PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

December 20, 2012

[Photo Caption] (Left) Sledding – I go in the ditch. I ride on a blue sled. It is very fun. By Baily Standring (Right) Hot Chocolate – It is good and sweet. We make hot chocolate at night. It fills up my tummy. By Peyton Struckmeier

Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 25, 1997

Cindy Daves of Waitsburg who plays alto saxophone in the WSU Cougar Marching Band; Jonathan Counts, trumpet and Timothy Counts, trombone, both of Prescott, will be participating in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena on January 1, 1998. They will be playing during the WSU-Michigan game that afternoon also. The game will start at 2 p.m. and will be televised nationally on ABC.

Navy constructionman Joseph R. Leroue, son of Raymond O. and Ginger L. Leroue of Waitsburg recently completed a seven-month deployment to Okinawa, Japan, with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Seven (NMCB7), homebased in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Fifty Years Ago

December 21, 1972

Dear Santa, Please bring me a gorilla and some more toys for Christmas. Thank you, Don.

Dear Santa Claus, I’m glad that Christmas is here and the people at your place work for you. How are your reindeer? I want an easy-bake oven. I would like my own jump rope and a rocking horse. from Kim.

The Christmas Kitten – Once upon a time there was a kitten. She wanted a home to live in. One day she was walking down the road. She saw a house. She saw a man in the yard. He turned and saw a kitten. He stopped working. He got the kitten and wrapped him in a box for his girl. “Christmas has come the girl called she grabbed the box and opened the box at Christmas time. And when the old man had seen what was in the box he was as happy as the girl. - By Trulie.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

December 26, 1947

Waitsburg community collected a total of $184.50 with which 45 sacks of flour was bought at a discount from the Preston Shaffer Milling Co. to be sent to Europe on the Pacific Northwest Christmas Ship.

Schools were closed Friday, Dec. 19, by the State Health officer, and city officials met Friday afternoon to discuss the cases of polio in Waitsburg.

One Hundred Years Ago

December 29, 1922

The ladies Progressive Club as has been their custom for several years now will hold an informal New Year’s reception on the afternoon of New Year’s Day.

C. A. Woodard who for the past two years has been Street Commissioner and day marshal, has been selected by the City Council to be City Clerk and water superintendent after January 1.

R. M. Breeze, well-known pioneer citizen and for many years a resident of this city, was instantly killed and his son Henry injured seriously about 10 o’clock Tuesday morning when their automobile was struck by Pendleton freight No. 361 at the 9th Street crossing on the outskirts of Walla Walla.

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago

December 24, 1897

Harvey Stonecipher, Lute Ingalls and Bascum Gerking had a combination hog killing Tuesday.

We are having a taste of delightful winter weather. The thermometer does not register many degrees below the freezing point and it only takes a couple of inches more of snow to make things perfect.

Mrs. Wm. H. Brewer would announce to the ladies of Waitsburg that she is now ready to do anything in the line of hair dressing, stamping, and decorative painting; will also give lessons in painting at her residence on Main Street.