Burdette Huwe, Bob Brown, Janet Ogle Brown, Roger Kennedy, Barney Fullerton. Not pictured: Darlene Tubra Kelby and Bill Hopwood.

Coming off of an upstart year, finishing third in the league with a 5-4 overall record, the season looks bright for the Waitsburg/Prescott football team in 2008.

Twenty Five Years Ago-August 19, 1993

Waitsburg, Dayton, and Starbuck will be years ahead of other communities to eastern Washington after US West spends more than $1 million installing fiber-optic phone lines to the three rural cities.

The U. S. Forest Service is writing a policy that will allow officials to let fires such as those caused by lightning burn themselves out in the Wenaha Tucannon Wilderness rather than send firefighters in to extinguish them. The Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness—which includes portions of Walla Walla at the Mill Creek watershed, and Columbia, Asotin, and Garfield counties as well as Wallowa County, Ore—has never had a prescribed natural fire policy as called for in federal law.

Above average yields have been reported, said Doug Hasslen, state statistician for the Washington Agricultural Statistics Service. Yields are forecast to average 61.0 bushels per acre statewide.

Fifty Years Ago-August 22, 1968

Ten pieces of another ancient skull, a piece of tibia that appears to be human bone and four artifacts have been recovered from three different locations at the famed Marmes Archeological Site in the Southeastern part of Washington. The new discoveries were made with less than two weeks of excavations left to go under terms of a $70,000 grant from the U. S Army Corps of Engineers to finance work at the site.

Photo caption: Future Citizens: Tammy 7 and Laurie, 5, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Otterson and Helen 14, Jakie 10, and Peggie, 5, children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Long

The organization meeting for all Waitsburg Bowlers will be held in Ginny’s Grill on Tuesday evening August 27 at 8 pm. All league bowlers from last year as well as anyone else who is interested in joining are invited to be there.

Seventy Five Years Ago-Aug 27, 1943

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hawks had quite a thrill Sunday when their son-in-law, Lt. Clarence E. Hall flew over their home and came down low enough so they could hear him call to them and at least be able to see them.

Carles B. Richardson, 93, was buried Wednesday from the Bailey Chapel, Rev, Paul Koper officiating, Interment was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

An Inland Petroleum Company truck and trailer traveling on the highway Tuesday afternoon between Waitsburg and Dayton crashed into the bridge near the Hales home, where the mill race crosses under the highway.

One Hundred Years Ago-Aug 30, 1918

H. Ridings was arrested at Boise, Idaho last Thursday charged with stealing 29 sacks of wheat from John Clodius.

Ross H. Flanders, local painter, left this city Tuesday for Camp Perry, Ohio to participate in the rifle shoot conducted by the National Rifle Association.

Word has been received in Walla Walla that W. R. Hales a well known sheep man of this section plans shipping an entire trainload of sheep from Pasco to Florida in the near future.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McKinney and daughter, Imogene and Mr. and Mrs. Fran McKinney left Wednesday morning by auto for Olympia. Mr. and Mrs. Frank have been visiting here for some time and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. drove over to the coast with them for a visit.

One Hundred Twenty Five Years Ago

Sept 1 1893

Wild Goose Bill’s ferry across the Columbia was destroyed by fire Wednesday nite. He expects to have a new boat running inside of three weeks.

It’s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous but when you start back its farther and all the way up hill.

It is the duty of parents to have their children enter the schools on opening day and then keep them there steadily.

Daniel Lyons, a pioneer of this country and an excellent man, died in Walla Walla on Wednesday morning, Aug 30 after a long and very painful illness. He was aged 64 years, 4 months, and 11 days.

Last Monday while everything was running smoothly among the threshing crew on Chas. Burnam’s place, north of Prescott, suddenly there was a rushing mighty noise and when the smoke had cleared away it was found that the thresher was blown to smithereens, supposed to be the work of dynamiters.