Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

April 21, 2011

[Headline] Dayton Cut & Wrap expands business. Dayton business owners Jim and Connie Westergreen have big news for small ranchers in Columbia and Walla Walla counties. The couple will soon expand their meat processing operations to include a USDA-inspected butchering facility in Dayton and a second retail shop in Walla Walla.

Managing a small, nonprofit theater is not an everyday kind of job. One of Reid Helford’s fondest, early memories when she first started as manager of the Liberty Theater in downtown Dayton more than three years ago was of building and wearing a foil-wrapped, cardboard robot costume for the theater’s opening night of “Wall-E.”

Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 13, 1995

Dayton Police Chief Larry Groom says a 24-year-old man who allegedly assaulted him last week was likely under the influence of “crank,” a stimulant drug.

Amy Huwe, Haly Ingle and Connor Talbott have joined the Monday Baton and Color Guard Class at Ye Towne Hall.

[Photo caption] Matthew Leid, 3, of Waitsburg, rides on a pig at the Waitsburg Junior Livestock Show. Dan McKinley, of Waitsburg, looks on.

A museum in Moses Lake, which specializes in police memorabilia, has asked for a badge from the Waitsburg town marshal. Last week, Marshal Michele Long was given permission to buy a new badge so one could be given to the museum.

Fifty Years Ago

April 16, 1970

The census enumerator dropped into the Times office Monday morning and asked us to pass along the word...if she hasn’t called on you yet, she will shortly. She has a week or ten days yet before completing the census in Waitsburg. So keep your census form handy. It will be picked up.

[Photo caption] It takes a lot of attention to get both sheep and cattle ready to show, and these young showmen were working over a lamb with some wire brushes. Preparation for the show ring on Friday found the interior of the livestock building to be a beehive of activity.

Miss Judy Jones returned to the east coast to spend some time with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Simpson

[Photo caption] For those readers who were ambitious enough to get up around 3:30 a.m., this is the sight you may have seen in the eastern sky. For those slugabeds who didn’t get up early, this is a sight of Bennett’s comet which has been making a nightly display in the heavens. The smaller streaks are stars elongated by movement of the earth during the time exposure.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 20, 1945

Tophand cowboys from all parts of the Pacific Northwest are expected in Walla Walla April 22 for a big rodeo to be held at the fairgrounds under the direction of Dewey Drumheller and Demase Bergevin, experienced tophands themselves.

City officials were appointed by the Council at the regular meeting Wednesday night, giving a $10 straight through.

The annual May Day festivities this year will be held Friday, May 4 with Verla Jeremiah to be crowned queen of the May. Her attendants will be Rena Hansen, Ruth Phillips, Mary Linville, Janice Roberts, Betty Baim, Dorothy Murphy, Cherie Rivers and Jo Mays.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 23, 1920

The Waitsburg Farmers Union purchased 40,000 bu. of wheat in this city Tuesday, for the neat sum of $100,000. The wheat was of the little club variety and the price per bushel of $2.50 probably represents the highest price ever paid in this vicinity. Bulk of the grain was held by James Archer, John Danielson and T. V. McKinney.

Born Wednesday, April 21st to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reigle, a daughter.

James Archer, of this city, this week purchased the Philix Davin ranch of 1120 acres, located on the Pataha, 10 mi this side of Pomeroy.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 26, 1895

Emmett Henderson with his little gun, killed one dozen red squirrels in about 30 minutes time, Wednesday and he says it was not much of a day for squirrels either.

The W.C.T.U. meeting at the home of Mrs. W. G. Preston on Friday evening last was a decidedly pleasant occasion. Good attendance, good program, good supper.

L. T. Parker arrived home from Chicago on Monday evening. He reports trades of all kinds picking up in the Great City, and predicts that wheat will be worth 75 cents per bushel before next Christmas.

Lewis Cox in putting out a large prune orchard.