PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

October 20, 2011

The Henze hunting party got its first deer of the season Monday morning. The five men from Waitsburg and Aberdeen flushed out the 4-point white tail buck by spreading out around the brush on privately owned wheat lands north of town after walking the fields for more than a mile from the nearest road. It was a cool dewy morning, the sun barely up to illuminate the gently sloping landscape around them. It didn’t take long to spot the buck, to make sure it was large enough to harvest and to get it in the crosshairs of their Remington rifles.

[Photo Caption] Actress Sunny Thompson and Bart Baxter with Elvis in front of Betty’s Diner last week. Thompson was in Waitsburg, and Dayton to promote her stage show “Marilyn: Forever Blonde,” playing in Walla Walla’s Powerhouse Theater through Oct. 30.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 24, 1996

Lawrence and Ethel Wheeler, Wenatchee, their daughter and son-in-law, Wendy and Bruce Cady of Edmonds, were Times visitors recently. Lawrence Wheeler is a grandson of C.W. Wheeler and a nephew of Emerson Wheeler. C.W. purchased The Times in 1881 and was editor until his death in 1917 after which his son Emerson guided the news until his death in 1942. The foursome were traveling through town when Mr. Wheeler happened to mention that his grandfather had been from Waitsburg.

Glynn and Donna Davis recently returned home from the coast where they made the acquaintance of their new grandson, Coe Richards, whose parents are Brian and Wendy Richards of Kingston, Wash.

Fifty Years Ago

October 21, 1971

Dr. Robert McQuary, native son of the community, will open his office in Dayton in about three weeks for the practice of chiropractic. The office will be located at 350 East Main adjacent to Monty’s Radio & TV and Liberty Theatre. Doctor McQuary reported that he will use three rooms in the building for office space. He is presently awaiting delivery of equipment. Doctor McQuary received his degree as Doctor of Chiropractic in October, 1970, from the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

October 25, 1946

Will and Ward Bargess and their wives of Sacramento, Ca. were guests at the Harold Meinberg and Chet Woods home last week.

Mrs. Marvin Langdon is employed at the Waitsburg Pharmacy as clerk. Lynn Pearson is assisting after school.

Frank Vennum and Clifford Light returned this week from a hunting trip into Idaho. They brought home two white mountain goats.

One Hundred Years Ago

October 21, 1921

Up to and including Saturday, a total of 740 carloads of apples had been shipped out of the Walla Walla Valley, and railroad men as well as packers declare this is less than half the crop.

Jake Keve and family, and the Adolph Hermanns family were among the Waitsburgers who attended the Columbus Day celebration in Walla Walla last week.

St. Patrick’s Catholic Church was the scene of a very pretty wedding at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning when Miss Dorothy Strahm of Dixie and Mr. Andrew Hermanns of Waitsburg were united with a solemn nuptial mass.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 23, 1896

A. L. Brunson sold the two largest March hogs Wednesday that have been brought to the city this fall. The two weighed 830 pounds.

C. N. Babcock and family have moved into the hotel building. The hotel will be opened next week some time.

Miss Mabel Carter is in the city from Salem, Or., visiting at the Prestons who are old-time friends of the Carter family. Miss Mabel is a polished elocutionist and may give a recital before leaving the city.

Wheat made a jump of several notches upward the first of the week reaching as high as 66 cents, but during the last day or so is off again.