PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

March 17, 2011

Seated on an original bar stool, project manager Jim German points to the first bay of the former American Legion building which owner Charles Smith is turning into a new “working man’s bar.”

In the footsteps of The Troublemakers the Up-And-Coming band, Rezonators performed a benefit for the aviary.

The Times is pleased to announce that longtime photographer, sports enthusiast, and local resident Tracy Daniel has joined the newspaper as its first dedicated sports writer and photographer. Together with Publisher Imbert Matthee and Managing Editor Dian McClurg, Daniel will help cover high school sports in the Touchet Valley and beyond, focusing on the Cardinals, Tigers, and Bulldogs.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

March 21, 1996

H.W. “Bill” Zuger is the recipient of the 1995 Community Service Award given each year by the Waitsburg Commercial Club. The club, founded March 18, 1911, is celebrating its 85th anniversary, with past presidents attending the club’s annual dinner Tuesday evening.

When the floodwaters from the Toucher River flowed over the Waitsburg and Dayton areas on Feb. 7 and 9, the damage the high waters caused was obvious. What was not visibly apparent was the havoc the flooding was creating underground, affecting many rural residents’ household water supply. “Approximately 15 wells may have been affected by the flooding,” said Al Schoenhuth, director of environmental health for Columbia County

The 11th annual Child Abuse and Neglect’s Fun Run is scheduled April 6, beginning at 10 a.m. at Rooks Park in Walla Walla.

Fifty Years Ago

April 1, 1971

Waitsburg voters put the stamp of approval on a levy measure designed to raise an additional $176,719 for the operation of Waitsburg Schools for the 1971-72 year.

A happy, proud, and tearful Queen of the Days of Real Sport, Anne Hubbard poses for The Times following her coronation by DRS President King Witt and the Queen’s Dance held in Waitsburg last Saturday.

Terry Hofer has purchased the Palm Club from Maurice K. “Pete” Huwe with the sale effective on Wednesday, March 31.

“We’re clean as a whistle,” reported Supt. Lloyd Olson at a school board meeting Thursday regarding the district’s financial house-keeping.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

April 5, 1946

Earl Smith came in first with Howard Smith second in one of the roller skating events sponsored last week by the Waitsburg Parent-Teacher Association.

“Bill” Dickeson handed in his resignation as night watchman Tuesday evening at the regular meeting of the City Council.

All local residents who have not been immunized for smallpox in the past three years are urged to do so at once following the statewide emergency created by the smallpox epidemic in King County.

One Hundred Years Ago

April 15, 1921

The Touchet Milling Co. of Huntsville, which has been laying low during the recent wheat market cycle, announces that it is preparing to resume operations about May 1st with increased output and capitalization.

The dream of Samuel W. Southard Post, American Legion bids fair to become a reality for the Legion boys are to have a comfortable home of their own. The Legion has secured an option on the Park Hotel brick building on Preston Avenue.

Mrs. G. W. Bateman accompanied by her little daughter, Facy, was a visitor in Dayton Saturday to see her father W. L. Rinehart who has been ill.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

April 10, 1896

Put it down indelibly on the tablets of thy memory that in this neck o’ woods we had rain on Easter Sunday and therefore entitled to rain every Sunday for seven Sundays.

Geo. Lloyd is at Tacoma this week attending Grand Lodge of A. O. U. W. of which he is an Inside Watchman.

On Thursday afternoon from 2 to 5, Mrs. S. W. Smith, Mr. J. B. Caldwell, and Mrs. J. E. Maxwell entertained royally their ladyfriends at the palatial home of Mrs. Smith. The guests numbered 100 and a more delightful and charming reception would require unusual ingenuity to plan or execute.