Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

February 5, 2009

Following final code inspection and acceptance, the new Lions Memorial building at the race track has been placed into service. “After spending a lot of time and money on this building, the Waitsburg Lions are very happy to have it completed,” said Lions Club President Ted Bren.

Photo caption: While Waitsburgers and neighbors in the region shivered in the mid-January cold, this happy foursome was enjoying Acapulco , Mexico. Ron and Jo Wolfe of Dixie, and Deana and Brian Black of Dayton made the journey south of the border to soak in the sun and see the sights. Of course they remembered to pack a copy of The Times.

Students of the Month of January 2009 include 5th graders Kris Karl and Austin Hopkins, 4th graders-Selina Mercado and Dylan Knowles. Teachers in grades 4 and 5 select students based on citizenship, respectful behavior effort and attendance.

Twenty Five Years Ago

January 27, 1994

Dayton woman thankful for Carol Rahn’s ‘maneuver’—“I owe my very existence to her” Grace Scribner, of Dayton, was saying the other day about her neighbor, Carol Rahn. An employee of special serviced of Dayton School district, Rahn, 45, used the “Heimlick Maneuver: to stop Scribner from choking. Rahn had learned the life-saving technique from a first aid class she had completed only recently.

Photo caption: Days of Real Sport, Inc, board members and officers at the group’s annual meeting, Saturday, Jan 22, were from left, Neil Carpenter, secretary, Rose Engelbrite, board member, John Kenney, board member Terry Jacoy, treasurer Dan McKinley, board member, Kenneth Smith, president, and Terry Hofer, board member. Only McKinley did not face re-election

Raymond Meier, an employee of the McGregor Company in Waitsburg, recently received the Outstanding Service Award for 1993. The award is presented by Far West Fertilizer and AgriChemical Association annually to individuals who have shown exceptional performance in the area of customer service.

Fifty Years Ago

January 30, 1969

The Times is in its’ 91st year of publication and during that time the modes of transportation have been changed with each passing year. The Times has been delivered by most methods. Last week another first was added when our delivery boy, Jerry Smith made his appointed rounds on his father’s snowmobile. With the kind of weather we are having, nothing could be more appropriate.

Julie Ann Stonecipher, Washington’s 1968 Junior Miss, shares some of the joy of the moment with the new Junior Miss, Pullman’s Sherry Lynn Fayles. Miss Fayles was selected to represent the state at the national pageant in Mobile, Alabama next spring.

Two kids were in a museum looking at a mummy. Underneath the mummy’s figure was a sign reading 208 B. C. One kid said, “I wonder what that means?” The other lad guessed: “It’s probably the license plate of the guy that hit him.”

Seventy Five Years Ago

February 4, 1944

Miss Barbara Sweazy has recently been transferred from the Walla Walla Air Base to the Spokane service command depot at Galena.

Approximately six tons of waste paper was shipped to Spokane on Wednesday evening following a paaper drive in this community during the past week.

Dean Lebaugh principal of the Walla Walla High School gave a very interesting discussion on “Youth and its Status Quo” before the Parent-Teachers meeting last Thursday evening.

Homer Reed will speak at the Wednesday evening meeting of the men of the Presbyterian Church.

One Hundred Years Ago

February 7, 1919

Born at St. Mary’s Hospital, Walla Walla, Saturday, Feb 1st to Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Woods a son.

Among the Waitsburg people who drove to Walla Walla on Tuesday night to hear Joseph Hofman were Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Eichelberger and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kershaw and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Bailey, Giles Calahan, Miss Helen Keiser, Mrs. H. A. Mount, Misses Vivian and Ethel Michelsen.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Abbey Wednesday, Jan 22, a daughter. We beg the young lady’s pardon for not announcing her safe arrive sooner but the fact is we didn’t know about it.

One Hundred Twenty Five Years Ago

February 9, 1894.

If you want reliable dye that will color on even brown or black and will please and satisfy you every time, use Buckinghams dye for the whiskers.

The funniest thing we have eard lately is of the young lady at Prescott who refused to walk across a potato patch last fall with her beau because tubers are supposed to have eyes.

We forgot to mention in our last issue that Ira Chew now carries a handsome watch and chain a birthday present from his father. Ira has just reached his majority and a better boy it would be difficult to find.

There is said to be more snow in the mountains this year than at any time for many years. This is an indication of a pleasant summer and an abundance of water.