Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

June 30, 2011

Farmers in the Touchet Valley are predicting their harvest this year will be at least a week later than usual with fields in the Prescott and Waitsburg areas ready by the third week of July and in Dayton by early August.

[Photo caption] Jennifer Flemming, visiting her mother Jacci Wooten for the weekend, cozies up to an Elvis impersonator from Walla Walla at the season’s first farmers’ market Saturday.

Art enthusiasts from across the Touchet Valley visited the historic Boldman House on a sunny but breezy Saturday afternoon in Dayton for Art in the Garden.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

June 15, 1995

A tradition begins this weekend in Dayton. All Wheels Weekend is set Friday, June 16, through Sunday, the 18th.

In December 1993, Mark Jackson, a Dayton teen-ager, was told he had three months to live. But the then 13-year-old, diagnosed with leukemia, wasn’t ready to die. Right then and there, he began a battle and, today, it looks now as though the 14-year-old warrior has won.

A Dayton city resident has asked the Dayton City Council to appoint a special board to review complaints against city employees, including city police, and has asked that the board hold its meetings to review complaints in private.

Fifty Years Ago

June 25, 1970

Jim Hubbard, enjoying the cool of the evening, drove in for a fillup. He was told to be at the new location at 8:10 p.m. for some brand-new gas out of a brand-new pump.

Frank Hart was installed as President of the Prescott Lions Club and Martin Dorsey was named “Lion of the Year.”

Money does talk, it says goodbye.

It may be tough to pay over $2 for a pound of steak. But the less you pay, the tougher it gets.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

June 29, 1945

Grain and flour shipments to Europe are now averaging about 1,500,000 tons per month and are expected to be maintained at about that level for the next three months.

The unusually cold damp weather this spring following the hot spell in many parts of the country has damaged beans in home gardens. Some seeds have rotted in the ground.

The greatly heralded $40 old age pension “floor” established by the last legislature has “fallen through,” the Republican Searchlight, new official organ of the Republican State Central Committee, declared.

One Hundred Years Ago

July 2, 1920

Ellis Laidlaw last week purchased an 80 acre farm on Dry Creek, a short distance southeast of Dixie. The place is all in crop—wheat and alfalfa, and a new cottage was built last year.

The census Bureau reports the population of Walla Walla for 1920 as 15,503, a decrease of 3,861 from 1910.

William Kendall, forester, has made a grade around the hill just at the edge of the forest reserve on Cold Springs Road. It is a great improvement and a very steep and dangerous hill is avoided.

Born—In this city, Monday June 28th, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buroker, a son; weighing 10 lbs.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

July 5, 1895

Abe White arrived home a few days ago from north of Snake River. He had good luck in finding his horse.

Fifty-two car loads of steel rails have arrived at Pendleton, and will be laid between that city and this, which will make the track in a first class condition.

The Walla Walla Union was to have been sold at Sheriff’s sale last Tuesday but as only one bid was made it could not be sold, for at a sheriff’s sale at least two bids must be made before an article can be “knocked down.” The only bidder was Hon. Charles Beserer, and his bid was $1,000.