PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

August 14, 2014

[Photo Caption] Ed and Cathy Lambert are outstanding in their field (literally and figuratively). The pair have kept Waitsburg residents supplied with their "top secret" sweet corn and fresh produce for a quarter century.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 12, 1999

Area farmers were back working in the fields late Monday or Tuesday following weekend rains which stopped operations for a few days, then were halted again by showers early Wednesday morning. Despite the stops and starts, farmers are around 50-60% through Harvest 1999, according to J. E. McCaw of Northwest Grain Growers. "Yields in our area – Prescott and Waitsburg – are really quite good compared to south of here," commented McCaw. He has heard of yields from 80 to 100 plus in our area while in other areas yields have been as low as 15 bushels per acre. Reports of high yields, however, are spotty, McCaw said. "I've heard of yields in the sixties for fall wheat, too." Disease and moisture problems have combined to produce the low yields, he said.

Fifty Years Ago

August 15, 1974

Last week was one to remember. It was the first time in history that a U.S. President has voluntarily stepped down from the most powerful political position in the world. After two-plus years of plumbing the depths of the Watergate, most people I talk to seem to be sort of numb about the whole thing. We predicted that Nixon, being a lawyer, would exhaust every legal avenue before making such a decision. And we have felt that the only motivation for his resigning would be lack of a sufficient minority in the Senate to overturn a 2/3's impeachment vote. Apparently the news that the hoped-for minority had evaporated came to the President in numerous meetings last week, and he wisely decided to resign for his own good as well as for the good of our country.

Seventy-Five years ago

August 11, 1949

The gasoline motor car which makes the round trip through this city between Dayton and Walla Walla on the O-W R & N, is still on the run despite the rather definite rumor last week that it was to was to be discontinued the first of the week.

A heavily-loaded truck of wheat on the way to the warehouse Tuesday morning came mighty near to meeting with serious mishap while crossing the Main Stret bridge across the Touchet River. The bridge collapsed a little north of the center of the bridge when a heavy steel "stirrup" broke allowing one of the cross sills to drop. The momentum of the car carried it on out to the approach, but it was a close call for the driver.

One Hundred years ago

August 11, 1924

A couple of fellows took a team from the livery stable (Prescott) to go to Waitsburg, and on returning they met the train near Bolles when the horses became frightened and ran away tearing the buggy all to pieces. They said if they had not been drunk, the accident would not have happened. It cost them $35 - a pretty dear drunk.

Mrs. J.C. Neace and two children, Mildred and Donald arrived in the city from Great Falls, Montana last Friday. They will visit here for several weeks. Their many friends are more than pleased to see them again

You are taking no chances when you buy the old reliable Studebaker wagons and buggies. Sold by John Smith.