PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

April 28, 2011

The largest circus to come to Dayton in more than a decade, the Carson & Barnes Circus has the second-largest herd of elephants in the country. Local residents will have free access to the circus grounds to witness the care and feeding of these and many other animals on the morning of Thursday, June 30.

Wine critic Paul Gregutt and filmmaker Karen Stanton Gregutt are banking on the area’s popularity as a wine destination, and their own connections to make their new company, Waitsburg Cottages, Llc., a success. “We’ll have multiple cottages in town so visitors can experience Waitsburg in all its glory,” Stanton Gregutt said. The Gregutts recently opened their first college modeled in part after their own remodeled home written up in Seattle Times’

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 2, 1996

Stacey Wolfe, a junior at Waitsburg High School, will reign over the 83rd running of Days of

Real Sport, May 18-19. She will be riding her 12-year-old horse, a Tobiano Paint named “Russels Polo” in the DRS parade and during the “ride-in” queen introduction during the horse racing events at the fairgrounds race track. Stacey has been riding for nine years.

For the first time in over 25 years, Waitsburg will have three teams competing at the state FFA convention at Washington State University this month.

Today’s multiple-choice quiz. How old do you have to be to fish in Dayton’s juvenile pond a) Under 15, b) Under 14, c) Under 13, or d) All of the above, or at this point, nobody is sure. If you picked c, you’d be right, maybe. But if you picked d, you might be just as right.

The Fine Arts Gallery at Walla Walla Community College is displaying the works of Chinese artist Jiao Chao Wu through May 8. His watercolors have won first-place awards at many art shows. The gallery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays and is near the east entrance of the main administration building.

Fifty Years Ago

May 13, 1971

Speakers for the 1971 Wait-Hi Commencement are Jeannette Pearson, Charles Baker, Jo Ellen Watson and John Nordheim.

Hot pants have invaded certain sections of our fair city and its sprawling suburbs. An unidentified local matron, who lives on Whoop-Em-Up Holler Road, recently had her lawn planted by an enterprising city gardener. She claims that every time she waters the lawn, she gets an electric jolt which comes back through the hose. We told you that some of these new fashions were shocking, now, didn’t we?

Alton Filan’s field day for demonstration of the Slope Water irrigation unit is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, May 13 at 2 p.m.

Erwin “Turk” Ely was named Lion of the Year at the annual installation and awards night of the Waitsburg Lions Club.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 24, 1946

Lewis Dunn has received the Star Route contact between Waitsburg via Prescott to Clyde and return to carry mail for the next four years.

Pictsweet Foods, Inc. expects to start canning peas on Saturday, June 1, depending on weather conditions.

Miss Janice Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roberts has been selected as Queen of the Days of Real Sport in Waitsburg, May 24-25.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Spear entertained the grade school teachers and Supt. and Mrs. Leslie Taylor at a dinner Wednesday evening.

One Hundred Years Ago

May 27, 1921

Miss Sadie B. Bruch and Mr. Arthur Park were quietly married at the home of the bride’s parents Friday morning, May 20th.

Miss Florence Rees who has just completed a successful year at Kiona, arrived home this week and will probably spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Rees.

Two Harkins Bros. of Railroad View Farm brought into town early last week, the first box of strawberries of the season. They were of the Hood River variety, Railroad View Farm will produce a fine crop of berries this season.

Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Miller and their four children who have lived here during the school year, left Saturday for their home near Mayview in Garfield County. Their older daughter, Alice, completed the eighth grade this year.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 26, 1896

Many mines in the Coeur D’Alene country are making wonderful yields and enormous dividends are being declared. These mines are tributary to Spokane and as a result that beautiful city again presents the appearance of days gone by.

Misses Edna Hilton, Ada Rice, Florence Lowry, and Kate Turner visited with Miss Theresa Tucker last week and attended the entertainment at the Christian Church Friday night.

John Neace is in Montana, looking aftershock. His place in the store is being filled by W. H. Fletcher.